... Chinese Government. The issues which fueled the protest are still present in China today; lack of political freedom, corruption and unemployment. But public displays of dissent are rare and Tiananmen square remains under constant surveillance. The student movement started with a yearning to commemorate the reformer Hu Yaobang, who had died on April 15. To be sure, there was a provocative edge to ... ' behaviour, attributable to the relatively freewheeling atmosphere the government had tolerated during the strong reform push of the previous few years. By bringing their slogans off the cam...

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... the stories reaching our television sets as they unfold. In Lewis A. Friedland's articleCovering the World,? Lewis cites such as examples as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, where CNN offered exclusive footage of the story. In a movement for democracy, students took to the streets protesting. What made this ... want to violently disperse the student demonstration while the world was watching. Little did they know, but CNN cameramen were bicycling around the square where the massacre took place with 8mm handy-cameras. What in the past would have been an easily suppressed uprising on a loca...

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... educated. The slow conversion from the Central Planning System to the New Economic Market to open up free trade affected China inadequately, leading China into chaos, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. There is no determined reason why Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party and the principal leader of China, unleashed millions of youths, soldiers and later ... beneficiaries of such corruption, so Deng fired him from his job. Soon after, Hu died of depression. This triggered an outpour in sympathy. The students started a peace protest at Tiananmen Square near a stat...

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