Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in the Newsweek article "Mourning Zhao." According to the article party elites are sensitive to persistent demands to pursue Zhao's path of reform and to overturn the verdict on Zhao and Tiananmen. "Most worrisome of all for those in power is the possibility those looming questions could divide them," says Li. So they are reacting somewhat more nimbly than in the past to show "they will not allow any of this to happen," he says. "They don't want to be so incompetent as to provoke a backlash."
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