Mar 03 2008
June 4th Tiananmen
“A lot of people think Tiananmen [June 4th 1989] was all about democracy. They’re wrong. Economics also had a big role.” .. I couldn’t agree more. (However the author’s assertion about “sea turtles” as Chinese “migrat back and forth across the ocean.” Hai gui meant “overseas returned students” and is a pun for “sea turtles.”
It’s the west’s wishful thinking or their imagination that China was due to a change to democracy, so Tiananmen was it. In fact it so wasn’t it!