tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72516783071353668732024-03-13T03:49:18.605-07:00☠ Nuova Libertalia ☭Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1386125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-48506941156552901892022-01-09T10:08:00.000-08:002022-01-09T10:08:33.320-08:001989 Tiananmen Square "Student Massacre" was a hoax<p> <span style="color: #0c3c60; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">1989 Tiananmen Square "Student Massacre" was a hoax. <a href="https://www.criticalsocialworkpublishinghouse.com/post/1989-tiananmen-square-student-massacre-was-a-hoax?fbclid=IwAR1yuz4Zui06iR8dSFDB53PlC3D6KkUBjbA-wKnVtsloFRr3vm33bfD7StQ" target="_blank">Link all'articolo originale </a></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-143l7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In recent times, the words “<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember Tiananmen Square</span>” have been evoked by both the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) and commentators like Bill Birtles and Nick McKenzie, and Nine-Fairfax Media and commentators like Peta Credlin and Andrew Bolt. It has become akin to saying “<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember the Alamo</span>”. It’s become a slogan serving to remind us that we are dealing with an “evil empire” here.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d1e73" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b4ojv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But what if the so called “<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tiananmen Square Student Massacre</span>” never happened, or at least it didn’t happen in the way the mainstream media continues to portray it? The story that Chinese troops machine-gunned hundreds of innocent student protesters on the night of 3rd or 4th June 1989 has been thoroughly debunked by many of those present in the Square on those nights. Among them was a Chilean diplomat (Second Secretary), a Spanish TVE television crew, a correspondent for Reuters, and protesters themselves, all of who said nothing happened that night other than a military unit telling the remaining students to leave the Square; there was no student Massacre in Tiananmen Square. Similarly, a well-known Taiwan-born writer Hou Dejian, who had been on a hunger strike in the Square in show of solidarity with the students, said “<em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some people said that 200 died in the Square and others claimed that as many as 2,000 died. There were also stories of tanks running over students who were trying to leave. I have to say that I did not see any of that. I myself was in the Square until 6:30 in the morning</em>.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d79bq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ehhgs" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have come across three very interesting articles that I have copied below. The first is a blog dated 2nd June 2019 posted on World Affairs website <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://worldaffairs.blog/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">https://worldaffairs.blog/</a> titled “<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tiananmen Square Massacre – Facts, Fiction and Propaganda</span>”. The second is an article written by Gregory Clark, a former Australian diplomat, published in the Japanese Times back on 3rd June 2014 titled “<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What really happened at Tiananmen</span>?” The third is a much older article by Long Xin Ming, titled “<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s talk about Tiananmen Square, 1989: My hearsay is better than your hearsay</span>”, which can be found at <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2012/05/30/lets-talk-about-tiananmen-square-1989/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2012/05/30/lets-talk-about-tiananmen-square-1989/</a> This article talks about a workers’ revolt that took place in Beijing at the same time that overlapped the fringe of the student protest outside of Tiananmen Square. This was a real and far more important event that was totally missed by Western journalists in Beijing, most of whom were hanging out in the Beijing Hotel at the time. (Most of the links attached to this article no longer connect. I suspect that this is due to the age of the article.)</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fmdal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7q4ji" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s highly unlikely that our “front-line” soft power combatants employed by the ABC and Nine-Fairfax Media have not read these articles or similar articles, so they have either chosen to believe that all these witnesses and independent investigators are liars, or that they have all succumb to false memories, in which case no amount of evidence to the contrary will change these people’s mind. Alternatively, they do know the student “massacre” thesis is flawed, but they are determined to hold the line anyway — a modern day <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deus hoc vult</em></span> (the righteousness of their cause and the free world is on their side, so any means, including making up lies, justifies the ends). Either way, if you are looking for stories by independent journalists who report the facts accurately and fairly then the ABC and Nine-Fairfax Media are not the places to look, at least in regards to China.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block10" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6ndaq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block11" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bf668" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Milton James</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7au11" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block13" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3ajva" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block14" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-f3rsa" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block15" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><h2 class="eSWI6 _1j-51 blog-post-title-font _1Hxbl _3SkfC _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8s3se" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: raleway, sans-serif; font-size: var(--ricos-custom-h2-font-size, unset); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-h2-min-height, 36px); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #02126a; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tiananmen Square Massacre – Facts, Fiction and Propaganda</span></span></h2><div data-hook="rcv-block16" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="h2"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bda0v" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block17" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2ggku" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“As far as can be determined from the available evidence, NO ONE DIED that night in Tiananmen Square.” What?! Who would make such a blatant propagandist claim? China’s communist party? Nope. It was Jay Mathews, who was Washington Post’s Beijing Bureau Chief in 1989. He </span><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote</span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> this for Columbia Journalism Review.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block18" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5moiq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block19" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7c3d0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are a few more examples of what western journalists once said about what happened in Tiananmen Square in June 1989:</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block20" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3eeq1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block21" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-80ntg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u class="_3zM-5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS NEWS</span></u></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: “<em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel</em> — in short, </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had occurred in [Tiananmen Square]</span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">” — thus </span><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote </span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS News reporter Richard Roth.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block22" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u class="_3zM-5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BBC NEWS</u></span>:<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I was one of the foreign journalists who </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">witnessed the events that night</span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There was no massacre on Tiananmen Square</span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">” — BBC reporter, James Miles, </span><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8057762.stm" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote in 2009</span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block28" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-hook="rcv-block29" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1eqqc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u class="_3zM-5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NY TIMES</span></u></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: In June 13, 1989, </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NY Times</span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> reporter </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nicholas Kristof</span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – who was in Beijing at that time – </span><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/13/world/turmoil-china-tiananmen-crackdown-student-s-account-questioned-major-points.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote</span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, “State television has even shown film of </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">students marching peacefully away from the [Tiananmen] square shortly after dawn</span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5c697b; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> as proof that they [protesters] were <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> slaughtered.” In that article, he also debunked an unidentified student protester who had claimed in a sensational article that Chinese soldiers with machine guns simply mowed down peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block31" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-26fa7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block32" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-77mhf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u class="_3zM-5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">REUTERS</span></u></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: Graham Earnshaw was in the Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3. </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t leave the square until the morning of June 4th. </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He </span><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://earnshawcom.wpcomstaging.com/writings/memoirs/tiananmen-story" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote in his memoir</span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the military came, negotiated with the students and made everyone (including himself) leave peacefully</em>; and that </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nobody died in the square</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block33" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7a8a2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block34" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-11ru2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But did people die in China? Yes, about<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 200-300 people died in clashes in various parts of Beijing, around June 4</span> — and <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/06/tiananmen-the-empires-big-lie/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">about half</em></a><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of those who died were soldiers and cops</em>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block35" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-aaghv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block36" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-kk66" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u class="_3zM-5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WIKILEAKS</u></span>: A <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Wikileaks cable</a> from the US Embassy in Beijing (sent in July 1989) also reveals the eyewitness accounts of a Latin American diplomat and his wife: “They were able to <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">enter and leave the [Tiananmen] square several times</span> and were not harassed by troops. Remaining with students … until the final withdrawal, the <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">diplomat said there were no mass shootings in the square or the monument</span>.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block37" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e0onm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block38" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a8iqv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But what about the iconic “<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tank man</span>”? Well, if you watch the whole video, you can see that the tanks stopped and even let the tank man jump on the tank. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He eventually walked away unharmed</span>. In fact, there are almost no pictures or videos of soldiers actually shooting at or killing people (doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, but it’s a point to keep in mind).</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block39" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fermc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block40" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-79ql4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Propaganda involves not only exaggeration, but also omission</span>. Western media rarely show pictures of tanks and military vehicles burned down, because this will demonstrate how restrained the military was. Here’s a slideshow of military buses, trucks, armored vehicles, and tanks being burned by the “peaceful” protesters:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block41" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e60fb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block42" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><div class="_2vd5k _208vH" id="viewer-5r6pb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; 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width: 740px;" /><img class="OzAYt _3xs9_" data-pin-media="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/89184f_cc55517a43ce4107876eaa6fe109d16a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_938%2Ch_640%2Cal_c%2Cq_80/file.jpg" data-pin-url="https://www.criticalsocialworkpublishinghouse.com/post/1989-tiananmen-square-student-massacre-was-a-hoax?fbclid=IwAR1yuz4Zui06iR8dSFDB53PlC3D6KkUBjbA-wKnVtsloFRr3vm33bfD7StQ" src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/89184f_cc55517a43ce4107876eaa6fe109d16a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_740,h_505,al_c,q_90/89184f_cc55517a43ce4107876eaa6fe109d16a~mv2.webp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; left: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.8s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; width: 740px;" /></div><div class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block43" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="image"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7c9uk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes the soldiers were allowed to escape, and sometimes they were brutally killed by the protesters. Numerous protesters were armed with <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molotov cocktails and even guns.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block44" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5m20s" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block45" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2a30p" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In an <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/06/04/wsj-archives-25-years-ago-in-beijing-a-movement-unlikely-to-die/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">article from June 5, 1989</a>, the Wall Street Journal described some of this violence: “Dozens of soldiers were pulled from trucks, severely beaten and left for dead. At an intersection west of the square, <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the body of a young soldier, who had been beaten to death, was stripped naked and hung from the side of a bus.</span>”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block46" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dicgv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block49" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-edvvf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wait, how could the protesters kill so many soldiers? <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because, until the very end, Chinese soldiers were unarmed</span>. Most of the times, they didn’t even have helmets or batons.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block50" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d236j" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">narmed Soldiers with protesters.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block53" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2g13d" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block54" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-69gn5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And here’s a video of the Chinese military and the protesters singing songs to one another in a friendly duel. This was the climate for many weeks. The Chinese government and most of the protesters never expected the situation to escalate.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block55" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bbs95" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block56" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-c0a2q" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So what exactly happened in Beijing in 1989?</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block57" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-65fu9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block58" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-evn9c" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To understand the chaos, let’s start with the two most important people in this story: <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Yaobang" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Hu Yaobang</a> and <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Lilley" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">James Lilley</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block59" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9i2ge" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block60" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-abfkl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hu Yaobang</span> was the Chairman & General Secretary of the CCP. He was a “reformer” and was liked by young people. And he died on April 15, 1989. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Without his death, there would probably have been no drama in China that year</span>! College students initially gathered at the Tiananmen Square only to mourn his death.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block61" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3vlt9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block62" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9hhil" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Within a day or two after Yaobang’s death, the US realized that hundreds of thousands of young people would be congregating in Beijing. <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was the perfect time for a coup</em>, since the rest of the world was dismantling communism that year! Thus, <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">on April 20, 1989 – five days after Yaobang’s death</span> – <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">James Lilley</span> was appointed as the US Ambassador to China. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was a 30-year veteran from the CIA</span>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block63" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a36a6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block64" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-93i33" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BcfxpzK9Oy7oT9TCkJMEA6GaKcTOKu-FhCABj4TsidM/pub" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">article</a> from Vancouver Sun (17 Sep 1992) described the role of the CIA: “<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Central Intelligence Agency had sources among [Tiananmen Square] protesters</span>” … and “For months before [the protests], the <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CIA had been helping student activists form the anti-government movement</span>.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block65" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-55agb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block66" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-92fat" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To help the US intelligence, there were two important people: <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">George Soros</span> and <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zhao Ziyang</span>. Soros is legendary for organizing grassroots movements around the world. In 1986, he had donated $1 million – which was a lot of money in China in those days – to the <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fund for the Reform and Opening of China</em>. Over the next three years, Soros’ group had cultivated and trained many pro-democracy student leaders, who would spring into action in 1989. The <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Endowment for Democracy (NED)</em> also opened offices in China in 1988. NED is also another <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-national-endowment-for-political-meddling-democracy-ned/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">regime-change organization</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block67" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bof5a" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block68" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3o1ua" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And who would allow all these western fake NGOs? Zhao Ziyang, who was the Premier of China and the General Secretary of the Communist Party. He was a big fan of privatization and Milton Friedman. His close advisor, <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chen Yizi</span>, headed China’s <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Institute for Economic and Structural Reform</em>, an influential neoliberal think tank. By the way, after the protests, <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Soros and his NGO were </em><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/08/08/funds-representatives-arrested-in-china/24e8b72c-d6fe-4753-a007-51d181239cb6/?utm_term=.ae7334a158a8" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">banned in China</em></a><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">; Zhao Ziyang was purged and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life; and Chen Yizi </em><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/world/asia/chen-yizi-a-top-adviser-forced-to-flee-china-dies-at-73.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">escaped</em></a><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to America.</em></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block69" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cl3ne" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block70" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-n6gl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another westerner who played a significant role in the Tiananmen Square agitations is <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gene Sharp</span>, who’s the author of Color Revolution manuals and the subject of an acclaimed documentary called <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.howtostartarevolution.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How to Start a Revolution</span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.”</span> He was in Beijing for nine days during the protests and <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/nvs-vol.1-no.2.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">wrote</a> about it. Of course, he didn’t reveal his role, but it’s not hard to imagine. Gene Sharp worked closely with the Pentagon, the CIA, NED etc. for decades and fomented uprisings all over the world — here’s an <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://nonsite.org/article/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-one" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">in-depth article</a> on him.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block71" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-aqupb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block72" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6ehio" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The influence of westerners in Tiananmen Square is obvious, looking at all the large signs in English, expressing American ideals:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block73" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="_2vd5k _208vH" id="viewer-fh6ob" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block75" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8sjvb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two more facts to be noted are that the Chinese government <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">did not impose a martial law until May 20</span>, and there were <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">no major clashes between the military and the people until the very end</span>. Here’s a picture of protesters giving food to the Chinese soldiers:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block76" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-hukv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fi9mb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As for the students, <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">they were not a monolithic group</em>. They fell under a few different categories:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block80" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><ul class="public-DraftStyleDefault-ul" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 15px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><li class="_1atvN _2TTR5 _3Kjjs public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-reset _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN" id="viewer-6iq93" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; counter-reset: ol0 0; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color, unset); direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style, unset); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration, unset); vertical-align: baseline;">Those who suffered from economic malaise. Inflation was going through the roof in China in the 1980s. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1988, prices of consumer goods and food </span><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/29/business/inflation-hits-peak-in-china.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">went up 26%</span></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span> College tuition was also going up, and many graduates couldn’t find good jobs. Ironically, <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">all these were the result of liberalization and rapid transition to western-style economy.</span></p></li><li class="_1atvN _2TTR5 _3Kjjs public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN" id="viewer-f9ka2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color, unset); direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style, unset); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration, unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Idealistic young people who really wanted democracy, free speech, free press etc.</span></p></li><li class="_1atvN _2TTR5 _3Kjjs public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN" id="viewer-6l7jh" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color, unset); direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style, unset); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration, unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Student leaders who were unscrupulous</span>. Most top student leaders escaped from China – the CIA called it “<a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellowbird" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Operation YellowBird</a>” – right after the protests, came to the US, and <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://qz.com/1618805/the-1989-tiananmen-student-leaders-on-chinas-most-wanted-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">went to</a> Yale, Harvard, Princeton etc., thanks to generous help from the US government.</p></li><li class="_1atvN _2TTR5 _3Kjjs public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN" id="viewer-agv68" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 8px 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color, unset); direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style, unset); font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration, unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Provocateurs and thugs</span> who were in the minority, but could significantly escalate tension. This strategy based on mob-rule psychology works very effectively all over the world. Very few people, for example, realize that some of these provocateurs also had guns.</p></li></ul><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2a81m" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the student leaders of Tiananmen protests, <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chai Ling</span>, <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1950_chailing.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">said during an interview</a>, “I wanted to tell them [students] that we were expecting bloodshed, that <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">it would take a massacre, which would spill blood like a river through Tiananmen Square</span>, <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to awaken the people</span>. But how could I tell them this? <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How could I tell them that their lives would have to be sacrificed in order to win?</em>” <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She escaped from China</span> a couple of days before June 4, 1989.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block88" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-c3qe3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block89" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9i0p8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A massacre was needed to bring down the communist party. When it didn’t happen, the narrative of massacre was created.</span> Because perception is reality. History is written by winners. And the people with the best narratives are winners. It’s a feedback loop.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block90" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5fq0t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block91" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-de0vl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">China’s leaders may not be very good in the art of soft-power, but they understand that the <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chinese history in the last two hundred years is filled with devastation from colonialism and civil wars.</span> Stability and unity are not only core Confucian principles, but are paramount to China’s economic progress now. Furthermore, the geopolitical reality is that the US is trying to stop the rise of China. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The propaganda about Tiananmen “massacre” only reinforces the Chinese government’s fear about the West’s intentions.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block92" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-v8dp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block93" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5nt86" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Will China be better off with free speech, free press and more transparency? Absolutely.</span> However, that’s a journey that the Chinese society has to take in its own terms. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Only China can decide the speed and direction of its reforms.</span> While the Tiananmen events are tragic, there’s no doubt that the Chinese people appreciate the <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/05/17/chinas-global-leadership-list/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">incredible progress</a> the country has made since 1989.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block94" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fi8rn" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block95" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3pmf0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block96" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fksb9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block97" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><h2 class="eSWI6 _1j-51 blog-post-title-font _1Hxbl _3SkfC _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b3uia" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: raleway, sans-serif; font-size: var(--ricos-custom-h2-font-size, unset); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-h2-min-height, 36px); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What really happened at Tiananmen?</span></span></h2><div data-hook="rcv-block98" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="h2"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-p67d" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Gregory Clark</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block99" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fp10e" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block100" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-216ap" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Japanese Times 3 June 2014</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block101" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1csg5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block102" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5bqgq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the years the “black information” people in the U.S. and U.K. governments have had some spectacular successes — the myth that the Vietnam War was due to Beijing using Hanoi as a puppet to head its advance into Asia, that Iraq harboured weapons of mass destruction, that Kosovar ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo was in fact Serbian ethnic cleansing of Kosovars, and now the claims that Moscow was responsible for the pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine. But the greatest achievement of them all still has to be the myth of a June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre, with talk of hundreds if not thousands of protesting students mowed down by military machine guns.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block103" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ejpb5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block104" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3uk5o" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In recent years the Tiananmen massacre story has taken something of a beating as people in the square that night, including a Spanish TV unit, have emerged to tell us that there was no massacre, that the only thing they saw was a military unit entering in the late evening and asking the several hundred students still there quietly to leave. So the “massacre” location has been moved to the streets around the square, and with the 25th anniversary of the event coming up we see the “unprovoked massacre” story being used for yet another round of Beijing bashing.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block105" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a327s" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block106" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a9ng1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And the facts? Fortunately we have the detailed hourly reports from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, available on the Internet, to give us the true story.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block107" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6dj94" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block108" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6ppbl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, there was something close to a massacre in those streets, with some of the units originally sent to clear the square of students turning their guns wildly on the crowds that had tried to block their approach. And to find out why the soldiers did such an atrocious thing we do not have to look much beyond those widely publicized photos of military buses in rows being set on fire by those protesting crowds.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block109" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7g13j" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block110" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dtq1k" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To date the world seems to have assumed that those buses were fired by the crowds <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">after </em>the soldiers had started shooting. In fact it was the reverse — that the crowds attacked the buses as they entered Beijing, incinerating dozens of soldiers inside, and only then did the shooting begin. Here too we do need not go far to find the evidence — in the not publicized photos of soldiers with horrible burns seeking shelter in nearby houses, and reports of charred corpses being strung from overpasses.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block111" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9lggh" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block112" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3tc47" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">True, the crowds had had their reasons for protesting. I travelled extensively in China in the early 1970s, soon after Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution movement was launched.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block113" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b99us" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block114" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-22hhd" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I saw firsthand the grotesque and insane abuse to which the entire nation had been subjected. If I had been a Chinese student or citizen in those days, I would have been among the protesters, even as late as 1989.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block115" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bonk9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block116" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-c8h4b" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The regime seemed to realize this, which is why it tolerated the student protest in the square for six weeks despite the enormous loss of face and inconvenience. Its party secretary general even tried to negotiate. It only moved to take back the square after the negotiation failed and the students were beginning to disperse.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block117" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5l9f1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block118" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9rft4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But by this time the crowds around the square were both large and ominous. The embassy reports note that the regime’s first move was to send in unarmed troops using the subways and easily blocked by the crowds. Armed troops were then sent in with the results we know. But even then only some of the units went berserk (soldiers tend to go that way when some of the comrades are barbecued: Ask the citizens of Fallujah, Iraq). Other units tried to restrain them. And the action was outside, not inside, the square.