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- WORLD, Page 44World NotesCHINAIt's All in The Timing
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- A few weeks before Congress is scheduled to debate renewal
- of China's most-favored-nation status, Beijing last week
- announced the release of 211 dissidents, jailed since last
- June's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Congressional leaders,
- however, said they were unlikely to be swayed by the move.
- Senator Richard Lugar warned that there was "very considerable
- sentiment" to deny China the MFN status it has held since 1980.
- The impact of the prisoner release was also diluted by
- allegations from Xu Lin, a Chinese embassy official who defected
- two weeks ago. According to Xu, Beijing has been
- systematically harassing its expatriate students, warning them
- of jeopardy to their families and careers if they participate
- in antigovernment activities.
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