Tiananmen 1989: democracy, citizenship and protest in the representation of the US media

The author examines the materials of the US media in 1989, devoted to fi nding answers to the question about the type of protests in China. Analysis of the US press reveals a complex and controversial information situation. 1989 saw a gradual increase in the interest of journalists, editors, and politicians to the problem of existence of citizen society and democracy in China. US journalists had come to understanding the new contours of the geopolitical picture; they realized that there are at least two global approaches to the question of restructuring Chinese society and that these approaches directly affect the understanding of the new role of the United States in the world