What a year for big anniversaries: China's leadership has successfully negotiated theirs, the fiftieth anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight from Lhasa to Dharmsala in March, the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen Square in June, and the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic on 1 October.
Now watch tomorrow as Iran marks the thirtieth anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover by radical students in Tehran, and next Monday is the twentieth anniversary of the first crack in the Berlin Wall. Your then somewhat more youthful correspondent stood atop the Berlin Wall with thousands and thousands of others on New Year's Eve, 1989. I'll have a photo or two next week.
(Photo of flags above the Tiananmen Gate from the China Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.)
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