 The Beijing Municipal Government had announced stricter limits on protests, which were enthusiastically ignored by protesters.This led Zhao Ziyang, the General Secretary of the CCP, to describe these limits in his , “as a piece of wastepaper.” On May 8, Chen Xitong accused Zhao Ziyang of betraying the Standing Committee in the conciliatory speech Zhao gave about the student protest at the Asian Development Bank meeting on May 4.On May 13, anticipating the arrival of Gorbachev for the 1989 Sino-Soviet Summit, students began a hunger strike.