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On anniversary, Shanghai stock market closes with a spooky echo of Tiananmen Square
Los Angeles TimesBEIJING -- The stock market played a strange trick on the Chinese Communist Party on Monday. Whether a cosmic joke or coincidence -- or as some wags suggested, an act of God -- the Shanghai stock market index fell 64.89 points on Monday, which happened...Tags: Stock Market, Censorship, Parties and Movements, Political Systems, Human Rights
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Shanghai stock market closes with a spooky echo of Tiananmen Square
World NowWhether a cosmic joke or coincidence -- or as some wags suggested, an act of God -- the Shanghai stock market index fell 64.89 points on Monday, which happened to be June 4, the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at... -
How China Sits With Tiananmen 20 Years Later
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSpring always brings new blossoms, but 20 years ago, spring brought to China an unprecedented flowering. In hundreds of cities, citizens took to the streets in peaceful protests to demand freedom, government accountability and an end to corruption --...Tags: Heads of State, Parties and Movements, Death, China, Los Angeles
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SARS outbreak exposing flaws in China regime
Sun Foreign StaffBEIJING - For all the challenges the Chinese Communist Party has faced since opening the nation to the world a quarter-century ago, only the emergence of a strange new disease known as SARS has managed to expose so many of the government's flaws - and...Tags: University of Chicago, News Media, Parties and Movements, Journalism, Nuclear Power
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Ex-Chinese Communist leader Zhao dies
Chicago Tribune foreign correspondentZhao Ziyang, the former leader of China's Communist Party who spent the last 15 years of his life under house arrest, came to symbolize an incident that the nation's political elite want to ignore but the world cannot forget: the Tiananmen massacre....Tags: CNN (tv network), Parties and Movements, Death, Health, Freedom of the Press
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From the archives: Chinese Crowds Block Troops
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBEIJING -- Chinese leaders Friday ordered soldiers into Beijing to attempt to restore order after a month of massive pro-democracy demonstrations, but residents swarmed to block the army's way. By 8 a.m. today, more than 10 hours after the army advance...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Coup d'Etat, Heads of State, Parties and Movements, China
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From the archives: Protesters Retain Control of Square
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBEIJING -- Defiance of martial law by masses of Beijing residents and power struggles within the Chinese leadership left pro-democracy protesters still in control of central Beijing at noon today. For about 50,000 student demonstrators gathered in the...Tags: Parties and Movements, China, Demonstration, Death, Freedom of the Press
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From the archives: Protests For Democracy Students Defy Regime With March in Beijing
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBEIJING -- Tens of thousands of students took to the streets of the capital today, defying martial law with a boisterous call for democracy and demanding that Premier Li Peng resign, just as he and other hard-line Communist Party leaders were mounting a...Tags: Parties and Movements, China, Demonstration, Corruption, Defense
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Firing Convoys Roam Beijing
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBEIJING -- A new wave of fear swept Beijing today as military convoys rumbled through the Chinese capital, firing repeatedly into the air and sometimes at pedestrians, while more armor was sent to reinforce the army's hold on Tian An Men Square. About...Tags: Coup d'Etat, Parties and Movements, China, Demonstration, Death
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From the archives: Economic Reforms to Continue, Deng Vows
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBEIJING -- China's leadership puzzle began to fall into place Friday with the reappearance of Communist patriarch Deng Xiaoping, who endorsed last weekend's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators but promised that economic reforms will continue....Tags: Parties and Movements, China, Demonstration, Death, Transportation Accidents
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China Teeters on Edge of Civil War as Rival Forces Mobilize
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBEIJING -- China teetered this morning on the edge of civil war, with troops presumed loyal to hard-line President Yang Shangkun in control of central Beijing but positioned defensively at strategic points in apparent anticipation of attack by rival...Tags: Coup d'Etat, Parties and Movements, China, Death, Demonstration
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From the archives: Protests For Democracy in Tiananmen Square; Troops Fire on Beijing Crowds
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBEIJING -- Chinese troops of the People's Liberation Army opened fire with automatic weapons early today on huge crowds of civilians in Beijing, killing at least 100 of them and perhaps many more, according to medical and diplomatic reports, in a...Tags: Parties and Movements, China, Demonstration, Death, U.S. Embassy
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