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(トランプ氏の天安門事件「暴動」発言 謝罪求める声) (“Voices Now Demanding Apology from Trump Who Calls Tienanmen Massacre a “Riot”) (Translation from the original Japanese by FReeper AmericanInTokyo):”In the most recent TV debate between candidates for the Republican nomination for President in the USA, Mr. Trump referred to it as a “riot” (boudou: 暴動) when Chinese students stood up in Tienanmen Square and requested freedom, in Beijing, China in 1989. Real estate magnate Trump was answering a question from the moderator in the March 10 debate in Miami, with respect to the suppression of Chinese university students. They were only pleading for freedom but were...

U.S. senators appeal to China's Hu to free scholar Thu Jun 16, 2005 04:49 AM ET Chinese dissident Yang Jianli is seen in a photo taken in Boston in March 2002. Forty U.S. Senators have urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free a scholar and permanent U.S. resident jailed in China on illegal entry and spying charges, saying his release would help Sino-U.S. relations. Yang Jianli, a veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, was arrested in 2002 after entering China on a friend's passport and traveling for a week on a fake identity card to observe large-scale labor unrest...