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<text id=91TT0890>
<title>
Apr. 29, 1991: World Notes:China
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Apr. 29, 1991 Nuclear Power
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 49
World Notes
CHINA
A Breath of Fresh Air
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<p> China's leaders are violently allergic to criticism. But last
week they allowed a prominent American to air some irritating
thoughts before a domestic public audience for the first time
since the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. Visiting former President
Jimmy Carter told some 400 people at Beijing's Foreign Affairs
College that "worldwide concerns" for imprisoned Chinese
protesters are legitimate, pressing and curable--by a grant
of "amnesty to all nonviolent dissidents."
</p>
<p> Carter's message, which he repeated to Premier Li Peng and
Communist General Secretary Jiang Zemin, produced no visible
results, though the former President did receive assurances that
Chinese students in the U.S. who obtain a permit to return home
will not be harassed or arrested once back in China. Chinese
analysts believe the regime may have let Carter speak to help
persuade Washington to continue most-favored-nation trade
relations.
</p>
</body></article>
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