U.S. Relations With China
Your editorial “Is the Outrage Waning?” (Sept. 3) was on target. Your question was answered in the next morning’s front-page story bearing the news that our Administration is already finding ways to ease the impact of the moderate sanctions imposed on China. How tragic! The blood is no sooner mopped up from Tian An Men Square and we are ready to resume “business as usual,” and even to lift restrictions on new World Bank loans to China.
How can any amount of trade dollars or geopolitical considerations ever justify the encouragement of a regime which mercilessly massacres its own people?
It is disconcerting to read that the “prevailing view” in the White House is that U.S. television gave a “selective and exaggerated view of last June’s events in China.” Really! How on earth does one exaggerate the horror of unarmed students being gunned down in cold blood?
How sad for us if we can so quickly “forget” the tragic picture given to us by newsmen at the risk of their own safety. We can be sure it has not been forgotten by the Chinese Communist leaders who even now continue to hunt down and execute the courageous students who dared to demonstrate their desire for freedom.
FRED M. SEVIER
Downey
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