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China: August moon over Beijing

Sunday, July 6th, 2008 @ 09:58 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Ideas, Arts & Culture, Protest, Youth
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Veteran China pundit Philip J Cunningham looks back at the phases of the moon leading up to the Tiananmen student protest in 1989 and forward to the August moon as it will be when the Olympics begin next month as possible justification for tightened security leading up to the Games in his post, ‘August Moon Over Beijing‘.

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