China’s Cautious Olympic Diplomacy
A few days after the June 4, 1989 massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Ren Wanding, then one of the stars of China’s dissident movement, fled to a foreign compound and begged its residents to find him an embassy that would smuggle him, like others, out of the country.
Ren made visits to several embassies but all refused to help him. Ren got back on hi…
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