Volume 46, Number 12 · July 15, 1999
Holding Out in Hong Kong
By Jonathan Mirsky
On June 4, Hong Kong was, once again, the only city in China where Chinese openly celebrated and mourned the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising and killings.[1] On the same day, in Beijing, Premier Zhu Rongji insulted China's democratic movement. He had recently returned from Washington, where he fruitlessly attempted to persuade President Clinton to admit China to the World Trade Organization. Asked by foreign reporters for his thoughts on the tenth anniversary of Tiananmen, Mr. Zhu said, 'Thank you for reminding me. I had forgotten.'
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