The World - News from Aug. 8, 1989

An American tourist in the central city of Xian has been ordered to leave China, apparently for telling a non-official version of the crackdown on the democracy movement, authorities and informed sources said. The Shaanxi Province Foreign Affairs Office said the tourist was Chen Dongni, believed to be originally from Hong Kong. His English name was believed to be Tony Chen, but his U.S. hometown was not known. Sources said that Chen, speaking with local Chinese at a Xian restaurant, contradicted the official account of the Chinese army’s bloody assault June 3-4 on Beijing’s Tian An Men Square. China has branded the pro-democracy movement a “counterrevolutionary rebellion.”