Word: kaixi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Together with the better-known Wu'er Kaixi, Zhai was one of the students who engaged in a heated televised "dialogue" with conservative Premier Li Peng in the days just prior to the Tiananmen crackdown. At his reappearance, Zhai claimed to be spokesman for a new group called the Cooperative Committee of the China Democratic Salvation Front. Said he: "We founded the organization to show our sense of duty to our people and to emulate the spirit of those who died in June." Composed of more than 60 fugitives, the organization has elected a chairman, a vice chairman and four...
...Wuer Kaixi, a leader of the students' movement, now in self-imposed exile...