Gareth Furby on Chinese clampdown

Title

Gareth Furby on Chinese clampdown

Genre

News report

TX Date

12 Jun 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:46

Description

Chinese authorities have begun an across-the-board crackdown on Westerners, expelling a journalist and ordering diplomats to stay indoors. They are also continuing to hunt down student leaders, with over four hundred people already siezed. The state-run televison service is airing pictures of military control, to keep the people from rising against the Government. From Beijing, Gareth Furby reports.

Contributors

Gareth Furby

Keywords

Politics; Government; Armed forces; China; Demonstrations; Policing practice; Protest movements; Students; Foreigners; Beijing; Tiananmen Square; Deng Xiaoping

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