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Tiananmen Square Uprising

20 Years Later, Chinese Dissident Wang Juntao and US Journalist Philip Cunningham Look Back on Tiananmen Square Uprising

Twenty years ago, the Chinese military gunned down student protesters in Tiananmen Square. As twentieth anniversary events are held around the world, we speak with Wang Juntao, a prominent Chinese dissident who was sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment and now lives in exile in the United States, and Philip Cunningham, an American journalist who marched with the students and is author of a new book Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989. Ref. Source 7

Uprising Square Tiananmen

I remember seeing this on television and thinking about the tank hitting the guy. I was actually surprised the tank stopped and tried to move away from him. The picture we learn of Communist China is that they will just roll over you with no problem.