Wang Dan, a leader of the 1989 student movement, launched a website in Taiwan Saturday meant to teach young Chinese about democracy, local media reported. The New School for Democracy hopes to invite well-known academics to teach democratic concepts to Chinese Internet users, the United Evening News said, citing Wang at a ceremony Saturday in Taipei to mark the start of the website.
"Don't ask what Chinese democracy can do for you, ask what you can do for Chinese democracy," 42-year-old Wang was quoted as saying in the paper, paraphrasing former US president John F. Kennedy. The website, www.ns4d.org, was likely to be blocked by Chinese censors, but so many young Chinese go abroad to study now that word was likely to spread anyway, Wang was quoted as saying.
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