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...Clinton Administration has quietly lobbied for Wei's freedom, especially in the past two years, and stepped up the pressure before and during President Jiang Zemin's visit to the U.S. last month. Jiang made no promises concerning Wei at the summit with Clinton; to let him go too close to the meeting would have resulted in a loss of face for the Chinese leadership. Earlier this month James Sasser, the U.S. Ambassador to China, said he was "personally disappointed" that Jiang's tour across America had not brought the release of political prisoners, but in the same week...
...council under Rawlins has followed a three-year trend toward increased political activism in the council and has tackled issues large and small, including the moral rectitude of the protests against Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Core Curriculum reform, shuttle service and the controversy over grapes in Harvard dining halls...
...summit between China's Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton [WORLD, Nov. 3] was at best the pause that represses. Suddenly, we have an American leader who is loath to berate publicly a brutal regime about human rights. And this is the same Clinton who insisted that American troops be deployed in places like Haiti and Bosnia. J. ANTHONY BLACK New York City...
...Discrimination based on nationality: While opening the floor for the question, Vogel proclaimed: "President Jiang Zemin has said that he would like to hear, first of all, from an American, and so...This is for an American audience." These words were spoken in an auditorium full of non- Americans, in the face of Rudenstine--with no reaction on his part...
Does China's president, Jiang Zemin, truly believe China freed Tibet from slavery, as he claims in his interview with Time [WORLD, Oct. 27]? And should the murder of 1.2 million Tibetans be known as the emancipation of Tibet? No Tibetan was a slave to Buddhism when the Dalai Lama governed Tibet, but the Tibetans remaining in their native land are surely slaves to China. TASHI GYALTSEN Calgary...