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Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin inspects the People's Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong, July 2, 1998. Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of profiles of Chinese leaders on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Well-known among foreign journalists for his quirky comments in English and his propensity to break into musical performance, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin gained distinction under supreme leader Deng Xiaoping when he clamped down on student protests while serving as party chief in Shanghai in the 1980s. Yet the smiling demeanor Jiang presented on the international stage was at odds with his status as a strongly authoritarian leader who would eventually pick Xi Jinping as the next president. ...

A protester resists as he is taken away by policemen from a street in Shanghai, Nov. 27, 2022. Detention centers in China are overflowing amid a sharp rise in the number of arrests in the first half of this year, according to defense lawyers and recent government figures. In the six months to June 30, prosecutors approved the formal arrest of 367,000 suspects, up 18.5% from the same period in 2023. They also prosecuted 761,000 people nationwide, a rise of 6.8% year-on-year, according to an article on the official website of the Supreme People's Procuratorate dated July 29. The formal arrest figures don't include people being held under criminal detention pending investigation by police, "residential surveillance at a designated location," or administrative detention. The spike...

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PRC at 75: Jiang Zemin never let up after Deng’s crackdown on dissent

Spike in arrests leaves Chinese detention centers overflowing