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<text id=93TT1074>
<title>
Mar. 01, 1993: Good Behavior
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 13
WORLD
Good Behavior
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<body>
<p>Beijing frees two dissidents and opens its oil fields to the West
</p>
<p> The gestures gave new meaning to Deng Xiaoping's "kaifang" (opening
up) slogan. China's prison police released two student leaders
who spearheaded the Tiananmen protests in 1989, freeing former
Peking University student Wang Dan, 23, four months before the
end of his four-year sentence and paroling graduate student
Guo Haifeng, 27, three months early. Why the leniency? Because
such gestures might help Beijing attract the Olympics in 2000
and pre-empt moves by the Clinton Administration to link human
rights with the granting of most-favored-nation trade status.
</p>
<p> "The Chinese know they have to wipe off stains on their hands
before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian
diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do
the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened
up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil
companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of
Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas.
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