China Orders U.S. Tourist to Leave
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BEIJING — An American tourist in the central city of Xian has been ordered to leave China, apparently for telling a non-official version of the crackdown on the democracy movement, authorities and informed sources said Monday.
The Shaanxi Province Foreign Affairs Office said the tourist was Chen Dongni, a Chinese-American believed to be originally from Hong Kong. His English name was believed to be Tony Chen, but his U.S. hometown was not known.
Sources familiar with the case said that Chen, speaking with local Chinese at a Xian restaurant, contradicted the official account of the Chinese army’s bloody assault June 3-4 on Beijing’s Tian An Men Square.
The Chinese government has branded the pro-democracy movement a “counterrevolutionary rebellion,” whipped up by foreign forces.
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