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Global countdown, global Meltdown - William Zhang sums up the big issues facing our world as 2009 unfolds.

A ten year old girl sits trembling in a clinic after her tests, clutching her mother’s hand. The girl is distressed, but cannot understand what’s going on. All she can grasp is one word- “positive.”

Tanks rolled into Tiananmen square, in Beijing, before dawn on June 4, 1989, to crush weeks of student and worker protests. Twenty years later the ruling Communist Party has never released a death toll, and they fear any public marking of the crackdown could undermine its hold on power.Full article at Reuters.