They had to show some strength.
/s
Posted on 03/13/2016 11:10:16 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
(トランプ氏の天安門事件「暴動」発言 謝罪求める声)
(“Voices Now Demanding Apology from Trump Who Calls Tienanmen Massacre a “Riot”)
(Translation from the original Japanese by FReeper AmericanInTokyo):
”In the most recent TV debate between candidates for the Republican nomination for President in the USA, Mr. Trump referred to it as a “riot” (boudou: 暴動) when Chinese students stood up in Tienanmen Square and requested freedom, in Beijing, China in 1989. Real estate magnate Trump was answering a question from the moderator in the March 10 debate in Miami, with respect to the suppression of Chinese university students. They were only pleading for freedom but were by way of armed force crushed by the Chinese Communist Party in Tienanmen Square in June 1989, resulting in many deaths, the “Tienanmen Massacre.”
In that reply, Trump said that he “did not support the government’s action” but stated that “a strong government was able to put down the ‘riot’ (sic) with strength. That shows you the power of strength.”
Because Trump in his response termed the uprising of the students in requesting democratization in China as a "riot", a Chinese dissident who lives in exile in the USA has issued a protest on Saturday.
“For many Chinese, it is simply an unacceptable statement by Trump. It is an insult to those who stood up to oppose the Communist Party of China but were crushed, dissident and democracy leader Dr. Wei Jingsheng （魏京生） stated. He called on Mr. Trump to apologize for it.
In addition, another former Tienanmen student survivor and Chinese dissident exiled in the USA Dr. Yang Jianli（楊建利） (and others) also have come forward and issued a statement demanding an apology from Donald Trump. “His statement takes a lot of nerve. The attitude towards (the use of) power held to by Trump is a contradiction of the values of the United States. This is totally unbefitting and unbecoming of an American president,” his statement read, as voices increasingly demanded Mr. Trump’s apology over his statement.” END OF TRANSLATION
Translator’s note: Wei Jingsheng, exiled dissident, is the recipient of the following: Sakharov Prize, National Endowment for Democracy, Olof Palme Prize, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
In addition, from the Chinese-language source RFI in France, I have noted their coverage as well and they mention the growing number of exiled Chinese dissidents, some Tienanmen Square Massacre survivors and former student activist leaders from the USA to Germany, signing on to a letter of protest to Donald Trump. I have bold faced their names below (in Chinese from the original report):
"旅美著名中国民运和维权人士魏京生、杨建利、周锋锁、封从德、方政、韩连潮、葛洵 等也发表声明或者讲话，谴责特朗普的言论。魏京生在声明中指出：“特朗普对中国89民运和六四屠杀的态度，是大多数中国人民所不能接受的，也是世界各国有良心的人们所不能接受的，是对反抗中国共产党暴政的人们的侮辱”
Source: http://cn.rfi.fr/B Article: 特朗普赞扬六四屠杀激怒旅美中国民运和维权人士 by Reporter Wang Xian stationed in San Francisco, March 13, 2016 15:15 p.m.
My wife - who was standing there in the square during the massacre - sides with Trump and plans to vote for him.
There is no foreign nation more concerned about a Trump presidency than China for obvious reasons, and this is a very transparent attemp to show this.
You might know plenty about Japan, but you know squat about China. Stop doing the PLA’s bidding, ex pat.
They had to show some strength.
/s
Everyone is butt-hurt and demands an apology.
Very odd.
A very far left party called the Party for Socialism and Liberation broke of from a fellow party (WWP) because they were not militant enough. The WWP agreed that the Chinese government was OK to crack down on the Democracy demonstrators in Tienanmen Square. Official death toll is between 200 and 300. Others believe it was thousands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
Trump should apologize or “clarify” his statement.
The "power of strength" has been established for millennia.
Interesting. Thank you.
Your wife thinks the demonstrators deserved to be massacred?
My knowledge goes back a long ways too - and I live with it daily - in fact she’s in China right now visiting family. There isn’t a day that goes by in my house where there is not a discussion of current events there politically.
Dissidents living abroad are routinely visited by elements of the regime - and you must know that. That is what drew my ire.
I have your apology right here.
A very ugly photo, but there are others here that are even worse, but also some that are very uplifting.
No way. Screw China. No more apologizing period.
Wait, this is from a Japanese source, wanting an apology from Trump, to the Chinese? I seem to remember China wanting a few apologies from Japan reference Nanking, ref unit 731, etc.
That’s only 25 years ago. Everybody knows the good stuff is at least 30 years ago.
This is manufactured crap propaganda by interests who stand to to lose from a Trump presidency or who stand to gain by raising a PC technicality and therefore 2 seconds of fame.
Your post might have been better received had you noted "Hey! Look at this crap!", but you didn't, so my interpretation is you posted it with an agenda rather than some benign intention to note world affairs to the forum.
The real problem for you is that every time you do it you strengthen Trump so I don't know whether to encourage you to keep it up or ask you to stop because propaganda makes me sick. In either case, evidently finally America is beginning to recognize PC BS when it sees it, and now, increasingly when it sees it it says 'oh, Trump was right, it's everywhere. Maybe even though I wouldn't ask him to dinner I'll vote for him.'
So, yeah, I guess - keep it up.
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