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.