by He Zhao, Robert K Tan, Dennis Etler

no accident that the center piece of the protests was a replica of the Statue of Liberty

Many socialist states were destroyed in the late 80s and early 90s, succumbed to pressure, economic violence, sabotage, and relentless destabilisation campaigns from hostile bourgeois regimes. They were torn apart, cannibalised over night, and became vassals of the global neo-liberal order, dooming entire populations to poverty and misery: Yugoslavia, USSR, GDR, etc. The same fate was planned for China, but the Communist Party was able to defeat the counter-revolution, and the country has remained independent to this day.

Deng XiaoPing was ill by 1989, and his imminent exit from office was soon to create a power vacuum. The CIA already had their man inside the party, Zhao Ziyang, who, if the student protests had spread and succeeded, would have taken power, opened the doors to imperialist domination, and ended Chinese socialist sovereignty.

In the 1980s, Deng Xiao Ping implemented the “Reform and Opening Up” reforms, which began to allow controlled private entrepreneurship as well as the entrance of foreign investment, in order to raise China from poverty more extreme than in Africa (China’s GDP in 1980 was lower than that of the average of African countries). Uneven development is simply not avoidable, and that is why Xiao Ping famously remarked: “Some people will have to get rich first.”

And In order to overcome this very serious problem of uneven development (urban/coastal regions had been growing much faster) by mid 1980s the focus had been placed on the growth of rural/inland regions. As a result, urban development temporarily stagnated — economic discontent resultant from this and grievances over other developmental problems such as corruption formed the initial and underlying catalyst for the protest movements.

“The student leadership was smart: They seized on the issue of corruption, not economic or political conservatism, as their focus. This was something that ordinary people could also latch onto. The students could cloak themselves in the legitimate, patriotic mourning of a fallen Party leader, and could build the momentum without the Party leadership being able to do anything about it. … it’s important, I think, to understand the almost absurdly unlikely convergence of factors that made protests of this size at all possible. They were, many who have studied the protests would concur, all out of proportion to the size of the initial grievance. The tinder was damp, and yet it caught fire.” –– The Unlikely Confluence Of Events That Led To The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

The “National Endowment for Democracy” had been funding the student protestors since at least 1985, fanning the flames of the most extremist anti-government sentiments, and set up radio stations to disseminate anti-socialist and liberal capitalist propaganda (no accident that the center piece of the protests was a replica of the Statue of Liberty). It was the tried and true formula that had been deployed countless times during the 20th Century against disobedient states, most recently in Syria, Libya, Venezuela, etc.: fan the flames of uprisings, derail them, and use the ensuing chaos to destabilise, create chaos, and topple governments resistant to Western hegemony.

The CPC rightly suppressed those astro-turf “pro-democracy” elements, because they were supported by and served bourgeois interests, with the goal of ending Chinese self determination, so Western powers can once again reclaim the slave country which once belonged to them.

“…a major blowout in the leadership, which led to Zhao-type forces taking over the CPC is unlikely unless the rightists can put together some unholy alliance with dissident military forces, of which there are not many. This means that we can expect some continuity and that the bulk of leadership will remain committed to carrying the socialist project through to its completion.” – Looking back at Tiananmen Square, the defeat of counter-revolution in China

Most protest signs were in English, demanding Western capitalist “freedom” and “democracy”

But to date, there is not a single shred of photographic, video, or any other kind of evidence for the “hundreds”, “thousands”, or “tens of thousands”, of protesters “massacred” by gun fire or tanks by the government in or around the square that night or any of the other days during the uprising. To those who hold up the few photos which exist of a few on stretchers, bleeding on the ground, or deceased, I respond: How many died at the German Techno-Rave party Love Parade in 2010? The dangers of injuries or casualties exist during any very crowded large scale public event, and especially during political uprisings. There were many foreign journalists present, why is there not a single photo of the “massacre”? How ever, there is evidence that most of the injured and casualties were soldiers and workers, and very few students.

CBS News: There Was No “Tiananmen Square Massacre”

Contrary to what this CBS News article claims, there is also no evidence of government mass-killings around the square, only casualties resulting from conflict, people trampled by crowds, other kinds of accidental deaths, and soldiers killed by protestors.

“Secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing have shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square when China put down student pro-democracy demonstrations 22 years ago.” – Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square “The problem is this: as far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night in Tiananmen Square.” – The Myth of Tiananmen

Hu YaoBang, the liberal reformist whose death was spark to the uprising, reportedly advocated for China to switch to forks and spoons, and abandon the use of chopsticks.