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Article: Chinese Tremors: A crackdown demonstrates the instability of the regime.
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- National Review
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- January 25, 1999
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Mr. Waldron is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and director of Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Amid China's "Christmas crackdown" on dissent, two small news items may indicate just how worried about the coming year is the regime in Beijing. First, the prime minister warned workers building the immense Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River that they must avoid "any carelessness or negligence." Second, the regime issued an edict declaring that earthquake forecasts were to be classified top secret.
Trivial as these may appear compared with the brutal sentences that sent four top democracy leaders-Xu Wenli, Qin ...
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