ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This was the first visit by an American president to China since before the Tiananmen Square crackdown, and so for the Chinese, and for the United States, it was a very important visit. President Clinton was going to spend 10 days touring across China.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: One of the most dramatic moments came at a joint news conference in Beijing when the president and China's president, Jiang Zemin, had a joint news conference, and to the delight of President Clinton's aides and the president himself, the Chinese government did broadcast that news conference live. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, JUNE 27, 1998) BLITZER: Mr. Clinton spoke openly of China's crackdown on student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in 1989.</s>WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I believe, and the American people believe, that the use of force and the tragic loss of life was wrong.</s>KOPPEL: For those of us who were watching this take place live, it was really an extraordinary moment because you saw an American president criticizing China's leader and criticizing him on the most taboo of topics: on Tibet; on human rights; on the lack of press freedom. And it was really an amicable conversation that they had and in the end they essentially agreed to disagree.
CNN 20: Live News Conference from China, June 27, 1998