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Bao Tong, pro-democracy icon, remains elusive for Chinese youth bound by China’s stringent censorship norms

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New Delhi: A champion of political reform in the 1980s during pro-democracy protests in China, Bao Tong, the senior most Communist Party official who had been imprisoned over the Tiananmen protests that had shaken Beijing in 1989, died quietly this week. He was 90. Not surprisingly, however, the news of Bao’s death drew little or no reaction from his fellow countrymen, many of whom may not even know of his death in China, where the state keeps a watchful eye on the internet and social media platforms are heavily censored. Search engines too spew content fed by the state-run media….

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