In 1989, students had hoisted a giant Goddess of Democracy, but this year they carried an image of the Statue of Liberty with a skeleton face, clutching missiles and a strangled dove. Ding has fought on behalf of the parents of slain students to force the government to reverse its harsh judgment of the Tiananmen protests as an anti-government insurrection. Instead, the Communist Party's People's Daily had a front-page story urging people to support President Jiang Zemin's policy of reform and openness. Not reverting China clearly is not reverting to the xenophobia that marked the 1960s and early 1970s. Although high-level contacts with the United States on military, security and human rights matters have been cut off, many Chinese leaders have tried to allay worries in the U.S. business community about a hostile backlash.
College students take an equally pragmatic approach.
Many are honing their English in hopes of studying in the United States. They see no contradiction between condemning the United States one day and applying to American graduate schools the next. The Mercury News. The information you receive online from The Mercury News is protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, retransmitting, or repurposing of any copyright-protected material.