Date : 5/3/2019 9:15:50 PM
From : "The Economist today"
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Subject : China’s Communist Party grapples with a momentous anniversary

The party recalls the May 4th Movement as the backdrop to its birth two years later. Liberals remember the movement as a cry for democracy by patriots who believed that China had no hope of standing tall without adopting Western learning, not least in politics
   
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