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Local governments in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) reported throughout early 2009 on measures to strengthen control over religious activity.
A movie recently released in China, The Empire of Silver by Guo Taiming, describes the cunningness, betrayals, fights, tribulations and passions accompanying Chinese traders' earnings and fortunes along the Silk Road. Their monumental mansions, still standing in modern Shanxi around the city of Pingyao, are a testament to the wealth they managed to accumulate.
While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must have heaved a sigh of relief over the relatively uneventful 20th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown, central party authorities are adopting extra measures to defuse tension between local officials and the masses.
June 4, 1989 marks the anniversary of the Chinese government's brutal crackdown on the largest protests for political reform since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Widely known as the Tiananmen Square massacre, the event remains a stain on Chinese history.
With the exception of President Barack Obama, perhaps no political leader in the world today better exemplifies that more than Dr. Ewart F. Brown, Premier of Bermuda.
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