Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unclear what effect the upheaval prompted by last spring's Tiananmen Square massacre will have on Chinese legal scholars here...
...Surely the choice of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in India since he fled Chinese occupation forces in 1959, was meant as a slap at Beijing: a symbol of international condemnation of the Chinese government for its crackdown on the students' democracy movement in Tiananmen Square last June and imposition of martial law in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, following anti-Chinese riots last March...
...Chinese Communist Party took no chances last week when it staged its first press conference since last June's Tiananmen massacre. The 300 accredited Chinese and foreign journalists underwent a tight security check at the entrance to the Great Hall of the People. Inside the meeting room, those selected to ask questions were planted within easy view of the men on the dais. As the six members of the Politburo Standing Committee filed in, wearing Western business suits and fixed smiles, one stood out as the first among equals. "Good morning," Jiang Zemin said in English, waving gamely...
...embattled program of economic reform and bridge building to the outside world. Although Jiang played no known role in the decision to order the People's Liberation Army into Beijing, he went even further last week than reactionary Premier Li Peng did when he was asked whether the "Tiananmen tragedy" could have been avoided...
...believe there was any tragedy in Tiananmen Square," declared Jiang. The incident, he went on, was the "unavoidable" consequence of the attempt by some demonstrators to "overthrow the socialist system." He likened media reports about the situation in Beijing to "fairy tales from the Arabian Nights...