Following the ongoing spread of the 1986 student protests, Deng Xiaoping criticized the central leadership for being weak on the ideological and theoretical front, and Hu Yaobang subsequently resigned from his position as General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee.
In 1987, due to political struggles such as the 1986 student movement, Hu Yaobang was completely defeated in his contest with Deng Xiaoping and lost his position as General Secretary.
AFP published an exclusive wire service, making public for the first time the defection of the son of an old revolutionary and senior intelligence official to the United States, which led to the dismissal of Ling Yun, the first Minister of state security (MSS).
Larry Wu-Tai Chin died in a federal prison in Virginia. While prison officials concluded it was suicide, his cause of death has sparked skepticism from the public and prosecutors.
After obtaining the funding for the filming of "Hibiscus Town", Liu Xiaoqing pleaded for Jiang Zemin with Deng Xiaoping, and Deng's door reopened for Jiang Zemin.
After gathering evidence for three years, the FBI arrested Larry Wu-Tai Chin, who had infiltrated the CIA for decades, on espionage charges based on clues provided by Yu Qiangsheng.
Yu Qiangsheng defected to the United States via a CIA-arranged flight through Hong Kong, causing massive tremors within the Chinese Communist Party.
On August 19, 1983, China launched a nationwide "strike hard" campaign. A large number of people were arrested, sentenced, and executed, and some were later sent to labor camps in Xinjiang, Tibet, and other regions.
Chinese tennis player Hu Na was granted political asylum in the United States, prompting China to subsequently suspend Sino-U.S. cultural and sports exchanges and triggering a serious diplomatic storm.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 11th CCP Central Committee was held from June 27 to 29. Hua Guofeng resigned as Chairman of the CCP Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Hu Yaobang succeeded him as Chairman, and Deng Xiaoping took over as Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party adopted the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, repudiating the Cultural Revolution and distinguishing Mao Zedong's later errors from Mao Zedong Thought.
Yu Qiangsheng, an official of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, was recruited by the CIA in Beijing and began providing intelligence.
In 1981, a CCP Central Committee plenary session passed the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party, completely negating the Cultural Revolution, but the two slogans at Xinhua Gate — "Long live the great Chinese Communist Party" and "Long live the invincible Mao Zedong Thought" — were not removed.
On November 10, 1980, the CCP Central Politburo held a meeting in Zhongnanhai, demanding that Party Chairman and Military Commission Chairman Hua Guofeng relinquish his power.
On September 10, 1980, the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress (August 30 to September 10) adopted a resolution accepting Hua Guofeng's resignation from the office of Premier of the State Council and decided that Zhao Ziyang would serve as Premier of the State Council.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was held in Beijing through February 29, restoring the Secretariat and electing Hu Yaobang as General Secretary; Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang were additionally elected to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, and Wang Dongxing and three others resigned.
The 5th Plenary Session of the 11th CCP Central Committee adopted the "Guiding Principles for Inner-Party Political Life," proposing to uphold collective leadership, oppose individual arbitrariness, and prohibit "one-voice" rule and individuals from placing themselves above the Party organization.
During the 1980s Latin American debt crisis, the region's real GDP growth rate was only 2.3%, per-capita GDP saw negative growth of nearly 9%, and inflation eroded the purchasing power of the middle class.
In 1980, the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and Taiwan was terminated; since then, the United States has maintained its security commitment to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act and the public pledges of successive presidents.