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block119" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9fgut" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block120" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-16eqe" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So whence the machine-gun massacre claim? Here too we do not have to look far — to a story a week later in a pro-British, English-language Hong Kong newspaper written under the name of an alleged student demonstrator claiming to have fled China, but whom no one has been able to find. Front-paged by The New York Times on June 12, it quickly travelled the globe, and we have been living with it in one form or another ever since. Not a single Western reporter in Beijing that night seems to have bothered to check out what actually happened; presumably they found a much wider audience for their stories of blood and gore.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block121" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b8f7m" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block122" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8flh" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fortunately in addition to the U.S. Embassy reports we now have a detailed 1998 study by the Columbia Journalism Review titled “Reporting the Myth of Tiananmen and the Price of a Passive Press” that tracks down “the dramatic reports that buttressed the myth of a student massacre.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block123" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-eirm3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block124" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fhg7j" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Right from the beginning we should have had our doubts about the “massacre” stories.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block125" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3lcdu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block126" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-maer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why would a Beijing regime under Deng Xiaoping seeking reform in so many areas of Chinese society want so deliberately and viciously to attack harmless students, who traditionally have led the reform movements in China — which many pro-Communist leaders had joined in the past?</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block127" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ee99q" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block128" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3l87r" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If one has to fault the regime it is in the failure to train troops in crowd control — a mistake that even hard-line regime members later admitted. Ironically their later effort to import crowd control equipment was blocked by the United Kingdom acting under the Western arms embargo imposed as a result of the fictitious machine-gun massacre report that their own black information people had almost certainly helped create.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block129" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fkbto" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block130" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-akri7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other strange details later to emerge included a report that Reuters, the British new agency, refused to publish a photo of a charred corpse strung up under an overpass — a photo that would have done much to explain what had happened. And we now discover that the widely distributed photo of Tankman — the lone student standing before a row of army tanks and heavily publicised as showing brave defiance against a cruel regime — was in fact taken the day after Tiananmen events, and the tanks were moving away from, and not into, Tiananmen Square.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block131" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5ifv0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block132" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6kr6j" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some have noted the frustration a student leader calling for blood in the streets as the prolonged square protest was winding down with no seeming result. And some have asked how those protesters came to use gasoline bombs against the troops — a weapon not used by Chinese rioters — and why so many vehicles came to be destroyed. This in turn could explain the regime’s anger, and its subsequent efforts to track down and punish student leaders. But even without these details it should be clear that the so-called Tiananmen Square Massacre was not quite the clear-cut evil of much Western imagination.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block133" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4k80t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block134" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-f00a0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gregory Clark, a former Australian diplomat, speaks Chinese and is a long-term resident of Japan. A Japanese translation of this article will appear on </em><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.gregoryclark.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.gregoryclark.net</em></a></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block135" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-r7ju" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block137" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4jh5p" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block138" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><h2 class="eSWI6 _1j-51 blog-post-title-font _1Hxbl _3SkfC _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-f8tm2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: raleway, sans-serif; font-size: var(--ricos-custom-h2-font-size, unset); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-h2-min-height, 36px); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s Talk About Tiananmen Square, 1989: My Hearsay is Better Than Your Hearsay</span></span></h2><div data-hook="rcv-block139" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="h2"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-58biu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block140" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">龙信明 | Friday, October 7, 2011, 18:31 Beijing</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block141" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-figqk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block142" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2s94h" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(<em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Propaganda in the Western press had a lasting impact on China. For the Tiananmen Protest of 1989, the “reform and opening up” policies under Deng back-stepped when Western governments decided to scale back loans and FDI into China on the grounds the Chinese government were ‘butchers.’ The ‘butcher’ and ‘massacre’ narratives were concocted by the Western press to demonize the Chinese government (an on-going trend, by the way; see</em> <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2011/10/collective-defamation/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">collective defamation</em></a><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">). Through Wikileaks, we now know the U.S. government knew then what were the actual truth and confirmed China’s version of the event. The Western press lied all along, as the following excellent analysis by 龙信明 (original, </em><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.bearcanada.com/china/letstalkabouttam.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</em></a><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">) pieces together how they systematically distorted truth to defame. Warning: some graphic images of burnt bodies.</em>)</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block143" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-95scm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block144" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-aj4ik" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s Talk About Tiananmen Square, 1989 </span>My Hearsay is Better Than Your Hearsay</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block145" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-88g4r" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-em7s5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; 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font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prologue</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block148" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-37n0q" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are few places in China that seem more burned into the consciousness of typical Westerners than Tiananmen Square, and few events more commonly mentioned than the student protests there of 1989.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block149" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dlurt" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block150" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1me4b" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One blogger recently noted that “It must be June. Tiananmen Square is being trotted out again.” And that would seem to be true. Most of the Western media choose to promote a kind of “anniversary story” of this event, partly creating news by resurrecting an apparently dramatic event, and partly with perhaps some less high-minded purposes.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block151" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9ml2p" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_3CWa- dhpWm dhpWm _3mymk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="_2kEVY" data-hook="imageViewer" role="button" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color, unset); font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); 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background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div></div><div data-hook="rcv-block153" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="image"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d1805" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tiananmen Square in Beijing as it looks today.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block154" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9mfhn" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block155" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bij6p" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, the stories persist, and perhaps it’s because they provide a kind of subversive consolation that leaves us feeling grateful for the superiority of our advanced societies.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block156" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-aofvl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block157" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ci3sd" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Perhaps it leaves us firm in the knowledge (or at least the conviction) that “such things don’t happen here”.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block158" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6mds6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block159" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3gste" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It will be a surprise to many readers to learn that “such things” didn’t happen in China, either.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block160" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-difj2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block161" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7ro4t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is true that in 1989 China experienced a student protest that culminated in a sit-in (more like a camp-in, actually) in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block162" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b4o5c" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block163" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-eiofv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But thanks to Wikileaks and other (perhaps brave) Western journalists, we now know that this was all the Square experienced that day.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block164" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-41an" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block165" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-25edh" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We now have conclusive and overwhelming documentation that the events in Beijing in 1989 were very different from those reported in the Western press. Not only that, we have substantial evidence that the Chinese Government’s version of these events had been true all along.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block166" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-drqt8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block167" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9k08u" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That story is our subject here. In one sense, it is not an easy story to relate because of the unfortunate emotional baggage Tiananmen Square has carried for more than two decades, and because both China and these events tend to become overwhelmed by ideology.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block168" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5nhed" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block169" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3qe0h" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Where Do We Start? Why not the Beginning?</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block170" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2c1a7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s enter this ideology classroom and begin by posting on the blackboard some facts that are not in dispute. First among them would be that I was not in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. And neither were you. Hence the subtitle of this editorial. We are both depending on hearsay, on what we have read, on what we have been told and, more importantly, on what we have chosen to believe.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block171" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4sjpt" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block172" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-aq5dd" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This leads us to another fact that is not in dispute – this one being that you don’t “know” what happened in Tiananmen Square. It’s true you can make the same claim about me, but right now we’re talking about you.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block173" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-tuc8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block174" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fjda4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You have no personal knowledge of the events of that day. You don’t know what happened, because you weren’t there. Everything you have is hearsay. You may have watched the news on that day or read newspaper articles, but it’s unlikely you have ever met anyone who was actually present and could give you a first-hand account of events.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block175" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7nghi" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block176" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ed5gf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And, from whatever information you’ve acquired, you will have chosen to “take sides”. If you’re a Westerner, you have most likely chosen to believe that many terrible things happened that day.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block177" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4h6v7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block178" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-oit8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But to do this properly, let’s separate your choice to take sides from your hearsay evidence – which as you are aware, would anyway be totally inadmissible in a court of law. Even in your country.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block179" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b2vie" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block180" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d388c" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, on your side of the fence, we have two factors:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block181" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5r79t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(1) I read and heard about a bunch of really bad stuff that happened that day.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block182" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-etuf6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(2) I choose to believe that those things were true.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block183" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6m0db" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block184" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7v1gb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We’re going to deal with the first of these. You can do what you want with the second. The first is hearsay evidence that can at least be examined and compared with other sources and an assessment made of credibility. The second is founded on ideology, and ideological debates have no resolution so we won’t waste our time there.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block185" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5cfah" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block186" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6teq3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What Do We Know For Sure?</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block187" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dovhv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Well, one thing we know, though it wasn’t widely reported at the time, is that there were two events that occurred in Beijing on June 4, 1989. They were not related.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block188" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4ulu4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block189" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7ss7n" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One was a student protest that involved a sit-in in Tiananmen Square by several thousand university students, and which had lasted for several weeks, finally terminating on June 4.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block190" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-575ce" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block191" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-djb9c" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The other was a worker protest, the origin and detail of which are unimportant for our purposes. But essentially some number of workers were unhappy with their lot in life and with the amount of government attention and support, or lack thereof, which they were receiving. And they arranged their own protest, independently of anything related to the students.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block192" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a98k3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block193" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-42mj7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since these two events occurred simultaneously, and were conflated in the Western mass media reporting of the time, we will have to deal with these simultaneously as well.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block194" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-47p93" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block195" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-398m5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Student Protest</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block196" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The students and soldiers in Tiananmen Square had no quarrel with each other that day.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block198" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9md9r" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block199" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-52rs" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Briefly, the students congregated in the Square and were waiting for an opportunity to present various petitions to the government, petitions dealing with government, social policy, idealism.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block200" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ba4rb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block201" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d008h" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, all the things that we as students all had on our list of changes we wanted to make in the world.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block202" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-152em" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block203" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e88fm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since the government did not immediately respond, the students camped in the square and waited.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block204" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1js87" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block205" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-av1pv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They brought food, water, tents, blankets, camp stoves – but no toilets. Tiananmen Square, after three weeks, was not a place for the faint of nose.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block206" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-eg573" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block207" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dva8j" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The government waited patiently enough during that period, but finally gave the students a deadline for evacuation of the Square – June 4.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block208" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bu362" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block209" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-691q4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Soldiers were sent to the Square on the day prior, but these soldiers were carrying no weapons and by all documented reports (including those of the US Embassy in Beijing, thanks to Wikileaks) had only billy sticks.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block210" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d0665" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block211" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9q3te" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By all reports, there was no animosity between the students and the soldiers. Neither had a philosophical dispute with the other, nor did they see each other as enemies. In fact, both photos and reports show that the students were protecting the soldiers who were being chased by angry mobs of uninvolved bystanders. You will see some photos later.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block212" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1onti" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block213" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ff31m" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Workers Revolt</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block214" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These are not students. You can see the burned-out buses in the background. Today, these rioters would be deemed “terrorists”.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block216" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fkq5s" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block217" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cvfuj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One fact not in dispute is that a group of workers had barricaded streets in several locations leading to Central Beijing, several kilometres from the city centre and also from the Square.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block218" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7q7au" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block219" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-49qlj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another fact not in dispute is that several hundreds of people – most of whom were workers, but of whom an undetermined few were students – attended these barricades.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block220" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d1pru" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block221" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-adlgp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An additional fact is that there was a third group present that to my knowledge has never been clearly identified but which consisted of neither students nor workers.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block222" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e9ufg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block223" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-10u29" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Thugs” or “anarchists” might be an appropriate adjective, but adjectives don’t help the identification.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block224" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1d54u" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block225" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ascig" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To deal with this problem, the government sent in busloads of troops, accompanied by a few APCs – armoured personnel carriers, to clear the barricades and re-open the streets to traffic.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block226" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="_2vd5k _208vH" id="viewer-9d97e" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Outside a bus, the body of a soldier burned to death by the rioters.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block228" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3mp4b" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block229" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7v5bl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The violence began when this third group decided to attack the soldiers. They were apparently well-prepared, having come armed with Molotov cocktails, and torched several dozen buses – with the soldiers still inside.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block230" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a7dgj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block231" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7bv1v" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They also torched the APCs. You can see the photos. There were many more.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block232" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dj570" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block233" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b50fb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many soldiers in both types of vehicles escaped, but others did not, and many soldiers burned to death. I personally recall watching the news and seeing the videos of dead soldiers burned to a crisp, one hung by the thugs from a lamppost, others lying in the street or on stairs or sidewalks where they died.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block234" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e43k5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block235" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b3r0a" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Others were hanging out of the bus windows or the APCs, having only partially escaped before being overcome by the flames.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block236" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7ncto" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block237" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-f7hs7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are documented reports to tell us that the group of thugs managed to get control of one APC, and drove it through the streets while firing the machine guns on the turret.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block238" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-82fsf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That was when the government sent in the tanks and opened fire on these protesters.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block239" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another soldier burned to a crisp. Note the other dead soldier hanging from the flyover.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block242" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-56uh6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block243" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b0ede" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Government reports and independent media personnel generally claim that a total of 250 to 300 people died in total before the violence subsided.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block244" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6lh01" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block245" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bm8tj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many of those dead were soldiers. There was no “massacre” in any sense that this world could be sensibly used.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block246" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dgrbu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block247" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-duo6q" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When police or military are attacked in this way, they will surely use force to defend themselves and cannot be faulted for that.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block248" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b787g" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block249" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7ecaa" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you or I were the military commander on the scene and were watching our men being attacked and burned to death, we would have done the same.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block250" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ks3s" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block251" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-apjko" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From everything I know, I can find no fault here.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block252" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4pqiv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We can let ideology interfere with interpretation, and claim that the Chinese military used “excessive force”, even in self-defence, but that seems a useless claim. In a number of recent cases in the US, a dozen or more police fired 50, and in one case in Miami, more than 100, bullets into an unarmed man, with the courts later claiming this “was not an excessive use of force”. So let’s be fair and tar everyone with the same brush.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block253" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a9vm4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block254" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1vfi9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And in any case, soldiers were being attacked by a violent mob, (today, we call them “terrorists”) and were dying horrible deaths. We cannot blame the remaining soldiers for opening fire and killing those who were killing them. And yes, several hundred people died in that event.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block255" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a5qco" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block256" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-eif1n" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Live, First-Hand Report</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block257" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-89u9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is an eyewitness report from someone who was there, an excerpt from Tiananmen Moon:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block258" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-f8bue" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-djh3i" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There was a new element I hadn’t noticed much of before, young punks decidedly less than student-like in appearance. In the place of headbands and signed shirts with university pins they wore cheap, ill-fitting polyester clothes and loose windbreakers. Under our lights, their eyes gleaming with mischief, they brazenly revealed hidden Molotov cocktails.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block260" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2vr9i" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block261" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7c3v" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who were these punks in shorts and sandals, carrying petrol bombs? Gasoline is tightly rationed, so they could not have come up with these things spontaneously. Who taught them to make bottle bombs and for whom were the incendiary devices intended?</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block262" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5bqqj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block263" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-eule4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Editor’s Note: As with the student supplies, the Coleman gas stoves, the manuals, instructions, training, strategy and tactics, the logistics and many other elements, there is little question the providers were not domestic Chinese.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block264" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-am6a5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another soldier burned to death, hanging by a cable from the burned-out bus.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block267" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2rqk5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block268" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3m1cs" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Someone shouted that another APC was heading our way. My pace quickened as I approached the stalled vehicle, infected by the toxic glee of the mob, but then I caught myself.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block269" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7685g" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block270" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-csq4j" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why was I rushing towards trouble? Because everyone else was? I slowed down to a trot in the wake of a thundering herd of one mass mind. Breaking with the pack, I stopped running.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block271" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e7rav" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block272" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2uthn" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Someone tossed a Molotov cocktail, setting the APC on fire. Flames spread quickly over the top of the vehicle and spilled onto the pavement. I thought, there’s somebody still inside of that, it’s not just a machine! There must be people inside.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block273" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-65d1d" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block274" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bqnum" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The throng roared victoriously and moved in closer, enraged faces illuminated in the orange glow. But wait! I thought, there’s somebody still inside of that, it’s not just a machine!</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block275" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-56rbb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block276" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-brsg6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There must be people inside. This is not man against dinosaur, but man against man!</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block277" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9a9kr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Someone protectively pulled me away to join a handful of head-banded students who sought to exert some control. Expending what little moral capital his hunger strike signature saturated shirt still exerted, he spoke up for the soldier.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block278" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-486ae" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block279" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8km9h" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Let the man out,” he cried. “Help the soldier, help him get out!” The agitated congregation was in no mood for mercy. Angry, blood-curdling voices ricocheted around us. “Kill the mother fucker!” one said.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block280" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-epbnn" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block281" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7s84c" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then another voice, even more chilling than the first screamed, “He is not human, he is a thing.” “Kill it, kill it!” shouted bystanders, bloody enthusiasm now whipped up to a high pitch.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block282" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-59ep5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block283" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d8jre" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Stop! Don’t hurt him!” Meng pleaded, leaving me behind as he tried to reason with the vigilantes. “Stop, he is just a soldier!”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block284" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2pl1v" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block285" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-efbfq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He is not human, kill him, kill him!” said a voice. “Get back, get back!” someone screamed at the top of his lungs. “Leave him alone, the soldiers are not our enemy!”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block286" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8aov3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block287" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9o8i" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the limp bodies of the soldiers were put into an ambulance, the thugs attacked the ambulance, almost ripping off the rear doors in an attempt to remove the burned soldier and finish him off. After that, charred bodies of soldiers were hung from a lamp post, and a large amount of ammunition was taken from the APC.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block288" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ba92a" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block289" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2k1t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From a Chinese Government Report on the Worker’s Riot</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block290" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-clkid" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rioters blocked military and other vehicles before they smashed and burned them. They also seized guns, ammunition and transceivers. Several rioters seized an armoured car and fired its guns as they drove it along the street. Rioters also assaulted civilian installations and public buildings. Several rioters even drove a public bus loaded with gasoline drums towards the Tiananmen gate-tower in an attempt to set fire to it.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block291" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-46voc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block292" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d73bi" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When a military vehicle suddenly broke down on Chang’An Avenue, rioters surrounded it and crushed the driver with bricks. The rioters savagely beat and killed many soldiers and officers. At Chongwenmen, a soldier was thrown down from the flyover and burned alive. At Fuchengmen, a soldier’s body was hung upside down on the overpass balustrade after he had been killed. Near a cinema, an officer was beaten to death, and his body strung up on a burning bus.