2009年5月31日星期日

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Tiananmen: A battle of remembering vs. forgetting (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2009 10:33 AM PDT

In this photo taken on March 24, 2009, a paramilitary soldier stands guard in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The Chinese government is heavily invested in suppressing the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement and its violent end. Two decades on the authoritarian government has largely succeeded in turning it into a non-issue for many, using stunning economic growth, sophisticated propaganda and repression to stifle public discussion. Linking the image of Tiananmen for most Chinese as place for recreation and official state functions. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - As a young poet, Cui Weiping was not much interested in politics. But she says she could never shake the image of her husband returning home on a June night 20 years ago, his pants mottled with the blood of people shot by the Chinese army.

Geithner calls for closer economic ties with China (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2009 07:35 AM PDT

FILE -- In this May 12, 2009 file photo, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington. Geithner's upcoming trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the United States. Mired in recession, the U.S. needs China to boost its purchases of U.S. goods, let its currency rise and take other steps to narrow a massive trade gap. And on the foreign policy front, America needs China's help to combat a growing threat from North Korea. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - After years of acrimonious economic relations with China, the U.S. insists it wants to turn the page and develop closer ties with the world's third largest economy.

Geithner says U.S. committed to pull deficits down (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2009 06:56 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, aiming to persuade China that its U.S. investments were safe, pledged that the Obama administration was firmly committed to ratcheting down huge deficits as quickly as it can once economic recovery is assured.

China sends large group to buy Taiwanese goods (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2009 04:07 AM PDT

In this photo released by Guatemala's Foreign Ministry, Taiwan's President Ma Ying-Jeou, center, gestures during a visit to the Tikal Mayan archaeology ruins, in El Peten, Guatemala, Saturday May 30, 2009. Ma Ying-Jeou is on a two-day official visit to Guatemala. (AP Photo/Maria Fleischmann, Guatemala's Foreign Ministry)AP - A group of Chinese computer and home appliance manufacturers arrived Sunday with plans to buy billions of dollars worth of goods and components from Taiwan, officials and news reports said.

Chinese rights lawyers face limbo over registration (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2009 11:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Chinese lawyers taking on contentious human rights cases face limbo from Sunday after authorities did not approve an annual registration step the lawyers said was being used to stifle their work.

China faces dark memory of Tiananmen (AFP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 10:22 PM PDT

A protester shouts pro-democracy slogans during a mass rally in Beijing on 17 May 1989 in support of student hunger strikers gathered at Tiananmen Square. Authorities in China are bracing for the 20th anniversary of the deadly crackdown on the demonstrations which took place in central Beijing, a pivotal moment that still haunts the nation.(AFP/File/Catherine Henriette)AFP - Authorities in China are bracing for the 20th anniversary of the deadly June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, a pivotal moment that still haunts the nation.

Web-savvy & cynical: China's youth since Tiananmen (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 10:13 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday, May 8, 2009, Feng Xiaoguang sits at his bedroom watching television in Kaifeng, Henan, China. Xiaoguang, a graphic design student at Kaifeng University, is a one of China's 200 million so-called 'post-1980' kids. After class, he plays games online or shoot hoops at a campus basketball court. He can list the latest Hollywood releases and NBA stats. But he knows next to nothing about the political movement that ended in a bloody military crackdown the night he was born. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Twenty years ago, on the night of June 3, rumors were flying about an impending military crackdown against demonstrators in Beijing. That's when Feng Shijie's wife went into labor in his hometown, Kaifeng.

Danish Tiananmen sculptor barred from Hong Kong (AFP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 09:18 PM PDT

The controversial Danish artist Jens Galschiot in Copenhagen. Galschiot, who flew to Hong Kong to protest the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing 20 years ago, has been refused entry to the city, an official and a legislator have said.(AFP/SCANPIX DENMARK/File/Peter Elmholt)AFP - A Danish sculptor who flew to Hong Kong to protest the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing 20 years ago has been refused entry to the city, an official and a legislator said Sunday.

WITNESS: A night with China's secret police in 1989 (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2009 07:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Andrew Roche is an editor for Reuters based in London.

Death toll in China coal mine blast rises to 30 (AFP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 07:56 PM PDT

30 miners have been killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest China.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in southwestern China rose to 30 with the discovery of the bodies of the last five missing miners, state media reported on Sunday.

Geithner's China trip comes at difficult time (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2009 05:13 PM PDT

FILE -- In this May 12, 2009 file photo, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington. Geithner's upcoming trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the United States. Mired in recession, the U.S. needs China to boost its purchases of U.S. goods, let its currency rise and take other steps to narrow a massive trade gap. And on the foreign policy front, America needs China's help to combat a growing threat from North Korea. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Timothy Geithner's first trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the Obama administration.

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