How Stuart Franklin took his Tank Man photograph
Posted on 06/04/2018 8:55:32 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. urges China to account for the 'ghosts' of Tiananmen
Christian Shepherd, Ben Blanchard
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The United States urged China to make a full public account of a crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 as tens of thousands in Hong Kong held a candlelight vigil for the victims.
The Chinese government sent tanks to quell the June 4, 1989 protests, and has never released a death toll. Estimates from human rights groups and witnesses range from several hundred to several thousand.
The Tiananmen crackdown is a taboo subject in China and 29 years later it remains a point of contention between China and many Western countries.
In a statement on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he remembered “the tragic loss of innocent lives”.
“As Liu Xiaobo wrote in his 2010 Nobel Peace Prize speech, delivered in absentia, ‘the ghosts of June 4th have not yet been laid to rest’,” Pompeo said referring to the Chinese dissident who died last year while still in custody.
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George HW Bush was the best friend the ChiComs ever had, and he let them get away with it.
Just curious about what steps we could have taken to “prevent” it. Or to react to it?
I think we wrote a very strongly worded letter. What more is there to do?
Cut off trade for starters.
That was a great opportunity to control China's path of growth.
good luck
Sounds good. It would have rocked our economy, even back then. It would be impossible now.
The world is too interconnected now and “states” are powerless to do much about it.
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