Word: tiananmen
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Next week is the anniversary of the massacre of protesting Chinese students in Tiananmen Square. Here's what has happened to some participants who survived...
...Kosovians." When Gore has received attention overseas, it has usually been the kind he didn't want. His badly executed 1997 trip to China produced a series of embarrassments, culminating in a clumsy toast with Premier Li Peng, who had been blamed for the massacre of student protesters at Tiananmen Square. And the greater a role Gore takes in fashioning Clinton foreign policy, the more he is likely to face scorching questions about Chinese espionage and Beijing's campaign contributions. Being the foreign policy Vice President of this White House may end up being as much of an asset...
...government may have used the media to whip up the anger on the streets--outsiders saw it as a way of deflecting attention from next month's 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre--but it did not create that anger. Even academics familiar with the West assumed that in the Belgrade bombing the U.S. had made a deliberate decision to violate Chinese sovereignty. "The U.S. needs an enemy in the world to solve problems in their own country," says Pan Wenguo, former head of international Chinese studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. Few see the bombing as a mistake...
...would the Chinese government take so provocative a course? Perhaps it sees its short-term interests as more compelling than strong relations with the U.S. This June will be the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, and the government may feel that nationalism is safer to promote than freedom. Students hurling rocks at the U.S. embassy in Beijing will not take time out to erect a statue of Liberty and shout pro-democracy slogans. Also, the government may hope to spur a guilt-ridden U.S. to grant concessions that it otherwise might not obtain; the Foreign Ministry has suggested...
Instead, by urging students and workers to persist in a hunger strike and by preventing the government from welcoming Soviet leader Gorbachev on Tiananmen Square, the leaders of the protest humiliated and alienated Chinese leaders. The movement turned a paternalistic government into an authoritarian regime...