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...American rapper signed by a major label (Ruff Ryders). His debut album, The Rest is History, featured big names like Kanye West and Wyclef Jean, and included the taunting single Learn Chinese ("When the pumps go off/ y'all gon' speak Chinese") plus serious tracks that delved into the Tiananmen killings and migrant life ("Think we open restaurants 'cause we cook good...
...standing in Tiananmen Square at the exact moment in 2001 when Beijing won the right to host the Summer Olympics. At 10:11 p.m. on a muggy July night, China's capital transformed. As indulgent police looked on, revelers hung from traffic lights and clambered up lampposts. Tens of thousands of Chinese sang along to patriotic songs being broadcast from creaky loudspeakers that, in an earlier era, had been used to threaten democracy protestors. At one point, a drunken man with his undershirt pulled up to air his belly weaved up to me, beer bottle in hand. "Hey, foreigner...
...added, the authorities have been growing increasingly strict and may well remain so after the Games are over. "There used to be some sensitive events and days when we would be watched, such as June 4th," Li said, referring to the anniversary of the bloody suppression of protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. "But now it's happening more and more. It seems to me that extra sensitivity will continue after the Olympics...
...present had contributed to this extraordinary moment in China's long history. Henry Kissinger, the architect of the opening to China in 1972, was there. So, too, was former President George H.W. Bush, who took considerable political risks at home to rebuild Sino-American relations in the wake of Tiananmen Square. And also Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former chief executive of AIG and one of the earliest and most aggressive U.S. investors in the New China. They were joined by a legion of American CEOs. But Bush and Kissinger - bureaucratic rivals within the U.S. government 30 years ago - were...
...There were less dramatic protests in the capital, too. A team of foreign protesters scrambled up lampposts near the iconic "bird's nest" National Stadium to hang FREE TIBET banners. Three Christians were bundled out of Tiananmen Square after displaying signs calling for religious freedom in China. Then came the news that Beijing had barred entry to former U.S. Olympian Joey Cheek, a speed skater and prominent critic of China's closeness to the Sudanese regime blamed for the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur. (The Cheek incident didn't stop the U.S. team from choosing...