Wen Jiabao Held CCP's Darkest Secrets. Why Did He Stay Silent?

Wen Jiabao was an unusual figure in the history of the Chinese Communist Party. He served through six leadership eras—from Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, and Zhao Ziyang to Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao—and held senior office under four of them. Chinese politics destroyed countless once-powerful figures, ruining their careers and tearing apart their families. Yet Wen, a scholar from an ordinary background with no powerful faction behind him, not only survived but rose steadily, eventually serving ten years as premier of a global power.
What allowed him to survive? Why was he almost alone in openly calling for political reform? And why did he reject Gorbachev’s path in the Soviet Union—the path of tearing everything down and starting again?
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00:00 - Intro
01:56 - A Painful Past and the Horrors of the Cultural Revolution
05:22 - The Rise to the Premiership—and a Stunning Political Move
13:06 - A Fight for Survival: Why Didn’t Wen Become China’s Gorbachev?
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