A soldier stands guard on a watchtower overlooking the alley-way entrance to China's highest-ranking official held as a political prisoner, former premier and Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang in Beijing. Fifteen years after Zhao was put under house arrest for sympathizing with pro-democracy student demonstrators and opposing the government's bloody 1989 crackdown, his impact on Chinese politics and people has become debatableclick to open
Zhao Ziyang voted in the National People's Congress in Beijing in this March, 1989 filephoto.click to open
Chinese politician Zhao Ziyang: at his residence in Beijing (1999).click to open