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- <text id=90TT1287>
- <title>
- May 21, 1990: World Notes:China
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 44
- World Notes
- CHINA
- It's All in The Timing
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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