Elsewhere, the demonstration would barely have attracted notice. Several hundred university students, singing broken choruses of their national anthem and shouting slogans like "Long Live the Great People," massed in a corner of Peking's Tiananmen Square last week. They were protesting among other things Japanese "economic aggression," Tokyo's reputed flooding of China with defective and overpriced goods under the open-door economic policies of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. Security officials with loudspeakers ordered the protesters to disperse, and after about two hours they did.
It was the second anti-Japanese student protest in two months. In both cases, the ostensible purpose was to...
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