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An ongoing topic - click here for Most Recent Post . . . is code for June 4 on the Weibos here in China Tales of Army Discord Show Tiananmen Square in a New Light
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On this day in 1919, students in Beijing organized and protested in Tiananmen in response to global events that were affecting China. From Wiki: World War I had just ended and China was squeezed by the Japanese, USA, dying monarchy, Russian communists, warlords and choosing between tradition and science. The failure at Versailles was the moment the U.S. lost China and marked the radicalization of Mao. Sad!
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from the NY Times Xi Praises a Student Protest in China. From 100 Years Ago. An exhibit room that showcases banners with protest slogans for the May Fourth student protest. Credit Yan Cong for The New York Times see also CFL topic May 4th Movement
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. from the Global Times Tiananmen jeep crash kills 5, police name Xinjiang suspects from USAToday http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/5598db7d88f182f7d8720eb25c28502f287d6dfd/c=282-0-2718-1830&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/10/28/1382970202000-AFP-524151943.jpg
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An interesting article in the Global Times about Western awards to Chinese dissidents. Interesting in no small part because of the mention made of the "political turmoil at the Tian'anmen Square 25 years ago" in the days leading up to the "May 35"/June 4 25th anniversary of the "turmoil" Law-breakers will always be losers
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Not sure where to put this but here goes. The wife is always saying that China is safe and secure. The US has all these people who kill so many others and nothing seems to happen. But I say China's justice system is quite arbitrary and many innocent people are executed. (Maybe some not so innocent.) And there is just as much injustice toward victims as there is in the US. And we never hear about the ones who carry knives and mug you. The cops in China are just as fallible and subject to corruption as any police system. Maybe more. I am constantly being subjected to the generalizations about China, this one being the most common, especially in view of the latest round of mass murderers. It always starts with "China no have." Well, China does not have a lot of things, including freedom and justice. And it does have a lot of civil unrest where people do get killed. China Executes 9
