Li Peng Quotes
We should not hesitate to take forceful action against criminal activities and to eliminate social evils. If we are too tender-hearted, we will come to grief.
In China at the time criminal activities included most opposition to the government.
Li Peng, Premier of China, Speech, National People's Congress, March 1992
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Wade was urging the Prince to abolish the Death by 1000 Cuts {641825} and simply rely on beheading the form of execution for “lesser” crimes. Note that the Prince’s fears and arguments parallel the same given by modern proponents of the Death Penalty—without it criminals would not be controlled and instability would ensue.
Ironically, it was the Chicago police who started the Chicago 1968 riots. The National Commission set up to investigate called it a “Police Riot.”
Li Peng was a Chinese politician who was the fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1987 to 1998, and as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003. For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Communist Party of China (CPC) hierarchy behind then Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin. He retained his seat on the CPC Politburo Standing Committee until his retirement in 2002.
