Sometimes the sinophobia machine paints the June fourth event as a brutal quashing of a student protest, which is like maybe a smidgeon of the truth in that there were students there, and well… the US has got that right at home, from recent ceasefire campus protests to Kent State 1970.
However regarding 6-4, I must point out that many prominent student leaders were very much not gunned down. Many of them (along with other dissidents) smuggled out of PRC by Operation Yellowbird; CIA and MI6 already had a network in place as they were aiding students in organizing protests, so were able to react quickly when China announced arrest warrants. Like, these student leaders didn’t die, they went on to get (or were honorarily awarded) degrees from prestigious universities. They’re still alive today, thriving even. (except for one guy who wants to go back to China, even tried to turn himself in, nope. Dude’s got a whooole interesting entanglement in dissident activities, but then again many of the other beneficiaries of Op Yellowbird do as well)
Yeah, even BBC cables at the time debunk the current narrative about the protests. Amazingly though, all the libs forgot about the IOF running over children with a tank. CNN did a piece feeling sorry about the piece of shit that did it even.
Sometimes the sinophobia machine paints the June fourth event as a brutal quashing of a student protest, which is like maybe a smidgeon of the truth in that there were students there, and well… the US has got that right at home, from recent ceasefire campus protests to Kent State 1970.
However regarding 6-4, I must point out that many prominent student leaders were very much not gunned down. Many of them (along with other dissidents) smuggled out of PRC by Operation Yellowbird; CIA and MI6 already had a network in place as they were aiding students in organizing protests, so were able to react quickly when China announced arrest warrants. Like, these student leaders didn’t die, they went on to get (or were honorarily awarded) degrees from prestigious universities. They’re still alive today, thriving even. (except for one guy who wants to go back to China, even tried to turn himself in, nope. Dude’s got a whooole interesting entanglement in dissident activities, but then again many of the other beneficiaries of Op Yellowbird do as well)
Yeah, even BBC cables at the time debunk the current narrative about the protests. Amazingly though, all the libs forgot about the IOF running over children with a tank. CNN did a piece feeling sorry about the piece of shit that did it even.