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Last year after the Sichuan earthquake, Chinese officials showed remorse and condolences to parents who lost children in the schools that collapsed. You said they should also show remorse for June 4. Do you think you'll ever see them apologize to parents who lost kids in 1989?
I know they'd never apologize to us … If I were President Hu Jintao and I intended to get rid of Ding Zilin, this year would be the best year to arrest me. Otherwise, the cost could be much higher.

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  • Posted By: crusaderz @ 06/05/2009 12:15:06 AM

    It's an inconvenient truth that the political state of China, with such a big population, has to be under dictatorship of the Communist Party, and they are going in the right direction.
    If peace and prosperity is being championed, why not?
    We can't really please everyone, can't we? Not to say people in millions.

  • Posted By: david wang @ 06/04/2009 3:41:52 AM

    I am one of the post 80s in China , when I was young at my 7 years old, I saw the incident in the television, I stil have some vague memory of that, at that time I had a neighbour who was a middle school student, he said to me "it will come back in ten years". But now our country seems quite peaceful, even thriving and prosperous, but whether this perosperity can last long ? I am not quite optmitic,of course I don't expect the tragedy happy again , what I only hope is that when we --- the post 80s----become the Helmsman of my beloved country, The ship wii sailed toward the bright in our hand , as our generation have been deeply effected by the Democratic ideas from abroad, I strongly believe that --China, in our hand will be more open, more confidence, and more democratic

  • Posted By: pug_ster @ 06/03/2009 9:10:22 PM

    You would think this kind of stuff would never happen here in this country. Our Nation's Veterans and their kids were killed in an peaceful protest in this nation's capital. Just google 'bonus army' and you'll find out.

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