Photo taken on October 21, 1987 shows Chinese Communist Party secretary general Zhao Ziyang (R) and Chinese paramount Communist leader Deng Xiaoping confering in Beijing during a session of the 13th party National Congress. The memoir of a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with 1989 pro-democracy protesters has been published ahead of the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown he tried to prevent. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

Photo taken on October 21, 1987 shows Chinese Communist Party secretary general Zhao Ziyang (R) and Chinese paramount Communist leader Deng Xiaoping confering in Beijing during a session of the 13th party National Congress. The memoir of a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with 1989 pro-democracy protesters has been published ahead of the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown he tried to prevent.

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