Word: tiananmen
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Before the visit, Vogel wrote in The Crimson (Letter to the Editors, Oct. 23) that during the Tiananmen incident Jiang was the mayor of Shanghai, where he allowed the demonstrations to take place peacefully. This is a very obvious disinformation. Jiang cleaned up Shanghai by silencing the 1989 pro-democracy movements in advance. He was then summoned to Beijing two weeks before the June 4 Massacre and 20 days after the Massacre, he assumed the post of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Vogel's letter is clearly written in the propaganda style of communist regimes. Furthermore, after...
...Petition: A petition addressed to Rudenstine to be handed over to Jiang was prepared by the Coalition for Freedom and Human Rights in Asia. The text expressed concern about the state of Tibet, the Tiananmen Massacre and the threats to Taiwan. In three days it gained 411 signatures spanning the Harvard community--undergraduates, graduates, faculty and alumni. The petition was accepted by Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor on Oct. 31. Taylor however failed to hand it over to President Rudenstine; instead she sent it over to Deirdre Chetham, the executive director of the Fairbank Center...
Clinton opened the debate when he told a questioner there had been "profound disagreements" over human rights. Jiang stoked it when he said he had no regrets over the brutal suppression of freedom demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989, a "political disturbance" that had "seriously disrupted social stability and jeopardized state security." The Chinese government simply "had to take necessary measures, according to law." Clinton jumped back in, saying, "I think it should be obvious to everyone that we have a very different view of the meaning of events at Tiananmen Square." Beijing's attitude on dissent has kept...
...nearly laughed it off. But as I followed the coverage of Jiang's American tour, his facility in avoiding any head-on confrontation started to irk me. Eventually I decided that it wouldn't hurt if Jiang--a man who just last week called the government-sponsored shootings at Tiananmen square "the correct conclusion"--knew what it felt like to be jeered at, and even detested...
...message. The Chinese are already packaging it as the second normalization of Sino-American relations. To confirm that, Jiang wants to be accorded status and respect, the treatment due the leader of a great nation, signifying not only the end of the opprobrium China has endured since Tiananmen Square but also its emergence as the 21st century's other great power. So Jiang's handlers have been acutely concerned to ensure that his trip conforms exactly to the rules laid down by the last state visit of Deng Xiaoping in 1979, right down to the size of the state dinner...