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block293" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1ccer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block294" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-asp0n" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over 1,280 vehicles were burned or damaged in the rebellion, including over 1,000 military trucks, more than 60 armoured cars, over 30 police cars, over 120 public buses and trolley buses and over 70 motor vehicles of other kinds.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block295" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-52dv6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block296" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2rdq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The martial law troops, having suffered heavy casualties before being forced to fire into the air to clear the way forward. During the counter-attack, some rioters were killed, some onlookers were hit by stray bullets and some wounded or killed by armed ruffians. According to reliable statistics, more than 3,000 civilians were wounded and over 200, including 36 college students, were killed. As well, more than 6,000 law officers and soldiers were injured and scores of them killed.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block297" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8hssb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block298" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e724c" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Back to the Students</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block299" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-sh2b" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Students link arms to hold back angry crowds from chasing a group of retreating soldiers. Photo: AP Photo/Mark Avery</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block302" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3j87u" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block303" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e585v" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The gunfire could be heard in the distance from Tiananmen Square, but there were no credible reports of gunfire from within the Square itself.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block304" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-30amt" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block305" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8q015" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And in any case, as mentioned above, the soldiers in the Square were not armed. They were sent to keep order, not to kill young people who were totally non-violent themselves.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block306" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e7220" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block307" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-41dld" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The reports tell us discussions were held between the students and the soldiers at repeated times during the evening and throughout the night.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block308" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5poo3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block309" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3v4p9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost all of the students were persuaded to leave the Square during the evening, and the small remainder left the following morning.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block310" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-48fnn" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block311" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-99auh" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is overwhelming documented evidence that no violence occurred in the Square, that no students were killed, and that there never was any “Tiananmen Square Massacre”.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block312" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a45cv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block313" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cqvco" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There were reports of sporadic gunfire later the following morning around the perimeter of the square, but that was after all the students had already left, and the cause of that gunfire has not been determined.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6qtqb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block315" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cntfp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tanks and bulldozers did enter the Square the following morning, flattening all the tents and rubbish that had piled up during the previous three weeks, pushing the garbage into huge piles and setting them afire. This was the apparent origin of claims that “thousands of students” were crushed by tanks streaming through the Square, but this was just the clean-up crew and the students were long gone when the tanks and other heavy machinery arrived.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block316" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1kt0v" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block317" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cmrij" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From a Chinese Government Report on the Student Sit-in</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block318" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bhq7t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At 1:30 AM on June 4, the Beijing municipal government and the martial law headquarters issued an emergency notice asking all students and other citizens to leave Tiananmen Square. The notice was broadcast repeatedly for well over three hours over loudspeakers. The students in the Square, after discussion among themselves, sent representatives to the troops to express their willingness to withdraw from the square and this was approved by the troops.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block319" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4lqu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block320" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bc73f" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At about 5 AM several thousand students left the square in an orderly manner through a wide corridor in the south-eastern part of the square vacated by the troops, carrying their own banners and streamers. Those who refused to leave were forced to do so by the soldiers. By 5:30 a.m., the clearing operation of the square had been completed. During the whole operation not a single person was killed.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block321" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b34bf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block322" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3q70s" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But What About All the Rumours, the News Reports?</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block323" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ahqqs" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There were in fact news reports at the time, confirming that there never was any “Tiananmen Square Massacre”, no “crackdown”, and that no students died. One of these was written by Nicholas Kristoff of the NYT, but the Times buried his report on an inside page and instead ran with the more exciting front-page version of tanks crushing thousands of students and gunfire killing thousands more.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block324" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4fl2b" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block325" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ej2tu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many foreign reporters filed live reports directly from the Square, stating clearly that, while gunfire could be heard in the distance, there was no violence in the Square either by or toward the students. All reports from the Square were that the event ended peacefully.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block326" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-439fl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block327" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-epv6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, there was a large group of foreign (mostly US) journalists reporting “live from the Beijing hotel”, and describing the view through their windows of all the gunfire, the deaths, the piles of student bodies. Unfortunately, and as other foreign reporters pointed out later, Tiananmen Square cannot be seen from the Beijing Hotel.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block328" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d3gh1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block329" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3ham3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those live reports were fabricated by journalists who apparently believed something was happening, lacked the courage to go and see for themselves, and who told their editors the most likely events according to their convictions and imaginations.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block330" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7juiv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fabricating facts and sensationalising events. It attracts viewers, sells advertising, and fits in well with the agenda. Truth is apparently dispensable.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block333" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9ee6k" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block334" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d8o85" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CNN’s Mike Chinoy at the time played a “tape” of sporadic gunfire which was edited and condensed to a few seconds to give the impression that it was rapid and continuous.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block335" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9edd5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block336" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-15pvj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many reporters and journalists, including Spain’s TV channel that had a film crew in the Square for the entire event, have all denied the veracity of the reports of gunfire, violence and student deaths in Tiananmen Square.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block337" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e0jmt" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block338" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7vlbl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a well-researched 1998 article in the Columbia Journalism Review titled “Reporting the Myth of Tiananmen and the Price of a Passive Press,” the former Washington Post bureau chief in Beijing, Jay Mathews, tracks down what he calls the dramatic accounts that buttressed the myth of a student massacre. According to him:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block339" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d2a3d" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block340" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-nlae" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“A USA Today article (June 26, page 7A) called Tiananmen the place “where pro-democracy demonstrators were gunned down.” The Wall Street Journal (June 26, page A10) described “the Tiananmen Square massacre” where armed troops ordered to clear demonstrators from the square killed “hundreds or more.” The New York Post (June 25, page 22) said the square was “the site of the student slaughter.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block341" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-i1tk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block342" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-70pa8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The problem is this: as far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night in Tiananmen Square. A few people may have been killed by random shooting on streets near the square, but all verified eyewitness accounts say that the students who remained in the square when troops arrived were allowed to leave peacefully. (Some people), most of them workers and passers-by, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block343" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1crjr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block344" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-eee75" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You can read this excellent article titled “The Myth of Tiananmen: And the Price of a Passive Press”: <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.bearcanada.com/china/tiananmenmyth.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Click Here</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block345" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-mpqa" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block346" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ct384" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He notes a widely disseminated piece by an alleged Chinese university student writing in the Hong Kong press immediately after the incident, describing machine guns mowing down students in front of the square monument (somehow Reuter’s Earnshaw chatting quietly with the students in front of the same monument failed to notice this.)</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block347" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1rk8u" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block348" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bhofh" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mathews adds: “The New York Times gave this version prominent display June 12, just a week after the event, but no evidence was ever found to confirm the account or verify the existence of the alleged witness. And for good reason, I suspect. The mystery report was very likely the work of U.S. and British black information authorities ever keen to plant anti-Beijing stories in unsuspecting media.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block349" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5394a" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block350" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-20c5k" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earnshaw notes how a photo of a Chinese soldier strung up and burned to a crisp was withheld by Reuters. Dramatic Chinese photos of solders incinerated or hung from overpasses have yet to be shown by Western media. Photos of several dead students on a bicycle rack at the barricade are more convincing.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block351" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-c81cq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is a link to an article on this site, titled “Birth of a Massacre Myth: How the West Manufactured an Event that Never Occurred”. It contains much detailed information on the source of the rumours and false claims. You can <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.bearcanada.com/china/tiananmensquare02.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Click Here</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block352" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-f9qtv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block353" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3sii9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They All Knew at the Time That the Reports Were not True</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block354" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-buo38" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition, and I must say, to the great surprise of many of us, the US government, the NYT and all the US and foreign media, knew at the time that there was never any student massacre in Tiananmen Square. The reason we now know this truth is Wikileaks, who published all the cables sent from the US embassy in Beijing to Washington that night, confirming that there was no violence in the Square and no massacre of anybody.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block355" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4er0h" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block356" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d00gu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But that knowledge didn’t prevent the US and other Right-Wing governments, dozens of US, UK, German, Canadian, Australian politicians, and all the Right-Wing media, from repeating this story endlessly for more than 20 years. In fact, the NYT features an annual “celebration” of its version of the “Tiananmen Square Massacre” in what can only be a deliberate and persistent attempt to perpetuate the fraud.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block357" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4vgan" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block358" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-357mg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For all those years, the NYT and others knew the story was a lie, but they repeated it nonetheless. And not simply “newspapers” or TV stations, but the individuals doing the writing and reporting, all knew, or had to know, the stories were a lie.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block359" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6fc70" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block360" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3dl4t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is a link to another article titled “US Embassy confirms China’s version of Tiananmen Square events: Cables obtained by Wikileaks confirm China’s account”. To read it, you can <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.bearcanada.com/china/tiananmensquare.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Click Here</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block361" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a7m2n" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block362" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ctjn1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For a short period, the Western media downgraded the 1989 student protests in Beijing from The Tiananmen Square Massacre to The Beijing Incident. But then, despite this knowledge, the media have once again started to impart conspiracy and horror into Tiananmen Square and characterize it as a massacre of students.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block363" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ch0q6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block364" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-am4ig" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This falsification of history, which appears deliberate since the facts have become well known, deludes a new generation and prejudices it against China. The distortion of the happenings within Tiananmen Square reduces the media’s credibility and leaves its open to charges of grossly misrepresenting significant current events for cheap political gain.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block365" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a002d" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block366" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-641ea" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And as Always, Thank You, America.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block367" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7lg46" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block368" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-830qg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It seems plausible that the student protests in China during the late 1980s may, at their origin, have been spontaneously generated, but there is no shortage of evidence – facts not in dispute – that the entire student movement was quickly hijacked by the US.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block369" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6i20l" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s always the same. Whenever we find destabilisation, upheaval, discontent, an opportunity for chaos, we will always find the CIA. Thank you, America.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block372" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dhgra" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block373" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5u1tq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is little reason to question the assertation that a major part of US foreign policy then, as today, lay in attempts to destabilise China and perhaps instigate a massive revolution that would open the door to US influence and control.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block374" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-estqe" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block375" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fq2hf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The student democracy movement was a large part of that strategy. And, though evidence is thin, it begins to appear that the worker’s revolt may also have had “outside help”.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block376" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-45ube" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block377" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2crf0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For one, gasoline was rationed and not easily available. And who provided the training and organisation, the instructions for the Molotov cocktails – which were unheard of in China before that time.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block378" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-boumc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block379" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7k623" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many of the students with whom I spoke, who were actually present at the Square, have told me of the supplies provided for them through some agency of the US government.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block380" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cda4b" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They particularly mentioned the countless hundreds of Coleman camp stoves – which at the time were far too expensive for students in China to acquire – and the well-established supply lines of these and other items.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block381" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-76th" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block382" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3up7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And all university students of that day will tell you of the influence of the VOA – the Voice of America – and the picture it painted of “freedom and democracy”.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block383" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3rs7t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block384" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-q5f5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They tell of listening to the VOA in their dorms, late into the night, building in their imaginations a happy world of freedom and light.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block385" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-76j3n" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Voice of America. “The world’s most trusted source for news and information from the United States and around the world.”</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block388" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-675hk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block389" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3l1tc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They will also tell you that the VOA was broadcasting to the students 24 hours a day from their Hong Kong station during the weeks of the sit-in at Tiananmen Square, offering comfort and encouragement, provoking, giving advice on strategy and tactics.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block390" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6bk91" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block391" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8ob1g" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And, in a much more dangerous and mean-spirited fashion, asking rhetorical questions that would almost surely lead young students to the wrong conclusions and incite them to inappropriate (and perhaps even fatal) actions.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block392" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-71gv0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block393" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-as1i8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the original participants in the student sit-in recently made this post:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block394" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-f8ac7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block395" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d3m6q" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We settled down and continued with our study. We dated, found our loved ones, and many sought to go abroad. By the time we graduated there was almost no discussion about the student movement and we no longer listened to the VOA.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block396" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-eg89e" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block397" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-69mv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“One thing I have been kept thinking was the role of the VOA. Many students were the fans of the radio station before, during and shortly after the student movement. Even when we were on the square many students were listening to their programs as if only they could tell us what was going on.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block398" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4ahuc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block399" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b2pqm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I remember at one stage it said the PLA stationed in Beijing was in a defensive position and then it asked some questions such as “Who are they waiting for and why are they in a defensive position?” I immediately drew a conclusion that there was a rebelling PLA force coming to support us!! Until I double checked with my cousin I realized how stupid I was to draw that conclusion.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block400" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8ptvt" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block401" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b9dtm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In case you don’t know, the VOA is funded and operated by the NED – the National Endowment for Democracy – which is a front company funded by the CIA that does much of that agency’s dirty work not involving actual killing – although sometimes it does that, too. The NED was founded as a vehicle to avoid the CIA’s increasingly bad reputation.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block402" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6nijj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block403" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-907ub" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Allen Weintein, one of the founders of the NED explained to the Washington Post in 1991, “A lot of what we do now was done covertly by the CIA 25 years ago.” And like the CIA and USAID, the NED and a number of similar organizations – including the VOA – receive funding from the US Congress.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bi3uu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block405" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-19emc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the end, the students abandoned not only the Square, but both their revolutionary imaginations and the VOA as well.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block406" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-epd04" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block407" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-46p2h" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The irony is the imminent death of Voice of America, as far as China is concerned. The US has finally realised the futility of broadcasting propaganda into China and this year (2011) the Obama Administration is planning to shut down VOA broadcasts from Hong Kong.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block408" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3fjkq" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block409" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-92sof" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And not before time.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block410" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dodi8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block411" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9hqfg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Revolutions Need Leaders. Who Were They, and Where are They?</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block412" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3oo7v" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Pomfret, at the time an AP correspondent in Beiiing with a point of view. Now a reporter for the Washington Post.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block415" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5i4ku" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block416" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-adkru" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There were five or six primary leaders of the Tianamen Square sit-in, those who led the organisation of students in universities across the country, who planned the demonstration in the Square and who pushed hard for a “death before retreat” martyrdom attitude in the students.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block417" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bimam" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block418" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-16cjn" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, these leaders sensibly chose a “retreat before death” policy for themselves.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block419" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-98d3i" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block420" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6gkoi" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They were spirited out of China, first to Hong Kong, then to Taiwan. And very shortly thereafter were in the US.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block421" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bnk06" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block422" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4ir7o" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some chose intermediate countries and some didn’t. In those days, travel to Hong Kong was not quick and easy as today, so some clever logistics were necessary on the part of their handlers.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block423" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-b9loj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block424" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7torg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Several of these “student leaders” appear to have been rewarded handsomely for their efforts to destabilise their country, with prestigious university degrees, good jobs, and sometimes CIA (NED) salaries for simply continuing to protest.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block425" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-chufn" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block426" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ccbqn" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The “general commander” of the student protesters, Chai Ling fled China after completing her handiwork in Tiananmen Square. As a reward by the US for her destabilisation efforts in China she was given an honorary degree in political science from Princeton university and a job with the management consultancy of Bain & Co.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block427" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2s54m" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block428" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-57fgt" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She has since converted to Christianity and spends her time with a so-called “charity”, funded by the CIA-controlled NED, called “All Girls Allowed”, as a forum to complain about China’s one-child policy.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block429" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e2prs" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block430" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1nk4r" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">China has stated that a recision of the one-child policy would result in an additional 300 million births within a decade. Ms. Chai Ling informs us that if China rescinds this policy, she will undertake to provide, at CIA and NED expense, the full cost of not only feeding and clothing these 300 million extra children, but also providing for their education and health care as well.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block431" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-u20o" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block432" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6gohi" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No greater love has one for her fellow man than …</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block433" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4prgf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alan Pessin, bearded Voice of America correspondent in Beijing. Ignored the martial law restrictions and continued to contact the ringleaders to pass on information, providing both instigation and asylum while dispatching many distorted and false reports.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block436" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-efcsb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block437" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fncnk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the protests, Wu’er Kaixi fled first to France and then to the US where the government rewarded him with a free pass to Harvard university.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block438" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-fhb4m" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block439" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-55glr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This man was one of the contributors to the stories of student deaths in Tiananmen Square, claiming to have seen hundreds (or thousands) of students mowed down with machine guns.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block440" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2d51o" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block441" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-mmmd" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was quickly discredited by foreign journalists who confirmed that he was seen on the far side of Beijing at the time he claimed to have witnessed events in the square.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block442" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-90ohk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block443" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-drfq1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hou Dejian was a Taiwanese singer who joined the protests in Tiananmen Square and then helped to broker the truce which allowed students in the square to evacuate safely. He was subsequently deported back to Taiwan and now writes screenplays in New Zealand.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block444" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-vbot" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block445" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-70ajv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to A Government Report:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block446" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cqn7o" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block447" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a33e0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ln violation of the martial law decrees operative in parts of Beijing. John E. Pomfret. an AP correspondent in Beijing, kept frequent contact with the ringleaders, passing on information and providing asylum. The photo shows John E. Pomfret (middle) and Wang Dan (first left) together.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block448" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8p5n8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block449" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bgj9k" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alan W. Pessin, a correspondent of the Voice of America in Beijing, ignored the martial law restrictions and not only continued illegal VOA news coverage, but dispatched distorted reports and spread further rumours inciting turmoil and rebellion. The Photo shows Alan Pessin (with the beard) hiding himself among the crowd.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block450" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1lcf0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block451" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1o5ck" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the Government declared martial law, Chai Ling and the protest organizers were still distributing leaflets inciting armed rebellion against the Government, calling upon their followers to “organize armed forces and oppose the Communist Party and its government”, even making a list of names of people they wanted to eliminate. They claimed they would never yield and “would fight to the finish” with the government, scheming until past the end, to provoke a bloody incident in Tiananmen Square.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block452" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-c1dac" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block453" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bvcr1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Back to the Hearsay</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block454" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-3dd5j" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just so it doesn’t go unsaid, I believe my hearsay is better than your hearsay. I live in China and, by a happy accident of fate, have access to, and constant contact with, many hundreds of people who were university students in China during the period in question. I’ve spoken to more than a few of them at length about the events in Tiananmen Square, and they confirm my comments and the content of the articles linked above.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block455" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5kj9t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block456" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-42ig1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When we began this exercise, we had two factors on your side of the fence:</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block457" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7g7uu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(1) I read and heard about a bunch of really bad stuff that happened that day.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block458" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-4a5hm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(2) I choose to believe that those things were true.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block459" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-17ecp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block460" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6060e" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve tried to deal with the first of these, with the presentation of a small part of the (by now) huge volume of evidence confirming that nothing other than a student protest occurred in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. You can still do what you want with the second part – your own ideology. You will believe what you will.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block461" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ce3ch" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block462" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-96qah" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Epilogue</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block463" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2hcet" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It has been 22 years since the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen incident. While the Western media has over the years toned down this ‘massacre’ myth, they are still using vague language to keep the ‘massacre’ narrative alive. For example, even NPR’s recent anniversary piece echoed an Associated Press article, described it as “the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.”