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‘I want to see my parents. I’ll take any deal’: the Tiananmen Square leader desperate to return to China

Wu’er Kaixi leading the student revolt in Beijing in 1989 in front of an image of Sun Yat-sen, the father of modern China. Credit: Marc DEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
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