Posted on 11/17/2019 11:43:17 AM PST by ransomnote
“Deng Xiaoping was the Premier, hardly one to advocate hard line tactics if conciliatory gestures would work.”
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Chicom dictators have long been renowned for their gentle ways and tender touch.
Swamp loved Deng.
The cat is red. Not black. Not white.
They will have no choice. Stop being a Republican't.
Thanks for your detailed reply though many of your characterizations seem to be off. Not going into detail here since the subject had been written extensively by others, except to point out that Deng was the one who gave the order on that fateful day, and that Chinese people in 1989 couldn’t have conflated students at the time with Mao’s Red Guards from the 1960s.
Deng has to give the order. It was the premiers job. I give he may have agreed beyond it just being his job.
As for Chinese people conflating the incident in Tienemen with Cultural Revolution, first I’m not sure many Chinese have the details on the event as it happened. But most certainly the Chinese will not side with the students in a protest, now or then, specifically because of the Cultural Revolution and Mao’s Red Guards. “Students are in school to learn, not protest.” It was a horrible time. So horrible you will not find sympathy for students that want to protest among the general Chinese population.
By your logic, you can also say Mao did what he did to China and its people because it was just his job as head of the CCP.
The targets of the Red Guards were ordinary people, while the targets of the student protests, both in 1989 and 2019, were against the regime. Big difference.
Feel free to carry on though I have no reason to.
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