The former Chinese president Jiang Zemin has died aged 96, state media has said. Mr Jaing, was president from 1989 to 2003, following the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. HelenAnnSmith0 has the latest. 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
The former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who came to power after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has died aged 96, state media has said.
Mr Jiang, who was president from 1989 to 2003, died from leukaemia and multiple organ failure on Wednesday afternoon in Shanghai.The former soap factory manager stepped down as party chief in 2002, but remained head of the military for another year and remained an influential figure in Chinese politics.across the country on a level of dissent likened to the pro-democracy movement centred on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Although China was led out of isolation under Mr Jiang's government, a crackdown on dissent at home continued.Human rights and pro-democracy activists were jailed and a ban was placed on the meditation group Falun Gong, which was viewed as a threat to the ruling party's power.Mr Jiang also attempted to strengthen political ties outside China and travelled to the US to meet the then US President Bill Clinton.
He was also one of the few world leaders to meet former US President George W Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas in 2002. Mr Jiang was last seen in public in October 2019 among other former leaders watching a military parade at Tiananmen Square.of a closing ceremony of the ruling Communist Party last month.
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