Taipei Times | Michael Mazza On Taiwan: 35 years on, Tiananmen’s legacy endures

By: Michael Mazza | TAIPEI TIMES |

…It is easy to look back on the Tiananmen Square Massacre and think that the bad, old days are behind us. After all, there have been protests in China in the three decades since Chinese soldiers opened fire on their unarmed fellow citizens, but the tanks have not again been called from their depots.

But although one can be glad that the Chinese Communist Party has not, since 1989, seen fit to set its war machine upon the people it purports to represent, one should also recognize that Tiananmen was not an anomaly, but rather a portent of what was to come…

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