Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton will be welcomed by China's leaders in Tiananmen Square on Saturday, but finding a democratic silver lining there will require some fancy footwork -- even for the U.S. president...
Hong Kong is an exciting place to be. Between the ninth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the first anniversary of the handover, President Clinton's impending visit and the opening of the new airport, this little corner of the world is now bustling with activity...
...June 4, 1989, was held for the first time on Chinese soil. Activists in Hong Kong, the most democratic locale in all of China, have taken it as their duty to make sure that those dissidents did not die in vain--that with each step President Clinton takes in Tiananmen Square, the cries of those who perished there will resonate forcefully around the world. Because of the rights people here have gained under British sovereignty and because of the international interest in Hong Kong in recent years, people feel that they are in an excellent position to speak...
...politicians rarely prompts much notice in Japan; involvement with a spy is another matter. One of the chief allegations is that the woman influenced a decision in 1989 by then Health Minister Hashimoto to push for a large aid package for a Chinese hospital, at a time after the Tiananmen massacre when few countries were willing to deal with China. So far, evidence that the woman was a spy is a little shaky. But last week the opposition Democratic Party of Japan announced it would launch an investigation of the relationship and of the woman. Result: a lot of questions...
...this is to say nothing of TV's power to bring us real-life events: a moon walk or the Olympics, an uprising in Tiananmen Square or Princess Diana's funeral. We conduct not only a lot of our fantasy lives on TV but also our political campaigns (and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which). From the Persian Gulf in 1991, we learned that global TV can even be a means of waging...