Frontpage words - January 8, 2010
by Vernu Yu
SCMP, page A1 & A5 January 8, 2010
1. the ousted party general secretary thought...
- expelled -
... his successors had obstructed nascent political reform and put China on the path of corruption
- stopped the growing -
2. after he was toppled in the wake of the Tiananmen crackdown
- fired as a result of -
3. Zhao blamed Jiang's Theory of the Three Represents for stalling the country's political reform process
- delaying -
4. Du was barred from seeing Zhao from 2001
- forbidden -
5. condemned the emergence of what he saw as crony capitalism
- friendship between business people and people from the government that gives business men an advantage in getting government contracts -
6. A privileged bureaucratic clique has been formed in China
- group -
7. Zhao also castigated the leadership for monopolising political power after crackdown
- criticised -
8. Beijing had resorted to suppressing public opinion
- decided to suppress -