</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block464" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7adtt" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block465" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7ith5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now that Wikileaks and other documentation have confirmed what the Chinese government has always said – that no massacre occurred at the Square – the NYT, the UK Telegraph and other Western media are instead spinning this as, “the soldiers fired upon the protesters OUTSIDE of the Square”.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block466" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-74t6r" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block467" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-d6349" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With declassified U.S. government documents and other Westerner accounts, Gregory Clark in his well researched 2008 article published in the Japan Times, “Birth of a massacre myth,” explained how the New York Times and other Western media were still pushing that narrative despite all evidence concluding otherwise.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block468" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2ks6g" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block469" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-9pu5s" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recent Wikileaked U.S. embassy cables also showed the U.S. government knew there was no bloodshed in Tiananmen Square. Apparently, condemning China is okay while lying along with the media.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block470" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-egoi" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block471" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-60r0c" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Westerners are hopelessly trapped in a view of the world constructed for them by their media. As Martin Jacques said, the West have not had to understand the developing world, because they have the might to not care. The hard truth for the Chinese from this tragedy is that progress comes from stability.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block472" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8dmb9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block473" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6qdc1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With Tunisia, Egypt, and other Arab states in turmoil, the Western media have been keen to play up a possible ‘Jasmine Revolution’ in China. I can see people like Andrew Jacobs of the New York Times or the BBC journalist who got dragged away from Wangfujing think their careers will be catapulted into the stratosphere if indeed a 1989-scale protest breaks out in China.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block474" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-nu4v" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block475" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-5g2oo" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Or for people like Jon Huntsman, an opportunity to position himself in the midst of it to maximize his credentials back home for his 2012 ambitions.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block476" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-au86e" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block477" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6597s" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Above comments extracted from an editorial at Hidden Harmonies</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block478" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6hng5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block479" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-6lkao" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some Excellent Reading: More Information, Sources, Documentation</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block480" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-45hsu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">June Fourth, 1989: Another Look (From Hidden Harmonies) <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2011/06/june-fourth-1989-another-look/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Read Here</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block481" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a4vgu" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block482" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-bc8fl" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Birth of a Massacre Myth: How the West Manufactured an Event that Never Occurred <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.bearcanada.com/china/tiananmensquare02.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Read Here</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block483" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7hju7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block484" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7jg0b" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Myth of Tiananmen: And the Price of a Passive Press <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.bearcanada.com/china/tiananmenmyth.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Read Here</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block485" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-206tp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block486" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7cb8n" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">US Embassy confirms China’s version of Tiananmen Square events: Wikileaks Cables confirm China Government’s account <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.bearcanada.com/china/tiananmensquare.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Read Here</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block487" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-e6h1d" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block488" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="empty-line"></div><p class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cha2d" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tiananmen Square protesters: where are they now?: Benefitting from CIA Financing <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.bearcanada.com/china/wherearetheynow.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-weight, unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-line-height, unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-link-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_top">Read Here</a>.</span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block489" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" type="paragraph"></div><div class="mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7i787" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; 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line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UK Telegraph article “No Bloodshed in Tiananmen Square” <a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-size, unset); font-style: var(--ricos-custom-link-font-style, unset); 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c3c60; direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family, unset); font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size, unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height, unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; direction: ltr; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">龙信明, http://www.bearcanada.com/china/letstalkabouttam.html</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-39547285708270950192019-03-25T17:16:00.002-07:002019-03-25T17:16:42.296-07:00Strage di Bologna: in un filmino Super 8 un volto che sembra Paolo Bellini <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">L'ex esponente di Avanguardia Nazionale sarebbe stato ripreso in stazione il 2 agosto 1980 da un turista tedesco. 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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">25 marzo 2019 Un fotogramma estrapolato da un filmino amatoriale Super 8 girato da un turista tedesco la mattina del 2 agosto 1980 in stazione a Bologna mostra una "spiccata somiglianza" tra il volto di una persona ripresa e Paolo Bellini, ex esponente di Avanguardia Nazionale. Sulla base anche di questo documento, che l'Ansa ha potuto visionare, la Procura generale di Bologna ha chiesto la revoca del proscioglimento del 1992 per Bellini, in modo da riaprire le indagini e fare un riconoscimento antropometrico. Il filmato amatoriale contiene riprese dei momenti immediatamente precedenti e successivi alla Strage. Prima il turista filmò dal treno l'arrivo in stazione sul primo binario, alle 10.13, 12 minuti prima dello scoppio in cui morirono 85 persone e altre 200 rimasero ferite. Poi il video, a quanto si apprende, prosegue con immagini di poco dopo l'esplosione e, andando verso la sala d'aspetto, vengono riprese una serie di persone presenti, mentre si inizia a scavare tra le macerie. Nei mesi scorsi i difensori dei familiari delle vittime hanno depositato in Procura generale, che ha riaperto l'indagine sui mandanti della Strage, una rielaborazione del filmato, trovato nell'Archivio di Stato, con fotogrammi ingranditi delle varie persone presenti in prossimità del primo binario poco dopo lo scoppio. Uno di questi mostra una persona con i capelli ricci, i baffi e le sopracciglia folte, simile a com'era Bellini nelle foto segnaletiche. A questi fu inizialmente attribuita una diretta partecipazione nell'attentato, ma poi negò la sua presenza a Bologna la mattina del 2 agosto. Fornì un alibi che destò sospetti di falsità, ricorda la Procura generale nella richiesta di revoca della sentenza, ma fu prosciolto per mancanza di riscontri delle propalazioni accusatorie nei suoi confronti. Ora, anche con le moderne metodologie di indagine antropometrica e software per il riconoscimento dei volti, gli inquirenti vorrebbero fare una comparazione delle immagini di allora con le caratteristiche somatiche di Bellini. - </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-85889815286008985542018-12-03T11:48:00.001-08:002018-12-03T11:48:02.212-08:00Giornata rivoluzionariaMentre in Francia continua<a href="https://www.tpi.it/2018/12/02/chi-sono-gilet-gialli/amp/?fbclid=IwAR33wJ0cSusKuvK9pbIcw5Foz0Dc6lqogxN1B0E3LKNnKTnXtrQuuxBJlPM"> la protesta dei gilet gialli</a> , sono arrivate oggi alcune notizie decisamente inaspettate e rivoluzionarie. Ad esempio <a href="https://lamedicinainunoscatto.it/2018/12/ereditarieta-paterna-per-il-dna-mitocondriale/?fbclid=IwAR2NXR2KgFDal0FUyT0nPlNpbTf_amiwrYWHc-gb083MB5vrVnxC6-ENfEk">la notizia che non sempre il Dna mitocondriale è di origine solo materna</a>, come era considerato pacifico e indiscutibile fino a ieri. Altra notizia che demolisce un luogo comune è quella, sempre di oggi,<a href="https://stream24.ilsole24ore.com/video/notizie/la-demografia-riforma-fornero-e-pensionati-che-diminuiscono/AEgE7yrG?utm_medium=FBSole24Ore&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3LnfgJGGhILI30-Ha1WHiAEvyl2h2e7cTnJdFY-3iuPzdb-QXLeSZ_iXk#Echobox=1543842578"> che di dice che non è vero che , con l'avanzare degli anni , a causa dell'invecchiamento della popolazione , le pensioni da pagare sono sempre di più. </a> Ancora, pure <a href="https://www.focus.it/comportamento/psicologia/i-fondamentali-della-psicologia-sono-sbagliati?fbclid=IwAR18jxh_z6lFDm1w5piS0Uby9e89KPkNdq7zpiUl9pISH7sAljVXtGBpE5U">la psicologia ha accusato recentemente un grave colpo</a> mentre in economia è il tempo del <a href="https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/finanza-e-mercati/2018-11-27/borse-e-tornata-curva-phillips-e-ora-investitori-hanno-paura-161232.shtml?uuid=AEImEJoG">revival di un grande classico </a>(e Lucas MUTO).<a href="http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2018/11/29/spread-btp-apre-stabile-a-290-punti-piazza-affari-positiva_d1395e82-036e-4b34-b98d-ff30b62a04e9.html?fbclid=IwAR1EwU-7HY7F7axsZdvu5DLAcAX66fT6Fewe2Rd6wKdS-JBrEmMAkIcvPgw"> Mentre le previsioni sullo spread e l'economia italiana da parte dei mangiatori di popcorn si stanno dimostrando sbagliate</a> pure<a href="https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tentazione-maoista-cina-xi/"> la bufala della Cina "turbocapitalista" sta crollando</a>. Da ultimo o primo, l'altro ieri c'è voluto Di Pietro per spiegare che tutto sommato<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1-jxxSOS8"> per la legittima difesa con questo famigerato decreto sicurezza fondamentalmente non cambia un cazzo</a>.<br />
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Il 13 novembre deve essere stata una giornata difficile per chi, al <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Sole 24 Ore</em>, ha autorizzato il titolo in prima pagina <a href="https://twitter.com/giuslit/status/1062244713724567552" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #33b3d3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">‘Mutui, tassi in crescita per colpa dello spread, salito a quota 300’</a>. Quel titolo è rapidamente diventato il manganello agitato strumentalmente dalle mani dell’opposizione e l’oggetto di un tam-tam mediatico all’insegna della paura.</div>
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Ma, come purtroppo spesso accade a certi <a href="https://t.co/RlFJZakkAT" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #33b3d3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">titoli</a> del <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Sole</em>, anche questa volta quel titolo esce malconcio dalla prova dei fatti.</div>
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La cosa paradossale è che, senza addentrarsi in ricerche, è già il <a href="https://twitter.com/giuslit/status/1062254266222608385" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #33b3d3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">contenuto dell’articolo</a> a svelare la completa fallacia del titolo. Infatti, questo aumento dei tassi attivi delle banche, di cui parlano da settimane ma di cui non c’è comunque traccia nei <a href="https://t.co/zU0bWtpT2B" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #33b3d3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">dati Bankitalia</a> fino al 30/9, pare giustificato dall’aumento dei costi di raccolta. Già avvenuto? No, ‘<em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">in prospettiva’</em> le minusvalenze sui BTP in portafoglio alle banche potrebbero indebolirne il capitale e costringerle a pagare tassi più alti sull’emissione dei nuovi bond bancari. Quindi ci sono almeno un paio di condizionali, prima che l’aumento dello spread si trasmetta effettivamente sui tassi attivi. Detto che nulla può accadere ai mutui in corso, poiché quelli a tasso fisso tali restano, e quelli a tasso variabile sono parametrati all’Euribor che è piatto da mesi, la relazione monocausale del Sole non regge nemmeno per i nuovi mutui perché:</div>
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1) le banche da tempo sono alle prese con un <a href="https://t.co/CA0gi0lByM" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #33b3d3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">restringimento della forbice tassi attivi/passivi</a>, con i primi in rilevante calo grazie alla abbondante liquidità ed alla concorrenza tra banche. Oggi tale forbice si è ridotta (dati ABI/Bankitalia) a soli 187 punti base. Quindi, da tempo, molto prima che lo spread salisse a 300, le banche hanno bisogno di migliorare quei margini. Inoltre, dal 2016 la BCE ha richiesto alle nostre banche un imponente piano di dismissione dei <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1056111716403216389.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #33b3d3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">crediti in sofferenza</a> e ciò determina decine di miliardi di perdite e di accantonamenti (le sofferenze nette sono scese dal 2016 da €88 a €40 miliardi) e la conseguente necessità di ripristinare la redditività, via aumento tassi.</div>
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2) Il costo della raccolta bancaria non cresce per colpa dello spread. Potrebbe accadere ma anche per altre cause, ovviamente taciute. Infatti, la raccolta bancaria tramite obbligazioni è in calo a doppia cifra da oltre 5 anni, tanto che oggi rappresenta solo il 12% della raccolta complessiva. Si deve ricordare che con l’entrata in vigore del bail-in dal gennaio 2016, questi titoli (pur con diverso grado di vulnerabilità per ciascuna tipologia) sono i primi ad essere aggrediti. Inoltre, dal gennaio 2019 le banche dovranno dotarsi di un ‘cuscinetto’ (MREL è l’acronimo per i feticisti) costituito da obbligazioni subordinate assoggettabili a bail-in. EBA (il regolatore europeo delle banche) e Bankitalia ritengono molto difficile la stima dell’impatto di queste nuove regole, ma concordano sul fatto che ci sarà e sarà significativo. Dopo le perdite inflitte ai detentori di obbligazioni subordinate di Banca Etruria, è ragionevole pensare che il rischio del bail-in, debba essere premiato con tassi più alti?</div>
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3) Infine, l’aumento dei tassi, in un intervallo oscillante tra 5 e 20 punti base, riguarda soprattutto i mutui a tasso fisso e, anche in questo caso, c’entra poco con lo spread. Infatti, l’aumento dell’IRS (parametro base per i mutui a tasso fisso) è in atto da tempo, pur restando su minimi storici, ed è attribuibile a fattori tecnici. In aggiunta, soprattutto nell’ultimo anno le banche hanno ridotto parecchio lo spread sull’IRS per motivi commerciali ed ora devono semplicemente recuperare.</div>
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Chiaro ora perché lo spread sui BTP influisce poco sui tassi dei mutui, se comparato con altre cause molto più rilevanti? Parliamo della pagliuzza, mentre la trave colpisce da tempo le banche.</div>
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<em style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://temi.repubblica.it/micromega-online/scienza-e-militanza-un-ricordo-di-domenico-losurdo/#.WzUYn36zBNI.facebook">di <strong>Angelo d’Orsi</strong> per Micromega </a></em><em style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Il destino è sovente beffardo, oltre che crudele. Quando mi giunge la notizia, peraltro attesa, della scomparsa di Domenico Losurdo (nato nel 1941, a Sannicandro, in Puglia), mi è venuto alla mente Antonio Labriola, filosofo socratico, che poco amava scrivere ed affidava il suo sapere perlopiù alla parola detta, più che a quella fermata sulla carta: Labriola morì di un cancro alla gola, che gli impedì di parlare prima di strapparlo alla vita. Losurdo, storico e filosofo, militante comunista, docente, studioso di altissimo livello, scrittore prolifico, e insomma, quel che si dice “una gran testa”, è morto di un tumore al cervello che se l’è portato via in tutta fretta, lasciandoci attoniti. Quel cervello che sembrava inarrestabile, generoso quanto rigoroso, una vera macchina da guerra, sconfitto da una stupida malattia. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Il suo attivismo quasi frenetico, sia che si trattasse di scrivere un articolo, di lavorare a una ricerca, o di tenere una conferenza, era sempre pronto. Saliva su un treno, con un piccolo bagaglio, con le sue camicie a righe, sempre senza cravatta, con abiti sempre da mezza stagione, e macinava chilometri e chilometri, per portare una sua visione del mondo in giro per l’Italia, per l’Europa, per il mondo: sono pochi i Paesi in cui Losurdo non sia stato invitato, per convegni, lezioni, o presentazioni di traduzioni dei suoi libri. E sono stati davvero tanti, quei libri, tutti ricchi di dottrina, persino ridondanti. Un regesto, anche incompleto, risulterebbe improponibile in uno spazio come questo. Il fatto è che Domenico, Mimmo per gli amici, è stato uomo davvero dai molteplici interessi, tra filosofia e dottrine politiche, in grado di coprire, grazie ad una erudizione sterminata, campi assai vasti del sapere. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Di formazione filosofo, Losurdo aveva a differenza di buona parte dei suoi colleghi, non solo il massimo rispetto per la storia, compresa la dimensione biografica degli autori che studiava, ma ha nutrito ogni suo scritto di storicità. Era ben conscio che, per citare ancora Labriola, “le idee non cascano dal cielo”, e dietro, sotto, le idee egli cercò sempre le basi strutturali, i contesti ideologici, cercando, da autentico e ferrato storico materialista, di mettere in luce le connessioni tra economia e ideologia, tra interessi sociali e dibattiti culturali. Un marxista per convinzione, sia per gli ideali politici, sia per una precisa scelta metodologica. Era persuaso, Losurdo, che senza mettere in luce quelle connessioni, senza scavare nel </span><span style="background-color: white;">backstage</span><span style="background-color: white;"> delle idee politiche, non si potesse averne piena cognizione. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Comunista non pentito, aveva aderito al tentativo del piccolo partito cui era iscritto, il PdCI di dare vita a un nuovo, possibilmente grande partito comunista italiano: quando alle prime prove gli esiti elettorali furono modesti e, con un po’ di malizia, glielo feci notare, egli senza scomporsi mi rispose: “Noi lavoriamo sui tempi lunghi”, reiterando l’invito ad aggregarmi. Che non raccolsi, naturalmente, né, del resto, condividevo tutti gli orientamenti di Losurdo, anche se ho recensito e presentato parecchi suoi libri, e soprattutto abbiamo condotto molte battaglie in comune, in primo luogo quelle contro la retorica sionista pronta a usare il tabù dell’antisemitismo per emarginare e condannare all’isolamento chiunque criticasse i governanti israeliani. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Discutendo alcuni suoi lavori, non ho rinunciato alle critiche, sempre mettendo in evidenza da un lato la prodigiosa capacità produttiva, e dall’altro l’originalità di molte sue analisi, mai scontate, anche se, talvolta, per chi conosceva il pensiero losurdiano, prevedibili. Aveva il chiodo fisso dell’antimperialismo, e si batteva perché la stessa categoria teorica di “imperialismo” e quella ad essa vicinissima di “colonialismo” ricuperassero piena cittadinanza nelle analisi geopolitiche. Ammiratore critico (ossia tutt’altro che becero, ma il dissenso qui tra noi era sensibile) di Stalin, come grande protagonista della lotta mondiale al nazifascismo, negli ultimi anni si era molto occupato della Cina, diventandone un esperto, sul piano dell’analisi</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">ideologica. Ma rimase fino alla fine un militante, un combattente, e nei suoi interventi pubblici non abbandonava mai un certo tono comiziante, capace di tener desto l’uditorio, e di animarlo, anche se non sempre di convincerlo. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">A lungo docente di Storia della filosofia nell’Ateneo di Urbino, ne era diventato poi professore emerito, e ricopriva diversi prestigiosi incarichi </span><span style="background-color: white;">scientifici</span><span style="background-color: white;"> a livello internazionale, specie nel mondo degli studi hegeliani e marxengelsiani. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Nella vastissima bibliografia losurdiana, arbitrariamente, scelgo questi titoli</span><span style="background-color: white;">: La comunità, la morte, l’Occidente </span><span style="background-color: white;">(Bollati Boringhieri, 1991),</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">forse il suo libro più affascinante; </span><span style="background-color: white;">Il revisionismo storico. Problemi e miti</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (Laterza, 1996), caposaldo teorico della lotta antirevisionistica; </span><span style="background-color: white;">Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (Bollati Boringhieri, 1997), un autentico capolavoro, a dispetto della sua mole impressionante; </span><span style="background-color: white;">Controstoria del liberalismo</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (Carocci, 2005), un affresco che svela il “lato oscuro” della pseudo-democrazia liberale; </span><span style="background-color: white;">Il linguaggio dell’Impero</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (Laterza, 2007), un’analisi tanto più preziosa oggi davanti al “trumpismo”; </span><span style="background-color: white;">La lotta di classe. Una storia politica e filosofica</span><span style="background-color: white;">(Laterza, 2015), una lettura originale dell’eterno scontro tra oppressi e oppressori; </span><span style="background-color: white;">Un mondo senza guerre</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (Carocci, 2016), libro che aggiunge a una sapiente analisi del mondo bellicistico una prospettiva di alternativa radicale. E l’ultimo: </span><span style="background-color: white;">Il marxismo occidentale</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (Laterza, 2017), del quale è rilevante il sottotitolo: “Come nacque, come morì, come può rinascere”, dove si nota perfettamente la natura duplice dell’autore: studioso e militante. E la sua scomparsa, dunque, suona come un mesto messaggio per il mondo degli studi, ma anche per il quello della militanza politica. Anche sotto questo aspetto, Domenico Losurdo appare una figura oggi insostituibile. Il che rende la sua perdita gravissima. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">E' morto, dopo una breve ma fatale malattia, Domenico Losurdo. </span><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">E' una grandissima perdita ma ci lascia i suoi scritti, molte delle sue lezioni e i suoi allievi. </span><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A maggio dello scorso anno ho avuto modo di assistere a una sua conferenza e già lo trovai abbastanza debilitato. rispetto ai video delle conferenze che avevo visto nei mesi precedenti. </span><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I suoi insegnamenti e il suo metodo dovrebbero essere la guida per una sinistra che senza "autofobia" e sensi di colpa, deve tornare a imporre le proprie parole d'ordine .</span><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Un affettuoso, grato e commosso addio, Maestro.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-39033356295624315772018-06-22T06:34:00.000-07:002018-06-22T06:34:21.703-07:00“DIARIO DI UNA GIORNALISTA AGGREDITA E MINACCIATA DALLA CAMORRA”: LETTERA A ROBERTO SAVIANODi<a href="http://www.napolitan.it/2016/11/12/55777/roberto-saviano/"> Luciana Esposito per Napolitan.it</a><div>
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Caro Roberto,</div>
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Se respirassi Napoli con i tuoi polmoni e ritrovassi il coraggio di guardarla senza filtri, dritto negli occhi, per giungere a toccare con mano le cicatrici e le ferite tuttora sanguinanti che si porta cucite addosso, saresti orgoglioso dello <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">striscione apparso nel Rione Sanità</strong>, perché rappresenta un monito forte alla camorra e ancora di più a chi la intreccia a suggestioni letterarie/cinematografiche per lanciare sul mercato prodotti “proliferi” utili a tenere viva la macchina da soldi innescata da <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gomorra</strong>, tanti anni fa…</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“La camorra e rinnegati non hanno nazionalità e Napoli ha bisogno d’amore, non di fango. Napoli in azione”</em></strong>: questo è quanto riportato su quel mantello bianco, pregno d’indignazione ed orgoglio, oltre che di vernice. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Napoli rivendica verità, è stanca delle tue “favole”.</strong></div>
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Scontata e assai opinabile la tua replica: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Questo striscione campeggia a Napoli abbarbicato sul ponte della Sanità. Questo striscione lo ha messo lì chi odia Napoli. Perché fango non è raccontare, fango è uccidere, spaventare, terrorizzare, togliere speranza e azzerare ogni futuro possibile.”</em></div>
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Se tu vivessi a Napoli, ti sarebbe giunta notizia che, proprio nel cuore del Rione Sanità, in una delle fette di Napoli più sopraffatte dalla camorra, all’indomani della morte dell’ennesima vittima innocente della criminalità, centinaia di persone sono scese in strada per sbarrare il passo alla camorra. E, probabilmente, quello che esaspera ed indispettisce il popolo è il fatto che tra gli <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">scritti e nelle gesta cinematografiche che portano la tua firma, “stranamente” non c’è spazio per la civiltà e la legalità che inizia a rivendicare la sua presenza</strong>, soprattutto tra le crepe dei contesti più devastati dalla camorra. Questo ritrovato e partecipato senso d’indignazione rischia di offuscare l’attendibilità di quel prodotto che assicura il massimo risultato con il minimo sforzo: “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">camorra, Scampia e malammore</em></strong>”. Del resto, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">perché discostarsi da un principio mediaticamente vincente, parafrasando una realtà che rischia di rompere il giocattolo?</strong></div>
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E questo, agli esseri pensanti che hanno ancora voglia di indignarsi, proprio non va giù.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Due aggressioni fisiche, l’ultima sfociata persino in un tentativo di sequestro di persona, all’incirca 15 denunce sporte dall’inizio del 2016, minacce di morte da parte della madre del boss dei Barbudos, plurimi raid vandalici alla mia auto. Le intimidazioni, le minacce e gli avvertimenti, sono all’ordine del giorno</strong>: questi i fatti che sintetizzano il mio lavoro di giornalista, direttrice di un giornale online qualunque, una scelta voluta per non sottostare alle disposizioni di nessun padrone. Con tutti i contro che questo comporta. Non diventerò mai ricca e non è questa la motivazione che anima il mio operato, diversamente avrei mollato dopo il primo “strascino”.</div>
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Il tutto viene ulteriormente aggravato da un dettaglio che fa la differenza: vivo nel posto in cui lavoro e di cui racconto le malefatte, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ponticelli</strong>, quel quartiere che hai intravisto attraverso talune scene di Gomorra, quello in cui, invece, io sono nata e cresciuta e dove vivo e lavoro, muovendomi tra la violenza, l’odio, l’omertà di chi, mentre venivo pestata, non ha mosso un dito per difendermi. Eppure, ho scelto di restare e di non fare nemmeno mezzo passo indietro.</div>
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Anzi, ho imparato a capire che misurarsi costantemente con la paura e con i limiti imposti dalla consapevolezza di quello che fai è il metro valutativo più attendibile per non perdere mai la lucidità né l’impatto con la realtà.</div>
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Non me ne volere, ma credo <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">che tu non abbia la minima percezione di cosa voglia dire vivere costantemente sotto minaccia</strong>: gli sguardi, le citofonate nel cuore della notte per buttarti giù dal letto solo per recapitarti l’ennesimo “consiglio”, le limitazioni dettate dalla consapevolezza che ti muovi in un campo minato, il lucido cinismo che ti porta a non fidarti di nessuno. Eppure, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">non vivo sotto scorta</strong>, le spalle ho imparato a guardarmele da sola, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">ma non credo che la mia vita valga meno della tua</strong>, meno che mai lo penso del mio lavoro.</div>
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La ricerca della verità e soprattutto la “vera” lotta Anticamorra, richiedono questo genere d’impegno e di sacrificio e chi sceglie d sposare questa causa, deve fare inevitabilmente i conti con tutto ciò che questa scelta tristemente comporta. Di conseguenza, le difficoltà con le quali mi confronto sono innumerevoli, quindi, nonostante sia presente sul posto, faccio non poca fatica a reperire notizie certe. Mi ha sempre affascinato ed incuriosito il fatto che, invece, tu non subisci questo genere di difficoltà, nonostante ti trovi a raccontare Napoli dall’altro capo del mondo. Questo “dettaglio” non sfugge allo spettatore/lettore attento che non può non interrogarsi in merito all’attendibilità dei fatti che racconti.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u>Romanzare la camorra sta mietendo più danni dell’affiliazione stessa, ma per rendertene conto dovresti vivere Napoli da Napoli.</u></strong></div>
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<u>I giovani camorristi che prima di andare a fare “le stese” si riuniscono in cerchio e urlano <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“le frasi di Gomorra”</em></strong> per motivarsi, l’emulazione fisica e comportamentale dei personaggi della serie, non solo da parte dei camorristi, la riproduzione fedele della casa di Don Pietro Savastano voluta da un boss, i ragazzini che ripetono fino allo sfinimento “le frasi tormentone” della serie, mentre giocano a pallone o ai videogiochi: per questo genere di “mostri”, Napoli deve “ringraziare” te.</u></div>
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E <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">sarebbe opportuno ed anche estremamente interessante che fossi tu ad analizzare “l’effetto di Gomorra sulla camorra”.</strong></div>
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Sei bravo a forgiare la realtà a immagine e somiglianza dei tuoi interessi, ma in questo caso, non ci provare: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">gettare fango non è “raccontare”, ma raccontare una realtà falsata per andare incontro a delle esigenze che nulla hanno da spartire con la ricerca e la denuncia della verità.</strong></div>
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Nessun napoletano avulso dal sistema camorristico ha mai contestato il lavoro e le inchieste di noi giornalisti presenti sul campo, anzi. Quello che, fin qui, mi ha dato la forza necessaria per non mollare è proprio l’incoraggiamento dei tantissimi napoletani desiderosi di liberarsi dalle angherie della camorra.</div>
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Non giriamoci troppo intorno: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">la tua lotta Anticamorra, nasce e si sviluppa per alimentare un business ben preciso e questo i napoletani lo hanno capito e</strong>d è più che legittimo che ti chiedano di cambiare registro e prendere una posizione netta: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">o romanziere o “detentore di verità assolute e inconfutabili”</strong>, non posso chiamarti giornalista perché non lo sei ed è bene ricordarlo.<u> Nel caso in cui tu scelga di servire la verità, liberati da forzate ipocrisie, rimboccati le maniche e scendi in trincea insieme a noi, perché lo ribadisco: la tua vita non vale di più della mia e di quella di migliaia di giornalisti che ogni giorno rischiano la vita in nome di un ideale e che per questo non si sentono degli eroi né si aspettano che il mondo si fermi per tributargli una standing ovation.</u></div>
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<u>Se dovesse accadermi qualcosa, tu sei una di quelle persone dalle quali desidero ricevere solo indifferenza: vedermi appioppare uno dei tuoi sermoni, vorrebbe dire gettare fango prima sul mio cadavere </u>e poi sulla credibilità del mio lavoro, più silenzioso del tuo, ma, anche assai più sincero e disinteressato.</div>
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Non sappiamo se vi sia stata o meno collusione con scafisti o trafficanti di profughi da parte di qualche Ong. Scoprilo e sanzionarlp spetterà alla magistratura e soprattutto alla politica, magari con l’aiuto dell’intelligence e di Frontex – dai quali sembrano provenire le intercettazioni di cui si parla.<br /> </div>
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Frontex già a fine 2016 aveva segnalato preoccupazioni su alcune Ong ( <a href="http://www.askanews.it/esteri/2016/12/15/migranti-ft-frontex-accusa-ong-di-collusione-con-trafficanti-pn_20161215_00027/" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">qui</a>dal <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FT</i> e <a href="http://www.analisidifesa.it/2016/12/frontex-organizzazioni-umanitarie-colluse-con-i-trafficanti/" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">qui</a>), dopo che il sito GEFIRA aveva monitorato ivimenti di navi di Ong umanitarie che si avvicinavano molto alle coste libiche e sgnalato contatti sospetti cona terraferma (qui il post e video). </div>
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Se l'operazione Mare Nostrum fosse continuata, estesa ad altri Stati europei, invece di delegare compiti forse eccessivi a Ong, senza regole certe né finanziamenti trasparenti, tanti problemi si sarebbero potuti evitare. Ma si sa, su immigrazione e rifugiati l'UE è assente.<br /> </div>
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Qui tuttavia vogliamo solo tentare di far luce in generale sulle <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ong umanitarie,</b> quanto meno le più importanti, che negli anni hanno acquisito un nuovo ruolo di prolungamento delle politiche delle democrazie occidentali: sorta di PR, casse di risonanza, con l’aiuto dei media, delle narrazioni che ne supportano la geopolitica e sempre più legate ad istituzioni e governi - in testa quello americano - da loro finanziate insieme a privati e filantropi apparentemente disinteressati. </div>
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Un intreccio dove un posto non di poco rilievo gioca il controverso finanziere George Soros con la sua <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open Society Foundations</b> <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">,</i> campione della Società Aperta globalizzata, che di Ong ne finanzia a centinaia e il cui interesse anche nella politica globale di migranti e rifugiati è lui stesso a spiegare come vedremo in un post successivo. </div>
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L’incontro recente fra Soros e il presidente del Consiglio Gentiloni a palazzo Chigi, non sappiamo chiesto da l’uno o dall’altro, potrebbe costituire una ulteriore conferma. </div>
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“La narrazione culturale classica appare del tutto innocente: miliardari caritatevoli, politici illuminati, società transnazionali, istituzioni pubbliche insieme a legioni di volontari lavorano insieme in nome della giustizia sociale per forgiare un mondo migliore, aiutando i diseredati, difendendo i diritti umani contro genocidi e crimini contro l’umanità”. </div>
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Una retorica cara specialmente alla sinistra democratica che ad un esame più approfondito presenta varie falle . </div>
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Lo scriveva qualche mese fa <a href="https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/smart-power-human-rights-industrial-complex" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">un post intitolato </a><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Smart power & The Human Rights Industrial Complex,</i> allusione al cosiddetto complesso militar-industriale a cui finiscono per far gioco - consapevolmente o meno – tante Ong, a partire da alcune delle più note come <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty International</b> e<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Human Wight Watch</b> (HRW), dove i conflitti di interesse e intrecci finanziari e politici appaiono palesi. </div>
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E lo <a href="http://bdc.aege.fr/public/Le_dessous_des_ONG_une%20verite_cachee.pdf" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">testimoniava anche un post francese </a>che già nel 2010 prendeva di mira tre Ong (di nuovo <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty</b>, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HRW</b> più <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FIDH- International Federation for Human Rights</b>) in relazione agli interventi di Parigi in Mali, in un post intitolato <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guerre de l’information. Au dessous del ONG, une vérité cachée.</i> </div>
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“Un aspetto difficile nell’analizzarle è che nella maggior parte di esse lavorano individui ottimi, ben educati, grandi lavoratori, molti dei quali sono spinti da vero altruismo e dalle migliori intenzioni. Per lo più sono inconsapevoli o disinteressati a chi finanzia le loro organizzazioni e cosa significhino tali legami finanziari per quanto concerne aspetti geopolitici o conflitti militari.” </div>
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“E’ certo vero che negli anni campagne sincere e dedicate hanno aiutato a liberare individui ingiustamente imprigionati e ottenuto processi e giustizia. Come è vero che molte organizzazioni hanno contribuito a prendere coscienza su molti importanti temi sociali e ambientali”. </div>
