Tiananmen Square… Remembering Or Rationalizing?
By JOHN J. METZLER UNITED NATIONS — We all remember where we were when the Tiananmen Square crackdown occurred. I recall a Friday evening episode of the TV program Dallas being interrupted as the news switched live to Beijing. Only moments later, Chinese police forced their way into the CBS News transmission trailer and shut down the broadcast. The Tiananmen Square demonstrations in the heart of the Chinese capital were ending in a chaotic bloodbath. Hundreds if not a few thousand unarmed pro-democracy protesters were killed that bloody night in Beijing. The world watched in horror as the comfortable stereotypes of a “changed China” were suddenly smashed as China was brutally thrust back to the sanguinary Maoist era, all on…Continue Reading