标题：Tiananmen Rebel Who Remains Defiant
天安门事件党内反对者坚持观点
报道：SKY NEWS
时间：2008.01.18
时长：1'04"
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简介：
借布朗访华期间，英国记者得以采访原赵紫阳秘书，反对武力镇压的鲍彤，鲍对当年的观点仍未改变。
Tiananmen Rebel Who Remains Defiant
By Peter Sharp
Asia correspondent
Updated:06:56, Friday January 18, 2008
For Bao Tong, Gordon Brown's freewheeling oriental tour is in stark contrast to the circumstances he has found himself in for the past 18 years.
Bao was the most senior Chinese Communist Party official to be jailed following the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, serving seven years.
2008 is his thirteenth year under house arrest, imposed upon his prison release.
The British Prime Minister's visit to China gave him the opportunity to compare and contrast life in the two countries.
"In England, people can say what they want. They can praise Gordon Brown, or they can criticise him. But Chinese people can only praise the Communist Party," he said.
"England has freedom of speech, China doesn't. England has freedom of the press, China doesn't.
"England has freedom to vote, China doesn't. In Chinese elections, the Communist party gives you five candidates for five positions.
"You can only choose those five. And they call these elections."
Bao is convinced if democracy comes to China it will come from below, rather than above.
"When Chinese people stand up for their freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble, freedom to set up their own political party, and freedom of religion - this will be the start of democracy."
The years of house arrest have done little, if anything, to crush the 75-year-old's political beliefs.
"I am still the same person I was then. At the time, I thought the use of military force by Deng Xiaoping to suppress the students was wrong, was criminal. I still think this.
"Back then, I felt it was the right thing to do to oppose Deng Xiaoping. And today I still feel I was right."
Today, China is the second largest consumer of oil, just after the United States.
In this crusade for black gold, China is already in direct conflict with the current greatest consumer of the world's oil: the United States.
Chinese oil companies are signing deals in countries like Venezuela, Iran, Sudan, Chad and Angola. In exchange, China has given its support to these countries, either building infrastructure or using its influence to support them at the United Nations. Now, U.S. companies are finding that doing business in some oil producing markets is rapidly changing.
