Tiananmen Square Protests 30 Years Later: The Fight for Freedom Continues
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy
Posted: Jun 04, 2019 4:30 PM
Source: AP Photo/Kin Cheung
In 1989, two defining moments in modern history occurred. Both involved democratic protests for greater freedom, but they turned out very differently.
The first was the peaceful fall of the Berlin Wall, which started a chain reaction that led to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
The second was the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests.
The Tiananmen Square protests continue to capture the imagination of freedom-loving people everywhere because of what the protests stood for and how the Chinese government responded to them, then and now.
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READ MORE: https://townhall.com/capitol-voices/majorityleaderkevinmccarthy/2019/06/04/tiananmen-square-protests-30-years-later-the-fight-for-freedom-continues-n2547455
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Thirty years later, there is less freedom in China. The Communist Party maintains its inhumane grip on power. It has placed millions of people, from religious minorities to political dissidents, in concentration camps. It is developing a “social credit system” to regulate the conduct of its citizens through electronic tracking. And it maintains the so-called “Great Firewall,” a sophisticated system of censorship designed to clamp down on political discussion that might call the legitimacy of the regime into question.
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The United States must be resolute and unified in our stance against Chinese human rights abuses. There should be no question on where we stand as a nation against these heinous actions; we must condemn them whenever they arise.
But it should not just be America. The world should watch what is happening in China today. It is long past time for a public discussion of what transpired 30 years ago and where the world is going in the future.
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