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chinese students. han was studying at the time at a university in tokyo. >> translator: we had more than 100 times the people here today. there was excitement in the air. it was as if crowds of chinese people had just fallen from the sky. so today's turnout is a bit sad. >> reporter: after the incident, he decided to remain in tokyo. he works to keep alive the memory of what happened that day. he makes films and writes. >> translator: people in china are not even allowed to hold memorial ceremonies. the authorities want to erase the incident from history. so we will continue to do abroad what is impossible inside the country. >> reporter: two month's anniversary, han showed students one of his films. >> reporter: it's a documentary of the chinese people who are forced to flee abroad after the crackdown. the tiananmen square incident is a taboo topic in china, even today. no media outlet discusses it. no school teaches it. as a result, more and more young people know nothing about it. >> translator: i saw footage of the incident for the first time today. i was really shocked. i didn't know so many young

chinese. >>> yale university holding its 77th ceo summit today in new york where some of the best and brightestnds have come together to tackle key issues. joining us now, jeff sonnenfeld. with us gerry lopez, the company i was referring to, ceo of amc entertainment. you may be blacked out in china right now during this conversation. >> we can talk about any topic you have in mine. we wouldn't be in china, our parent company is based there. they're on their own chain of cinemas. we operate quite independently of them on a day-to-day basis. >> amc is a great model on how global commerce can transcend frictions and diplomacy. this is a great example of cross-border investment. it's been a win/win/win. >> thank you. yes, absolutely. >>> i want to talk to gerry as a barometer, if you will, of consumer sentiment and where we're going in the economy. i noticed, gerry, that the price for tickets, movie tickets in this country has moved down, not up, in the past quarter. it went from $8.35 to $7.96. that feels like a first, excuse my ignorance because i don't follow it enough. is that new? >> it's actu

chinese are becoming overweight? >> i've come to a traditional wet market in beijing to meet prof li liubai, a nutritionist at beijing university. over the last year or so, the chinese government has closed down many street markets like this, because the chaotic scene here is considered unflattering to the modern image of the olympic city. but many locals like prof li still shop here for its fresh produce. >> i do shopping here for my family, for my son whose a 15 year old boy, and my husband he is a vegetarian... >> oh he's a vegetarian? >> yeah >> which is quite rare in china? >> no, increased. because many people worry about heart disease. >> prof li is a government adviser on dietary management, and she believes changing diet in china has contributed significantly to the nation's weight gain. >> 30 years ago we only eat meat, pork or mutton during festival, now everyday we can eat meat. >> you've got a lot of milk here, dairy produce, but traditionally that wouldn't have been part of a chinese diet would it? >> before we feed our child with soy products, porridge, rice, now with the economic development, so the milk increas

. >> there university to be lots of old chinese restaurants here but now there are only one. and no more old style cafes anymore. >> l foot stalls numbered in the hundreds when he set up this one with his father back in the 1960s. now it's one of bairlt 20 left and -- barely 20 left and with no interest in his children running it, it will probably close when he finally hangs up his ladle. hong kong faces the dilemma as other asian statistician, how to develop into a modern metropolis. there is a suspicious the city wouldn't mind losing that rough side of its character for good. >> closing and disappear. >> some critics believe the authorities have used reents food safety scares and virus outbreaks to unfairly target street food outlets. the result a vanishing heritage. >> that's rob mcbryde reporting for us on the vanishing food outlets in hong kong. that is it for us. please stay with us, i'll be back for more of the news. bye-bye. ftc ftc

i met with more than 50 chinese students at indiana university to discuss the tiananmen square massacre. all the students understandably expressed their grief and outrage. it would be necessary to be there and talk with them and meet with each of them one-on-one to understand the depth of their grief and outrage. in their eyes, the slaughter cawed the rule regular jet stream to lose all legitimacy. it's destroyed the trust of the people who will determine that nation's future. every student there expressed extreme hostility toward the present regime, including the who rxist of the some 60 would still say he's a communist but doesn't support this regime that bodes ill for the future of the regime. the student's faith in democracy remains unabated. the u.s. remains their hope and they wait for us to do more, much more. they content if we do not, things will only get worsial i comment president bush for his decisions but more must be done at my request, with the chairman's cooperation this legislation includes language urging immediate chinese cooperation with emergency food and medical as

