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China's new revolutionaries: U.S. consumers
Who would have thought that tainted pet food and toys would threaten to unravel the authoritarian export model of Chinese growth that the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 was partly meant to secure? China's then "paramount leader" Deng Xiaoping,...Tags: Lawyers, Litigation and Regulation, Career and Workplace, Beijing (China), Consumer Confidence
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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: Heads of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Parties and Movements, Prosecution, U.S. Department of State
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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Parties and Movements, Entertainment, Demonstration, Armed Forces
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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: Justice and Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Parties and Movements, China, Demonstration
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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bus Accidents, Satellite and Cable Service, Parties and Movements, Science
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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: Bus Accidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Parties and Movements, Demonstration, Armed Forces
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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Parties and Movements, Entertainment, Demonstration, Firearms
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From the archives: China Hard-Liners Appear in Control
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBEIJING -- Premier Li Peng, whose martial-law order for troops to clear Tian An Men Square of student protesters resulted in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths, appeared publicly Thursday for the first time since the weekend massacre and briskly...Tags: Heads of State, Chinese Restaurants, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Restaurants, Murder
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From the archives: Crackdown Leaves China Isolated on World Scene
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- In the decade after Chinese leader Deng Xiao-ping came to power in 1979, he broke down the isolation in which China found itself under Mao Tse-tung and set the world's most populous nation on a steady course of ever-growing involvement in...Tags: Sociology, Economic Policy, Migration, Japan, Erich Honecker
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From the archives: China Orders Martial Law, Deploys Troops in Tibet
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBEIJING -- China declared martial law in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa on Tuesday as the most serious pro-independence rioting in decades entered a third day. Thousands of Chinese soldiers began taking control of the city shortly after midnight, according...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prosecution, Mass Media, Demonstration, Beijing (China)
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From the archives: Deng, Li Seen Winning China Power Struggle
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBEIJING -- Senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and Premier Li Peng, having marshaled overwhelming military superiority in the Beijing area, appeared this morning to have won a power struggle with Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang and other reformist...Tags: Heads of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Police Arrests, Parties and Movements, Satellite and Cable Service
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