Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Protests/U.S. Economic Recovery

Segment 1:  Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Protests

June 4th marks the twentieth anniversary of the brutal crackdown on China's 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations.  The student-led protests, which started in April, grew throughout May until early June when troops were sent in killing hundreds of protesters.  Every year the Tiananmen Mothers send China's top leaders a letter demanding to know what happened to their children on June 4, 1989, and every year they have been ignored.  Officials in China don't acknowledge their existence-or consider that they are owed an explanation, an apology, or a factual account of what happened to their sons and daughters 20 years ago.  How does China's next generation remember this atrocity?

Guest:  Grace Wang, Duke University Student

Segment 2:  U.S. Economic Recovery

What will it take to make the U.S. economy recover?  Is it stimulating consumption or stimulating production, increasing borrowing or increasing income?  Will China help the U.S. economic recovery or stand in its way?  Should all Americans be worried over the fact that the U.S. owes China more than $1 trillion?  Have U.S. consumerism and "upgrade-ism" become things of the past? 

Guest:  Alan Tonelson, Trade Analyst, U.S. Business & Industrial Council