To: AmericanInTokyo
The Tiananmen demonstrators were commies themselves - they arrested someone who defaced the Chairman Mao portrait and handed him over to the Chinese police themselves.
It was actually a fight between one faction of commies and another. -
39 posted on
03/14/2016 12:17:16 AM PDT by
Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
To: Trumpinator
The protests were triggered in April 1989 by the death of former Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, a liberal reformer who was deposed after losing a power struggle with hardliners over the direction of political and economic reforms. University students marched and gathered in Tiananmen Square to mourn. Hu had also voiced grievances against inflation, limited career prospects, and corruption of the party elite. The protesters called for government accountability, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the restoration of workers' control over industry. At the height of the protests, about a million people assembled in the Square, most of them university students in Beijing.
81 posted on
03/14/2016 9:27:31 AM PDT by
dfwgator
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