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...lauded Taiwan for democratic advances and urged mainland China to yield to citizens who want to "worship without state control." The salvo might have been less brazen than when Bill Clinton in 1998 reprimanded then President Jiang Zemin on live TV in Beijing for "the use of force" at Tiananmen Square. But Bush's gesture no doubt delighted his conservative base. After the service, he stood outside the church with his arm around the female minister who had just delivered a sermon on loving one's oppressor. Joined by Laura Bush and U.S. evangelist Luis Palau--and a smiling choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man On A Mission | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...connected to the Tiananmen protests of 1989? His death on April 15, 1989, sparked the Tiananmen movement. Students brought floral wreaths to the Square?then stayed to demonstrate. On June 4, soldiers fired on the demonstrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Read: Hu Yaobang | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...breakthrough meeting in Chairman Mao's quarters in 1972 signaled China's willingness to side with the U.S. against the Soviet Union; President Reagan's visit in 1984 helped consolidate China's economic reforms; and President Clinton's arrival in 1998-the first American presidential visit since the Tiananmen massacre-generated such hope for political reform that a group of dissidents responded by forming an opposition party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What China Wants from Bush Visit | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...Many Chinese are skeptical of President Bush, who will spend three days in China as part of his Asian tour, but that has hardly cooled their ardor for the Governator-few here know that the two are from the same political party or that Arnie mentioned the Tiananmen massacre in his GOP Convention speech last year. "If I lived in California, I'd vote for him," says Liu Tianyu, a project manager for a multinational firm in Shanghai. "I don't know much about his politics, but he has a very charming attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China Loves Arnie | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...certain norms of Chinese governance.Many of the sites made inaccessible by what has been coined “The Great Firewall” are those discussing specific high-tension questions of Chinese politics: sites detailing the lot of the controversial Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, sites about the Tiananmen Square protests, and some others about Taiwanese independence. Also blocked, however, are sources of general international news—the BBC web site, for example, can only be intermittently reached from within Chinese borders.Of course, firewalls aren’t perfect, but the Chinese government has mechanisms in place for catching...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Digital Curtain | 11/8/2005 | See Source »

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