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...April 26 editorial was one of the two reasons listed by the students for their hunger strike, and it is not difficult to imagine that, had a retraction indeed taken place, the two sides might have arrived at a basis for future compromises. At that meeting, however, Premier Li Peng adamantly opposed such a retraction, invoking Deng's words that the April 26 editorial "must never be changed...
...Darryl Li '01 is executive director of the Harvard International Monitoring and Action Group. He spent the summer in Rwanda...
Official propaganda hasn't changed?Tibetan song-and-dance troupes still pirouette on television to folksy ditties like The Communist Party Turned Bitter to Sweet. The change comes instead from people like artist Li Bing, whose father once oversaw Chairman Mao's travel plans. Backpacking through China, she grew enamored of Tibet. After studying its language for a year, she spent six months on the plateau in 1998 and later produced an exhibition of her work featuring Polaroids of Chinese and Tibetans next to their overlapping handprints. Since then, travel to the Roof of the World has become as common...
Despite reminders of the tensions everywhere, the island is trying to move forward. At the shop of Chin Ho Li, shell casings originally containing propaganda are beaten and snipped into kitchen knives before your eyes - perfect souvenirs. Swords into ploughshares, anyone...
...transforming itself into the cyberhub of Asia. The government has backed a $1.7 billion project to develop 64 acres of reclaimed land into an infotech center. So far, however, the project has drawn as much controversy as acclaim. Critics regard it as specifically enhancing the interest of Richard Li, scion of the super-rich Li family, because Richard drew up the plan. Even critics acknowledge, however, that diversification is a good idea. "Hong Kong needs more than one pillar industry to sustain its economic glory, and infotech is a new one," says Dong Tao, a senior China analyst...