Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "CNBC International"
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Some say that Tiananmen was a botched attempt at a colour revolution in China by the USA riding on the back of genuine protests, though even if it was one hundred percent genuine and spontaneous no government could allow its capital city to be held by naive students wanting what amounted to revolution. And massacre, what massacre? Where are the photos and other documentary evidence that proves their was a massacre. From what I can gather, most of the violence and deaths (are their even trustworthy sources for a massacre as properly understood?) occurred outside Tiananmen Square, not within it, so a massacre, if it happened at all, almost certainly did not occur in the square itself (maybe a 'Beijing massacre ' would be more accurate, but it's a moot point).
Apropos, most westerners tend to naively think that the protests were against the Chinese communist party or Chinese communism when, in fact, most of the discontent could be said, students aside, to have been aimed at the reforms of Dong Xioping - that is to say, capitalist reforms. So, here we have, ironically, the kind of protests which the Western media would have normally not given much coverage to and would have been quickly consigned to the memory hole getting a hollowed place in the cannon of anti-communist folklore, effectively turning a pro-communist protest against Deng Zioping - who was dismantling communism Gorbachev/Yeltsin style) into an anti-communist one, pro-capitalist one.
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