Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...answer, Jiang omitted any mention of Tiananmen, saying that China has "enjoyed the support from our people...
Jiang was responding to a question about Chinese leader's decision to use military force to suppress the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. The question was submitted by the Joint Committee for Protesting Jiang Zemin's Visit to Harvard...
...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...
Jiang was mayor of Shanghai during the Tiananmen democracy movement...