Shorter Chas Freeman: the rabble at Tiananmen Square weren’t suppressed *enough*.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 27th at 11:06 AM  | 

NO. REALLY. But I want to take issue with what I assume, perhaps incorrectly, to be yoiur citation of the conventional wisdom about the 6/4 [or Tiananmen] incident. I find the dominant view in China about this very plausible, i.e. that the truly unforgivable mistake of the Chinese authorities was the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud, | Read More »