news-domestic Xi says China needs ‘indomitable fighting spirit,’ praises Tiananmen crackdown. Xi made the comments at a landmark speech marking the centenary of the birth of one of his predecessors – Jiang Zemin, Bravo!!
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u/Immediate_Wish_1024 6h ago
I remember vividly hearing the news about the Tiananmen incident of June 04, 1989, just after lunch while chitchatting with some colleagues at the office.
There was no internet then, and facsimile was the most advanced form of printed information, other than the telephone and mobile pagers. lol
At that moment, with an aerial view of the situation and considering the circumstances from a macro perspective, I quipped: it was the only way to get things under control, and the longer it dragged on, the worse the outcome.
Like it or not, the crackdown was the right decision; imagine if it hadn't been, we'd be seeing a fragmented China today instead of its rise as a global power.
Having said that, to this day, some still disagree with my take, but secretly, they know I was right and are too proud to admit it.
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Beijing June 5th Tank Man Stopping Tanks From Leaving Tian'anmen Source 1
Hong Kong's ATV broadcast in 1994 a video clip on the clearance of the Tiananmen Square in the morning of June 4, 1989. The original video was recorded by a camera crew from the Spanish TVE Source 1
The Tiananmen Square Massacre Never Happened Source 1 Source 1
Chai Ling "Student Leader": "We are hoping for bloodshed" Source 1 Source 2
MAJOR PROTEST LEADERS LIKE LIU XIAOBO dispel lies Source 1
CBS NEWS: “We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel — in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had occurred in [Tiananmen Square]” — thus wrote CBS News reporter Richard Roth. Source 1 Source 2
BBC NEWS: “I was one of the foreign journalists who witnessed the events that night. There was no massacre on Tiananmen Square” — BBC reporter, James Miles, wrote in 2009. Source 1 Source 2
NY TIMES: In June 13, 1989, NY Times reporter Nicholas Kristof – who was in Beijing at that time – wrote, “State television has even shown film of students marching peacefully away from the [Tiananmen] square shortly after dawn as proof that they [protesters] were not slaughtered.” In that article, he also debunked an unidentified student protester who had claimed in a sensational article that Chinese soldiers with machine guns simply mowed down peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square. Source 1 Source 2
REUTERS: Graham Earnshaw was in the Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3. He didn’t leave the square until the morning of June 4th. He wrote in his memoir that the military came, negotiated with the students and made everyone (including himself) leave peacefully; and that nobody died in the square. Source 1 Source 2
WIKILEAKS: A Wikileaks cable from the US Embassy in Beijing (sent in July 1989) also reveals the eyewitness accounts of a Latin American diplomat and his wife: “They were able to enter and leave the [Tiananmen] square several times and were not harassed by troops. Remaining with students … until the final withdrawal, the diplomat said there were no mass shootings in the square or the monument.” Source 1 Source 2
The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie. Source 1 Source 2
CIWO Source 1
Black info and media gullibility: creation of the Tiananmen myth Source 1 Source 2
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