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Yuan Mu says "our fights against bourgeois liberalisation as a social trend will go on for a long time in our country." Says China should not launch a campaign against bourgeois liberalisation as "ideological issues can only be resolved by patiently improving our ideological and political work, and not by campaigns. (Xinhua 12.5.89)
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Yuan Mu urges students to refrain from new demonstrations but pledges government restraint if the students take to the streets. (Xinhua in English 12.5.89)
NPC Chairman Wan Li on official goodwill visit to Canada and the USA. (Chinese MFA spokesman 4.5.89)
Zhao Ziyang calls on all Chinese citizens "not to do anything to impede the forthcoming Sino-Soviet summit." Says that the Party and Government are "seriously considering reasonable demands recently raised by students, workers and other people." (Xinhua) Several thousand Muslims stage an orderly demonstration in Lanzhou against a recently published book, 'Sexual Customs'. 200 young Muslims attack the Gansu provincial government compound. 35 of them are arrested.
Some 500 students begin a sit-in and hunger strike in Tiananmen Square. Hunger strikers demand:
1) dialogue between government and Peking students delegation.
2) Government must recognise student movement as a democratic and patriotic student movement. (Zhonggno Tongxun She 13.5.89)
Li Tieying, Li Ximing, Chen Xiton, An Chengxin, Li
Qiyan, Wang Jialiu and Zhang Jianmin go to Tiananmen Square to try to persuade students to return to their classes (Peking Radio 14.5.89).
Hong Kong newspaper Ming Bao reports Zhao Ziyang's stand on the Shanghai World Economic Herald, indirectly criticising the way Shanghai Municipal CCP Committee handled the incident. Shanghai Party Secretary Jiang Zemin has had to soften his attitude because of immense
pressure.
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