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Bao Tong, prominent Chinese liberal voice, dies at 90

Bao Tong, aide to the late reform-minded former Communist Party general secretary, Zhao Ziyang, speaks at his home in Beijing on April 23, 2014. Bao Tong, a leading voice for political reform in the Chinese Communist Party who was purged after the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 at age 90. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Bao Tong, aide to the late reform-minded former Communist Party general secretary, Zhao Ziyang, holds up a photo of Zhao as he speaks at his home in Beijing on April 23, 2014. Bao Tong, a leading voice for political reform in the Chinese Communist Party who was purged after the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 at age 90. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Bao Tong, aide to the late reform-minded former Communist Party general secretary, Zhao Ziyang, speaks at his home in Beijing on April 23, 2014. Bao Tong, a leading voice for political reform in the Chinese Communist Party who was purged after the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 at age 90. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Bao Tong, prominent Chinese liberal voice, dies at 90