Word: tiananmen
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...Chinese government has rekindled anti-Japanese sentiment among its youth in order to relegate to the background the harm and damage done by the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square massacre. This a case of selective forgetting. Elaine Grace Santiano Hermosa, the Philippines...
...JINGSHENG, 50, Chinese pro-democracy campaigner and co-founder of the underground magazine Tansuo (Explorations); after 12 years in prison for counterrevolutionary activity; in Beijing. Liu, who participated in the 1978 Democracy Wall movement, was arrested after he helped establish the China Freedom and Democracy Party following the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Human-rights activists called Liu's release two years before the end of his sentence a conciliatory gesture to the international community by the Chinese government...
...Washington and Beijing. In almost every recent American presidential-election campaign, China has been an issue. Richard Nixon won re-election in 1972 nine months after his landmark visit to Beijing. In 1992, Bill Clinton accused George H.W. Bush of coddling the Chinese leadership after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square...
...Harvard Yard. The drunken guy inviting us to go break shit articulated a collective, inchoate desire for change—for some sort of change. Students cannot gather in the street, flanked by police in riot gear, without summoning up ghosts of Paris in ’68, of Tiananmen Square, of Kent State. And compared with these ghosts, we seemed awfully callow. We are capable of gathering, of shouting slogans, of stopping traffic. Shouldn’t we do so to some...
...Then came the kicker, as Liu raised his arms above the trademark Swoosh on his shoulder: "Stereotypes are made to be broken." It was an instant success. "Nike understands why Chinese are proud," says Li Yao, a weekend player at Swoosh-bedecked basketball courts near Beijing's Tiananmen Square...