"That may explain why few people expect any new uprising here on Tiananmen Square. The party eased its control over people's daily lives, as the protestors wanted, and in exchange for keeping its power... it let the country get rich."
Barry Petersen of CBS News' Sunday Morning ponders the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Goddess Demolition
Labels:
1980s,
2000s,
China,
economic history,
political history
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