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- <text id=93TT1074>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Good Behavior
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 13
- WORLD
- Good Behavior
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Beijing frees two dissidents and opens its oil fields to the West
- </p>
- <p> The gestures gave new meaning to Deng Xiaoping's "kaifang" (opening
- up) slogan. China's prison police released two student leaders
- who spearheaded the Tiananmen protests in 1989, freeing former
- Peking University student Wang Dan, 23, four months before the
- end of his four-year sentence and paroling graduate student
- Guo Haifeng, 27, three months early. Why the leniency? Because
- such gestures might help Beijing attract the Olympics in 2000
- and pre-empt moves by the Clinton Administration to link human
- rights with the granting of most-favored-nation trade status.
- </p>
- <p> "The Chinese know they have to wipe off stains on their hands
- before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian
- diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do
- the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened
- up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil
- companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of
- Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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