Tiananmen exiles hoping for democracy

Fifteen years after the bloodshed, the exiled student leaders of China’s 1989 pro-democracy protests are settled abroad as academics and entrepreneurs. But they nurture one wish above all – to come home to a new system.

“Living in exile, we have to keep our faith that there will be democracy some day,” said Wu’er Kaixi, who gained fame as a pyjama-clad hunger-striker who harangued then-Premier Li Peng and now is a political commentator in Taiwan.