Monthly Journalism Award
The Washington Monthly Journalism Award for October 1992 is presented to Jim Mann Los Angeles Times Three years ago, in the wake of the Chinese government's deadly crackdown on demonstrators in...
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...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award for October 1992 is presented to Jim Mann Los Angeles Times Three years ago, in the wake of the Chinese government's deadly crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, the United States and other leading industrialized nations united to freeze lending to China, in effect cutting off China's access to billions of dollars...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...Times reporter Jim Mann carefully lays out the process by which this "tale of diplomatic skill, avarice . . . and intrigue" came to pass...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in January will close February 15...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in February will close March 15...
...when the loans were cut off, so was their business...
...This has allowed China to borrow billions of interest-free dollars from the World Bank to the point where it is now receiving more funding than before Tiananmen...
...At its heart, he shows, was pressure applied by Japanese, German, French, and Italian companies on their governments to allow the borrowing to resume...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
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...Today, although China has made only modest improvements in its human rights policy,' the United States, Japan, and Western European nations have quietly, but fully, discarded the loan freeze...
...The January winner will be announced in the April issue and the February winner will be announced in the May issue...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Mann explains that many had been contracted by the Chinese to build roads, harbors, and power stations...
...Why did these foreign firms care so much...
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...And the United States, when pressured by its allies to look the other way, did so...
Vol. 25 • January 1993 • No. 1
