Carlos Roa, National Interest: On the Anniversary of Tiananmen Square, What Is Xi Jinping Thinking?
We cannot know for sure what Chinese Communist Party luminaries, including Chinese president Xi Jinping, are thinking about on today of all days. But there are hints.
When soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army opened fire on protestors at Tiananmen Square thirty years ago today, Western observers were quick to predict that the regime of the Chinese Communist Party would soon implode.
Who could blame them? Like with the Arab Spring protests of early 2011, it seemed at the time that an unstoppable tide of freedom and vitality was sweeping over the world. On the same day as the Tiananmen Square massacre, Solidarity stormed to victory in Poland’s legislative election, setting the stage for the fall of Communism in that country. Mass demonstrations were underway in Hungary, and revolutions would soon sweep over the entirety of the Eastern Bloc.
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WNU Editor: First things first. On this day President Xi does what all other past Chinese Presidents have done in the first week of each June .... they keep a low profile, few if any public appearances, and definitely no major announcements. The fact is that everyone in China knows what happened 30 years ago, especially to those who 50 years or older. And while I do not know what President Xi is thinking, I do have a very good idea on what most senior officials in China feel about that terrible week 30 years ago. They feel it was justified to maintain order, but they are all sickened by the thousands who were killed and injured, and doubly so because it occurred in a square that all Chinese believe represents the soul of the country. They also know that one day there will be an accounting for what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989, and their only hope is that when it does happen, it is far in the future where almost everyone is long gone.
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