Word: haotian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Chi Haotian yesterday on the lesson to be learned from the 1989 student uprising at Tiananmen Square...
Beijing's protests were unusually fierce. Foreign Minister Qian Qichen summoned the U.S. Ambassador, J. Stapleton Roy, for a diplomatic dressing down. As Defense Minister Chi Haotian's scheduled visit this month to the U.S. was postponed, the People's Daily thundered, "We demand that the American government rescind this wrongful decision." Speculation about reprisals was the buzz of both capitals. Possible countermeasures discussed range from China's cancellation of Boeing jetliner purchases to the still unlikely option of closing the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, capital of the hinterland province Sichuan and a doorway to restless Tibet...