Zhu Rongji used economics to exert greater control over Tibet

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The Zhu-led Western Development Strategy was able to “bring Tibetans in line with Chinese government policies.”

The late former premier of China Zhu Rongji wielded the economic hammer during China’s rapid economic rise in the 1990s and 2000s to increase Beijing’s influence over Tibet, an expert told Radio Free Asia shortly after Zhu’s death on Wednesday.

Zhu, 98, died at 11:06 a.m. in Beijing of an...

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