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Ma “a causa dell’accresciuto finanziamento da parte di interessi <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">corporate</i>e a legami diretti con governi e <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">think tanks</i> politici <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">negli anni recenti queste organizzazioni sono diventate sempre più politicizzate e più strettamente connesse agli ‘agenti di influenza’ occidentali</b>. Col risultato che queste organizzazioni per i ‘diritti umani’ rischiano di contribuire ai problemi che credono di voler eliminare, attraverso la loro spesso involontaria ‘complicità’ nel sostenere obiettivi di politica estera di Washington, Londra, Parigi e Bruxelles” .“Il problema è sistemico e istituzionale”. </div>
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“Quello che nel XX secolo <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">era una sorta di appendice di un emergente movimento progressista internazionale</b> si è rapidamente espanso nel XXI secolo come un ‘terzo settore’ internazionalizzato multi-miliardario supportato da alcune delle corporations transnazionali leader nel mondo. Un impressionante labirinto, guidato da organizzazioni come <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty, e HRW</b>. Ciascuna di queste organizzazioni ha legami diretti con governi centrali e, forse più sorprendentemente, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">collegamenti che conducono al cuore del [cosiddetto]complesso militar-industriale</b>. Di qui l'espressione "Complesso industriale dei diritti umani". </div>
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Fa eco il post francese citato: “Infiltrate da rappresentanti governativi, prendendo parte a certi conflitti e ignorandone altri: in filigrana si disegnano i c <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ontorni di una strategia che è il riflesso della politica dei dipartimenti di affari esteri</b>. Certi governi, come quello degli Stati Uniti del resto non si nascondono questa strumentalizzazione delle Ong ‘non governative’. L’ex segretario di Stato Colin Powell in un discorso indirizzato alle Ong all’inizio dell’Operazione <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Enduring Freedom</i> (l’invasione dell’Afghanistan) nell’ottobre 2001, anno cruciale, dichiarava: ‘Le Ong sono un moltiplicatore di forza per noi, una parte estremamente importante della nostra squadra combattente’ ” . </div>
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Una dichiarazione, quella di Powell, che si può accostare a quella, molto citata dai siti alternativi, dell’ex comandate Nato Gen. Wesley Clark che sei anni dopo, in un discorso pubblico, citava una conversazione al Pentagono proprio del 2001 e un memo del Segretario alla Difesa secondo il quale nei successivi 5 anni gli Usa avrebbero attaccato e distrutto i governi di 7 paesi : Iraq, poi Siria, Libano, Libia, Somalia, Sudan, Iran. En passant sia il Generale Clark che Soros figurano nel <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">board of trustees</i> dell’ <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">International Crisis Group</b>,<br /> </div>
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Il post francese punta il dito su report di <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty</b> e <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HRW</b> che hanno denunciato uccisioni e nefandezze da parte di truppe del Mali, di fatto accusando anche gli alleati Francesi di quelle milizie, con lo scopo di allontanarli da quel territori, si affermava, per lasciare campo libero a interventi di altri (leggi US/Nato).<br /><br /> </div>
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L’attacco al sarin di Damasco nel 2013 venne attribuito anche quello ad Assad, come riferito da <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HRW </b>alla CBS. Accuse in seguito contestato da molte fonti autorevoli che hanno invece accsato i ‘ribelli’. Il sarin - l’avrebbe loro fornito la stessa Hillary Clinton allora titolare degli Esteri per incastrare Assad, <a href="http://vocidallestero.it/2016/05/08/giornalista-premio-pulitzer-hillary-approvo-linvio-di-gas-sarin-ai-ribelli-siriani-per-incastrare-assad/" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ha scritto il giornalista premio Pulitzer Seymour Hersch in un post tradotto</a> da <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">vocidall'estero</i>. Probabili fake anche i video impressionanti e le foto prese altrove. </div>
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Il report di <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty </b>sulle atrocità compiute dalle milizie governative, con accuse di violazione della legge internazionale sui diritti umani e crimini contro l’umanità . <a href="https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/amnesty-internationals-war-crimes-in-syria/" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Un post documentatissimo di Tim Hayward,</a> docente all’università di Edimburgo e direttore di Ethic Forum e Just World Institute fa le bucce ai metodi adottati da <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty</b> , che non soddisfano i loro stessi criteri.<br /> </div>
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<a href="https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2016/12/30/truth-a-casualty-neglected-by-medicins-sans-frontieres-msf-in-syria/" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Il medesimo autore in un altro</a> post punta il dito su <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Médicins Sans Frontières</b>che in un report ha accusato il solito Assad di aver bombardato ospedali e civili. In realtà MSF non era sul campo – si trovava fra i ribelli da loro protetta – e si è basata sulla testimonianza dei <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">White Helmets</b>. </div>
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Gli stessi Caschi Bianchi sono la fonte della notizia del recente attacco chimico (al sarin? al cloro?) ad Idlib. News divulgata per primo dal <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Syrian Observatory</b> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">on Human Rights</b> e poi da tutti i media, compresi i nostri, a base di foto e <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">video fake</b> ad opera dei White Helmets, <a href="http://vocidallestero.it/2017/04/13/ong-di-medici-svedesi-conferma-che-i-filmati-dei-bambini-siriani-pubblicati-dai-caschi-bianchi-sono-fake-news/" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">come confermano medici di una Ong svedese</a>. </div>
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Del resto le principali Ong umanitarie, che già nei '90 avevano appogiato la partizione dell'ex Jugoslavia, sostengono apertamente il <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">regime change</i> in Siria come in Libia, Ucraina e Yemen. In Siria presentando subito il conflitto come ‘guerra civile’, Ong umanitarie e media hanno fatto la loro parte nel divulgare un’importante narrazione della politica estera occidentale che ha impedito di conoscere la realtà, molto più complessa, e le complicità di Usa, Turchia e alleati. </div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Follow the money</i>, scrive Henningsen, secondo il quale molte di queste entità ricevono grandi quantità di finanziamenti dalle stesse fonti, corporations transnazionali. Quali? Un elenco dettagliato dei donatori in realtà non esiste, e <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">il finanziamento delle varie ONG è da sempre opaco</b>, come denuncia anche il post francese. Vale anche per le maggiori, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty Intl</b> , <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HRW </b>e la stessa<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FIDH</b>, la più antica. Malgrado la loro fama e i riconoscimenti da parte di ONU, Unesco, Europa. E vale anche per <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Médécins Sans Frontières</b>, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Save the Children </b>ecc.<br /> </div>
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Fra i privati ai nostri post non resta che segnalare il ruolo di finanziatore di<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Soros</b>. Sia Amnesty Intl sia HRW hanno ricevuto ciascuna $100 milioni, riferiscono i due post pur . L'impegno di Soros a versarli a HRW è del 2010 ( <a href="https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2010/09/07/george-soros-sengage-verser-100-millions-de-dollars-human-rights-watch" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">vedi anche qui)</a>.<br /> </div>
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Il molto discusso finanziere di origine ungherese, che nel 1992 atterò sterlina e lira con le sue speculazioni causando perdite ingenti ai due governi, e in Francia è stato addirittura processato per insider trading ai danni di SociétéGénerale, è molto più di un semplice donatore. Attraverso la sua <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open Society Foundations</i> sostiene una rete di centinaia di ONG che operano negli Usa e in tutto il mondo coprendo un enorme spettro di attività e obiettivi spesso apertamente politici. Lo vedremo più avanti. </div>
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Più trasparenti, abbiamo verificato, sono i <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">finanziamenti pubblici</b> alle organizzazioni umanitarie, monitorati da <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Globan Humanitarian Assistance</i> – GHA che pubblica ogni anno un rapporto. Ma complessivo, senza citare alcuna Ong in particolare. </div>
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Chissà se il recente protagonismo dell’Arabia Saudita è da mettere in relazione con la sua elezione nel prestigioso <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Human Rights Council</i> dell’ONU (UNHRC), attraverso una negoziazione col Regno Unito, entrato nell’organismo internazionale insieme all’Arabia che poi ne ha addirittura conquistato la <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">presidenza</b>. Con un passaggio di soldi e favori fra i due Stati, ha raccontato il <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guardian</i> che parlava anche di una donazione araba di $1 milione all’UNHRC. Molto recentemente l’Arabia Saudita, dove alle donne velatissime è persino vietato guidare l’auto, è diventata membro anche della<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Commissione ONU per i Diritti delle Donne</i>, suscitando ovunque ilarità e sdegno. </div>
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Si precisa inoltre che di tali finanziamenti, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">soltanto lo 0,2% va a finire a Ong locali e il 3.1% a governi di stati ‘bisognosi</b>’. </div>
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La <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FIDH</b> per esempio, la più antica Ong internazionale che difende tutti i diritti, umani, civili, politici, economici, sociali, culturali e tiene insieme qualcosa come 178 organizzazioni di 120 paesi, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">riceve fondi dal Dipartimento di Stato Usa</b> attraverso il <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NED</b> – <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">National Endowment for Democracy</i>, organizzazione bipartisan nata nel 1983 per ‘promuovere la democrazia nel mondo’ finanziata dal Congresso. </div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Quanto a Médécins Sans Frontières,</b> secondo un rapporto del GHA <a href="http://humanitaire.blogs.liberation.fr/2012/05/29/lhumanitaire-et-lambiguite-des-financements-prives-/" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">citato nel 2010 da <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Libération</i> </a>intitolato “Finanziamenti privati: una tendenza emergente negli aiuti umanitari, quell'anno figurava <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">al secondo posto</b> delle più importanti Ong umanitarie in termini finanziari, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">con $1 miliardo di donazioni ricevute</b>. Fondi che superavano quelli degli aiuti del Regno Unito. In generale i finanziamenti privati erano saliti dal 17% nel 2006 al 32% nel 2010 ma per MSF rappresentavano il 90%. Chi fossero i donatori non viene detto.<br /> </div>
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Recentemente, <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2016/06/17/medecins-sans-frontieres-refusera-desormais-l-argent-europeen_4952457_3214.html" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">riferisce nel 2016 </a><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2016/06/17/medecins-sans-frontieres-refusera-desormais-l-argent-europeen_4952457_3214.html" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Le Monde</a> </i>, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MSF</b> ha rifiutato €62 milioni da parte di istituzioni e paesi UE perché non condivideva la linea che si oppone all’accoglienza dei profughi. Cruciale è stato l’accordo con la Turchia, fortemente criticato dalla Ong francese. Nel 2015 aveva ricevuto 19 milioni dalle istituzioni UE e 37 milioni da undici stati dell’Unione, più 6.8 milioni dal governo Norvegese. MSF rifiuta anche quelli per il suo lavoro con Frontex .<br /> </div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MSF figura <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/partners_20090720_0.pdf" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">nella lista</a> </b><a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/partners_20090720_0.pdf" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ufficiale dell'OSF</a> delle Ong 'partners' della <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open Society Institute </i> di George Soros. Non è specificato quali partners ricevano anche finanziamenti.<br /> </div>
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“Non è un segreto che ve ne siano fra il Dipartimento di Stato e molte delle le principali Ong occidentali per i diritti umani” scrive Henningsen. </div>
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Il caso più clamoroso è quello di <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Suzanne Nossel,</b> una delle sostenitrici delle cause umanitarie di più alto profilo a Washington, transitata direttamente nel 2012 dal posto di vice Segretario per le Organizzazioni internazionali al Dipartimento di Stato, assistente personale di Hillary Clinton ministra degli Esteri, alla poltrona di direttore esecutivo di <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty Intl -Usa.</b> Già capo operativo di <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HRW</b>, vice presidente per la strategia e le operazioni al <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wall Street Journal</i> e consulente per la comunicazione e i media per McKinsey & Co, membro e finanziatore del Council of Foreign Relations, di cui Nossel è senior fellow. Con la Clinton Nossel era responsabile per i diritti umani multilaterali (qui la sua bio), vicina ai ‘falchi’ Samantha Power e Susan Rice e al meno noto <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Atrocity Prevention Board</i>, comitato inter-agenzie che comprende anche funzionari dell’intelligence. </div>
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“Nossel è stata un elemento chiave, rappresentando un ponte per aiutare a progettare a livello internazionale la comunicazione politica americana attraverso la Ong <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amnesty</b>” . A lei si deve l’invenzione dell’espressione “ <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Soft Power”</b>- il modo ‘dolce’ di imporre il potere contrapposto alla modalità ‘hard’, militare – cavallo di battaglia della presidenza Obama. ‘Washington deve offrire una leadership assertiva – diplomatica, economica e non ultima, militare – per portare avanti uno spettro di obiettivi: autodeterminazione, diritti umani, libero mercato, legalità, sviluppo economico e l’eliminazione di dittatori e armi di distruzione di massa’, ha scritto Nossel a proposito dei compiti dei politici progressisti nel XXI secolo. </div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alle porte girevoli fra governo Usa e Human Wright Watch</b> è dedicato <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/11/the-revolving-door-at-human-rights-watch/" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">un intero post di <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Countepunch</i> (2014) </a>in forma di lettera aperta al direttore Ken Roth (quello delle foto fake in Siria prese da Gaza, vedi sopra). Per esempio Miguel Diaz, ex analista CIA cooptato nel board dei consulenti, poi tornato al Dipartimento di Stato come interlocutore fra intelligence ed esperti non governativi. Simile il percorso di Tom Malinowski, già direttore di <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HRW- Washington</b>. E che dire di Mr Steinberg, passato da <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HRW</b> alla poltrona di assistente di Samatha Power, ambasciatrice Usa all’ONU e noto falco . Sono solo alcuni casi, scrive <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Counterpunch</i>, che racconta varie prese di posizione contraddittorie della ong, per es. sulle renditions – detenzioni lunghe senza processo sotto Obama sulle quali <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HRW</b> ha taciuto dopo aver denunciato quelle di Bush. O le denunce contro Cuba e il Venezuela, ma non delle atrocità ad Haiti dopo il colpo di stato promosso dagli Usa. </div>
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Notevoli anche gli <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">intrecci politici di</b> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AVAAZ,</b> Ong internazionale fondata nel 2007 da <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ResPublica </i>e <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Move.on</i> (l’Ong di azione politica online degli attivisti Dem che riceverebbe fondi direttamente da Soros) sotto l’ombrello dell’ <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OSF</b>del magnate, i cui fondatori hanno avuto tutti relazioni con ONU e Banca Mondiale, scrive Henningsen. AVAAZ, che vanta 7 milioni di membri nel mondo e nel 2009 ha dichiarato di ricevere solo microdonazioni da simpatizzanti, opera con la società di PR <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Purpose</i> <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">,</i> orientata al business; insieme usano i social media per campagne politiche ‘dal basso’ che preparano il terreno per programmi del FMI o della Nato, come sanzioni o interventi militari (vedi anche <a href="http://www.liberacittadinanza.it/articoli/cose-avaaz-e-che-cosa-ce-sotto" style="color: #005189; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">qui un post italiano</a>).<br /> </div>
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AVAAZ - secondo GEFIRA - avrebbe donato $500.000 al MOAS - Migrants Offshore Aid Station, l'Ong maltese fondata nel 2014 dalla coppia italo-americana Catrambone ale centro delle polemiche di oggi sui salvataggi di migranti dalla Libia.<br /> </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-26020579383296988852018-06-03T13:10:00.003-07:002018-06-03T13:10:52.055-07:00Sull'ipotesi di uscita dall'Euro.Troverete molto materiale interessante <a href="https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_18.html?m=1">qui</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-73420773202219138222018-05-02T12:19:00.004-07:002018-05-02T12:19:56.920-07:00A proposito di bufale sulla Corea del Nord, la grottesca galleria di Msn ItaliaLa potete trovare qui. Grotteschi i commenti "suggestivi" alle foto che, a detta di Msn, sarebbero "rubati", eppure tutte perfettamente a fuoco, che strano.<br />
Ad aver tempo mi verrebbe da commentarle ad una ad una ma lascio alla vostra intelligenza valutarle.<br />
<a href="https://www.msn.com/it-it/notizie/foto/le-30-foto-che-kim-jong-un-non-vi-avrebbe-mai-permesso-di-vedere/ss-BBIatx3?li=BBqfWMR&ocid=wispr#image=31">Il Link alla galleria</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-79646832332351351412017-08-04T11:50:00.000-07:002017-08-04T11:50:06.642-07:00Il declino della supremazia militare statunitense: due articoli. <b><span style="font-size: large;">1) <a href="http://selvasorg.blogspot.it/2017/08/la-fine-del-nuovo-secolo-americano.html">La fine del ‘nuovo secolo americano’ pronunciata dal Pentagono da Selva Blog. </a></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"><i><b>Wayne Madsen</b></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/pview/2017/07/23/the-end-new-american-century-pronounced-pentagon.html" rel="noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Strategic Culture</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> Il dipartimento della Difesa degli Stati Uniti ama rilasciare rapporti, molti dei quali contengono grande quantità di gergo e astrusità del Pentagono. Ma una recente relazione, pur non mancando del tipico esoterismo, contiene un messaggio chiaro e inequivocabile.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Il progetto neoconservatore del “</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Nuovo secolo</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"></a><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">americano”</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">, che ha visto gli Stati Uniti impelagarsi in Iraq e Afghanistan, nonché nell’”infinita guerra mondiale al terrorismo”, è morto e sepolto.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span id="more-25651" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Un rapporto dell’USAWC (United States War College), intitolato “A nostro rischio: valutazione del rischio del DoD in un mondo post-primazia”, turba la Beltway di Washington e oltre. Il rapporto, redatto dall</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">’Istituto di Studi Strategici dell’esercito</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> (SSI) e dalla squadra dell’USAWC guidata dal professor Nathan Freier, afferma di “non riflettere necessariamente la politica ufficiale o la posizione del dipartimento dell’Esercito e della Difesa o del governo degli Stati Uniti”.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">È dubbio che la relazione, sponsorizzata dallo Stato Maggiore riunito del Pentagono, verrebbe commissionata se il Pentagono non vedesse la necessità di prepararsi alla fine del dominio militare unipolare degli USA, vigente dalla fine della guerra fredda. Il rapporto post-primazia ha avuto il contributo di dipartimento della Difesa e Comunità d’Intelligence degli Stati Uniti, tra cui </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Stati Maggiori Riuniti, Comando Centrale </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">degli USA</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">(USCENTCOM), </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Comando Operazioni Speciali</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> degli USA (USSOCOM) e </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Ufficio del Direttore dell’Instelligence Nazionale</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> (ODNI), tutti attori cruciali per la rinnovata strategia militare statunitense.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Affinché nessuno creda che il rapporto rappresenti il nuovo modo di pensare dall’amministrazione di Donald Trump, va sottolineato che la stesura e preparazione della relazione iniziò nel luglio 2016, sei mesi prima della fine dell’amministrazione Obama. La relazione era un requisito finanziato per il bilancio annuale di Obama del 2017 per il Pentagono.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">La relazione individua </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">cinque componenti chiave della strategia post-primazia degli Stati Uniti:</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">– </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">iperconnessione</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> e armonizzazione delle informazioni, della disinformazione e della disaffezione (questo si è già visto con la decisione di separare il Cyber Command degli USA dall’Agenzia per la Sicurezza Nazionale consentendo ai “cyber-guerrieri” dello “spazio” extra-costituzionale di attuare operazioni da guerra dell’informazione con offensive contro militari e civili).</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">– </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">situazione di rapida fine dello status quo</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> post-guerra fredda.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">– </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">proliferazione, diversificazione</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> e atomizzazione di una resistenza efficace agli Stati Uniti.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">– </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">ritorno, anche se mutato</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">, della concorrenza di grandi potenze.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">–</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> dissoluzione violenta o distruttiva</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> della coesione politica e identitaria.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> </span><img alt="" class="attachment-left-sidebar size-left-sidebar wp-post-image" data-attachment-id="23597" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="US Special forces in Syria" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.controinformazione.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/US-Special-forces-in-Syria.jpg?fit=668%2C377" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.controinformazione.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/US-Special-forces-in-Syria.jpg?fit=300%2C169" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.controinformazione.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/US-Special-forces-in-Syria.jpg?fit=668%2C377" data-orig-size="668,377" data-permalink="http://www.controinformazione.info/il-presidente-trump-ormai-ostaggio-del-circolo-dei-neocons-di-washington-prepara-le-nuove-guerre-ed-il-nuovo-caos-in-giro-per-il-mondo/us-special-forces-in-syria-3/" height="180" itemprop="image" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.controinformazione.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/US-Special-forces-in-Syria.jpg?resize=668%2C377" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" width="320" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">L’accettazione del Pentagono della “rapida fine dello status quo post-guerra fredda” è forse la più importante comprensione del cambio di status di una superpotenza da quando il Regno Unito comprese che i giorni dell’impero erano alla fine. Ciò portò alla decisione del primo ministro Harold Wilson, nel gennaio 1968, di ritirare tutte le forze militari inglesi ad “est di Suez”.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Il ministro della Difesa Denis Healey fece il drammatico annuncio che tutte le forze militari inglesi sarebbero state ritirate entro il 1971 dalle importanti basi militari nell’Asia sud-orientale, “ad est di Aden”, principalmente Malesia e Singapore, così come Golfo Persico e Maldive. La decisione vide l’indipendenza di Aden come repubblica socialista, lo Yemen del Sud, e la cessione agli Stati Uniti della base militare di Diego Garcia nel territorio dell’Oceano Indiano inglese appena formato (insieme alla rimozione dalle isole Chagos dei residenti), l’indipendenza degli Stati della Costa della Tregua, come gli Emirati Arabi Uniti, e il trasferimento del controllo agli statunitensi della base navale inglese in Bahrayn.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Il rapporto post-primazia del Pentagono mette in dubbio la necessità di basi militari estere a sostegno dell’avvio di operazioni militari. La relazione afferma che “le considerazioni di un avvio non vanno limitate ai combattimenti combinati convenzionali”. È solo la punta dell’iceberg per i cyber-combattenti, che vedrebbero le proprie capacità aumentate relegando il combattimento militare. Il rapporto afferma inoltre che il DoD “non può più, come in passato, ottenere automaticamente una superiorità militare locale coerente e continua”.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> In altre parole, dimenticate una risposta militare statunitense come l’operazione Desert Shield che vide il massiccio trasferimento di forze militati statunitensi in Arabia Saudita prima della riconquista del Quwayt e dell’invasione dell’Iraq nel 1991.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Il Pentagono vede alcuni rischi internazionali come accettabili se possono essere gestiti. Questa riduzione dei rischi sembra essere incentrata sulla </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">minaccia dei missili balistici nucleari ed intercontinentali nordcoreani</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">. La relazione afferma che gli Stati Uniti dovrebbero evitare “obiettivi politici che si dimostrano troppo ambiziosi o inattuabili nella pratica. La sconfitta militare statunitense della Corea democratica sarebbe possibile solo dopo lo sterminio di militari sudcoreani e statunitensi e di civili della Corea del Sud”. Rimarcando come la sconfitta militare della Corea democratica sia “troppo ambiziosa” e “irraggiungibile” per gli USA.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /></span><br />
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IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS","created_timestamp":"1354139943","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"US Navy handout photo of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="US Navy handout photo of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/www.controinformazione.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Portaerei-Reagan.jpg?fit=634%2C422" data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/www.controinformazione.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Portaerei-Reagan.jpg?fit=300%2C200" data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/www.controinformazione.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Portaerei-Reagan.jpg?fit=634%2C422" data-orig-size="634,422" data-permalink="http://www.controinformazione.info/la-fine-del-nuovo-secolo-americano-pronunciata-dal-pentagono/us-navy-handout-photo-of-the-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier-uss-enterprise/" height="200" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.controinformazione.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Portaerei-Reagan.jpg?resize=300%2C200" width="300" /></span><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span style="background-color: white;">Portaerei USA R. Reagan</span></figcaption></figure><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">La relazione sottolinea inoltre che vi sono “costi proibitivi” per certe politiche militari.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Gli autori osservano come la dottrina militare statunitense indichi “obiettivi che alla fine si dimostrano poco più che vittorie di Pirro”. Un chiaro riferimento ai timori e alle “false vittorie” in precedenza annunciate da Stati Uniti e alleati in Iraq e Afghanistan, vittorie di Pirro nel vero senso della parola. Un membro del gruppo di studio post-primazia ha sconvolto i colleghi dicendo che è probabile che gli Stati Uniti siano sconfitti in alcuni scontri militari. Lo spettro “possiamo perdere” ha aiutato a portare alle conclusioni della relazione, tra cui la possibilità che “vulnerabilità, erosione o anche perdita del presunto vantaggio militare statunitense verso le maggiori sfide nella difesa”, dovrebbe essere presa sul serio e la “ristrutturazione volatile degli affari internazionali della sicurezza appare sempre più contraria a una leadership statunitense imbattibile”.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">L’emergere della Cina a potenza militare mondiale e il ritorno della Russia</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> a potenza militare sono i casi in questione. </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">L’allontanamento della Turchia</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> dall’Europa secondo una visione del mondo “eurasiatica” e “pan-turca”, aggiunge la nazione della NATO nella crescente lista dei potenziali avversari degli statunitensi. Questi e altri sviluppi sono visti dai pianificatori post-primazia come parte del “ritorno, mutato, della concorrenza tra grandi potenze”.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Il team di studio del Pentagono vede chiaramente anche la “dissoluzione violenta o distruttiva della coesione politica e identitaria” come spartiacque per alterare l’era post-guerra fredda e post-11 settembre, che videro il dominio degli Stati Uniti sugli affari militari e economici mondiali.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Il successo del referendum </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Brexit</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> che ha visto il Regno Unito votare l’abbandono dell’Unione europea, nonché il sostegno popolare all’indipendenza di Scozia e Catalogna sono visti dal Pentagono come “dissoluzione della coesione politica ed identitaria”. Mentre nelle precedenti relazioni il Pentagono avrebbe suggerito come contrastare tale “disgregazione” con una risposta militare e contro-insurrezionale, nel mondo post-primazia, il Pentagono chiede solo la gestione del rischio, lungi dal rumore di sciabole che si susseguono ai tamburi di guerra, come in Libia e Siria, Somalia e Panama.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Il rapporto post-primazia riconosce che </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">la politica militare degli Stati Uniti dopo l’11 settembre non è più praticabile né fattibile.</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"> Questa politica, espressa dalla Revisione della Difesa Quadriennale (QDR) del 2001, dichiarava: “la fondazione di un mondo pacifico… si basa sulla capacità delle forze armate statunitensi di mantenere un margine sostanziale di vantaggio militare rispetto agli altri. Gli Stati Uniti usano questo vantaggio non per dominare gli altri, ma… per dissuadere nuove competizioni militari operative o geografiche o gestirle se accade”. Quei giorni sono finiti con Cina e Russia, insieme a Turchia, Iran, Germania, Francia e India che formano “i nuovi concorrenti operativi militari”. Gli Stati Uniti non possono “gestirli”, per cui Washington dovrà decidere come convivere con il “rischio”.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Gli autori del rapporto ritengono che “lo status quo curato e alimentato dagli strateghi statunitensi dalla Seconda guerra mondiale e che per decenni fu il principale “punto” del DoD non solo si blocca, ma può anche crollare. Di conseguenza, il ruolo degli Stati Uniti nel mondo e il loro approccio ad esso possono cambiare radicalmente”. Questa è una visione cauta dello status attuale degli affari mondiali, senza il jingoismo spesso sentito nella Casa Bianca di Trump e dai membri di destra del Congresso degli Stati Uniti.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Le raccomandazioni post-primazia vedono la principale priorità degli Stati Uniti nella protezione del proprio territorio: “Proteggere il territorio, le persone, le infrastrutture e le proprietà statunitensi da gravi danni”. La seconda priorità è “garantire l’accesso alle comunità globali, alle regioni strategiche, ai mercati e alle risorse”. Ciò includerebbe tenere aperte rotte marittime e aeree al commercio degli Stati Uniti.</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;">Gli autori della relazione concordano con la dichiarazione della prima ministra inglese Theresa May a Filadelfia il 26 gennaio 2017, sei giorni dopo la nomina di Donald Trump: “i giorni della Gran Bretagna e degli USA che intervengono nei Paesi sovrani nel tentativo di rifare il mondo a nostra immagine è finita… il Regno Unito interverrà solo nel caso di interessi nazionali… Le nazioni sono responsabili delle proprie popolazioni e i loro poteri derivano dal consenso dei governati, e possono scegliere di aderire ad organizzazioni internazionali, cooperare o commerciare con chi desiderano”. C’è un messaggio chiaro nel rapporto sulla “post-primazia” del Pentagono. I giorni in cui le “dubbie” coalizioni guidate dagli Stati Uniti avviavano azioni militari unilaterali, sono finiti.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Fonte: <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/pview/2017/07/23/the-end-new-american-century-pronounced-pentagon.html" rel="noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Strategic Culture</a></span></i></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.86px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Traduzione di Alessandro Lattanzio</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Facebook è l'icona di chi crede in certi punti fermi. Poco tempo fa ha scritto a uno dei siti della "destra alternativa" statunitense informandolo del fatto che vari post da esso curati dovevano essere rimossi immediatamente o sarebbero stati cancellati.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I <a href="https://www.infowars.com/facebook-claims-transgenders-a-protected-class-like-race/" style="color: #1b703a;">riferimenti</a> offensivi erano la parola "travelli" per indicare i transgender, e la parola "travestiti." Il messaggio scritto da Facebook suggeriva inoltre che l'identità di genere costituisse una "caratteristica protetta" su base legale, cosa che non è vera, e che riferirsi ai transgender definendoli "travelli" poteva essere considerato "istigazione all'odio", ovvero un illecito penale.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In sé è una questione di rilevanza nulla, non fosse per il fatto che è un perfetto esempio della discussa visione delle cose che ingloba la società civile statunitense di oggi. Da una parte c'è l'idea secondo cui la diversità, l'orientamento sessuale liberamente scelto e il diritto all'identità si traducano sul piano sociale in coesione e solidità. Dall'altra invece c'è l'idea di cui è esempio <a href="http://buchanan.org/blog/america-still-nation-127293" style="color: #1b703a;">Pat Buchanan</a>: un paese, ivi compresi i nuovi arrivati, sta insieme per lo più grazie al patrimonio di memorie, al retaggio culturale di usi e costumi, all'attaccamento a un certo "modo di essere" e per i principi che lo governano. Questo è quello che costituirebbe la fonte della solidità di un paese.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">La questione, qui, è che i punti fermi dell'Occidente stanno franando. Insistere per gestire e controllare il discorso (per dirla con Michel Foucault) mantenendolo all'interno di un'ideologia politica strettamente delimitata attira adesso un pubblico disprezzo -e negli Stati Uniti anche manifestazioni di piazza- che si dirigono contro i media sociali e contro costituitivi del mainstream mediatico come la CNN. Insomma, più le parole d'ordine del caposaldo della diversità vengono imposte negli USA, e maggiore è la ripulsa popolare che incontrano, a quanto sembra.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I siti che si oppongono a questa "correttezza" stanno attirando un pubblico molto più vasto di quelli che la promuovono. Ma non è tutto qui. Anzi, non è neppure la metà. I capisaldi stanno cedendo su vari fronti, con ampie e probabilmente burrascose conseguenze.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Il settore in cui questo è più evidente è quello della politica estera in generale e della politica mediorientale in particolare. Il mainstream mediatico se ne è occupato poco, ma stando a certi resoconti il Consiglio per la Sicurezza Nazionale degli Stati Uniti ancora una volta non è riuscito a presentare <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/24/donald-trump-afghanistan-215412?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_todayworld%C3%B9" style="color: #1b703a;">alcun argomento convincente</a> su come l'AmeriKKKa <b>potrebbe in qualche modo vincere in Afghanistan</b>, anche con un sostanziale incremento della forza militare come auspicherebbe il consigliere per la Sicurezza Nazionale H.R. McMaster. La guerra in Afghanistan è stata una guerra lunga e nessuno ne trarrà un esito soddisfacente, anzi. E questo è da molto tempo chiaro per quasi tutti coloro che ne hanno seguito le vicende.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In secondo luogo, Hezbollah <a href="https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/890283947447513089" style="color: #1b703a;">ha cacciato</a> in pochi giorni Al Qaeda dalla enclave di Arsal nel Libano del nord. Il Libano confina con la Siria, proprio come vi confina l'Iraq, che della Siria è alleato. Facilitati dallo shock provocato sugli insorti dalle notizie sulla <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-19/seismic-shift-syria-trump-ends-covert-obama-era-cia-program-which-sent-arms-jihadist" style="color: #1b703a;">fine della fornitura di armi da parte della CIA</a> e delle paghe passate ad alcuni (non a tutti) gruppi di insorti, l'Esercito Arabo Siriano e i suoi alleati stanno rapidamente <a href="http://www.atimes.com/article/de-conflict-deals-show-syrian-rebels-know-victory-sight/" style="color: #1b703a;">rioccupando</a> il territorio dello stato siriano. Sembra che gli USA siano arrivati alla conclusione che in Siria l'AmeriKKKa non ha <a href="https://tcf.org/content/commentary/america-already-lost-covert-war-syria-now-official/" style="color: #1b703a;">nulla da guadagnare</a> e che con la caduta di Raqqa e la sconfitta dello Stato Islamico la Casa Bianca può ritenere a buona ragione che gli obiettivi degli USA sono stati raggiunti.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In terzo luogo, il <i>popolo</i> iracheno ha subito una trasformazione significativa. La brutalità dello Stato Islamico e il totalitarismo ideologico nel Nord del paese lo hanno mobilitato e radicalizzato, e l'Iraq è oggi un paese in trasformazione. Anche il panorama politico cambierà: gli sciiti iracheni stanno prendendo coscienza del loro rafforzamento.