China's former president Jiang Zemin who steadied the country after the Tiananmen Square massacre and oversaw a decade of explosive growth has died aged 96.The former premier, who was criticised in the West for human rights abuses as he drove China to become a major superpower, had not been seen in public for three years and died of leukaemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai.His death comes at a time when the , with pro-democracy demonstrators defiantly standing up to the authoritarian regime over draconian Covid lockdowns and widespread repression.
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