Tiananmen — The Big Lie

Tiananmen was never about democracy in China. It was about SOCIAL reform, not political or economic changes, according to Carl Zha, who was present at the Tiananmen protests, and the host of the “Silk And Steel” program, as he explained in <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ep-19-tiananmen-memories-part-2/id1451115518?i=1000442570432" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">his Tiananmen</a> Twitter podcasts. The Communist protesters were peaceful and unimpeded from 16 April to 20 May 1989 without incident. The so-called “Tiananmen Square Massacre” or “6–4 Incident” as labelled by the Western media was a lingering remnant of China’s failed Cultural Revolution. The gathering at Tiananmen actually began on 15 April 1989 as a wreath-laying and candle-lighting funeral vigil by supporters for the Communist pro-reform ideologist Hu Yaobang who had died earlier from natural causes. Hu was the Chairman (1981–1982) and General Secretary (1982–1987) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and a close colleague of then China Leader Deng Xiaoping (1978–1992). <a href="https://medium.com/illumination-curated/tiananmen-the-big-lie-35aec1aff413">Visit Now</a>