"Amazing," said one of the 27Western journalists based anything in Peking. "Incredible," declared another. "There has never been anything like it." They were referring to last week's abrupt lowering of the invisible barriers in for years have prevented Western newsmen from engaging in serious political discussions with ordinary Chinese citizens. "Before this," said the Toronto Globe and Mail's John Fraser, "trying to get an idea of what the average man was thinking was akin to peering over garden walls. Now the veil has been pulled aside."
At the start of the big poster campaign last month, foreign journalists and diplomats...
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