In the summer of 1988, Mr Zhao came under strong attack from party conservatives, who blamed him for policies that had led to a surge of inflation and a run on banks earlier that year.Ironically, considering how few Chinese peasants may even know his name now, it was in the countryside that Mr Zhao first built his reputation as an economic reformer.
But the government's recent arrests and jailing of hundreds of generals, journalists and politicians in connection with a supposed coup has come under strong attack by critics who say the government is using the coup as a pretext to arrest its rivals and further an Islamic agenda.
Since CD's now cost less than $1 each to manufacture, the big labels' stubbornly maintained pricing strategy, unconvincingly defended as being necessary to develop new artists, has come under strong attack, leading to both increased piracy and the success of budget labels like Naxos.
Voluntary action by the cosmetics industry to phase out the use of microbeads in Europe came under strong attack from MPs on Wednesday, who criticised loopholes in the pledges and slammed the lack of labelling on products containing the plastic particles.
Labour's running of the Welsh NHS has come under strong attack from Conservatives, with UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt claiming patients in Wales were getting a "second-class" service.
The Brookings economists came under strong attack from organized labor, their one-time allies, and found themselves in curious common cause with far-right libertarians and free-market economists at conservative think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute.
The Soviet Communist Party, accused of complicity in the conservative coup d'etat this week, came under strong attack across the nation Friday, and its 73-year hold on power appeared to be slipping fast.
On the first anniversary of Bin Laden's death last month, Obama came under strong attacks from Republicans, including John McCain, his rival in the 2008 election, who accused him of trying to take political advantage of the operation.
He came under strongest attack from American journalists, who asked him if he was going to apologise to world leaders, including Barack Obama, for his past insults, and whether other politicians could trust him.
