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There were both protestor deaths as well as PLA personnel deaths (which outnumbered protestor death, actually). But even the US diplomat who was present through the whole event said that there were riots and riot control, but not a massacre.
It's only almost 40 years later that the continuous lying about history has twisted people's perception of what actually happened.
Even American newspapers didn't call it a massacre until much later lmao. Probably because the evidence of many of the protestors meeting with American officials before the riots was readily available.
Thankfully, such protests/colour revolutions are impossible now in China, so no regime change can be carried out by the US
Pla deaths outnumbered protestor deaths? Jeez, what're you smoking? Even the Chinese govt didn't claim that. And why are you thankful that 'protests are impossible now'? Do you truly relish the political disenfranchisement of the populace so much? Smh my head
If you truly believe we are disenfranchised because the American backed regime change failed I truly feel sorry for you. China has one of the most involved political systems I have heard of. We have constant interaction with our elected representatives at the town/city and county level through the local party offices where feedback criticism and petitions for changes are constant. We are listened to and our ideas are constantly worked on and applied in different ways as satisfying the people and earning achievements is how you get your peers to elect you to the provincial and national level. There is a reason that even from Harvard's studies they found we have a high satisfaction with our government (95+%).
This is also a falsehood we have protests but they are about real single issues as opposed to regime change events backed by outside agitators.
Can't tell you how much your sympathy means to me, comrade
Eh, our Chinese comrades are much nicer people than the world gives them credit for.
I personally have no sympathy for your ilk and am cheering on for Western collapse. I'm almost, ALMOST looking forward to Westerners suffering after what they've done to the rest of us lol