Gnads wrote on Jan 11
th, 2025 at 9:32am:
Rubbish - 1989 is not ancient history.
"ancient history" is a term used in this context to reiforce the point: a week is a long time in politics.....
Quote:China had been in out of the cold since 1979.
Actually since 1972 when Nixon recognised the CCP as government of China., to gain support against the USSR.
Quote:In December 1978 at the 3rd plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping announced the official launch of the Four Modernizations, formally marking the beginning of the reform.
Quote:Neither is that an excuse to murder your own citizens by sending in the military and tanks nor for you to condone it because it was 33 years ago.
Yea it is, you either defend the revolution from counter revolutionaries, or you don't .
And in 1970, the US govt sent the
'national guard' (!) into US universities during the Vietnam war, and murdered 6 unarmed students protesting against the war. You're comparing the Cut Lunch Commandos going to Kent University to the Red Army being sent into Tiananmen Square?