VIEWPOINTS_ The Blood-Stained Square

THE EPOCH TIMES

The Blood-Stained Square

Millions of Chinese people came to Tiananmen Square to support the pro-democracy student protests in Beijing in 1989. (Courtesy of Ma Jian)

By Ma Jian
6/4/2024 Updated: 6/4/2024

Commentary

As I stood in the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference room of the UK Parliament, presenting photos I took 35 years ago in Tiananmen Square of a student hunger strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin was standing on Tiananmen Square, stepping onto the blood-red carpet laid out by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Thirty-five years ago, students sat quietly, waiting for Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to China. They hoped the world would hear their calls for democracy and freedom. In the joint declaration of Xi and Putin, the grim reality for democratic countries is once again revealed: “The joint efforts of China and Russia lead the way for global governance.”

This is a declaration to the world: Authoritarianism is uniting to confront Western democratic countries. So will the massacre of 35 years ago in Tiananmen Square be repeated? The hundreds of photos on my computer are living history. Has history come back to life?

In most of those black-and-white photos, the hunger-strike students, like the youth blocking the tanks, only left their images on film after the massacre, with no names, and no one knew their future. Even the university students I knew who participated in the hunger strike, some working in the London finance industry, still take medication years later to repair their injured stomachs. Some became managers of joint ventures in Beijing, but they are all unwilling to mention their experiences of hunger strikes in Tiananmen Square.

Of course, there are still students and citizens who, despite entering middle age, continue to resist the authoritarian government and constantly enter and exit prisons without surrender. There are also those like Li Hong, Liu Xiaobo, Yang Tianshui, and others who have completed their missions and left “China-the-large-prison” forever.

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