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- <text id=90TT1762>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: World Notes:China
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- World Notes
- CHINA
- Saving Face All Around
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> For almost a year, the status of Fang Lizhi has been the No.
- 1 impediment to improvement in U.S.-China relations. Last week
- the two sides settled on a deal that allowed the dissident
- astrophysicist and his wife Li Shuxian to leave the U.S.
- embassy in Beijing, where they had been trapped since the June
- 1989 crackdown. They headed for Cambridge, England.
- </p>
- <p> The deal was a classic face saver. Fang acknowledged that
- in opposing a political system of class struggle he had
- violated China's constitution. He made a vague promise not to
- engage in activities contrary to China, though not necessarily
- contrary to its leadership.
- </p>
- <p> The timing of Fang's departure was probably linked to next
- week's summit of the seven leading industrial countries.
- Beijing wants them to lift their partial ban on loans. Another
- motive: the Capitol Hill debate over whether to restore China's
- most-favored-nation status.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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