Ex-China leader Jiang Zemin, who fanned anti-Japan mood, dies at 96.
As KYODO NEWS reported, November 30 (2022), Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who guided China's rapid rise but was known for sowing anti-Japan sentiment among young people through patriotic education, died of leukemia and multiple organ failure on Wednesday in Shanghai, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 96.
Jiang, who was at the helm of the ruling Communist Party chief between 1989 and 2002, oversaw an unprecedented expansion of China's economic and military might, guiding its long march toward major power status.
But he was known for playing a role in escalating anti-Japan sentiment, especially among young people in China, as he led a nationwide patriotic education program in the 1990s.
