AmidFuror

What’s that?

I only commented because you said something stupid about Tiananmen Square that chapped my hide. The rest of it is fine. I’m only responding again because you doubled-down. The CIA version? I was alive at the time and followed the news, including live TV reporting, for days.

Say what you want about the politics of US News channels at that time, they weren’t all in lock step with the CIA. I watched as Zhao Ziyang visited with the hunger-striking students, and I watched as the tanks rolled in. Don’t try to revise history because you need the US to be the #1 bad guy. China had a chance to reform, and they cracked down instead.

but some guy in Kentucky isn’t able to get a detailed description of Tiananmen Square from the US perspective

How about from the perspective of the pro-democracy protestors who were there? Don’t turn a brutal crackdown on people trying to gain some control of their lives and their country as an East vs. West problem.