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Il governo (che è impopolare) e la leadership religiosa, la <i>Hauza </i>rispettata ma oggi minata dall'età, devono per forza vedersela con questa nuova ondata di mobilitazione popolare. Questi profondi mutamenti di tendenza già si riflettono sul posizionamento strategico di un Iraq che si sta avvicinando alla Russia (si veda l'acquisto dei carri armati russi T90), alla Siria e all'Iran.<b> La spina dorsale del Medio Oriente sta rafforzandosi, certo, ma seguendo un'altra strada.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Questo mutamento del clima può determinare anche il futuro dell'Islam sunnita. La maggior parte dei sunniti iracheni ha provato repulsione e disgusto davanti agli eccessi del Da'ish wahabita, al pari dei siriani di ogni confessione. I cittadini sunniti di Mossul, adesso liberi di raccontare la loro esperienza, hanno raccontato ai loro compatrioti iracheni (così mi è stato riferito) della perenne rabbia per le decapitazioni del clero sunnita della zona da parte dello Stato Islamico: c'erano state lamentele per il comportamento non conforme all'Islam di jihadisti stranieri parte del Da'ish a Mossul. <b>Quella dell'Islam venuto dal Najd è stata una brutta esperienza, che alla fine avrà conseguenze sull'Arabia Saudita e sui suoi vertici </b>-ferocemente odiati oggi in Iraq-<b> oltre che sull'AmeriKKKa che dell'Arabia Saudita è un alleato stretto.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Insomma, i punti fermi della politica mediorientale dell'Europa e degli USA stanno collassando, ed è in crisi anche il baluardo presieduto dal Consiglio per la Cooperazione nel Golfo. Per quanto riguarda la Siria, lo <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-trump-team-is-repeating-obamas-mistakes-in-syria/2017/07/23/ae6261d2-6e2c-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.a8f5e3a1c620&wpisrc=nl_todayworld&wpmm=1" style="color: #1b703a;">starnazzare</a> dei "falchi" esasperati risuona in tutto l'Occidente.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Ovviamente ci saranno delle conseguenze. <b>Lo stato sionista asserirà minaccioso che "non può rimanere impassibile" mentre Hezbollah e l'Iran si acquartierano sulla linea armistiziale nel Golan</b>, e <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/07/israel-netanyahu-syria-cease-fire-trump-red-line-us-russia.html" style="color: #1b703a;">magari</a> cercherà di mettere alla prova la Russia come garante della zona di de-escalation militare nel sud ovest della Siria. Il Primo Ministro Benjamin Netanyahu è particolarmente irritato perché <b>lo stato sionista è stato messo fuori dai giochi in Siria ad opera del Presidente russo Putin</b>: la speranza di creare <b>un cordone sanitario sotto controllo sionista</b> all'interno del sud ovest siriano è stata <a href="http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2017/07/27/it-is-check-and-mate-for-israel-in-golan-heights/" style="color: #1b703a;">frustrata</a>. Lo stato sionista e i suoi alleati adesso faranno forti pressioni sugli USA perché per rappresaglia si argini l'Iran in maniera punitiva.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Il nuovo reggente saudita, principe della corona Mohammed bin Salman detto MbS, costituisce un altro elemento imprevedibile e volatile in questo miscuglio. Nonostante ciò, <b>il Pentagono sa bene che gran parte della spacconeria sionista nei confronti dell'Iran non è altro che un bluff</b>. Lo stato sionista, l'Arabia Saudita e gli Emirati Arabi Uniti non hanno alcuna capacità di sfidare l'Iran così, da un giorno all'altro, senza il pieno sostegno dell'AmeriKKKa.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Quello della politica economica è un altro bastione sempre più vacillante. Sembra che la convinzione diffusa fra alcuni leader del mercato secondo cui i valori azionari non possono salire all'infinito, retti da un oceano di liquidità e da tassi di interesse vicino allo zero, che significano volatilità vicina allo zero e scambi a senso unico, che hanno fatto somigliare i mercati ad una sorta di barca sovraffollata e sul punto di rovesciarsi, dal momento che tutti i passeggeri sono corsi a sistemarsi su un unico lato.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Alcuni fra quanti partecipano ai mercati sembrano convinti che i governatori delle banche centrali non avranno mai il coraggio di alzare i tassi o di far deperire i propri bilanci, mandando in bestia i mercati. Tutti costoro, che fino a qualche tempo fa erano forse la maggioranza, credono che questa barca fatta di bassa inflazione e di bassi tassi di interesse continuerà a stare a galla praticamente a tempo indeterminato, magari con l'aiuto di un'altra ventina o cinquantina di migliaia di miliardi di quantitative easing, detto QE.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">La questione è tutt'altro che nuova, ma in questi ultimi tempi un considerevole numero di responsabili della finanza di alto livello e anche alcuni banchieri delle banche centrali hanno scandito ammonimenti tombali sul conto delle alte sopravvalutazioni dei valori finanziari, sulle sacche di debiti sub-prime che stanno tornando a galla (i prestiti per le automobili) e i livelli del rapporto fra debito interno e prodotto interno lordo sia a livello individuale che a livello pubblico che stanno salendo oltre i valori della crisi del 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Il debito globale ha superato cinquecentosessantottomila miliardi; il 46% in più rispetto alla crisi del 2008. <a href="http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/fake-facts-fake-money-fake-praise/" style="color: #1b703a;">Adesso</a> vale il 327% del prodotto mondiale. Una massa critica di opinionisti finanziari esperti sembra se ne sia accorta. Essi contrappongono questa problematica distorsione monetaria e dei mercati alla prospettiva che un tetto al debito USA tagli nell'immediato futuro le gambe alle spese del governo federale, e alla probabilità che un Congresso profondamente minato dai conflitti e interessato da fenomeni di polarizzazione in entrambi gli schieramenti principali non potrà né approvare un bilancio, né portare alla "reflazione" vagheggiata da Trump, né varae una campagna significativa per la ricostruzione di infrastrutture.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Il loro timore è che esista una significativa percentuale di membri del Congresso e di senatori, in entrambi i partiti, talmente ostili a Trump da volerne vedere volentieri la rovina, anche a prezzo di una crisi economica. O che temono che se anche venisse approvato qualche provvedimento per stimolare l'economia, le banche centrali toglierebbero troppo velocemente ai mercati la massa di liquidità offerta loro. In un modo o nell'altro vedono tutti gravi rischi per quest'anno e per il 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In breve, non solo la politica estera ma anche la politica finanziaria potrebbe trovarsi ostaggio della dissoluzione dei capisaldi della politica statunitense con tutto quello che ne consegue, ovvero la mancanza di quell'organismo efficiente, centralizzato e portatore di coesione che il governo ameriKKKano è stato e per come esso era noto fin dalla seconda guerra mondiale.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Ed eccoci di nuovo all'ininfluente aneddoto citato all'inizio, su Facebook che cerca di rifondare il caposaldo narrativo secondo cui la scelta del genere apparterrebbe in maniera indiscutibile alle "categorie tutelate". Il problema è che questo caposaldo non regge. Più ci prova, più si fa ribadire, più rifiuti deliberati esso ottiene.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In maniera analoga, lo starnazzare dei falchi che invocano il ripristino dei vecchi caposaldi della politica secondo cui armare, addestrare e pagare jihadisti wahabiti per massacrare centomila soldati siriani (sunniti in molti casi, se non nella maggioranza) <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-25/pat-buchanan-asks-are-americas-wars-just-and-moral" style="color: #1b703a;">costituisce una tutela degli interessi ameriKKKani</a> non regge più. Si consideri <a href="http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/bravo-trump-for-the-tweet-that-is-shaking-the-war-party-part-1/" style="color: #1b703a;">ad esempio</a> David Stockman, il suo <i>Bravo Trump, per quel tweet che ha messo sottosopra il partito della guerra</i> (Trump: "Lo Amazon Washington Post ha distorto i fatti in merito alle mie ultime massicce, pericolose e sprecate elargizioni ai ribelli siriani che combattono Assad...").</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">La tiritera secondo cui si rimedia al troppo debito aggiungendovi altro debito, e che il conseguente crescere dell'inflazione andrebbe ben accolto in quanto mera conferma del fatto che è in atto proprio un recupero dell'economia, non regge più neanch'essa. Anche questo modo di intendere le cose è adesso oggetto di aspra disputa.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Persino i banchieri della banca centrale adesso si preoccupano dell'inflazione da loro stessi agevolata, ma si preoccupano anche di più delle conseguenze che potrebbe avere un qualunque tentativo di farle fronte. Stanno fra l'incudine e il martello.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Dove andremo a finire? Magari l'angoscia per le batoste subìte dagli USA in politica estera continuerà a dispiegarsi per l'intera estate, ma in autunno magari in USA ci sarà meno bramosia -o meno attenzione- per le iniziative in politica estera intanto che si avvicina l'inverno dell'economia. Nel peggiore dei casi il tumultuoso incombere del <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/former-cia-director-calls-coup-if-trump-fires-mueller" style="color: #1b703a;">conflitto interno</a> potrebbe anche far sembrare allettante l'idea di un'iniziativa in politica estera, che sarebbe un benvenuto diversivo rispetto alle preoccupazioni economiche.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>In questo momento la retorica statunitense sta usando l'Iran e la Corea del Nord come sacche da boxe. </b>Nessuno dei due tuttavia andrebbe considerato come un candidato per una qualche <i>distrazione</i>. Essi rappresentano piuttosto delle potenziali nemesi.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">E per le preoccupazioni economiche, non servirebbe tanto un quarto quantitative easing, ma forse una qualche chiamata diretta a un ripianamento del deficit con una pioggia di denaro. Insomma, si dovrebbe usare denaro fresco di stampa per finanziare direttamente le spese federali. Ah, nella sua attività Trump non è mai rifuggito dai debiti.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Si dice spesso che le condizioni monetarie di questo periodo sono eccezionali e prive di precedenti. Tuttavia la storia degli <i>assignat</i> francesi degli anni successivi al 1790 può fornire qualche suggerimento. Nonostante la massiccia creazione di denaro, Andrew White, nel suo <i>Fiat Money Inflation in France</i> pubblicato nel 1896 <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-03/will-failure-central-banking-lead-global-bloodshed-french-revolution-case-study?page=2" style="color: #1b703a;">afferma</a> che "anche se è cresciuto l'ammontare della moneta cartacea, la ricchezza è sensibilmente diminuita. Nonostante tutte queste emissioni di carta le attività commerciali sono cresciute in modo sempre più stentato. L'impresa è rimasta congelata e gli affari hanno ristagnato sempre di più".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Infine <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/07/22/donald-trump-and-the-coming-fall-of-american-empire/" style="color: #1b703a;">è bene ssere chiari</a>. Trump senza dubbio sta agevolando la dissoluzione dei capisaldi dello establishment, e questo era in fondo il suo obiettivo dichiarato. Solo che questo non sta accadendo grazie a lui. Si tratta di un evento che era già in corso: Trump se n'è accorto e si è messo a cavalcare l'onda al momento giusto. </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-81646572151313788732017-08-04T11:44:00.003-07:002017-08-04T11:50:37.575-07:00Otto principi fondamentali della politica economica cinese contemporaneaDa <a href="https://giulemanidallacina.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/otto-principi-fondamentali-della-politica-economica-cinese-contemporanea/">Giù le mani dalla Cina</a>.<br />
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Il rapido sviluppo economico della Cina negli ultimi anni è stato spesso definito con aggettivi quali “miracoloso” [1]. Parlare di un “Beijing Consensus” o di un “modello cinese” è diventata ormai prassi comune nei dibattiti accademici.</div>
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Ma, come abbiamo scritto altrove, “<em>forti problemi teorici sono iniziati ad emergere per quanto riguarda l’esistenza, il contenuto, e le prospettive del modello Cina</em>” [2]. La domanda chiave, quindi, è la seguente: quale tipo di teoria economica e quale strategia sono alla base di questo “miracolo”? Il modello cinese è stato variamente descritto, alternativamente, come una forma di <em>neoliberismo</em>, o come un nuovo tipo di <em>keynesismo</em>. Riteniamo che i grandi progressi recenti registrati nello sviluppo del paese siano i risultati dei progressi teorici nel campo dell’Economia Politica, verificatisi all’interno dello stesso contesto cinese; al contrario, i principali problemi che hanno accompagnato lo sviluppo della Cina riflettono l’influenza dannosa del neoliberismo occidentale.</div>
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Il presidente Xi Jinping ha sottolineato la necessità di sostenere e sviluppare una politica economica Marxiana per il XXI secolo, adattata alle esigenze e alle risorse della Cina. Il bollettino di una conferenza sullo stato dell’Economia cinese del Comitato Centrale del Partito Comunista (tenutasi nel Dicembre 2015), ha riaffermato, di conseguenza, l’importanza degli otto grandi principi della “Economia Politica Socialista con Caratteristiche Cinesi”.</div>
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Questi principi e le loro applicazioni sono discussi nel seguito, insieme ad alcuni commenti sulle possibili interpretazioni, attualmente oggetto di dibattito intellettuali cinesi.</div>
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Scopo di questo articolo è quello di chiarire il modello teorico ufficiale che sta alla base del “miracolo” economico cinese, utilizzando, a tal fine, i termini e i concetti prevalenti nella Cina odierna.</div>
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<strong>1. Sostenibilità guidata da Scienza e Tecnologia</strong></div>
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Una premessa fondamentale delle teorie di economia politica elaborate da Marx sostiene che le forze di produzione, in ultima analisi, determinano i rapporti di produzione, dando origine ad una dialettica costante che modella la sovrastruttura dell’ideologia e delle istituzioni giuridiche e politiche. Allo stesso tempo, i rapporti di produzione che prevalgono in un determinato stadio di sviluppo finiscono per diventare vincoli che impediscono l’ulteriore sviluppo di altre modalità produttive. All’interno di questo processo le forze di produzione rappresentano gli elementi più dinamici, rivoluzionari e attivi della società; gli esseri umani che sviluppano costantemente le tecnologie più avanzate e nuove modalità organizzative rappresentano la forza motrice della produzione. Oggi lo sviluppo della produttività comporta tre elementi essenziali sostanziali: la forza-lavoro, gli strumenti ed i macchinari, i materiali. A questi si accompagnano tre ulteriori elementi fortemente interrelati: la scienza e la tecnologia, la gestione, l’istruzione. Tra questi, la scienza e la tecnologia tendono a guidare i cambiamenti decisivi che portano all’ulteriore sviluppo delle forze di produzione.</div>
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Il principio della sostenibilità, ispirato dalla scienza e dalla tecnologia, è fondamentale nello studio della politica economica della Cina. Questo principio enfatizza il fatto che la liberazione e lo sviluppo delle forze di produzione costituiscano la missione principale del Socialismo nei suoi stadi primari. Come modello economico, il Socialismo richiede un certo livello di sviluppo materiale e tecnologico alla sua base. Questo principio sottolinea che la crescita della popolazione, lo sfruttamento e l’allocazione delle risorse, l’ambiente debbano sostenersi a vicenda. In pratica, secondo il quadro economico-politico ufficiale della Cina, questo significa la costruzione di una società dalle tre caratteristiche fondamentali: una società <em>qualitativamente avanzata</em>, da raggiungere attraverso il controllo e la riduzione della popolazione; una società <em>efficientemente avanzata</em>, cui pervenire attraverso la conservazione delle risorse; una società in cui <em>l’ambiente</em> sia <em>protetto e tutelato</em>. Tutto ciò richiede continua innovazione come forza motrice.</div>
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L’accento sull’innovazione sostenibile è particolarmente importante oggi. Storicamente, il “collo di bottiglia” che ha limitato lo sviluppo economico e sociale cinese è stato rappresentato dalla carenza di forze motrici dell’innovazione. Dal 1998 al 2003, la produzione di alta tecnologia della Cina non solo dipendeva in larga misura da materiali importati, ma è stata anche in gran parte gestita da imprese e da investitori stranieri. Ad esempio, nel 2003, le imprese cinesi dipendenti da investimenti stranieri rappresentavano circa il 90% delle esportazioni del paese di computer, componenti e periferiche, ed il 75% delle sue esportazioni di attrezzature elettroniche e per le telecomunicazioni [3]. Da allora, il governo cinese ha prestato maggiore attenzione alla politica dell’ innovazione.</div>
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Solo se i diritti di proprietà intellettuale saranno protetti a tutti i livelli le imprese cinesi e l’economia nel suo complesso potranno sfruttare i vantaggi commerciali derivanti dall’utilizzo di marchi riconosciuti e da progressi tecnici in alcuni settori, così come soddisfare gli standard tecnici internazionali necessari per l’esportazione [4]. Nel clima economico attuale, solo se riconosciamo all’innovazione il ruolo di prima forza motrice dello sviluppo, possiamo proteggere il paese da vari rischi: risolvere la difficoltà connesse all’eccesso di capacità produttiva; realizzare la trasformazione strutturale e l’aggiornamento dell’economia; tenere il passo con il ritmo dello sviluppo scientifico e tecnologico globale. Solo se affidiamo all’innovazione il compito primario di promuovere lo sviluppo e la usiamo per trasformare le forze produttive esistenti, coltivarne di nuove, rivitalizzare quelle vecchie, e creare le condizioni affinché possano emergerne di nuove costantemente, possiamo infondere forti stimoli allo sviluppo sostenibile dell’economia e della società.</div>
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Dovremmo, al tempo stesso, abbandonare quelle vecchie idee prevalenti nel discorso economico cinese come “produrre non è vantaggioso come l’acquistare, che a sua volta non è altrettanto vantaggioso quanto la rendita”, “utilizzare il mercato per l’acquisizione delle tecnologie” e così via, e affrontare la questione dell’innovazione originale, dell’innovazione integrata, e della ri-innovazione, introducendo e assorbendo l’innovazione nell’economia. Dovremmo stabilire un sistema che combini governo, mercato e tecnologia, al fine di trasferire spontaneismo economico nei processi di “atomizzazione” produttiva. Durante questo processo, l’effetto determinante della scienza e della tecnologia deve essere pienamente compreso, e dovremmo, a livello strategico, riconoscere l’importanza della scienza e della tecnologia nel guidare la distribuzione delle risorse [5].</div>
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<strong>2. Orientare la produzione per migliorare la vita delle persone</strong></div>
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Uno dei principi dell’economia politica è la teoria dello scopo della produzione. Nel Capitalismo, l’obiettivo diretto e finale della produzione è quello di accumulare la maggiore quota possibile di plusvalore o profitto privato; in questo contesto, la produzione di valore d’uso ha lo scopo di servire la produzione di plusvalore o profitto privato. A questo proposito, c’è una differenza sostanziale tra il Capitalismo e il Socialismo. Nel Capitalismo, che persegue il profitto dei pochi, l’accumulo si verifica su scala mondiale, mentre la grande maggioranza delle masse popolari vivono in povertà [6]. In contrasto con questo modello, l’obiettivo diretto e ultimo della produzione nel Socialismo è quello di soddisfare i bisogni materiali e culturali delle persone. La produzione di nuovo valore e di plusvalore “pubblico” ha l’obiettivo di servire la produzione di valore d’uso che rifletta obiettivi della produzione orientati al popolo ed ai suoi bisogni primari.</div>
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L’Economia Politica del Socialismo con Caratteristiche Cinesi deve seguire il principio di organizzare la produzione per migliorare il tenore di vita e soddisfare le esigenze primarie del popolo. Questo principio sottolinea che la principale contraddizione nel Socialismo nella sua prima fase è quella tra o crescenti bisogni materiali e culturali del popolo, e l’arretratezza della produzione sociale. Questa discrepanza può essere superata solo attraverso lo sviluppo rapido e costante delle capacità produttive; questo è il compito primario del Socialismo nelle sue fasi iniziali. Questo sviluppo deve avere il popolo al centro, con la prosperità collettiva come obiettivo-guida. Il nostro obiettivo deve essere una società in cui tutte le persone contribuiscano alla soddisfazione dei bisogni umani nella misura in cui essi sono in grado, e godano di un accesso alle risorse materiali, sociali, e spirituali di cui hanno bisogno per il pieno sviluppo del loro potenziale umano in accordo, naturalmente, con le esigenze di sostenibilità ambientale [7].</div>
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Il punto di vista per il quale <em>il miglioramento delle condizioni di vita del popolo equivale allo sviluppo</em> è un’articolazione del principio dello scopo della produzione e dello sviluppo economico socialista. Dobbiamo continuare a rendere lo sviluppo economico il nostro compito centrale e insistere sull’idea strategica di dare allo sviluppo economico primaria importanza. Dobbiamo perseguire l’innovazione come elemento fondamentale per questo cambiamento favorendo in tal modo lo sviluppo cinese e permettendogli di raggiungere livelli più elevati. Tuttavia, il punto di partenza e il punto di arrivo dello sviluppo della produzione e dell’economia deve essere quello di migliorare le condizioni di vita delle persone; ci dovremmo quindi porre l’obiettivo di costruire una società benestante a tutto tondo. Ogni piano di miglioramento delle condizioni di vita del popolo deve cercare di soddisfare sette criteri: creazione di ricchezza e distribuzione del reddito; alleviamento della povertà; occupazione; diritto alla casa; istruzione; accesso alle cure mediche; sicurezza sociale. Nelle attuali circostanze di rallentamento della crescita e di sviluppo dei mercati interni, questi criteri devono essere soddisfatti attraverso il coordinamento della necessità di sviluppo economico e di sviluppo sociale.</div>
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Migliorare le condizioni di vita del popolo è un compito senza fine, relativamente al quale emergono continuamente nuove sfide. Dobbiamo adottare misure più mirate e dirette, aiutare i lavoratori a risolvere le loro difficoltà e promuovere il loro benessere attraverso le istituzioni statali e la società civile. Dobbiamo valutare realisticamente gli effetti delle nostre azioni sugli standard di vita, assicurando che i servizi pubblici creino una affidabile “rete di sicurezza”.</div>
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<strong>3. La precedenza della proprietà pubblica sui diritti della proprietà nazionale</strong></div>
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Le tensioni di base tra una produzione sempre più orientata a servire scopi sociali e la proprietà privata capitalista danno luogo ad ulteriori contraddizioni e possibili crisi. Queste includono il conflitto tra la gestione e la pianificazione delle imprese private e il caos del mercato, la disparità tra l’espansione indefinita della produzione e la relativa carenza di domanda reale, ed il verificarsi di periodiche bolle, fenomeni di panico nei mercati, recessioni. Gli antagonismi di classe che derivano da queste contraddizioni hanno storicamente ispirato movimenti di massa per sostituire la proprietà privata dei mezzi di produzione con la proprietà pubblica.</div>
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L’economia politica contemporanea cinese salvaguarda il principio dei diritti di proprietà privata, ribadendo, tuttavia, il predominio della proprietà pubblica. Nel contesto del relativo sottosviluppo delle forze produttive proprio degli stadi primari del Socialismo, lo sviluppo economico ha richiesto che ad una proprietà pubblica dominante fossero affiancate forme diversificate di proprietà privata: “Le imprese private nazionali ed estere possono essere sviluppate fatto salvo il presupposto della priorità – sia in termini <em>qualitativi</em> che <em>quantitativi</em> – dell’ economia pubblica” [8]. Questo principio sottolinea la continua necessità di rafforzare e sviluppare l’economia pubblica, favorendo, al contempo, anche lo sviluppo dei settori privati dell’economia, assicurando che tutte le forme di proprietà compensino le proprie mutue carenze attraverso una reciproca promozione ed uno sviluppo coordinato. Cionondimeno, il ruolo centrale della proprietà pubblica deve essere salvaguardato, così come il settore statale deve conservare un carattere dominante nell’economia. Questo rappresenta una garanzia istituzionale per tutti i cinesi rispetto al fatto che essi condivideranno, a livello collettivo, i frutti dello sviluppo; al tempo stesso, ciò è una garanzia importante del consolidamento del ruolo-guida del partito e del sistema socialista cinese.</div>
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Il principio mette in risalto una differenza fondamentale tra l’economia socialista ed il sistema economico capitalistico moderno, in cui la proprietà privata è dominante. Se gestita correttamente, la proprietà pubblica può non solo avere una integrazione organica con l’economia di mercato, ma anche ottenere, come risultato finale, una maggiore equità ed efficienza rispetto a quella cui è possibile pervenire tramite la proprietà privata. Nel frattempo, dovremmo anche notare chiaramente che attualmente il mondo è ancora diviso in stati-nazione e che la proprietà statale rimane una forma adeguata di proprietà socialista.</div>
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Allo stato attuale, dobbiamo essere guidati dall’idea che il settore statale agisca come fondamento dell’economia socialista, e che l’obiettivo delle riforme orientate a promuovere la proprietà mista non è quello di minare alle fondamenta l’impresa di proprietà statale, ma di rafforzarla. Dobbiamo imparare dagli errori passati della riforma del settore statale, che hanno permesso ad una élite ristretta di accumulare enormi fortune attraverso la cattiva gestione di fondi pubblici. Abbiamo bisogno di concentrarci sullo sviluppo di nuovi strumenti di proprietà mista con la partecipazione di capitali pubblici. Il modello collettivo e cooperativo delle economie cinesi rurali ha bisogno di ulteriori investimenti. Nuove politiche devono essere introdotte per migliorare la vitalità, la competitività, e la gestione del rischio dell’economia pubblica. Il governo dovrebbe controllare e regolare le imprese private, sia in patria che all’estero, e non solo supportarle, al fine di trarne benefici generali, riducendo al minimo i loro effetti negativi. La Cina dovrebbe incoraggiare e guidare le imprese private ad attuare le riforme che consentano ai lavoratori di accumulare partecipazione azionaria, in modo che sia il capitale che il lavoro possano trarre benefici che siano realmente a vantaggio della prosperità collettiva.</div>
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<strong>4. Il primato del lavoro nella distribuzione della ricchezza</strong></div>
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In ogni economia capitalista, i lavoratori salariati sono pagati solo in base alla loro forza lavoro, e non per il valore delle merci che producono. In queste condizioni, il salario specifico che un lavoratore guadagna è associato con la sua posizione e le sue prestazioni. E mentre in alcuni settori delle economie capitaliste, la presenza di organizzazioni collettive del mondo del lavoro può limitare il tasso di sfruttamento e fornire l’apparenza di una equa distribuzione della ricchezza, il potere dominante resta quello fornito dalla proprietà privata dei mezzi di produzione ai datori di lavoro.</div>
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La distribuzione della ricchezza nell’economia socialista cinese deve essere guidata dalle esigenze del lavoro; non da quelle del capitale. Dobbiamo lottare contro lo sfruttamento e la polarizzazione. Le disuguaglianze nei redditi devono essere colmate, e crescita economica e aumenti nella produttività del lavoro dovrebbero tradursi in aumenti salariali per tutti i cittadini. E’ di vitale importanza, dunque, stabilire un solido e scientifico meccanismo per determinare i livelli salariali, così come un meccanismo di indicizzazione dei salari.</div>
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Dobbiamo mettere in pratica l’idea che solo attraverso la costruzione di istituzioni atte a garantire che i benefici della crescita della Cina siano equamente distribuiti si potrà fornire al popolo un senso di scopo comune rispetto al progetto di sviluppo economico. Dobbiamo rafforzare lo slancio dello sviluppo e promuovere l’unità popolare, avanzando gradualmente e costantemente verso la prosperità collettiva. Solo se l’allocazione delle risorse si concentrerà sul benessere collettivo, la produzione sociale potrà essere effettuata in modo sano e costante e la superiorità del sistema socialista potrà essere realizzata nella pratica.</div>
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L’adesione ad una idea di sviluppo condiviso coinvolge principalmente i problemi di sostentamento del popolo e della prosperità collettiva; tra questi, il problema della distribuzione della ricchezza è sicuramente il più rilevante. Infatti, oggi, la cattiva distribuzione della ricchezza è il più grande ostacolo alla prosperità collettiva. Abbiamo assistito a un grave declino della quota di lavoro del PIL (da circa il 53% nel 1990 al 42% nel 2007). La presenza di un crescente “esercito industriale di riserva”, la segmentazione del mercato del lavoro, e le massicce privatizzazioni delle imprese statali hanno significativamente depresso il potere e indebolito la solidarietà interna alla classe operaia [9]. In Cina oggi, le disuguaglianze nella distribuzione della proprietà e nel reddito sono grandi e in crescita, con un coefficiente di Gini nazionale superiore a quello degli Stati Uniti. Il più ricco 1% delle famiglie cinesi controlla un terzo di tutte le attività economiche; un dato simile a quello osservabile negli Stati Uniti. Dobbiamo notare che l’indice principale di polarizzazione tra ricchi e poveri non è fornito dal reddito da salari, ma dalla ricchezza, cioè, dal patrimonio netto delle famiglie [10].</div>
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Negli ultimi dieci anni, i documenti ufficiali hanno sottolineato l’importanza di implementare misure per affrontare il problema della disuguaglianza nei redditi, ma ciò si è rivelato controverso. In genere, alcuni articoli rintracciabili nella stampa cinese persino elogiano i ricchi come motori della crescita economica e come modelli di comportamento sociale, i quali, in tal modo meriterebbero di detenere una quota sproporzionata di ricchezza del paese. Questa idea, oggi assai popolare, ma dal potenziale altamente distruttivo, sostiene che l’attuale divario tra ricchi e poveri è un problema banale, non correlato allo sviluppo su larga scala delle economie non-pubbliche, e che la vera preoccupazione è ora la cosiddetta “trappola del reddito medio” [11].</div>
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In realtà, è stato il neoliberismo ad inventare il concetto di “trappola del reddito medio”, e a trascinare i paesi dell’America Latina in esso. Ha inoltre contribuito affinché le economie ad alto reddito, come gli Stati Uniti, il Giappone e l’Unione Europea, precipitassero in una crisi finanziaria, e paesi a basso reddito, come quelli dell’Africa sub-sahariana restassero impantanati in prospettive di sviluppo lento a lungo termine. L’economista Mylene Gaulard scrive quanto segue:</div>
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<em>La crescita economica cinese ha rallentato dal 2002. Molte ricerche sulla “trappola del reddito medio” stanno mantenendo un occhio vigile sulla possibilità o meno, da parte della Cina, di unirsi al gruppo di nazioni ad alto reddito con il suo PIL pro capite. La maggior parte delle ricerche paiono esprimere scetticismo dovuto all’aumento del costo salariale, per l’esattezza, all’aumento del costo unitario del lavoro, che comporterebbe la perdita di competitività internazionale. Tuttavia, a causa del fatto che l’aumento del costo unitario del lavoro non sembra così rischioso come la diminuzione dell’efficienza del capitale, dovremmo consultare l’ analisi marxista per comprendere meglio questo problema. </em>[12]</div>
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La Cina deve prestare attenzione agli insegnamenti di Deng Xiaoping, espressi alla fine del secolo scorso, per risolvere i problemi del divario tra ricchi e poveri e per raggiungere la prosperità collettiva, sviluppando un meccanismo per la ricchezza e la distribuzione del reddito basato sul primato del lavoro [13].</div>
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<strong>5. Il principio del mercato guidato dallo Stato</strong></div>
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Il carattere anarchico del mercato capitalistico, e la spinta del singolo capitalista ad innovare al fine di ridurre i costi del lavoro, portano periodicamente alle crisi di sovrapproduzione, delle quali sono i lavoratori a soffrire maggiormente. Tali crisi possono essere a breve o a lungo termine, a seconda del grado di fattori “non di mercato” presenti, in particolare dal livello di condizioni monopolistiche. In un’economia di mercato capitalistica, questa legge proporzionale si basa principalmente su tali aggiustamenti spontanei, e il ruolo della regolamentazione statale è relativamente limitato.</div>
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Al contrario, nell’economia socialista cinese, il mercato è guidato dallo Stato; non il contrario. Marta Harnecker ha sostenuto che, senza la pianificazione partecipativa non può esistere il Socialismo, non solo a causa della necessità di porre fine all’anarchia della produzione capitalistica, ma anche perché solo attraverso l’impegno di massa la società può veramente appropriarsi dei frutti del suo lavoro. Gli attori da coinvolgere nella progettazione partecipata varieranno in base ai diversi livelli di proprietà sociale [14]. Questi principi di un “mercato guidato dallo stato” sottolineano che una società socialista è in grado di sviluppare un’economia di mercato in modo pianificato e proporzionato, e che il ruolo fondamentale svolto dal mercato nell’allocazione delle risorse deve dispiegarsi sotto la stretta supervisione del governo.</div>
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Nel dare al mercato un ruolo determinante nella allocazione generale delle risorse, promuovendo al contempo il ruolo regolatore del governo, ogni sforzo deve essere fatto per affrontare i problemi connessi ai meccanismi imperfetti di mercato, al rischio di un eccessivo intervento pubblico, e, sull’altro versante, a quello di una scarsa vigilanza regolamentativa. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo, dobbiamo avanzare riforme orientate al mercato che riducano significativamente l’assegnazione diretta delle risorse da parte del governo e permettano a questa allocazione di verificarsi in base alle regole del mercato (in base a prezzi e concorrenza) per ottenere la massima efficienza. I compiti e le funzioni del governo sono principalmente di mantenere una politica macroeconomica stabile, di rafforzare i servizi pubblici, per garantire una concorrenza leale e rafforzare la sorveglianza del mercato, per promuovere la prosperità collettiva e correggere o compensare le carenze del mercato.</div>
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Dobbiamo continuare a cercare di combinare il sistema di base del socialismo con un’economia di mercato. In questo modo, saremo in grado di trarre il massimo vantaggio di entrambi gli aspetti. Va riconosciuto che nell’economia cinese, le leggi dell’ auto-regolamentazione del mercato svolgono un ruolo determinante per quanto riguarda l’allocazione delle risorse in generale, ma queste comunque operano in modo diverso rispetto ai mercati capitalistici. In un’economia capitalistica, il funzionamento del mercato decide l’allocazione delle risorse in maniera autonoma. Al contrario, in un’economia socialista, il governo usa il controllo dei prezzi, le sovvenzioni, il razionamento, e le altre politiche per assicurare che l’allocazione delle risorse sia pianificata e proporzionata. Abbiamo bisogno, quindi, di esaminare meglio il ruolo determinante del mercato e la sua integrazione nei piani del governo. Dovremmo approfittare dei benefici che il mercato è in grado di offrire e, allo stesso tempo correggere le inefficienze nei meccanismi di regolamentazione sia dello Stato che del mercato stesso, pervenendo così ad un duplice approccio [15]. Ovviamente, visto che l’economia cinese socialista di mercato si basa sul primato della proprietà pubblica, la forza e la portata della regolamentazione in settori quali la legislazione, la politica fiscale, amministrazione, e l’etica superano la capacità di regolamentazione dei governi nelle economie di mercato capitalistiche. Le prestazioni senza precedenti dell’economia cinese negli ultimi decenni sono la prova convincente della maggiore capacità del governo di guidare lo sviluppo.</div>
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Non dobbiamo negare l’oggettività della programmazione statale, della pianificazione e della regolamentazione, e ritenere che concetti quali la “legge di regolamentazione statale”, la “legge di pianificazione”, e altre simili leggi fondamentali perdano di validità esclusivamente perché esse possano tramutarsi in eventuali azioni sbagliate a causa della implementazione da parte di attori umani. Sposando questa logica, si dovrebbe ugualmente convenire che, poiché anche nell’attività di mercato esiste un elemento umano, nozioni come la “legge di regolamentazione del mercato” e la “legge del valore” siano ugualmente non applicabili. Dopo tutto, il mercato è determinato dal comportamento umano. L’azione economica umana nel mercato regola l’impresa, la natura delle merci, i prezzi e la concorrenza. Pertanto, sia le leggi di regolamentazione del mercato che quelle di regolamentazione statale si basano su attività umane, nella forma e nel contenuto. Buoni ed efficaci approcci alla micro- e alla macroeconomia richiedono che tutti i lavoratori nelle imprese e il governo cerchino di fornire i propri contributi individuali in sintonia con le attività economiche oggettive in cui gli esseri umani partecipano.</div>
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<strong>6. Uno sviluppo rapido e ad alte prestazioni</strong></div>
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Il tasso di crescita economica <em>ottimale</em> dovrebbe essere determinato in modo da massimizzare le prestazioni economiche. Un tasso di crescita relativamente basso, caratterizzato da un insufficiente uso delle risorse, inibisce la piena occupazione, l’ accumulazione di ricchezza e il benessere pubblico. Eppure, un tasso di crescita più elevato, con un utilizzo delle risorse <em>estensivo</em> piuttosto che <em>intensivo</em> è altrettanto dannoso per la sostenibilità ecologica e per la giustizia distributiva [16]. Qualsiasi indice basato sul Prodotto Interno Lordo (PIL) va analizzato dialetticamente. Valutato in isolamento, qualsiasi approccio di misurazione della crescita incentrato unicamente sul PIL è inadeguato: dobbiamo prestare attenzione non solo alla crescita fine a sé stessa, ma anche al tipo di crescita verso il quale ci stiamo indirizzando, in quali aree essa si concentra, e a quali costi.</div>
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L’economia cinese dovrebbe dare la priorità alle prestazioni, piuttosto che alla velocità. Dal 1980 fino al 1990, la crescita economica è stata la priorità assoluta del governo cinese; il PIL è stato quadruplicato nel corso di tale periodo. Entro il 2020, si prevede che il PIL ed il PIL pro-capite doppieranno gli analoghi indicatori misurati nel 2010. Dal 2013, a seguito di trenta anni di crescita rapida quasi ininterrotta, la Cina è entrata in una nuova fase che noi chiamiamo la “nuova normalità”. La crescita ha subito un rallentamento, e l’ economia cinese si sta trasformando da un ampio modello a forte crescita in un modello ad <em>alte prestazioni</em>.</div>
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Per raggiungere una crescita economica stabile, dovremmo preoccuparci, anzitutto, di effettuare riforme strutturali per quel che concerne l’<em>economia dell’offerta</em>. Le ragioni principali per il crescente rallentamento dei tassi di crescita dell’economia cinese sono: la mancata riforma delle strutture necessarie per sostenere lunghi periodi di crescita estensiva; la dipendenza di queste ultime dagli input di materie prime; il consumo di risorse primarie; i bassi livelli di innovazione. I cambiamenti della situazione economica, sia in patria che all’estero richiedono un aggiornamento urgente dell’economia cinese: da uno sviluppo <em>rapido</em> ad uno sviluppo di <em>alta qualità </em>[17]. Il mercato del lavoro cinese dovrebbe cambiare ed imbracciare una divisione maggiormente diversificata del lavoro, con una struttura più flessibile.</div>
