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Another says he ordered last week's crackdown only after he received the implicit green light from the Clinton administration's special envoy to Yugoslavia, Robert Gelbard.
The WP , in a story about American-based Chinese political exiles, runs the following precis of China's recent human rights record: "After the Tiananmen Square crackdown, a decade of public political debate in China came to an end.
You know, everything has to be robust now: a robust foreign policy, a robust national defense, a robust air attack on Serbia, a robust police crackdown, a robust anti-drug policy, a robust investigation of abuses.
The paper said in an editorial that China is facing more than enough crises already, from the economy to relations with Taiwan, and it should focus on these problems rather than "launch a massive crackdown against a group which has never done anything more harmful than organise peaceful protests."
Now, as someone who drives fairly often into the city, I'm pleased by the crackdown, since double-parkers have the magical ability to turn three-lane avenues as wide as an Interstate into slow-moving country roads.