“It’s impossible to divorce Li Peng’s legacy from his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown,” said Jude Blanchette, a scholar of Chinese politics and author of the 2018 book “Under the Red Flag: The ...

Li Peng, the former Chinese premier derided as the stone-faced “butcher of Beijing” for his role in the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989, died on Monday in the ...

BEIJING – Li Peng, the former Chinese premier whom human rights-groups call the “butcher of Beijing” for his role overseeing the deadly 1989 crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, ...

A former staunch Chinese premier most famous for announcing martial law during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests has died at the age of 90. The official state-run news outlet Xinhua ...

BEIJING — Li Peng, a former hard-line Chinese premier best known for announcing martial law during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that ended with a bloody crackdown by troops, has ...

Li Peng, the former Chinese Premier remembered for his role in the brutal military suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters, has died aged 91, according to state-run media. Li died of an ...

Former Chinese premier Li Peng — known as the “Butcher of Beijing” for his role in the brutal crackdown of the Tiananmen Square Protests — has died at age 90. Li died of an unspecified illness in ...