This is John Batchelor. Charles Burton of synopsis reporting on a phenomenon in China,

Zhengzhou, a central Chinese city north of Wuhan, I'm told, in the south of Beijing,

is witnessing hundreds of thousands of university students starting a movement in some fashion.

They pick up a bicycle in Zhengzhou and bicycle all night to a neighboring city where they eat dumplings

and then take the train back.

Why?

What does this mean?

And Charles comments on this looks like something spontaneous for the young,

similar to Tiananmen Square, what happened there, and the Red Guard, the foundation of the Cultural

Revolution, a phenomenon. It might explain why the central authorities are fearful.

Gordon Chang and Charles Burton commenting on a phenomenon in China just reported on

tens of thousands of 100,000 students bicycling all night.

Why? Charles explains, Gordon explains,

more of this tonight. I think both of those things that you're talking about are there.

At the time of the Cultural Revolution, there was what they called the world link-up. In other

words, the students were allowed to go on trains without buying any ticket and moved around China and great student masses.

And as you say, you know, breaking into intellectuals homes. I think a lot of the stuff was burnt and destroyed, destroying temples and generally having a kind of, I guess, young people boisterous time.

The Tenement incident is similar.

I think a lot of people in Beijing went down to Tenement, not because they had a sophisticated understanding of democracy or

political change, but simply to be part of a woodstock-like movement. There was a lot of

music and dancing on the square. And I think young people were seeing themselves as, you know,

as to breaking through the old order and trying to to make a more open and and

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