Ahhh, the idealism of youth. Youth compared to me anyway.
Sometimes when dealing with real-world problems, the results are messy. Doesn't mean they aren't the best solution in the long run though. China seems stable today, and the people seem satisfied with their government, as far as I know.
I seriously doubt things would have turned out with less loss of life if the government would have allowed the situation to grow into a full-scale civil war. Would that have happened? I don't know, and you don't know either. I expect that the people who actually had to make the decisions on how to respond to the protests know a lot more about the reality of what the risks were than either of us will ever know.
You are defending the communist crackdown on pro-democracy protestors at Tiennamen square. I can’t believe you are doing this on Free Republic. This is crazy.