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Rebecca Grant: Why China’s not sorry for Tiananmen
OPINION - By Rebecca Grant | Fox News
China tightens security 30 years after Tiananmen Square protests
The anniversary isn't officially acknowledged in China and authorities have cracked down on dissidents speaking out about it; Kitty Logan reports from London.
It’s official. China is not one bit sorry for the deaths of hundreds of its citizens killed by its army in and around Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 30 years ago this week.
At the Shangri-La international forum in Singapore, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe brushed off Tiananmen. “That incident was political turbulence,” Wei said. “The central government’s measures to stop that turbulence were correct. China has enjoyed stable development.”
How deep China is burying its past. Inside China, almost no one talks about the incident, aka massacre. Authoritarian, big business China doesn’t want any discussion of student protests.
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The upheaval of Tiananmen Square started after the death in April 1989 of Hu Yaobang, secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party and a symbol of democratic reform. Public mourning turned into a hunger strike and then led to a demonstration by 1.2 million people at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on May 19, 1989. China imposed martial law and China’s leadership dropped out of sight. On June 2, a concert in support of student demonstrations drew over 1000,000 people to the square in violation of the curfew.
Military units surged in. Violence in and around Tiananmen Square peaked the night of June 3-4, as residents tried to block military forces. Declassified State Department cables recorded eyewitness accounts of a tank crushing 11 protesters and gunfire around the square. Bullets hit diplomatic compounds nearby. The Chinese Red Cross estimated 2,600 military and civilian deaths and as many as 7,000 wounded. China’s figure was 241 dead.
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Rebecca Grant is a national security analyst based in Washington, D.C. She earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics at age 25 then worked for RAND and on the staff of the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Since founding IRIS Independent Research, she has specialized in research for government and aerospace industry clients ranging from analysis of military campaigns to projects on major technology acqusition such as the B-21 bomber.
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