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
Great, that’s fine! More power to you. More people who know China and how brutal and uncalled for it was in summer, 1989, why great! She sounds like a nice person.
You’re a lucky man to have such a strong woman by your side.
This won’t make much difference. I doubt half the people in this country even know anything about it. A lot are too young to know anything about it.
Nice try. Way off. Irrelevant. It is a Japanese news story by the premiere TV news outlet of Japan. It isn’t demanding” anything. It’s a straight news story. You seem angry at a news story. Why?
The apology is not to China. Did you even read the headline?
Thank you both very much.
And AIT - if you have a WeChat ID please let me know. I apologize for my remark above.
People’s eyes are blood red with anger and chips on shoulders they can’t even see, read or logically think straight. Correct. There is no such article by Japan asking for any apology. And there is no China and Japan asking for any apology. Since you were a rare one to actually read the article you saw that exiles FROM Red China who opposed totalitarianism and fled China in opposition, (living in freedom in the West) are asking Trump for an apology on him calling the 1989 democratic uprising a “riot.”
I read it. Someone is hearing voices and the voices are feigning butt-hurt and are looking for sympathy for the grave harm allegedly Trump caused by using word they don’t like.
Tell the voices we have our own damn problems and were done apologizing planet.
Trump and his ignorance of world history is amazing.
His answer the other night on saving SS would have garnered an F on a high school verbal exam.(gawd I hated those, especially unannounced)
According to the article: 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.”
That's not what Trump said—he didn't call the students' actions a "riot". I suspect the quote was translated from English to Japanese and then back to English again.
Here's what Trump really said: When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.
Now, I don't really like Trump's sentiment; it's admiring of the Chinese government's brute suppression. But Trump did not say that the protest was a riot.
I’d say 29 years after the fact that it’s ok to call it a riot. It wasn’t a successful revolution, so it was an uprising.
Thesaurus.com says:
Main Entry: riot
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uprising, disorder
Synonyms: anarchism, anarchy, brannigan, brawl, burst, commotion, confusion, distemper, disturbance, flap, fray, free-for-all, fuss, hassle, lawlessness, misrule, mix-up, mob violence, protest, quarrel, racket, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, run-in, scene, shivaree, shower, snarl, stir, storm, street fighting, strife, to-do, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, wingding
Antonyms: calm, peace
I’ve also heard that countless people in nearby neighborhoods were killed.
The Chinese people are suffering so much, including forced abortion, and these brave students, and probably others, were fighting to relieve their suffering.
I have a strong feeling that IF Trump becomes president, he would act like a dictator. Hope he does not win!
I did a term paper easy back on Unit 731 atrocities and on Dr. Ishii and Lt Gen Kitano. Soo the big question is... What in the bottommost pit of hell can that possibly have anything to do with 1989 Chinese exiles from Communist China asking Trump for an apology regarding the terms he oddly used—obviously an outrage to them?
Apologies are big in oriental culture. Not so much here. Explain that to any of them you see.
We still have Enola Gay laying around somewhere.... In great shape.
It’s too bad the actual quoted question wasn’t posted here. I heard it before and it’s a left libtard media “gotcha” question in which there is no correct answer, the only response should be: There is no correct answer to that question. Liberals were brutal with Sarah Palin with these.
It was actually a fight between one faction of commies and another. -
“What in the bottommost pit of hell can that possibly have anything to do with 1989 Chinese exiles from Communist China asking Trump for an apology regarding the terms he oddly used—obviously an outrage to them?”
Its the nest egg principle from “Lost in America”. No oriental is even allowed to use the term apology. Just like she wasn’t allowed to use the term nest or egg. That includes both Japanese and Chinamen.
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