By contrast, when former President Jiang Zemin became General Secretary of the Communist Party following the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, he was able to rely on capable and loyal officials in Shanghai to run the bureaucracy; he then expanded his support base by co-opting other factions in the 1990s.
En cambio, cuando el ex Presidente Jiang Zemin llegó a ser Secretario General del Partido Comunista, tras la represión de Tiananmen en 1989, pudo contar con funcionarios capaces y leales en Shanghái para hacer funcionar la burocracia: después amplió su base de poder cooptando a otras facciones en el decenio de 1990.