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<strong>7. Sviluppo equilibrato con coordinamento strutturale</strong></div>
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Uno dei principi di economia politica della Cina è la legge di distribuzione proporzionale del lavoro sociale (o “legge proporzionale” in breve), che governa la contraddittoria dialettica tra produzione sociale e la domanda, insieme alla necessità di coordinare lo sviluppo per l’intera economia nazionale. Tale legge richiede che il lavoro sociale complessivo di persone, strumenti e materiali dovrebbe essere distribuito proporzionalmente in base alla domanda, al fine di mantenere un equilibrio strutturale tra le diverse industrie ed i diversi settori. Nella riproduzione sociale, la produzione e la domanda mantengono un equilibrio dinamico nella loro struttura di valore massimizzando la produzione, riducendo al minimo, al contempo, l’utilizzo di lavoro. Il coordinamento strutturale generalizzato dell’economia si riflette, tra gli altri, nella crescente razionalizzazione e raffinatezza delle infrastrutture industriali, nel commercio estero, nella gestione aziendale, nell’innovazione tecnologica.</div>
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Questo principio di equilibrio strutturale coordinato è essenziale per l’economia politica cinese contemporanea. Esso fa parte del suo più ampio obiettivo di promuovere l’evoluzione dell’industria cinese da un livello medio-basso livello ad un livello medio-alto. Nel contesto di crescente modernizzazione, un equilibrio dovrebbe essere mantenuto tra i settori primario, secondario e terziario, ed all’interno di ciascun settore. Le strutture economiche delle province, delle città e delle regioni dovrebbero essere diversificate; il commercio estero dovrebbe coinvolgere una quota maggiore di prodotti nuovi e ad alta tecnologia dei marchi nazionali. Le grandi imprese cinesi dovrebbero mantenere la quota maggiore del commercio, coesistendo con imprese più piccole ed imprese straniere. Per quanto riguarda i prodotti ad alta tecnologia, la percentuale di tecnologie di base possedute e la proporzione dei diritti di proprietà intellettuale detenuti sul mercato mondiale dovrebbero essere aumentate. Nel mercato, la domanda e l’offerta dovrebbero mantenere un equilibrio dinamico, con l’offerta leggermente superiore alla domanda. Lo sviluppo dovrebbe servire l’economia reale e l’economia virtuale non deve essere eccessivamente sviluppata. Le attività di industrializzazione, informatizzazione, urbanizzazione e modernizzazione agricola dovrebbero essere condotte in stretto coordinamento.</div>
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Al momento, dobbiamo adattare le nostre teorie, le nostre linee guida e le politiche per lo sviluppo economico a quella che chiamiamo “nuova normalità”. Dobbiamo concentrarci sul rafforzamento delle riforme strutturali dell’offerta, e, al contempo, incrementare moderatamente la domanda lorda e riformare i principali settori dell’economia, con particolare attenzione alla riduzione della eccessiva capacità strutturale. Dovremmo gradualmente ridimensionare la capacità e le riserve, ridurre l’indebitamento delle imprese, e promuovere l’innovazione per ridurre i costi e rafforzare i segmenti deboli del sistema produttivo. I miglioramenti devono essere effettuati anche nella qualità e l’efficienza delle catene logistiche, degli approvvigionamenti, e nell’efficacia degli investimenti. E’ anche importante accelerare lo sviluppo di fonti energetiche eco-compatibili e la dare impulso ad una crescita sostenibile. Dobbiamo abbandonare la persistente idea sbagliata secondo la quale finché si eliminano surplus economici dovuti ad interventi amministrativi, gli eccessi di capacità produttiva e le sovrapproduzioni causati dal mercato possano essere bilanciati automaticamente senza alcun intervento attivo del governo. Questo errore neoliberista e le sue conseguenze non sono solo la ragione principale per il grande eccesso di capacità produttiva presente nell’economia cinese, ma rappresenta anche una violazione dello spirito del Socialismo cinese.</div>
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<strong>8. Sovranità economica e apertura</strong></div>
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Un principio finale è quello di aprire l’economia al commercio e agli investimenti. Secondo questo principio, tale apertura è vantaggiosa per la crescita economica sia in patria che per quel che concerne le attività commerciali con l’estero, favorendo l’ottimizzazione nell’allocazione delle risorse e il miglioramento delle interazioni tra industria e tecnologia. Le modalità di tali aperture, unitamente alla loro gamma e portata, dovrebbero essere discusse, decise ed attuate in modo flessibile e rispondente alle condizioni complesse e mutevoli dell’economia nazionale e globale. I paesi emergenti ed in via di sviluppo dovrebbero sempre dedicare particolare attenzione alle loro strategie e tattiche nel momento in cui si aprono ai paesi sviluppati, dati i rischi e le incertezze insiti in un rapporto così disuguale.</div>
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Una politica economica socialista con caratteristiche cinesi deve concentrarsi, di conseguenza, sul principio della sovranità economica. La Cina dovrebbe insistere sulla politica statale di apertura bidirezionale che integra la politica nazionale e internazionale, sviluppando un’economia aperta di livello superiore traendo vantaggio dai mercati nazionali ed esteri. Ciò comporta l’impostazione di una politica commerciale volta a identificare e sfruttare opportunità reciprocamente vantaggiose, proteggendo nel contempo lo sviluppo della Cina e proteggendo il paese da rischi per la sicurezza economica nazionale. Essa richiede una politica che dia uguale importanza al contributo straniero in economia sia in termini di <em>input</em> che in termini di <em>output</em>, ed in grado di sfruttare sia i <em>latecomer advantages</em> che i <em>pioneer advantages</em> in diversi settori dell’economia [18]. Per fare ciò, la Cina dovrebbe costruire imprese internazionali governate da tre livelli di controllo: il pacchetto azionario, le tecnologie chiave e gli standard tecnologici, unitamente ai marchi dovrebbero rimanere, saldamente, in mani cinesi. Allo stesso tempo, è importante non cadere nelle tradizionali trappole riconducibili alla teoria dei <em>vantaggi comparati</em> [19], e, al contempo, sviluppare teorie e strategie volte a trarre vantaggi dai diritti di proprietà intellettuale.</div>
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Nell’immediato futuro, dovremmo concentrarci sull’apertura di diverse regioni al commercio estero, utilizzando i loro punti di forza specifici al fine di evitare una inutile concorrenza tra regioni per lo stesso tipo di commercio, soprattutto quando determinate attività economiche si sposano naturalmente con le caratteristiche di alcune regioni piuttosto che con altre. La Cina dovrebbe fare il miglior uso possibile delle sue importazioni ed esportazioni, non importando prodotti che potrebbero essere altrettanto facilmente prodotti in ambito nazionale, né esportando prodotti per i quali esiste una domanda interna non soddisfatta. E’ altrettanto importante aumentare il livello di distribuzione internazionale, traendo il massimo da competenze e tecnologie straniere per lo sviluppo di capacità di produzione internazionale ed attività manifatturiere. Zone di libero scambio ed investimenti infrastrutturali devono essere negoziati con partner strategici. Nel complesso, la Cina ha bisogno di giocare un ruolo più forte nella governance economica globale.</div>
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Un’ulteriore sfida è quella di distribuire in modo efficace gli investimenti esteri cinesi per garantirsi benefici ottimali. Ciò vale anche per le riserve cinesi di valuta estera. A questo proposito è importante imparare il più presto possibile dall’esperienza delle economie sviluppate (Giappone, Corea del Sud, Stati Uniti) nelle loro relazioni commerciali con partner stranieri. Il problema delle fusioni “decapitanti” è da evitare quando le aziende in crescita e le industrie dall’estero cercano di entrare nel mercato cinese [20]. La Cina deve impegnarsi a rimanere aperta al commercio estero, al fine di approfondire e ampliare la qualità e la crescita della propria produzione economica. Una componente chiave di questa strategia è l’iniziativa “<em>Una Cintura, una Via</em>” [21]. Questo progetto di investimento di massa deve andare di pari passo con lo sviluppo di una nuova architettura finanziaria globale, come incarnata da istituzioni quali la Banca Asiatica per gli Investimenti Infrastrutturali ed il Fondo per la Via della Seta. Queste istituzioni rappresentano punti di riferimento nel più ampio progetto di rafforzare e sostenere il successo economico della Cina.</div>
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<strong>Articolo di Cheng Enfu e Ding Xiaoqin </strong></div>
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<strong>Traduzione di Francesca Cirillo e Andrea Genovese</strong></div>
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<strong>Ripreso dal sito della <a href="http://www.retedeicomunisti.org/index.php/documenti/1522-una-teoria-del-miracolo-cinese" style="color: #cc0000;">Rete dei Comunisti</a> (Italia)</strong></div>
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<strong>Versione originale: </strong><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/2017/01/01/a-theory-of-chinas-miracle" style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>http://monthlyreview.org/2017/01/01/a-theory-of-chinas-miracle</strong></a></div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Note Biografiche</strong></span></div>
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Cheng Enfu è un membro dell’Accademia Cinese delle Scienze Sociali e presidente della Associazione Mondiale per l’Economia Politica (World Association for Political Economy).</div>
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Ding Xiaoqinè vice direttore del Centro di Economia Politica Socialista con Caratteristiche Cinesi presso la Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, ricercatore post-dottorato presso l’Accademia cinese delle scienze sociali, e segretario generale della Associazione Mondiale per l’Economia Politica (World Association for Political Economy).</div>
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<strong>Questo articolo è stato tradotto dal cinese all’inglese da Shan Tong (Università di Scienze Pol</strong><strong>i</strong><strong>tiche e Giurisprudenza della Cina Orientale) e, successivamente, dall’inglese all’italiano ad </strong><strong>o</strong><strong>pera di Francesca Cirillo ed Andrea Genovese.</strong></div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Note e Riferimenti Bibliografici</strong></span></div>
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[1] La ricerca per questo articolo è stata supportata dal progetto 16NKS081 della Fondazione Nazionale di Scienze Sociali della Cina, e dal progetto 211 della Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Eventuali richieste di chiarimenti vanno indirizzate Ding Xiaoqin (autore principale dell’articolo).</div>
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[2] Enfu Cheng, Xiangyang Xin, “Fundamental Elements of the China Model,”<em>International Critical Thought</em> 1, no. 1 (March 2011): 2–10.</div>
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[3] Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett, “<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/MR-059-01-2007-05_2" style="color: #cc0000;">China, Capitalist Accumulation, and Labor</a>,”<em>Monthly R</em><em>e</em><em>view</em> 59, no. 1 (May 2007): 17–39.</div>
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[4] Xiping Han and Lingling Zhou, “A Review of the Theory of Advantage of Intellectual Property Rights and Its Application Value,”<em>Journal of Economics of Shanghai School</em> 11, no. 3 (2013): 1–9.</div>
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[5] Chengxun Yang and Yu Cheng, “The Evolution to Consciousness of Resource Allocation: The Ternary Mechanism—Rethinking the Lessons of <em>Dialectics of Nature</em> by Engels,”<em>Journal of Economics of Shanghai School</em> 13, no. 4 (2015): 31–43.</div>
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[6] Harry Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster, “<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/MR-056-03-2004-07_1" style="color: #cc0000;">China and Socialism: Editors’ Foreword</a>”, <em>Monthly R</em><em>e</em><em>view</em> 56, no. 3 (2004): 2–6.</div>
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[7] Pat Devine, “Question 1: Why Socialism?”<em>Science & Society</em> 76, no. 2 (2012): 151–71.</div>
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[8] Enfu Cheng and Xiangyang Xin, “Fundamental Elements of the China Model,”<em>International Critical Thought</em> 1, no. 1 (2011): 2–10.</div>
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[9] Hao Qi, “<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/MR-065-08-2014-01_2" style="color: #cc0000;">The Labor Share Question in China</a>,”<em>Monthly Review</em> 65, no. 8 (2014): 23–35.</div>
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[10] Secondo <em>Reference News</em> del 17 Ottobre 2015, l’ultimo Hurun Wealth Report mostra che 2015 il numero di miliardari in China (596) ha superato quello degli Stati Uniti (537). Questo numero non include i miliardari di Hong Kong, Macao e Taiwan.</div>
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[11] Secondo Hu Shuli (direttrice di Caixin, gruppo editoriale cinese specializzato nella analisi finanziaria ed economica), una volta che un paese è entrato nella sua fase di reddito medio – considerando l’esportazione di merci ad alta intensità di lavoro come il settore di crescita tradizionale e rappresentativo di una tale condizione – i costi del lavoro cominciano ad aumentare e si perde vantaggio competitivo; considerando la riduzione del divario tecnologico, se si mira a incrementare il tasso di produzione non ci si può più basare sul modello “studio e riproduzione dei prodotti”, ma bisogna avviare un processo di riconversione ricorrendo all’innovazione. Se non si procede in questo modo, si cade tra i due poli dei paesi a basso reddito e di quelli ricchi. Per evitare queste circostanze, settori liberisti cinesi hanno richiesto, più volte, un processo di riforme strutturali per trasformare il modello di crescita economica, lavorando sui punti seguenti: la competizione e la deregolamentazione economica creativa; università con un alto livello di ricerca; un sistema di mercato con una forza lavoro dinamica e che si basi su investimenti con un certo margine di rischio; un sistema finanziario con un mercato di <em>private equity</em> e <em>Securities</em> (Nota a cura dei traduttori)</div>
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[12] Mylene Gaulard, “A Marxist Approach of the Middle-Income Trap in China,”<em>World Review of Polit</em><em>i</em><em>cal Economy</em> 6, no. 3 (2015): 298–319.</div>
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[13] Xinghua Wei, “The Persistence, Development, and Innovation of the Economic Theories on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,”<em>Studies on Marxism</em>, 10 (2015): 5–16.</div>
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[14] Marta Harnecker, “Question 5: Social and Long-Term Planning?” Science & Society 76, no. 2 (2012): 243–66.</div>
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[15] Guoguang Liu and Enfu Cheng, “To Have a Comprehensive and Accurate Understanding of the Relationship between Market and Government,”<em>Studies on the Theories of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping</em>, no. 2 (2014): 11–16.</div>
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[16] La crescita estensiva si basa sul maggiore utilizzo dei fattori produttivi; <strong>l</strong>a crescita intensiva si basa sulla crescita della produttività ottenuta tramite l’introduzione di innovazioni (Nota dei traduttori).</div>
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[17] Dal 2002 al 2011, il PIL cinese è aumentato ad un tasso superiore al 9%. Il PIL è cresciuto al 7.7% nel 2012 e nel 2012; il tasso di crescita è poi sceso al 7.4% nel 2014 e al 6.9% nel 2015. Nei primi sei mesi del 2016, il PIL è cresciuto ad un tasso annualizzato equivalente del 6.7%. Nonostante questo rallentamento, la Cina rimane, tra le maggiori economie mondiali, quella che esibisce il miglior tasso di crescita. Il Fondo Monetario Internazionale stima che la Cina sia responsabile di un quarto dell’intera attività economica mondiale.</div>
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[18] Per <em>latecomer advantages</em> (letteralmente, <em>vantaggio del ritardatario</em>) si intendono i vantaggi ottenibili da una impresa (o, più in generale, da un sistema paese) dalla penetrazione in mercati che utilizzano tecnologie e modalità di produzione mature (acquisibili, dunque, a costi maggiormente accessibili). Al contrario, per <em>pioneer advantages </em>(letteralmente, <em>vantaggio del pioniere</em>) si intendono i vantaggi ottenibili da una impresa (o, più in generale, da un sistema paese) dalla penetrazione in nuovi mercati o dalla produzione di nuovi prodotti (utilizzando, dunque, nuove tecnologie che presuppongono, tuttavia, maggiori investimenti). (Nota dei traduttori)</div>
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[19] La teoria dei <em>vantaggi comparati </em>fu elaborata dall’economista britannico David Ricardo. Secondo tale teoria (assai utilizzata in ambiti liberoscambisti, fortemente criticata dal pensiero economico critico), ogni paese può trarre vantaggio dal commercio internazionale. (Nota dei traduttori)</div>
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[20] Per “fusione decapitante” si intende, in ambito cinese, un processo innescato ad opera di una azienda volto ad eliminare dal mercato (tramite acquisizione) di un potenziale concorrente o una impresa in possesso di particolari tecnologie di interesse (Nota dei traduttori).</div>
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[21] Sul progetto “Una Cintura, una Via”, si veda anche il seguente articolo: <a href="http://contropiano.org/documenti/2016/10/05/treno-cina-rotterdam-seta-084337" style="color: #cc0000;">http://contropiano.org/documenti/2016/10/05/treno-cina-rotterdam-seta-084337</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #a6a8ab; line-height: 48px;">28 settembre 2015, di </span>Redazione <a href="http://www.wallstreetitalia.com/finlandia-pronta-a-sperimentare-la-fine-del-lavoro/">Wall Street Italia</a></div>
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HELSINKI (WSI) – I paesi scandinavi sono conosciuti in tutto il mondo per un<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sistema di welfare</strong> funzionante che protegge chi si trova senza un impiego senza al contempo gravare eccessivamente sul debito pubblico.</div>
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Nessuno avrebbe mai pensato, però, che un governo – per giunta di centro destra – potesse arrivare a tanto. Il progetto di legge annunciato dal nuovo<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">primo ministro Juha Sipila</strong>, in carica da fine maggio, è un esempio più unico che raro in Europa. Mai prima d’ora un governo aveva presentato un piano per un reddito minimo così alto e di così ampia portata.</div>
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Un reddito universale di fino a<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1.000 euro per tutti i cittadini</strong>, a prescindere dalla loro età o situazione sociale, renderebbe il lavoro una “scelta di vita”. Sarebbe infatti sufficiente a condurre una vita modesta, ma dedita completamente al tempo libero e agli interessi personali, oltre ai doveri di famiglia e burocratici.</div>
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Nonostante le ultime difficoltà economiche, Helsinki ha un Pil pro capite superiore a quello della Germania o della Francia. Il <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rapporto tra debito e Pil</strong> è del 59,3%. Nove anni prima era del 41,7%. Il paese si può considerare uno di quelli ricchi e virtuosi dell’area euro.</div>
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Il programma sarebbe possibile grazie al fatto che in Finlandia <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tutti pagano le tasse</strong> e grazie anche al taglio deciso del numero di funzionari pubblici incaricati dei programmi sociali. L’idea è quella di utilizzare buona parte delle risorse destinate al sistema previdenziale e di welfare e sostituirle con un reddito minimo universale.</div>
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Il progetto, un’<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">utopia dagli effetti perversi per i critici</strong>, è sostenuto da gran parte dei partiti politici. Alcuni evocano una retribuzione base più bassa, intorno ai 500 euro, ma c’è chi come i liberali che desidererebbe arrivare a 850-1.000 euro.</div>
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All’inizio il<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> reddito di cittadinanza</strong> sarebbe introdotto nelle regioni che hanno i tassi di disoccupazione più alti. In caso di successo dell’iniziativa sarebbe esportato altrove.</div>
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La percentuale dei senza lavoro su scala nazionale, nonostante un’<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">economia solida</strong>, è elevata, al 9%. Con la misura il governo spera di ridurre i disagi sociali, guadagnando una certa popolarità in patria ma anche all’estero.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-53715269774888147622016-03-11T10:52:00.002-08:002016-03-11T10:52:25.003-08:00Ancora emergenza diritti umani negli Stati UnitiDa<a href="http://www.tpi.it/mondo/stati-uniti/homan-square-prigione-chicago-torture-polizia"> Post Internazionale</a>, di Iacopo Luzi.<br />
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Iacopo Luzi da Chicago ha indagato sul dipartimento di polizia statunitense che nell'ultimo anno è stato denunciato come un luogo di abusi di potere</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CHICAGO</span> <span style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">– Homan Square è un dipartimento della polizia di Chicago situato nel West Side della città. Sebbene dall’esterno possa sembrare un semplice ex magazzino della Sears, una catena di grande distribuzione, al suo interno si sospetta che siano state detenute illegalmente più di 7mila persone negli ultimi undici anni. </span></div>
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Secondo <a href="http://www.tpi.it/mondo/stati-uniti/la-prigione-segreta-chicago" style="border: 0px; color: #993333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">un’inchiesta del quotidiano britannico </a><span style="border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.tpi.it/mondo/stati-uniti/la-prigione-segreta-chicago" style="border: 0px; color: #993333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Guardian</a></span>, che ha portato alla luce la notizia nel gennaio 2015, e le numerose testimonianze di persone che hanno visitato la prigione, questa struttura di proprietà della polizia di Chicago teoricamente adibito a deposito per le prove e i materiali recuperati dagli agenti, sarebbe in realtà <a href="http://www.tpi.it/mondo/stati-uniti/la-prigione-segreta-chicago" style="border: 0px; color: #993333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">un centro di detenzione segreto </a>e un posto dove spesso hanno luogo interrogatori non autorizzati.</div>
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Una volta al suo interno, le persone in arresto non sarebbero autorizzate nemmeno a contattare i propri familiari o a chiamare un avvocato. </div>
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Per chiunque arrivi di fronte a Homan Square, lo scenario appare fin da subito inquietante: non c’è una vera e propria entrata e l’unico accesso pubblico è una piccola porta su un lato dell’edificio.</div>
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Molte pattuglie della polizia vanno e vengono durante tutto il giorno e in prossimità dello stabile i cellulari smettono immediatamente di avere campo. Secondo i dati pubblicati dal <span style="border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guardian</span> a settembre dell’anno scorso, l’82,2 per cento dei detenuti di Homan Square è di origine afroamericana, nonostante la minoranza nera a Chicago costituisca solo il 32,9 per cento della popolazione. </div>
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A Homan Square sono stati registrati 7.185 arresti dall’agosto 2004 al giugno 2015, ma solo nello 0,94 per cento dei casi la polizia ha concesso a un avvocato di accedere al suo interno per assistere un proprio cliente.</div>
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Questa percentuale rivelerebbe una pratica della polizia di Chicago mirata a ridurre al minimo l’accesso degli avvocati durante la prima e più fondamentale parte dell’interrogatorio, quella in cui i diritti costituzionali dell’arrestato sono spesso più vulnerabili e dove è più facile spingerlo all’autoincriminazione.</div>
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Molte notizie sono trapelate a riguardo di Homan Square negli ultimi dodici mesi, mentre il 19 ottobre 2015 è stata intentata una causa civile contro sei agenti della <span style="border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Police Department (CPD) </span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">per difendere tre persone di colore che, secondo l’accusa, si suppone abbiano subito abusi fisici e psicologici all’interno di Homan Square. </span></div>
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Questa è stata la prima azione legale contro Homan Square in cui si accusa la polizia di Chicago di utilizzare “tecniche di tortura coercitive incostituzionali” all’interno della struttura e mira a dimostrare come queste pratiche siano parte di una tendenza generale a discriminare la gente di colore da parte della polizia.</div>
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Il tutto insabbiato e tenuto nascosto da un “codice del silenzio” tra agenti. Stando a quanto riportato nella causa, Jessie Patrick, Atheris Mann e Deanda Wilson, difesi dal People’s Law Office, sarebbero stati erroneamente arrestati dal sergente Frank Ramaglia, uno degli agenti imputati; i tre sarebbero poi stati incolpati e imprigionati per circa 15 mesi grazie a prove inesistenti e create dagli stessi agenti. Presumibilmente dallo stesso sergente Ramaglia, secondo quanto dichiarato nella causa. </div>
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Ci siamo recati a Homan Square per ottenere alcune informazioni. Tuttavia, la polizia non ha voluto rilasciare dichiarazioni, come già successo in passato. Anzi, non appena abbiamo iniziato a scattare delle foto, subito un agente all’interno di una volante si è fermato e ci ha chiesto: “Cosa fate qui? Siete giornalisti? Andate via, non c’è niente da vedere”.</div>
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In effetti, l’unica dichiarazione ufficiale della polizia per quanto riguarda Homan Square è un documento, rilasciato il primo marzo 2015, che attesta: “Le accuse di utilizzo di violenza fisica durante gli interrogatori sono inequivocabilmente false, sono offensive e non sono supportate da alcuna prova”.</div>
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Secondo lo stesso documento, “Homan Square è uno stabile di proprietà del dipartimento di polizia di Chicago che ne fa uso dal 1999. Il dipartimento svolge svariate funzioni, alcune delle quali sono molto complesse e delicate mentre altre no. A ogni modo, non è una struttura segreta”. </div>
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La causa descrive gli eventi avvenuti il 21 ottobre 2013: Mann e Patrick stavano sbrigando delle commissioni quando la loro macchina è stata fermata da una pattuglia, entrambi sono stati perquisiti senza alcun motivo e arrestati da due agenti di polizia, per l’esattezza il sergente Ramaglia e l’agente Kevin Connoly, per possesso di droga, nonostante non avessero niente.</div>
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Successivamente sono stati condotti a Homan Square. Qualche ora dopo, Deanda Wilson era in un negozio vicino St. Louis Avenue per comprare una bibita, quando l’agente di polizia Alejandro Miranda lo ha arrestato per la stessa ragione. Nella loro causa, Mann, Patrick e Wilson dichiarano di essere stati vittime di una serie di abusi compiuti dalla polizia, come insulti razziali, minacce verbali e fisiche, perquisizioni integrali e una detenzione ai limiti della decenza.</div>
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Secondo i tre, durante la loro detenzione a Homan Square non gli sarebbe stato fornito cibo, acqua né la possibilità di usare il bagno. Tanto da obbligare Wilson a farsela addosso per quanto non ce la facesse più. </div>
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Secondo gli avvocati dei tre arrestati, la polizia avrebbe provato a convincerli a collaborare, fornendo finte accuse e producendo prove ad hoc per giustificare i loro arresti. “I tre clienti del People’s Law Office sono innocenti. Patrick e Mann sono stati illegalmente detenuti per 15 mesi nel carcere della Contea Cook e solo il 14 gennaio 2015, un giudice li ha assolti da tutte le accuse.</div>
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Wilson è ancora dentro in attesa del processo”, ha dichiarato l’avvocato di Wilson, Shubra Ohri. Ohri dichiara: “Questa causa civile è stata intentata perché quello che è successo ai nostri clienti ha violato il Quarto Emendamento. Il nostro asso nella manica per provare la loro innocenza è il fatto che il dipartimento di polizia deve fornire obbligatoriamente prove per dimostrare la colpevolezza di un arrestato, quindi se veramente hanno trovato della droga addosso ai nostri clienti vogliamo fisicamente vedere cos’hanno trovato. Se hanno inventato tutto, non sarà semplice per loro fornirci delle prove”. </div>
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Nella causa si parla di condotta anticostituzionale della polizia a Homan Square. Fra le varie accuse, un agente avrebbe puntato un coltello alla gola di Wilson, tagliando i lacci della sua felpa dopo la richiesta di Wilson di parlare con il suo avvocato e il rifiuto di fornire informazioni sullo spaccio di droga nel suo quartiere, in quanto totalmente ignaro della cosa.</div>
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Un altro agente, invece, avrebbe preso Mann per il collo, minacciandolo di arrestare “il culo nero” di sua moglie e dicendogli che non avrebbe visto crescere il suo giovane figlio, se non avesse fornito qualche informazione utile su uno spacciatore di eroina di sua conoscenza.</div>
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La moglie di Mann, contattata telefonicamente, ha dichiarato: “Mio marito non vuole parlare più con nessuno. Non vogliamo pubblicità perché lui non vuole rivivere cosa è successo lì. È stata una vera tortura. Un vero e proprio inferno”. </div>
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<span style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nonostante la causa civile sia stata depositata quasi tre mesi fa, il dipartimento di polizia di Chicago non ha ancora risposto all’accusa del People’s Law Office e resta difficile da ipotizzare una data per un possibile primo processo.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">*Illustrazione a cura di <span style="border: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Yara De Freitas, artista italo-brasiliana di 27 anni </span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-26555038665974556092016-02-12T12:18:00.001-08:002016-02-12T12:23:50.229-08:00La verità sul Falun Gong (Falun Dafa)Il motivo che ci ha spinto a pubblicare questo articolo e in particolare a pubblicare il capitolo riguardante il Falun Gong tratto dal libro di Ilaria Maria Sala "Il Dio dell'Asia: religione e politica in oriente: un reportage"( Il Saggiatore, 2006) è la scarsissima presenza di informazioni in italiano sul Falun Gong, almeno informazioni che non provengono dal Falun Gong stesso. La stessa pagina di Wikipedia è stata più volte manomessa ad opera degli zelanti adepti di questa ancora poco conosciuta setta che pure sono molto attivi in attività di disinformazione su Facebook, forum, blog, etc... cercando di boicottare tutte le informazioni che potrebbero risultare negative per la loro immagine, che hanno cercato di ripulire negli ultimi anni di ripulire, dopo i fatti dell'autoimmolazione in Piazza Tienanmen (vedere questo il video qui sotto).<br />
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Quello che abbiamo deciso di fare è dunque fornire uno strumento, per chiunque voglia saperne di più su questa setta, apparentemente pacifica, almeno in occidente, ma che in Cina ha creato un'enorme allarme sociale. Per evitare ogni possibile critica riguardo presunte simpatie per il "regime" cinese abbiamo deciso di scegliere come fonte, proprio quella <a href="https://www.chinafile.com/contributors/ilaria-maria-sala">Ilaria Maria Sala</a>, giornalista e scrittrice, già vincitrice del premio Bruce Chatwin per il giornalismo di viaggio e del premio Igor Man, scrive per il Wall Street Journal, per la Stampa e Internazionale, tra gli altri.<br />
E come si può vedere, leggendo i suoi articoli, anche <a href="http://www.internazionale.it/opinione/ilaria-maria-sala/2016/02/10/hong-kong-proteste-pechino">recenti</a>, non ha la benchè minima simpatia per il governo cinese.<br />
<a href="https://dirittodautore.it/la-guida-al-diritto-dautore/eccezioni-e-limitazioni/riassunti-citazioni-e-riproduzioni-di-parti-o-brani-di-opere/"> La parziale riproduzione di un libro è consentita dalla legge se, come in questo caso, è con finalità di critica, discussione, insegnamento o ricerca scientifica. </a>Ad ogni modo, qualora, l'autrice, la casa editrice o altri soggetti che , detenendo i diritti su questo testo, desiderano che sia eliminato possono contattarci tramite email all'indirizzo jeanpierrelafitte@gmail.com .<br />
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Cliccando sulle relative immagini si potrà visionare l'ingrandimento delle pagine in modo che siano leggibili. Abbiamo cercato di proporvi la migliore qualità per noi possibile per invogliarvi a leggere e informarvi e farvi un'opinione diversa dall'immagine che questa setta cerca di proporre di sè.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-204611765297496142016-01-26T06:14:00.001-08:002016-02-12T12:24:10.211-08:00Intervista a Roberto Dal Bosco - Il Volto Oscuro del Buddismo<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E3r64HC76Uk" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-28667092852980220602015-12-27T10:12:00.001-08:002015-12-27T10:12:58.175-08:00Russia: Amnesty ci accusa? Macchina del fango su richiesta Usa<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Old Standard TT'; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Mosca, 23 dic. (askanews) –<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Il portavoce del Ministero russo ha smentito categoricamente le pesanti accuse diffuse da Amnesty International circa le vittime civili provocate dai raid russi in Siria e ha puntato il dito contro gli Usa che strumentalizzerebbero le Ong (come Amnesty International) per deviare l’attenzione dagli “errori” (crimini) commessi dai contingenti statunitensi in Iraq, Siria e Afghanistan.</span> ” Sono tutte Falsità” ha dichiarato il ministero della Difesa russo, attraverso il suo portavoce Igor Konashenov. “Trattasi di manipolazioni dei nostri colleghi Usa che buttano fango addosso agli altri, per distrarre l’opinione pubblica mondiale dalle tragedie che hanno causato morti e sofferenze di civili ad Aleppo, Kunduz, Falluja e in altre città”, ha detto Konashenkov alla stampa, compresa l’agenzia askanews, che chiedeva un commento sulle accuse lanciate da Amnesty per presunti 200 morti civili dall’inizio dei raid russi.</div>
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Il generale ha parlato con fervore di questo “torrente di menzogne” e ha specificato che la diffusione di tale “disinformazione” farebbe “comodo”, all’America. “Permettetemi di ricordare che la prima ondata di accuse al nostro indirizzo è comparsa subito dopo che un velivolo gli Stati Uniti ha distrutto l’impianto termoenergetico ad Aleppo, lasciando interi quartieri senza alimentazione elettrica”, ha commentato. “La seconda ondata di accuse è arrivata dopo il tragico bombardamento del 3 ottobre dell’aviazione degli Stati Uniti sull’ospedale di medici senza frontiere in Afghanistan, a Kunduz. Con la morte di 42 persone”.</div>
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Secondo Konashenkov anche “la porzione di falsità” di Amnesty sarebbe stata diffusa non casualmente, ma “subito dopo che il 18 dicembre un bombardiere degli Stati Uniti ha colpito soldati iracheni nella zona di Falluja, facendo tra morti e feriti più di 50 vittime”. Il generale ha anche sottolineato che una caratteristica di tutti questi attacchi è la mancanza di prove chiare e la citazione di testimoni impersonali, chiamati dai media occidentali “difensori dei diritti umani”. Il tutto dopo che oggi il Cremlino aveva replicato dicendo di non avere “informazioni in proposito”, ma che sicuramente il Ministero della Difesa le aveva e avrebbe analizzato il report della Ong.</div>
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Da parte sua la Ong ha successivamente definito “vergognoso l’incapacità della Russia di riconoscere le uccisioni di civili”. Secondo l’organizzazione “questi raid indicano che non c’erano obiettivi militari o combattenti nelle immediate vicinanze delle aree che sono state colpite. Questo suggerisce che gli attacchi potrebbero aver violato il diritto internazionale umanitario e possono, in alcune circostanze, costituire crimini di guerra. In uno dei più letali attacchi documentati tre missili sono stati sparati in un mercato affollato nel centro di Ariha in Idlib, con l’uccisione di 49 civili. Testimoni hanno descritto come in pochi secondi il vivace mercato della domenica si è trasformato in una carneficina”.</div>
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Konashenkov tuttavia ha respinto in pieno le accuse usando la parola inglese “fake” e parlando di “selettività” nella preparazione di relazioni da parte dell’organizzazione internazionale Amnesty International. “Non abbiamo ancora visto relazioni dettagliate sulle attività della coalizione saudita in Yemen, e ancora di più analisi dei crimini commessi dai terroristi in Siria e Iraq. A nostro avviso, sarebbe meglio dirigere l’energia di questa organizzazione per portare alla luce tutto questo” ha aggiunto.</div>
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Nota: <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dovevamo aspettarci che la macchina della manipolazione delle notizie sarebbe stata messa in moto per diffondere menzogne sulla campagna militare attuata dalla Russia e dall’Iran in Siria.</span> Il Pentagono USA e la NATO dispongono a questo scopo, oltre al possente apparato internazionale dei grandi media, anche di numerose ONG finanziate dalle centrali USA che svolgono egregiamente la loro funzione di diffamazione delle forze ostili agli USA ed alla NATO, tacendo del tutto sulla quantità di crimini commessi ripetutamente dalle forze USA, dalla NATO e dai suoi alleati (vedi Arabia Saudita) nei teatri di conflitto dall’Iraq, alla Libia, dalla Siria all’Ucraina, ecc…</div>
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Sappiamo bene quale sia il ruolo che svolgono realmente le organizzazioni “umanitarie”, come Amnesty International, Human Right Watch, NED (National Endowment for Democracy) , MSF, ecc.. Risulta da molti episodi come queste organizzazioni non sono esattamente quello che vorrebero sembrare ( al servizio “della pace e dei diritti umani”) ma piuttosto sono nate per collaborare con i programmi delle grandi corporations economiche occidentali, con le agenzie di intelligence degli USA e con organismi di manipolazione mediatica al servizio degli interessi di Washington.<br />
Non per nulla la direzione di queste ONG viene sempre affidata ad elementi di fiducia dell’Ammistrazione USA ed è questo il caso di Susanne Nossel, la quale da segretaria di Hilary Clinton è passata all’incarico di segretaria di Amnesty International. Di certo appare questa una “strana coincidenza”.<br />
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Strano però che la stessa Amnesty International e le altre ONG per oltre quattro anni non si siano accorte della carneficina prodotta in Siria per causa delle armi, fornite dagli USA (e dai loro alleati regionali) ai gruppi terroristi jihadisti che operavano nel paese arabo, tanto meno si sono accorti delle migliaia di civili che sono morti e continuano a morire nello Yemen sotto attacco della coalizione a guida Saudita ed USA, tralasciando i loro silenzi sulle vittime civili causate dall’aggressione fatta dalla NATO alla LIbia di Gheddafi. Si potrebbe continuare con l’elenco delle omissioni, “distrazioni” e delle denunce mai fatte da Amnesty Int. sulle vittime civili nell’est Ucraina per effetto dei bombardamenti del governo di Kiev, alleato degli USA, delle vittime civili nell’Iraq “liberato” da Saddam Hussein, di quelle dell’Afghanistan, nonchè delle tante vittime civili dei droni USA, ecc. ecc… Vedi: <a href="http://www.controinformazione.info/amnesty-international-e-la-campagna-di-falsificazione-sulla-siria/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Amnesty International e la campagna di falsificazione sulla Siria</a></div>
