Friday, May 31, 2019

30 Years After Tiananmen_ In 1989, the U.S. Decided to Let Beijing Get Away With Murder

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In 1989, the U.S. Decided to Let Beijing Get Away With Murder

American policymakers thought that continued engagement would lead China toward democracy. Time has shown that they were wrong.


By Gerard Baker
May 31, 2019 10:05 a.m. ET


There are many enduring images of the pro-democracy demonstrations by Chinese students in Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989: the bloody denouement, of course, with its scenes of carnage; the heartbreaking sight of one man bravely standing unarmed and pacific in front of a People’s Liberation Army tank.

But for Americans, perhaps the most powerful and recognizable visual at the time was the image of the Goddess of Democracy, the makeshift statue constructed by the students and placed directly across from the portrait and...

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American policymakers thought that continued engagement would lead China toward democracy. Time has shown that they were wrong.

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