The most senior Communist Party official detained in connection with the Tiananmen demonstrations that shook Beijing in 1989, Bao Tong, has passed away at the age of 90. During pro-democracy demonstrations in the 1980s, he promoted political reform. His name is still unreachable on Weibo, China’s tightly controlled equivalent of Twitter. Advertisement The most senior Communist Party official detained in connection with the Tiananmen demonstrations that shook Beijing in 1989, Bao Tong, has passed away at the age of 90. During pro-democracy demonstrations in the 1980s, he promoted political reform. However, the Communist Party ousted Bao and imprisoned him for…