Prosperity, repression mark China 30 years after Tiananmen

  BEIJING - Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China's economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression is harsher than ever.   Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without charge, student activists face relentless harassment and leaders in the beleaguered dissident community have been locked up or simply vanished.   Religious groups face ever greater pressure to conform, and a web of mass surveillance is bolstering a system many call totalitarian.       It's a far cry from the hopes of the idealistic student demonstrators, and a level of control far beyond what ma...

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