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NEW HAVEN, Conn. In the stately stone hall, Yale University flutist Wang Mingzhu, solemn in a glimmering black dress, played her instrument quietly, deliberately, pitch-perfect. A half-block away, hundreds of agitated demonstrators in T-shirts and headbands banged snare drums and chanted for the demise of the Chinese Communist Party.
The scene, moments before China's president spoke at one of America's most venerable campuses, was a perfect metaphor for the two narratives that define modern China control vs. chaos, the mild poker face in the cordoned-off spotlight as roiling masses gather outside, volatile and unpredictable.See the full content of this document
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Hu Picks Words Carefully On U.S. Visit
In China, of course, the masses can't protest against the state. But this was the United States, belly of the beast that Hu Jintao was busy sweet-talking.
On his...See the full content of this document
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