Richard Baum
Richard Baum
Richard Dennis Baumwas an American China watcher, Professor Emeritus of political science at UCLA, and former Director Emeritus of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, noted for his many academic works on Chinese politics. Baum creditted Rhoda Sutherland of Oxford University with inspiring his interest in linguistics...
centre harder particular thus
Zhao Ziyang, on the other hand, was very much at the centre of that particular storm, and thus will be harder to rehabilitate.
rained square students
The students in the square rained on Deng's parade,
attention considered economic government grievance haughty negative ordinary paying respond shared time
They shared the grievance that the government wasn't paying attention to ordinary people, that it was time to respond to the negative byproducts of economic reform. They considered the government to be arrogant, haughty and unresponsive.
hitting
If they're not hitting the week's plan, they have to do something.
human
So they're going to downplay Taiwan, they're going to downplay human rights.