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Elsewhere, the demonstration would barely have attracted notice. Several hundred university students, singing broken choruses of their national anthem and shouting slogans like "Long Live the Great People," massed in a corner of Peking's Tiananmen Square last week. They were protesting among other things Japanese "economic aggression," Tokyo's reputed flooding of China with defective and overpriced goods under the open-door economic policies of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. Security officials with loudspeakers ordered the protesters to disperse, and after about two hours they...
...struggle with Chiang Kaishek, Deng joined in planning strategy for the Huai-Hai campaign, which drove Nationalist forces south of the Yangtze and helped push them off the mainland to their Taiwan redoubt. A lull in the fighting permitted him to travel briefly to Peking for the ceremony at Tiananmen Square celebrating the founding of the People's Republic on Oct. 1, 1949. Soon afterward, Deng was named political commissar of China's vast Southwest Military Administrative Region and was based in his high school city of Chongqing. For the next three years he directed the region's transformation...
...opposite of chaos is stability, and for the 16 years since the massacre near Tiananmen Square in 1989, China has enjoyed more stable leadership and prosperity than at any time in the past 150 years. Incomes have grown, and millions of lives--like that of Liu Li--have improved beyond imagination. To be sure, China is not one big, bucolic Iowa; all sorts of tensions over land use and workers' rights and free speech and endemic corruption and environmental despoliation loom, and they come into view in a startling number of riots and protests--big ones too. But compared with...
Since the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989, many have seen China's government as nothing but repressive. But groups like these environmentalists have become drivers of social and political change. They don't directly challenge the Communist Party's power but instead focus on issues like AIDS education, legal reform and, above all, environmental protection--endeavors the government professes to support. What unifies the new generation is a commitment to individual rights. The cover of the influential Beijing magazine Economics last year called the anti-dam movement a "New Social Power in China." "They're promoting the rights...
...this year; in Beijing. As a senior propaganda official under Zhao in the late 1980s, Rui helped usher in a brief period of loosened media controls and a freer environment for ideas that gave rise to 1989's democracy demonstrations. When Zhao was purged in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Rui was demoted and never regained his earlier stature. His death has not been reported by mainland Chinese media...