But Mr. Jiang's visit has galvanized them like nothing since the Tiananmen Square massacre of democracy demonstrators in 1989.
There were also the two secret missions to China after the crackdown on democracy demonstrators there.
As I sad above, I believe that the original pro democracy demonstrators envisioned a Western Liberal Democracy type structure with true freedoms.
But Beijing's 1989 military assault on democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square reopened American eyes to the dark side of Chinese Communist rule.
Some of the raided monasteries in Mandalay had served as sanctuaries for democracy demonstrators.
Both houses of Congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation last year in response to Beijing's violent crackdown in June on democracy demonstrators, many of them students.
The market did tumble in 1989 after the crackdown on democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square of Beijing sent jitters across the border.
During the July 2003 Article 23 march, Wong was filmed to be giving the democracy demonstrators the middle finger gesture.
It seized power in what used to be known as Burma by massacring democracy demonstrators in the streets of Rangoon six years ago.
In September 1988, soldiers killed hundreds of democracy demonstrators on the streets of Yangon, the Burmese capital formerly named Rangoon.