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. >> the takeaway from the single best chart is that the chinese communist party is thriving, showing how recruitment levels of universitye at an all-time high. these bars track the number of students who are members. the yellow line shows the upcent of students that make total membership. the enthusiasm dropped off after 1989, but the party made a big comeback in the mid-1990's. a number of college students in of collegee number students in china has skyrocketed. this chart is from the economist. blank areas where they do not have data from the communist party. but the question is, why are they so bullish on the commonest party membership? it has less to do with politics with jobto do possibilities. >> what do you get when you join the communist party? do you get a decoder ring or swag? i'm serious. >> when i travel around china for 10 days with a film crew 2.5 years ago, i was told there was effectively a two-tiered price structure. if you had a connection to the commonest party there was one price, and if you did not there was another. this is anecdotal. >> look at who has done really well in the country overall. peop

the chinese people have provided a dramatic demonstration of the human freedom. it is a universal desire, not limited in time, place, or people. it is a desire for which thousands of courage u.s.a. chinese students and workers, men and women, have over the past few days been willing to die. it is a desire which tanks, bullets, bayonets and c freedom it is alubs and will not crush. the courage of the chinese students has inspired the world and galvanized their nation behind their call for democracy and reform. people everywhere want freedom and economic opportunity. communism has failed to provide either. he tanks in tiananmen square stand as mute but moving testimony of the moral bankruptcy of a government that can maintain itself in power only by killing and will not cr last week by a vote of 89-0 the senate approved a resolution urging the government of the people's republic of china to take all necessary steps to establish a just and democratic society with a free and open political system that would protect the essential human rights of all the chinese people. at the same time

. >> university endowments being a part of this. a number of schools divested from chinesees who were supposedly underwriting some of the violence in sudan. so there are both recent and now going back a ways precedence for this. eric, on the personal side of this, what would you say to people who have investments in gun stocks? >> first and foremost, i'm not anti-gun. there's a lot of people who want to paint me that way. i'm not. i am appalled at the behavior of this industry, though, how it puts profits before lives. i do believe that we can market guns responsibly, and legislate them responsibly in a way that will have a meaningful reduction in the gun violence problem in this country. with that said, a lot of folks say if you don't like guns, don't buy them. one of the refrains i have to that is, what if i don't like gun violence. this is something that you can do. if you're an individual who feels powerless in this stalled situation that jennifer alluded to, one of the things that you can look into, and it's very easy to do, just do a google search for a campaign to un

these flats being bought by the chinese based on these live war bubbles over in china where people don't understand this funding intelligent life somewhere in the universe is a failed mission from the get go because all the intelligent life outside there in various planets around the universe see us through their whole telescope equivalence and they see a big planet of debt and they try to avoid this at all costs nobody with an intelligent brain and any other planet anywhere in the universe was going anywhere near a plant to debt as it's known throughout the galaxy throughout the universe nobody wants to touch planet debt so they don't reveal themselves because they're afraid of robert rubin is going to show up on some plot of some exoplanets some some parallel galaxy and leveraged buyout of some jupiter like moon and end up giving them all the debt nobody wants anything to do with earth anymore well speaking of debt the largest holder of debt or certainly the second the first or second is j.p. morgan they're in the final headline here j.p. morgan sees record one hundred billion dollars in loan funds the business of bundling junk rated corporate loans i

all these flats being bought by a chinese based on these live or bubbles over in china but people don't understand this finding intelligent life somewhere in the universe is a failed mission from the get go because all the intelligent life outside there in various planets around the universe see us through their whole telescope equivalence and they see a big planet of debt and they try to avoid this at all costs nobody with an intelligent brain and any other planet anywhere on the universe was going anywhere near a plant to debt as it's known throughout the galaxy throughout the universe nobody wants to touch planet debt so they don't reveal themselves because they're afraid that robert rubin is going to show up on some plot of some exoplanets some some parallel galaxy and leveraged buyout of some jupiter like moon and end up giving them all the debt nobody wants to anything to do with earth anymore well speaking of debt the largest holder of debt or certainly the second or first or second is j.p. morgan they're in the final headline here j.p. morgan sees record one hundred billion dollars in loan funds the business of bundling junk rated corporate loa

