Chinese Object To Meeting Place

Wed., Oct. 25, 1995

Associated Press

The exhibit asked, “What Price Freedom?” Chinese officials didn’t like the answers, so they forced Tuesday’s meeting between President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin out of the New York Public Library.

“Until now, this has not been a controversial exhibit,” library president Paul LeClerc said in an exhibition hall where video of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing played on a half-dozen screens.

The exhibit also criticizes the U.S. government’s treatment of Indians and has sections on other nations.

Aides to Jiang noticed the exhibit during a Sunday reception for the United Nations’ 50th anniversary and complained that the library was an inappropriate meeting place, said White House spokesman Mike McCurry.

The Clinton administration agreed to move the meeting to Lincoln Center.

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