World IN BRIEF : CHINA : Western Journalists Labeled Instigators

China stepped up its attack on foreigners and especially Western journalists, accusing them of fomenting disturbances around the second anniversary of an army crackdown on a mass pro-democracy movement. People’s Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper, specifically attacked Western wire services and other media for sending squads of journalists to the university district--a center of unrest in 1989--during the anniversary this month of pro-democracy protests. It also said that foreign students at Beijing University instigated trouble during the period. Last week, authorities banned a meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Beijing, accusing journalists of trying to subvert the Communist state.