[Brian Allen]

<< If your young people getting crushed by tanks and shot down in the street just because they wanted some freedom is not enough then I doubt a few lies and obfuscations will propel them to act. >>

You got it.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #9

Consider the following chain of events:
Chinese government lies and incompetence -->
increasing panic -->
the tanking of Chinese economy -->
a lot of unemployed, angry, (and SARS infected) people turning on their government.

The root cause of TAM uprising in '89 was also the economic slowdown, which produced a sizable number of the unemployed.