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(1) China - Then
(2) China - Now
CHINA = The Numbers Game (Lies)
(Then)
(1989) - Tiananmen Square Beijing, China
To this day Mainland Chinese people, for the most part, do not refer to the massacre.
Mainland Chinese call it: "The June 4th Incident"
A little analysis (Echos from 30yrs Ago). And long experience in mainland China.
(1989) - Spring & Summer - Beijing
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China [CCP - Beijing] was in a real predicament. Berlin Wall was coming down. Eastern Block citizens were flooding across the Iron Curtain borders. Communism in Eastern Europe was crumbling.
(I was stationed in West Germany at the time)
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The Student Democracy Movement was gathering steam in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
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[CCP - Beijing] - Was backed into a corner. They couldn't let (The People) rise up like those in East Europe. Leaders in Beijing were watching leaders in Eastern Europe lose power. They were desperate. Beijing saw communist power crumbling in Europe.
So,
1: Beijing mobilized thousands of PLA troops from Western China provinces ("minority" groups w/ less ties to the majority Han Chinese in the east) that contained the most pro Beijing [CCP] units. That was so the soldiers would have no sympathetic connections to the Beijingers they were about to "suppress".
2: The majority of PLA units were staged in areas in the suburbs of Beijing so as not to draw attention.
3: Beijing started kicking out: Foreign Journalists, Foreign Embassy staff and "locked-down" civilian movement in Beijing.
(even so, some journalists & embassy staff were able to get some more-accurate info from their Chinese citizen sources around Beijing)
4: The troops were sent in. The massacre ensued while free movement & info was locked-down in Beijing.
5: The Beijing [CCP] - Reported [Low] Fake Death Toll numbers.
6: Western Intelligence reports gathered from sources in Beijing during & after the time of the massacre - put the actual death toll at around (10,000+) people.
(going mostly from recollection here)
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Beijing ALWAYS controls the reports & numbers disclosed officially.
And they ALWAYS LIE. (What number is POTUS pointing to?)
"Does anybody really believe that number?"