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Nieman Foundation Curator Bill Kovach, who sat on the Faculty committee that vetted the pre-submitted questions the Chinese president answered after his speech, said that Jiang's allusion to Tiananmen was veiled but still recognizable...
...studiously avoided the wording of the question," Kovach said. "He never mentioned Tiananmen or ordering the tanks in, but clearly that was the point of reference...
...Kovach said the event was important in that it promoted dialogue with the world's largest Communist state, saying: "One of the greatest mistakes in this century was the refusal of the government of the U.S. to talk to, in any meaningful way, the Russian government in the 1920s...
...Kovach also expressed his wish that Jiang will have gained insight from the protests: "The only real hope is that, in the course of his visit, he began to realize a little more clearly how it's possible for a leader to function in a society where people have a free voice...
...Bill Kovach, curator of the Nieman Foundation and a member of the committee that selected questions that were posed to Jiang, said the Chinese delegation was not allowed to see the questions beforehand. All questions submitted have been made public by the Fairbank Center...