![]() ![]() ![]() Maintaining US corporate access to the gigantic China $$$ market was one of the reasons that the US did not engage in extremely strong economic sanctions after the June 4 th Tiananmen Square repression-despite the strident pro-democracy message of Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts and other official American media 1. They had lost a lot of time and money, they said, during the nationwide protests. ![]() Yet the only clouds over the whole country were the clouds of repression-as China had begun to change colors from pure red to red-brown-black.Īt the Nanjing airport the next day, I overheard a few American businessmen wondering out loud why Beijing had not cracked down earlier. At the Nanjing airport, which was teeming with people desperately seeking to escape the country, I was told that I could not fly out that day because of bad weather conditions. When my students at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies had begun to boycott classes in April 1989, my return air ticket was set, by sheer coincidence, just a few days after what turned out to be the June 4 th crackdown. ![]() This means engaging in real diplomacy to convince Beijing that it is not in China’s interests to force unification with Taiwan-resulting in a confrontation between the US and China that has been dubbed the “ Thucydides trap.” II. Each song includes melody, guitar chords, and complete lyrics.Ever since I left China a few days after the June 4 th 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and nation-wide repression that followed, I have been haunted by recurrent nightmares of World War III-much like the theme of Bob Dylan’s song Talkin’ World War III Blues written at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.Īs I don’t want anybody to be a part of such a nightmare-which may not be a mere hallucination requiring psychiatric treatment as is the theme of the song-I think it is time to re-assess US global strategy toward China in such a way so as to channel, not contain, China’s aspirations to achieve major power status in a positive way. For the first time in one volume: over 325 songs drawn from every period in the unique career of the master songwriter. ![]()
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