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Article: US caught napping for Tiananmen Square visit Clinton In China
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 28, 1998
- Author:
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AS THE Chinese retired for the night, taking stock of the small
earthquake of glasnost that had shaken their every last taboo,
Americans were waking up to a world that looked pretty much the same
as when they had gone to bed the night before: forest fires in
Florida, the nationwide heatwave, the Monica Lewinsky scandal
(nothing new), and, of course, the President was still in China.
An American who had not stayed up until 1am to watch what had been
billed a routine news conference and turned into a televised
political sparring match between consenting leaders would have been
little the wiser. And this was just as the media-managers of the
Clinton White House had intended it.
Tiananmen Square ...