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During the question period, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 criticized the University's decision to invite Chinese President Jiang Zemin to speak at Harvard last month...
...essence, China is waging a war of attrition against dissidence--and winning. While the Chinese government wouldn't have let Wei go without pressure from the U.S. and President Jiang Zemin's successful summit with Bill Clinton, China ultimately risked little in Wei's departure beyond a brief loss of face. Because the government has a tight grip on information, Wei and other exiles can do little to get their message heard at home. Even now, most Chinese don't know...
Thoughtful Americans will find that Jiang Zemin's visit to the U.S. has been a challenge [WORLD, Nov. 10]. We have demanded that China quickly end its abuse of human rights, while disregarding the vast differences that exist between the two nations. Peasants in China cannot be likened to inhabitants of U.S. slums. While China should immediately take more aggressive steps, no one knows when it will be able to end its inhumane treatment of thousands. Such changes take time. FLOYD RAGAN Scottsdale, Ariz...
...JIANG ZEMIN Exports No. 1 dissident. See what happens when you give a dictator a 21-gun salute...
...fact that the rankings are unchanged from last year ? despite Hong Kong becoming a Special Administrative Region of China last July ? can be seen as a victory for Jiang Zemin, who went out of his way to preserve the former British colony's status under the dictum of "one country, two systems." China itself, strangely enough, is ranked Number 120, and deemed "mostly unfree." Beijing investors, evidently, have much to learn from their brothers to the south: like the thrill of watching the bottom drop out of the Hang Seng index, for example...