Thirty years ago today the Communist Chinese government ended the Tiananmen Square protests in the most expedient way possible: Arresting, beating and killing protesters until no one was left. Inside China itself, the day was marked only by the totalitarian regime taking extra care to make sure no one inside or outside China had any reason to think this day was somehow different than any other day.
Places were people are free to give voice to their thoughts did mark the day, though, with everything from candelight vigils in Hong Kong to praise for the protestors and their cause from United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The latter was roundly denounced by the Chinese government.
Really, the only proper response to said government is a mere two words long. The second word is "you," but the first can't easily be expressed here in a blog read by this author's mom and members of his church.
The Chinese regime, as with all totalitarian regimes, is unable to actually do what it wants everyone else to do: Forget Tiananmen ever happened. Its own ham-handed attempts to close down discussion or notice of the protests and their bloody end only help ensure that we will remember the unnamed man who faced down a row of tanks far, far longer than we will ever remember the bloody-handed thugs who ordered the tanks to roll and the soldiers to shoot.
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