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Non conviene ad Amnesty International accendere i riflettori su queste migliaia e migliaia di vittime civili causate dalle guerre degli USA e della NATO e si comprende il perchè: correrebbero il serio rischio di perdere tutti i finanziamenti per la loro attività.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-89682401980708959492015-04-11T12:10:00.004-07:002015-04-11T12:10:59.253-07:00Ci sono arrivati anche loro: Lavoro, l’Fmi ci ripensa: “Liberalizzare il mercato non spinge l’economia”<a href="http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/04/10/lfmi-ci-ripensa-liberalizzare-mercato-non-spinge-leconomia/1577281/">Di Mauro Del Corno per il Fatto Quotidiano</a>.<br />
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Nel World Economic Outlook che uscirà il 14 aprile si legge che non ci sono "correlazioni statisticamente significative" tra la deregolamentazione di assunzioni e licenziamenti e la capacità di crescita dell'economia. Un teorema che lo stesso Fondo, insieme a Bce e Commissione Ue, cavalca da anni. E che è il fondamento teorico del Jobs Act</div>
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Fermi tutti, come non detto. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Liberalizzare</span> il mercato del lavoro non aiuta la <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">crescita</span> economica. E ad attestarlo è il <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Fondo monetario internazionale</span>, che compie così una svolta a U rispetto a quanto energicamente professato per anni. La rivoluzione è contenuta in poche righe, mimetizzate a pagina 37 del capitolo 3 del prossimo <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">World Economic Outlook</span> che uscirà in versione integrale il 14 aprile. Vi si legge che “il livello di<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">regolamentazione</span> del mercato del lavoro non ha evidenziato <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">correlazioni statisticamente significative</span> con la<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">produttività</span> complessiva”. Al contrario, spiega l’Fmi, a spingere la crescita sono la liberalizzazione del <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">mercato dei beni</span>, il livello delle <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">competenze</span> dei lavoratori, il livello degli <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">investimenti</span> e le spese per <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">ricerca e sviluppo</span>.</div>
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Il peso di questi quattro fattori varia a seconda dei settori produttivi. In ogni caso la palla passa sostanzialmente agli<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">imprenditori</span>. Le conclusioni a cui giungono i ricercatori di Washington si basano sull’analisi dei dati di 16 Paesi del G20 nell’ambito di un più ampio sforzo di ricerca che tenta di spiegare il rallentamento della crescita potenziale nei paesi sviluppati e in quelli emergenti. Ne risulta che a <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">zavorrare</span> l’economia sono l’<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">invecchiamento</span> della popolazione, la <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">debolezza</span> degli investimenti e appunto il basso incremento della produttività, che non dipenderebbe però dal grado di liberalizzazione del mercato del lavoro. Il Fondo tenta poi di correggere il tiro spiegando che non sempre i dati relativi ai diversi Paesi sono facilmente<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">confrontabili</span>. E in modo un po’ <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">contraddittorio</span> continua a suggerire agli emergenti anche la <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">deregolamentazione</span> del mercato del lavoro.</div>
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Negli anni recenti la tesi “meno <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">vincoli</span> sul lavoro uguale più crescita economica” è stata sposata con entusiasmo dalle principali istituzioni europee. Basti ricordare la lettera a firma <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Jean Claude Trichet</span> e <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Mario Draghi</span> inviata all’Italia il 5 agosto del 2011, in cui si chiedevano tra l’altro misure di liberalizzazione del mercato del lavoro e in particolare “una accurata revisione delle norme che regolano l’<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">assunzione</span> e il <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">licenziamento</span> dei dipendenti”. Invito pienamente recepito dal governo nel <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Jobs Act</span>, che secondo il presidente del Consiglio <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Matteo Renzi</span> “porterà crescita e occupazione” e secondo il ministro dell’Economia <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Pier Carlo Padoan</span> rappresenta “un successo storico”.</div>
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Interventi di forte deregolamentazione del mercato del lavoro e di riduzione delle tutele sono stati imposti da <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Fmi</span>, <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Bce</span> e<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">commissione Ue </span>anche alla Grecia, che dopo sei anni di feroce<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">recessione</span> ha chiuso il 2014 con un modestissimo +0,6%. E’ improbabile che lo studio dell’Fmi ponga fine a un dibattito che dura da tempo su una materia oggettivamente difficile da indagare, che comprensibilmente scalda gli animi e su cui esistono studi contraddittori. Tuttavia, uno dei tradizionali cavalli di battaglia degli economisti di <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">area liberista</span> viene <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">azzoppato</span> proprio da chi lo aveva cavalcato per anni. Alcune certezze, o presunte tali, iniziano a vacillare ed è possibile che anche le future politiche economiche ne vengano presto o tardi influenzate.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-13727268131835681352015-04-06T10:47:00.003-07:002015-04-06T10:47:49.913-07:00La Costa Rica usa solo energie rinnovabiliDa <a href="http://www.internazionale.it/notizie/2015/03/24/costa-rica-energia-rinnovabile-verde">Internazionale</a><br />
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La Costa Rica sta funzionando senza usare nessun tipo di combustibile fossile <a href="http://www.sciencealert.com/costa-rica-powered-with-100-renewable-energy-for-75-days" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">da ben 75 giorni</a>.</div>
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Grazie alle intense precipitazioni di quest’anno, le centrali idroelettriche stanno generando da sole quasi tutta l’energia elettrica che serve per alimentare il paese. E con l’aiuto dell’energia geotermica, solare ed eolica, non c’è bisogno di un grammo di carbone o di petrolio per tenere le luci accese.</div>
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Naturalmente la Costa Rica ha molti vantaggi: è un paese piccolo, ha meno di cinque milioni di abitanti, la sua industria manifatturiera non richiede molta elettricità, <a href="http://www.arenal.net/costa-rica-volcanoes.htm" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">e ha molti vulcani</a> e altre caratteristiche topografiche adatte allo sfruttamento delle energie rinnovabili.</div>
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In ogni caso, fare a meno dei combustibili fossili è un gesto nobile e importante per un paese di qualunque dimensione.</div>
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La Costa Rica non è l’unica nella regione a essersi impegnata nel campo delle rinnovabili. Bonaire, un’isola dei Paesi Bassi che si trova al largo delle coste venezuelane, usa fonti rinnovabili quasi al 100 per cento e <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/01/07/bonaire-goodbye-diesel-hello-renewable-energy/" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">probabilmente raggiungerà questa soglia</a> con l’aiuto di una risorsa energetica insolita: le alghe.</div>
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Guidata dalla Cina, la spesa globale nel campo delle energie rinnovabili sta per registrare i suoi primi profitti in tre anni (<a href="http://qz.com/275577/china-is-driving-a-global-renewable-energy-rebound-but-it-might-not-last/" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">anche se la tendenza potrebbe non durare</a>). L’Islanda ricava già tutta la sua elettricità da fonti rinnovabili, e circa l’85 per cento della sua energia è prodotto da impianti geotermici e idroelettrici. E altri tre paesi europei (Svezia, Bulgaria ed Estonia) hanno già raggiunto <a href="http://qz.com/359415/three-european-countries-have-already-hit-their-2020-renewable-energy-goals/" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">i loro obiettivi di sfruttamento delle rinnovabili</a> che avevano stabilito per il 2020.</div>
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La Danimarca, <a href="http://qz.com/323218/denmark-produces-40-of-its-power-from-wind-more-than-any-other-country-on-earth/" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">che ricava il 40 per cento dell’energia dall’eolico</a>, rinuncerà completamente ai combustibili fossili entro il 2050. Tuttavia, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/earth/denmark-aims-for-100-percent-renewable-energy.html" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">come</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/earth/denmark-aims-for-100-percent-renewable-energy.html" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">hanno fatto notare</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/earth/denmark-aims-for-100-percent-renewable-energy.html" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">alcuni danesi</a>, quando si usano solo le rinnovabili i combustibili fossili continuano a essere necessari come piano di riserva: per esempio, se non soffia abbastanza vento o se il Sole non splende abbastanza per alimentare gli impianti.</div>
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Resta il fatto che l’aumento dell’uso delle energierinnovabili ha reso poco redditizie molte centrali elettriche convenzionali e i proprietari stanno cercando di chiuderle.</div>
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In Costa Rica un’eventuale siccità comprometterebbe gravemente la fornitura idroelettrica del paese. Probabilmente è per questo che il governo ha approvato <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/11/958-million-geothermal-project-approved-costa-rican-legislature/" style="color: #007bb5; text-decoration: none;">un progetto geotermico da 958 milioni di dollari</a>. Anche se il piano è finanziato in gran parte dal Giappone e dalla Banca europea degli investimenti, la Costa Rica ha potuto investire tanti fondi nell’energia rinnovabile perché non spende i suoi soldi per la difesa: il paese, infatti, non ha un esercito dal 1948.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-16777105668238738612015-03-05T05:20:00.000-08:002015-03-05T05:20:29.975-08:00Come il femminismo divenne ancella del capitalismo (ma non lo è sempre stato?)<h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 18px !important; font-stretch: normal !important; margin: 5px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;">
Come il femminismo divenne ancella del capitalismo</h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Come femminista ho sempre pensato che, combattendo per l’emancipazione delle donne, stavo anche costruendo un mondo migliore – più egualitario, più giusto, più libero. Ultimamente ho cominciato a temere che gli ideali ai quali le femministe hanno aperto la strada vengano utilizzati per scopi molto diversi. Mi preoccupa, in particolare, che la nostra critica del sessismo fornisca oggi giustificazione a nuove forme di disuguaglianza e di sfruttamento.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Quasi fosse un crudele scherzo del destino, il movimento per la liberazione delle donne sembra essersi avviluppato in una relazione pericolosa con gli sforzi neoliberisti nel costruire la società del libero mercato. Questo potrebbe spiegare perché una serie di idee femministe, che un tempo facevano parte di una visione del mondo radicale, oggi vengono utilizzate a fini individualistici. In passato, le femministe criticavano una società dove si promuoveva il carrierismo, adesso viene consigliato alle donne di “affidarsi”. Il movimento delle donne una volta aveva come priorità la solidarietà sociale, oggi festeggia le imprenditrici. La prospettiva di allora valorizzava la “cura” e l’interdipendenza umana, ora incoraggia il progresso individuale e la meritocrazia.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Ciò che si nasconde dietro tutto questo è un cambiamento di rotta del paradigma capitalista. Il capitalismo stato-assistito del dopoguerra ha lasciato il posto a una forma innovativa di capitalismo, “disorganizzato”, globalizzato, neoliberista. La seconda ondata del femminismo è emersa come critica al capitalismo di prima maniera, ma infine è diventata ancella del capitalismo contemporaneo.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Con il senno di poi, possiamo sostenere che il movimento di liberazione delle donne ha contemporaneamente puntato a due diversi futuri possibili. In un primo scenario, esso ha disegnato un mondo in cui l’emancipazione di genere andava di pari passo con la democrazia partecipativa e la solidarietà sociale; nel secondo , ha promesso nuove forme di liberalismo, in grado di garantire alle donne, così come agli uomini, i “beni” dell’autonomia individuale, un ampliamento delle scelte , l’avanzamento meritocratico. Il femminismo di “seconda generazione” è stato, insomma, ambiguo in questo senso. Compatibile con entrambe le rappresentazioni della società, dunque suscettibile di due diverse concezioni della storia.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A mio parere, questa ambivalenza del femminismo in questi ultimi anni si è risolta a favore della seconda impostazione, quella liberista-individualista. Ma non perché noi donne siamo state vittime passive di seduzioni neoliberiste. Al contrario, noi stesse abbiamo direttamente contribuito a far raggiungere al capitalismo questo stadio di sviluppo attraverso tre blocchi di idee importanti.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Il primo contributo è rappresentato dalla nostra critica al “salario familiare”: il modello del maschio breadwinner e della femmina casalinga è stato centrale per il capitalismo stato-assistito, così per come esso era organizzato. La critica femminista a quel modello ora aiuta a legittimare il “capitalismo flessibile”. Questa nuova forma organizzativa del capitale contemporaneo si basa molto sul lavoro femminile salariato, soprattutto a basso costo, nei servizi e nella manifattura , garantito non solo da giovani donne single, ma anche da donne sposate e donne con figli; non solo da donne razzializzate, ma da donne di tutte le nazionalità ed etnie. Le donne si sono riversate nel mercato del lavoro globalizzato e il modello del capitalismo stato-assistito basato sul “salario familiare” è stato sostituito da una nuova e più moderna “norma” – apparentemente approvata dal femminismo: quella di una famiglia con due percettori di reddito.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Non importa che la realtà che sta alla base di questo nuovo paradigma sia il basso livello dei salariali, la riduzione della sicurezza del lavoro, il peggioramento degli standard di vita, un forte aumento del numero delle ore lavorate per garantire un reddito al ménage, l’allargamento di doppi – quando non tripli o quadrupli – ruoli e un aumento della povertà , sempre più concentrata sulle donne capofamiglia. Il neoliberismo trasforma un orecchio di scrofa in una borsa di seta, raccontandoci una storia di empowerment femminile. Si appella alla critica femminista del “salario familiare” per giustificare lo sfruttamento: sfrutta il sogno dell’emancipazione femminile come motore dell’accumulazione capitalistica.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Il femminismo ha anche fornito un secondo contributo all’ethos neoliberale. Nell’era del capitalismo di stato organizzato, abbiamo giustamente criticato una visione politica ristretta, così intensamente centrata sulla disuguaglianza di classe che non vi trovavano posto le ingiustizie “non economiche”, come per esempio la violenza domestica, la violenza sessuale e l’oppressione riproduttiva. Rifiutando l’economicismo e politicizzando “il personale”, le femministe hanno ampliato l’agenda politica generale, aggiungendo a essa il tema della costruzione gerarchica della differenza di genere. Il risultato avrebbe dovuto essere quello di espandere la lotta per la giustizia sociale, comprendendo sia gli elementi culturali che economici. Il risultato effettivo è stato invece una concentrazione estrema del femminismo sul tema dell’“identità di genere”, a scapito delle questioni che hanno a che vedere con il pane e con il burro. Vediamola peggio ancora: la svolta femminista verso una politica identitaria si è alleata fin troppo strettamente con un neoliberismo in crescita che non desiderava altro che reprimere ogni ricordo delle battaglie per l’uguaglianza sociale. In effetti, abbiamo assolutizzato la critica del sessismo culturale proprio nel momento in cui le circostanze avrebbero richiesto di raddoppiare l’attenzione intorno alla critica dell’economia politica.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Infine, il femminismo ha contribuito al neoliberismo con un terzo filone di pensiero: la critica al paternalismo dello stato sociale. Innegabilmente progressista nell’epoca del capitalismo di stato fordista, il giudizio negativo del femminismo è coinciso con la guerra del neoliberismo contro “lo stato balia” e i suoi più recenti cinici abbracci con le Ong. Un esempio significativo è rappresentato dal “microcredito”, il programma di piccoli prestiti bancari per le donne povere nel sud del mondo. Propagandato come un processo di potenziamento dal basso verso l’alto, alternativo a decisioni di vertice e alla burocrazia dei progetti statali, il microcredito è stato presentato come uno degli antidoti femministi alla povertà e alla sottomissione delle donne. In questo, ciò che è mancato è la consapevolezza di un’ulteriore coincidenza inquietante: il microcredito è fiorito proprio nel momento in cui gli stati abbandonavano gli impegni macro-strutturali per combattere la povertà, impegni che i prestiti su piccola scala non possono assolutamente sostituire. Anche in questo caso, quindi, l’ideale femminista è stato ripreso dal neoliberismo. Una prospettiva originariamente finalizzata a democratizzare lo stato, responsabilizzando i cittadini, viene impiegata ora per legittimare la mercificazione e il disgregarsi dello stato sociale.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In tutti questi casi, l’ambivalenza del femminismo si è risolta a favore di un (neo)individualismo liberista. Ma certamente l’altro lato di noi, cioè le prospettive rappresentate dal femminismo solidale, potrebbe essere ancora in vita. La crisi attuale offre la possibilità di ampliare ancora di più quell’impostazione, ricollegando il sogno di liberazione della donna con la visione di una società solidale. A tal fine, le femministe hanno bisogno di rompere la relazione pericolosa con il neoliberismo, recuperando ai propri fini i tre “contributi” di cui abbiamo parlato.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In primo luogo, si dovrebbe rompere il falso legame tra la nostra critica al “salario familiare” e ciò che sono diventati gli attuali approdi del capitalismo del lavoro precario, combattendo per una forma di vita che non metta al centro il lavoro di scambio ma valorizzi le attività che producono valore d’uso, tra cui – ma non solo – il lavoro di cura. In secondo luogo, dovremmo fermare lo scivolamento della critica all’economicismo verso una politica identitaria, implementando la lotta per trasformare l’ordine del discorso fondato su valori culturali patriarcali con la lotta per la giustizia economica. Infine, sarebbe necessario recidere il legame tra la critica alla statalizzazione e al fondamentalismo del libero mercato, recuperando il concetto di democrazia partecipativa come un mezzo per rafforzare i poteri pubblici necessari a vincolare il capitale a finalità di giustizia.</span><br />
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<em style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">(18 ottobre 2013)</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-83707059513256741312014-11-11T12:52:00.002-08:002014-11-11T12:52:19.611-08:00"La Sinistra assente" e la questione del socialismo in Cina: Diego Angelo Bertozzi replica a Luciano Canforadal blog di <a href="http://domenicolosurdo.blogspot.it/2014/11/la-sinistra-assente-e-la-questione-del.html">Domenico Losurdo</a>.<br />
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style="border: 1px solid rgb(53, 85, 106); height: 187px; margin-top: -8px; padding: 4px; width: 249px;" /></a><i style="background-color: white;">D.A. Bertozzi, che ringrazio, è esperto di questioni cinesi e autore dei libri "La Cina da impero a nazione" (Simple) e, con A. Fais, de "Il risveglio del Drago" (All'insegna del Veltro) [DL].</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".7s.$mid=11415206712638=25b55f2879a251bdc40.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".7s.$mid=11415206712638=25b55f2879a251bdc40.2:0.0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".7s.$mid=11415206712638=25b55f2879a251bdc40.2:0.0.0.0.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">Nella sua recensione del libro “La sinistra assente” di Domenico Losurdo, pubblicata sul Corriere della Sera del 3 novembre, il professor Canfora riconosce i meriti di questo testo ma ne critica le posizioni relative alla Repubblica popolare cinese. Secondo Canfora, il recente sviluppo economico di questo paese sarebbe in contraddizione con le premesse teoriche del socialismo cinese e della rivoluzione maoista e in questo senso lo “sforzo ermeneutico “ di Losurdo sarebbe “mal riposto”</span></span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Con le sue affermazioni – non nuove – Canfora si inserisce insomma in un filone di pensiero ben consolidato – anche a sinistra – di condanna degli sviluppi di quello che si definisce “socialismo con caratteristiche cinesi” e che si riassume, per l'appunto, nel rigetto di un tradimento consumatosi nel post-rivoluzione culturale e sfociato in una restaurazione autoritaria del liberismo capitalista. La Cina, secondo una lettura divenuta ormai senso comune, non solo non rappresenta un'alternativa reale alla restaurazione liberista in atto, ma ne è, invece, parte attiva con il suo bagaglio di sfruttamento, diseguaglianze raccapriccianti e pulsioni imperialiste.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In fondo basterebbe poco per dimostrare che l'affermazione “lo stato di cose che si è affermato in quel grande Paese, trasformatosi ormai nell'esatto contrario di ciò che si proponeva di essere alla metà del Novecento” concede troppo alla vulgata dominante.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Si potrebbe partire dal discorso di Mao che il 1° di ottobre del 1949 sancì ufficialmente la nascita della Repubblica popolare cinese: “<i>Ci siamo uniti, con la guerra di liberazione nazionale e con la grande rivoluzione popolare, abbiamo abbattuto gli oppressori interni ed esterni e proclamiamo la fondazione della Repubblica popolare cinese. Da oggi il nostro popolo entra nella grande famiglia di tutti i popoli del mondo, amanti della pace e della libertà</i>”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Da allora sono passati più di cinquant'anni e, quindi, possiamo chiederci in cosa il Partito comunista cinese abbia contribuito nella costruzione “dell'esatto contrario” di quanto preannunciato dal suo leader più eminente e tuttora ritenuto fonte di ispirazione e cardine ideologico. Ebbene, tra gli scopi originari della lunga rivoluzione cinese, portata a termine dal Pcc, c'era proprio quello della rinascita nazionale, della ri-conquista dell'integrità territoriale e della piena sovranità. Ebbene, difficile non vedere come proprio oggi questi obiettivi siano stati sostanzialmente raggiunti (anche se non del tutto), con il ritorno alla madrepatria di Hong Kong e Macao, con l'ormai concreta prospettiva di raggiungere il primato economico, con la drastica riduzione del gap tecnologico (e militare) con le principali potenze mondiali (Usa su tutti), tanto che il Pentagono con sempre maggiore frequenza lancia allarmi su una sempre più prossima parità militare. Nata per chiudere la triste parentesi del “secolo delle umiliazioni”, la Cina è, dopo mezzo secolo, in grado di opporsi ai rinnovati progetti di smembramento dell'imperialismo statunitense. L'”esatto contrario” avrebbe visto ben altri scenari: la liquidazione violenta della presenza comunista (una fine simile a quella dei comunisti indonesiani), lo smembramento dell'ex Celeste impero con la perdita di periferie, storicamente baluardi a protezione del centro, come Xinjiang e Tibet, oppure la ricomparsa, sotto forma diversa, di potentati regionali con a capo moderni “signori della finanza”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Certo, il processo di apertura e riforma, nelle sue fasi di maggiore radicalità, ha portato alla crescita di diseguaglianze nella distribuzione delle ricchezze, riservando ad alcune regioni costiere, piuttosto che a quelle interne, il ruolo di locomotiva dello sviluppo. Tuttavia ha permesso il raggiungimento di un risultato di portata storica (e non solo per la Cina): l'uscita dall'estrema povertà (quindi dal rischio di morte per fame) di oltre 200 milioni di persone nelle aree rurali. Nel 1950 la Cina comunista vedeva ancora parte della propria popolazione vittima di morte per inedia, con intere zone devastate da uno dei peggiori imperialismi della storia e condannate al perenne sottosviluppo. Non possiamo negare che la povertà sia ancora una realtà drammaticamente presente nella Cina popolare – e la dirigenza cinese è in prima linea nel riconoscerlo, ma il dato è quello di una sua riduzione di circa il 90%. A tutto questo va aggiunta la costante crescita percentuale a doppia cifra dei salari e il progressivo riconoscimento di diritti ai lavoratori (riduzione dell'oraria, aumento delle ferie, maggiori garanzie contro il licenziamento, sviluppo di una rete di protezione sociale universale). Misure impensabili senza uno sviluppo economico a doppia cifra. Tutt'altro che l'”esatto contrario” di quanto preannunciato! Certo, al mercato e all'iniziativa privata sono riconosciti ruoli crescenti, ma si resta nel quadro di una coerente programmazione economica da parte dello Stato (pianificazione), del controllo di quest'ultimo sul credito, sulle infrastrutture, sui settori strategici dell'economia, di un potere statale che può aumentare per legge i salari minimi (nel 2011 a Pechino crebbero per decreto del 21%), di un sistema fiscale fortemente progressivo a tutto vantaggio dei redditi più bassi, e dello sviluppo di un fiorente settore cooperativo che vede impiegata una fetta crescente della popolazione.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A questo vanno poi aggiunte le ricadute internazionali dello sviluppo economico cinese. L'ingresso a titolo paritario nella “grande famiglia di tutti i popoli del mondo” avveniva nel pieno di un processo di lotte di liberazione nazionale che vedevano impegnati popoli dell'Asia come dell'Africa contro le ex potenze coloniali e l'ingresso dell'imperialismo statunitense (guerra di Corea e difesa militare della secessione di Taiwan). Sintetizzava, quindi, la volontà dei comunisti cinesi di favorire il processo in atto e di costruire un ordine internazionale basato sul rispetto delle autonome vie di sviluppo economico-sociale. Volontà e programma politico che sarebbe stato successivamente scolpito nei Cinque principi della coesistenza pacifica (1954) in occasione della nascita del Movimento dei Paesi non allineati. A sessant'anni da quella presa di posizione – ancora oggi pietra miliare dell'impegno diplomatico cinese – ci troviamo forse di fronte all'”esatto contrario”? Chiusa la parentesi dell'esportazione della rivoluzione – che portò Pechino a sostenere anche movimenti di liberazione di dubbia ispirazione in funzione anti-sovietica – ora il successo economico cinese esercita quella che possiamo definire una “attrazione magnetica” o un “irradiamento” per quei Paesi – ancora molti – desiderosi di uscire da un secolare sottosviluppo e di sconfiggere la povertà. In campo è posta un'alternativa tanto all'imperativo liberista quanto alla complementare “carità che uccide”, secondo la definizione della giornalista africana, collaboratrice di New York Times e Financial Times, Dambysa Moyo. Queste sono le sue considerazioni: “<i>Negli ultimi decenni più di un trilione di dollari nell'assistenza allo sviluppo ha davvero migliorato la vita degli africani? No. Anzi, in tutto il globo i destinatari di questi aiuti stanno peggio, molto peggio. Gli aiuti hanno contribuito a rendere i poveri più poveri e a rallentare la crescita. Al contrario, il ruolo della Cina in Africa è maggiore, più sofisticato e più efficiente di quello di qualsiasi altro paese in qualunque momento del dopoguerra. Un ruolo criticato da quanti attualmente si arrogano il diritto di decidere il destino del continente come se fosse una loro precisa responsabilità, ossia la totalità dei liberal occidentali, i quali la ritengono (spesso nel ruolo più paternalistico) una loro precisa responsabilità. Per molti africani i vantaggi sono davvero tangibili: ora ci sono strade dove non ne esistevano, e posti di lavoro dove mancavano; invece di fissare il deserto degli aiuti internazionali, possono finalmente vedere i frutti dell'impegno cinese. Quest'ultimo è chiaramente un fattore che negli ultimi anni ha permesso all'Africa di arrivare a un tasso di crescita del 5%.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8059352799742796957#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="color: #940f04; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b>[1]</b></span></span></a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lo stesso vale per l'America Latina, visitata recentemente, in occasione dell'ultimo vertice Brics, dal presidente della Repubblica popolare cinese – e segretario del Pcc – Xi Jinping. Ai sempre più stretti legami economici e alle collaborazione in materia energetica e infrastrutturale, segue – considerazione lanciata da uno studio del Council on Hemispheric Affairs - un sempre più diffusa disponibilità “politica” nei confronti di Pechino: “<i>un consenso diverso sta emergendo riguardo agli investimenti cinesi nella regione. Con l'emergere della Cina sulla scena mondiale, molti Paesi dell'America Latina hanno accolto gli investimenti cinesi con le braccia aperte, perché vedono la Cina come una contrappeso all'egemonia statunitense nella regione</i>”. Ma in gioco non c'è solo il bilanciamento dello storica e preponderante influenza Usa – una progressiva erosione che sta permettendo l'azione integrazionista condotta da governi di stampo progressista, quando non socialista – quanto la “<i>gravitazione</i>” della regione verso norme di politica estera tradizionalmente gradite a Pechino, su tutte la non interferenza negli affari interni in tema di diritti umani<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8059352799742796957#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="color: #940f04; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span></span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Una parte significativa del mondo guarda con interesse al socialismo cinese e la stessa presenza di Pechino ha dato a molti quanto negli ultimi decenni sembrava inverosimile: una possibilità di scelta, una alternativa al ricatto, da giocare a favore dei propri interessi. È indubbio: la presenza e l'azione della Cina popolare costituisce e offre un sempre più importante contrappeso politico-economico per tutti quei Paesi che, grazie ai flussi finanziari e ai crediti (a tassi agevolati) provenienti dal dragone orientale, possono evitare il cappio dello sfruttamento occidentale rappresentato da strumenti operativi come la Banca Mondiale e il Fondo monetario internazionale.</span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-24681420283195134422014-11-01T10:43:00.000-07:002014-11-01T10:43:14.630-07:00Essere di sinistra vuol dire prima di tutto dire la verità. Tre temi caldi: immigrazione, omosessualità, vegetarianesimo.<br />
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Tre verità che sfatano tre falsi miti dell'età contemporanea:<br />
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1) <a href="http://m.tiscali.it/articolo.php?article=http%3A%2F%2Fnotizie.tiscali.it%2Farticoli%2Fcronaca%2F14%2F10%2F30%2Fimmigrati-meno-reati-di-italiani.html">gli immigrati commettono meno reati degli italiani.</a><br />
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2) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2014/11/01/gay-insegnante-religione-lezione-shock_n_6086186.html?ref=fbph">no, non c'è nessun fondamento scientifico per chi dice che si nasce omosessuali: dall'omosessualità, e ci sono migliaia di casi documentati e decine e centinaia di psicoterapeuti che se ne occupano, si può "guarire"</a><br />
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3) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2014/04/04/dieta-vegetariana-fa-male-salute-ansia-depressione-tumore_n_5089654.html?ref=fbph">non c'è nessun fondamento scientifico quando si dice che la dieta vegetariana o addirittura vegana sia più salutare di una che comprende carne, pesce, latticini, anzi, sembrerebbe il contrario. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-10722980624948695392014-10-27T04:37:00.004-07:002014-10-27T04:37:50.809-07:00Lo strano caso di Reyhaneh Jabbari<div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dal blog di<a href="http://www.francescosantoianni.it/wordpress/2014/10/26/strano-caso-reyhaneh-jabbari/"> Francesco Santoianni</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Impazza la campagna stampa mainstream (Renzi – ieri, alla Leopolda – l’ha celebrata con un <a href="http://www.toscanamedianews.it/la-leopolda-in-silenzio-per-ricordare-jabbari.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">minuto di silenzio</a>) contro l’Iran colpevole di avere impiccato Reyhaneh Jabbari la ragazza accusata di avere accoltellato a morte “l’uomo che aveva tentato di stuprarla”, e cioè il medico Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi; il quale, addirittura, sarebbe stato un “agente dei servizi segreti” (“<a href="http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/10/06/iran-verra-impiaccata-per-aver-ucciso-il-suo-stupratore-figlio-della-vittima-nega-tutto-e-non-ti-uccidiamo/1145208/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">iraniani</a>” o “<a href="http://www.repubblica.it/solidarieta/diritti-umani/2014/10/25/news/iran_impiccata_reyhaneh-98966703/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">irakeni</a> ” a seconda di chi la spara più grossa). “Notizia” questa che ha scatenato sul web una valanga di farneticazioni, ultima delle quali: l’omicidio di Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi altro non sarebbe che una esecuzione compiuta da chissà quale servizio segreto (ovviamente, il Mossad); circostanza questa “attestata” dalla ragazza che, mantenendo fino all’ultimo la sua versione, ha scelto di morire come ogni agente segreto che si rispetti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ma, tralasciando le fantasticherie, occupiamoci dei fatti. Ma, intanto, una premessa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Che il maschilismo (nonostante significative <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/solidarieta/diritti-umani/2014/09/24/news/iran-96529323/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">conquiste</a>) domini ancora l’Iran resta un fatto innegabile. E a farne le spese sono le tante donne per le quali, anche in sede giudiziaria, valgono due pesi e due misure; una situazione non molto diversa da quella che viveva l’Italia del “delitto d’onore” (al più, qualche anno di detenzione se si ammazzava la moglie fedifraga o presunta tale) abrogato definitivamente solo il 5 agosto 1981. È possibile, quindi, che anche nel caso Reyhaneh Jabbari, abbia pesato una “cultura”, anzi una “religione”, oggi per noi assolutamente inaccettabile. Ma questo non può certo giustificare forsennate campagne mediatiche – come quella, di qualche tempo fa, per salvare <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakineh_Mohammadi_Ashtiani" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">Sakineh</a> “condannata alla lapidazione per adulterio” – che si direbbero finalizzate ad additare un altro “stato canaglia” da distruggere con una ennesima “guerra umanitaria”. Meglio tenerlo a mente ora che l’Iran – tra le proteste e i tentativi di sabotaggio di non pochi paesi – sta per firmare il <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2014/07/18/news/nucleare_iraniano_intesa_a_vienna_l_accordo_di_ginevra_rester_in_vigore_fino_al_24_novembre-91919173/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">trattato sul nucleare</a> che dovrebbe togliere ogni legittimità ad un attacco militare dell’Occidente.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ma torniamo ai fatti, così come sono emersi dagli atti del processo (*). Intanto una precisazione: non è vero che Reyhaneh Jabbari non è stata assistita dagli avvocati o che “le autorità l’hanno <a href="http://www.amnesty.it/Reyhaneh-jabbari-sara-messa-a-morte-all-alba-Amnesty-International-a-Iran-fermate-esecuzione" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">costretta a sostituire</a> il suo avvocato con un collega inesperto”. La verità è che i suoi ottimi avvocati sono stati messi alle corde dalle prove. Prima tra tutte un sms inviato il giorno prima dell’omicidio nel quale Reyhaneh Jabbari comunica ad un suo amico di volere uccidere Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi. Poi ci sono tante altre cose che non tornano nell’alibi della ragazza: le coltellate date – non già frontalmente – ma alle spalle dell’uomo; la porta della stanza del “tentato stupro” non chiusa dall’uomo; il coltello (usato per l’omicidio) acquistato da Reyhaneh Jabbari alcuni giorni prima; la circostanza del coltello messo dalla ragazza, prima dell’incontro, nella borsa (ma se aveva “tanta paura” di quell’uomo”, perché non è andata all’appuntamento accompagnata da qualcuno?); il presunto ingresso nella stanza – immediatamente dopo l’omicidio – di una persona (rimasta non identificata) che, a dire della ragazza, sarebbe andato in cucina a prendere alcuni fogli…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Non è certo il caso di ridursi qui al rango di “giurati” o “giudici”, come pretendono di essere gli spettatori delle innumerevoli “Crime Stories” che affollano i nostri teleschermi. Ogni delitto, tra l’altro, è costellato di tante inevitabili incongruenze che possono lasciar propendere per una tesi o per l’altra. E un errore giudiziario è sempre possibile. E questo vale per sia l’Iran sia per tanti altri paesi dove vige l’abominevole pena di morte. E varrebbe la pena di mobilitarsi contro questa, invece di inventarsi l’innocente “eroina di turno” vittima dell’ennesimo “stato canaglia”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">E per onorare la morte della povera Reyhaneh Jabbari sarebbe anche il caso di non fare due pesi e due misure e guardare anche nel cortile di casa. Come l’Arabia Saudita, dove oggi 14 donne rischiano la decapitazione in quanto accusate di “<a href="http://video.sky.it/news/mondo/arabia_saudita_il_paese_che_condanna_a_morte_le_streghe/v118906.vid" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">stregoneria</a>”o gli <a href="http://video.sky.it/news/mondo/arabia_saudita_il_paese_che_condanna_a_morte_le_streghe/v118906.vid" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">USA</a> dove stanno nel braccio della morte 11 donne, alcune delle quali troppo povere per poter dimostrare la loro innocenza. A proposito, avete saputo di qualche mobilitazione per la loro salvezza?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">(*) Mi spiace di non poter inserire, questa volta, uno dei tanti link che costellano i miei articoli; il sito – del Ministero della Giustizia iraniano – che riporta gli atti del processo è in Farsi e, a quanto mi risulta, a giorni dovrebbe riportare il testo anche in inglese. Spero al più presto di potere – in una nuova versione di questo articolo – pubblicare questa documentazione. Per ora mi sono servito principalmente della documentazione tratta dalla <a href="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153305405209115&set=vb.809589114&type=2&theater" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">intervista a Rai NEWS</a> fatta a Tiziana Ciavardini e di altre notizie fornitemi da un mio amico iraniano che, pur non potendo nominare, desidero qui ringraziare.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">- See more at: http://www.francescosantoianni.it/wordpress/2014/10/26/strano-caso-reyhaneh-jabbari/#sthash.uU8x8M13.dpuf</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7251678307135366873.post-57371777850926038622014-07-03T10:46:00.000-07:002014-07-03T10:46:07.748-07:00Gloria all'Ucraina!<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Da<a href="http://byebyeunclesam.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/gloria-allucraina/"> Bye Bye Unlce Sam</a></span><br />
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Il bombardamento dell’orfanotrofio di Slaviansk.</div>
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Il bombardamento della cittadina di Luganskaya.</div>
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