1. Baiqiao Tang is a Chinese political dissident from Hunan province who led student protests during the 1989 democracy movement.
14 Facts About Tang Baiqiao
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Tang Baiqiao was charged with being a counter-revolutionary and imprisoned.
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Tang Baiqiao was later accepted into the United States as a political refugee in 1992.
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Tang Baiqiao claimed that he graduated in 2003 with a Master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University, but university archive and registrar of Columbia University claimed that he studied there but did not graduate.
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Tang Baiqiao attended Lingling Number Four High School in Hunan, and then Hunan Normal University.
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Tang Baiqiao was cited by officials of Asia Watch, a division of Human Rights Watch, for contributing the majority of research to a publication called Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province 1989 - 1992.
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Tang Baiqiao is a frequent on-air special commentator for New Tang Baiqiao Dynasty Television.
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Tang Baiqiao is a spokesman and officer for the China Interim Government.
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Tang Baiqiao's articles have appeared in the Journal of International Affairs and Beijing Spring, among other publications.
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Tang Baiqiao noted that the reform efforts of Zhao Ziyang, Bao Tong, and Chen Yizi might well have prevailed had the crackdown never occurred.
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Tang Baiqiao pointed out that students wished to see Hu Yaobang rehabilitated, as well as increased social benefits for intellectuals.
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Tang Baiqiao maintains that issues of democracy and human rights only emerged in the end stages of Tiananmen Square, and then somewhat tangentially.
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Tang Baiqiao wrote the foreword to Peter Navarro's 2011 book Death by China, which highlights the threats to America's economic dominance in the 21st century posed by China's Communist Party.
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Tang Baiqiao criticized Trump as flawed politician, but praised his actions against the Chinese Communist Party.