Word: tiananmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unidentified audience member in Erica Levy's article "Dissident Speaks at KSG" (News, May 5), I have a different view of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident...
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...
...unidentified audience member in Erica Levy's article "Dissident Speaks at KSG" (News, May 5), I have a different view of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident...
...government's task is delicate. Zhu, painfully aware of the Tiananmen anniversary, recently ordered authorities to refrain from "crude" crackdowns on social unrest. The group, however, may be harmless to the regime. Li insists that "I want to teach people to be good, not to be involved in politics." Yet historically, secret societies and spiritual masters have challenged, and even toppled, Chinese dynasties, and President Jiang Zemin has stressed a need to "suppress cults and the use of religion to engage in illegal activities...
Xiao said that the leaders of China must acknowledge that the events in Tiananmen Square 10 years ago were crimes against the Chinese people...