During the meeting, the PSC came to the general agreement that the students aimed to overthrow Communist rule and were being heavily influenced by similar anti-Communist movements in Eastern Europe.
[5] Specifically referencing the need to "turn grief into strength", the editorial suggests that the poignancy of Hu Yaobang's death reaffirms the significance of upholding the four modernizations.
[5] Carried out by "an extremely small number of people", subversive responses, which the editorial describes as mostly verbal denunciations of the CCP, are an example of "abnormal phenomena" to be dealt with swiftly.
The CCP, acknowledging that the state of mourning creates "emotionally agitated" students, demonstrated "tolerance and restraint"[5] towards this gathering, and the memorial was allowed to proceed without difficulty.
The fundamental problem, according to the editorial, is that "an extremely small number of people with ulterior purposes" have taken advantage of students, teachers, and even workers, to promote a "reactionary" message against Party leadership.
[5] The editorial describes this small group of people as not grieving, but executing a "planned conspiracy" to "plunge the whole country into chaos and sabotage", in order to "negate the leadership of the CPC and the socialist system".
[5] To put this in perspective, the editorial suggests that "reactionary" behaviour could potentially reverse the economic progress made by Deng Xiaoping’s program of reform and opening up.
[11] Following his resignation, Zhao made one last gesture urging Deng to “change the official view of the student movement” from the editorial’s perspective,[12] but by this point, he had been discredited within the Party and his proposal was rejected.