these flats being bought by a chinese based on these live or bubbles over in china but people don't understand is that this funding intelligent life somewhere in the universe is a failed mission from the get go because all the intelligent life outside there in various planets around the universe see us through their whole telescope equivalence and they see a big planet of debt and they try to avoid this at all costs nobody with an intelligent brain and any other planet anywhere in the universe was going anywhere near a plant to debt as it's known throughout the galaxy throughout the universe nobody wants to touch planet debt so they don't reveal themselves as they're afraid of robert rubin is going to show up on some plot of some exoplanets some some parallel galaxy and leveraged buyout of some jupiter like moon and end up giving them all the debt nobody wants to anything to do with earth anymore well speaking of debt the largest holder of debt or certainly the second or first or second is j.p. morgan they're in the final headline here j.p. morgan sees record one hundred billion dollars in loan funds the business of bundling junk rated corporate loans into

pick and took andrew wiggens from the university of kansas, who has already announced plans to heave the team to may in miami. here's a heartwarming story. a chineseillionaire, his name is chen, held his own charity event yesterday in new york. he invited homeless people to lunch at a fancy restaurant in central park. >> chinese recycling tycoon is providing hunls of homeless people with a meal and cash handout. he took out a full-page ad on monday to announce the event. he said he will give each of the attendees $300, and he will provide some entertainment at the luncheon himself. ♪ >> reportedly, he will perform "we are the world." >> jimmy: the reason he invited homeless people is because no one else would listen to him sing. would you hike to hear more? ♪ we are the world, we are the children ♪ >> the musical portion at least went off as billed. the chinese tycoon serenaded his rendition of "we are the world." most of his audience had earlier boarded buses at the new york city rescue mission. >> i forgot what the chinese guy's name is, but i think he's doing a real good thing. >> i agree. i think it's very nice. weird, but it's nice. had i see

chinese students have forgot teb it. it started as a memorial for a reformer, and as a chairman of the communist party, he wanted to open up markets an encourage university97 and he died of a heart attack two years later. so students marched on tiananmen square and soon joined by intellectuals demanding freedom of speech. by the third, the square was teeming with people, and later that night, the liberation army opened up fire on the unarmed students, and then later in the day, the soldiers used tanks to clear the square and 10,000 people were arrested and when the people crowded the barriers, the soldiers opened up fire again. china puts the death toll at 246, but other estimates have been a as high as 2,000. and then this grabbed international attention. the lone unarmed protester whose identity has never been confirmed began known as and ta man, staging this singular act of defiance. and now 25 years later, china has banned all references to the crackdown and blocked off the square. the square is the only overt reason that it is remembered 25 years later. and joining me is lisa lim, and thank you for joining us to talk the about your book "the people'

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chinese people. the china edition is off the charts. the 20th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. the communist party is doing just fine. the chart shows recruitment levels of universitytudents are at an all-time high. the bars track the number of students who are members, approaching 1.20 5 million. million.ching 1.20 5 they made a comeback in the mid 90's. they really took off the last 10 years because the number of college students has skyrocketed over the last decade. the percentage of students that make up the total members is at 40%. >> what are the career spock -- the career prospects? >> that is why they want to join the communist party. more likely it has to do with pragmatism. if you are a member of the communist party come you have a better chance of getting a job in the public sector come in which is seen as safe there -- which is seen as safer with benefits. kind of like it is in the united states. it helps to have a party membership as well. a so this is not about political view, it is about a political aspiration. like in the united states, they have a hard time finding enough jobs. what is interesting is the comet his party has figured out a way to wor

flats being bought by a chinese based on these live or bubbles over in china but people don't understand is that this object of finding intelligent life somewhere in the universe is a failed mission from the get go because all the intelligent life outside there in various planets around the universe see us through their whole telescope equivalence and they see a big planet a debt and they try to avoid this at all costs nobody with an intelligent brain and any other planet anywhere in the universe was going anywhere near a plant to debt as it's known throughout the galaxy throughout the universe nobody wants to touch planet debt so they don't reveal themselves because they're afraid that robert rubin is going to show up on some plot of some exoplanets some some parallel galaxy and leveraged buyout of some jupiter like moon and end up giving them all the debt nobody wants anything to do with earth anymore well speaking of debt the largest holder of debt or certainly the second or first or second is j.p. morgan they're in the final headline here j.p. . under a billion dollars in loan funds the business. loans and to top rated securities is booming like never befo