Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton has announced plans to visit China late next year. This would be the first visit by an American president since before Tiananmen Square...
...rise up the party ranks received a major boost immediately following the Tiananmen Square massacre in June of 1989. In part for his bloodless handling of protests in Shanghai during the summer of that year, Deng chose Jiang as his successor...
Jiang had proven his mettle to conservatives during the beginning of the Tiananmen unrest by getting rid of the editor at an aggresively liberal newspaper in Shanghai...
...Jiang faces extremely difficult tasks ahead. Hollywood has rallied around Tibet's cry for autonomy while Taiwan remains a tremendously sore spot in international relations. The legacy of Tiananmen Square has not worn out, as this week's protests have shown. Besides the three terrible Ts (Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen), China might have a fourth: Trade. The imbalance between China and the U.S. is about $40 billion, second only to the deficit between Japan...
Although Jiang was mayor of Shanghai during the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, he is nevertheless the unrepentant heir to a regime that continues widescale human rights abuses, and as such he should be held fully accountable. The ghoulishness of some of these deeds surpasses the fright caused by any Halloween costume...