Tinnenaman Square

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4) Allow freedom of the press; lift censorship of newspapers.
5) Increase funds for education; improvement the treatment of intellectuals.
6) Cancel Beijing’s ten regulations against demonstrations.
7) Allow the public to know about the development of the student movement (Binyan 9).
While the students emphasized that their protest were a call for democracy, not all of their demands coincided with democratic principles. In actuality only the fourth, sixth and seventh represent conditions found within a democracy. The remaining demands dealt more with political corruption and a desire to see living conditions improve within China. Rather, the student leaders had “limited and very moderate aims…{they} sought not to overthrow the government or even to form an opposition party, but only to win some measure of autonomy for themselves-and perhaps to encourage a long-term process of democratization within the ruling Communist Party in accordance with the Party’s own proclaimed Marxian principles: (Meisner 403).
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