Comments on: WikiLeaks: Tiananmen Tank Man was just ‘short-sighted grandpa’

By: laptop bags

laptop bags — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:48:00 +0000

ya, it is very chinese though.

By: Waxon

Waxon — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:14:00 +0000

“Tiananmen Square Massacre” is a misnomer only in the sense that most of the killings actually took place in other parts of the city. I
quote from the article in Japan Times by Gregory Clark which was selectively quoted by china Daily to prove it’s a media myth: “much that happened elsewhere in Beijing that night was ugly…I
n the panicky fighting afterward, hundreds, maybe even thousands, of
civilians and students were killed”. He adds that this was more a “riot”
than a massacre but notes, crucially, that “the real story… was [not
the students but] the uprising of the civilian masses against a regime
whose gray hand of corruption, oppression and incompetence ever since
the Cultural Revolution days of the late 1960s had reduced an entire
population to simmering resentment.To summarize, there was a massacre; it may not have happened in the center of town.Semantics aside, ringleaders
were needlessly executed… even in Shanghai where Jiang Zemin “sent in
the grannies” to wail and kowtow until the students couldn’t take it any
longer… and security crackdowns followed. We can accept that 20 years
ago, there was far less access and more distortion of some factual
aspects in China – such as images of Chinese soldiers “strung up and
burned to a crisp”, which I’ve never seen – but 22 years later, has
there been any accountability or reckoning from the government other than rare, crackpot
defenses? No, there hasn’t. Beijing say the issue is “closed.”By the way, this story is clearly satire.

By: Moobi

Moobi — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:24:00 +0000

Ask anyone in the “West”, even around Asia, and most will tell you the version propagated by Western news sources. The BBC was a major player in this and yet it admitted later that it gave a “wrong impression” of the Tiananmen incident. It’s admission however, was extremely muted, I only came across it recently.

That MOST can be misled by the news sources which kept building on one another’s tall tales is a telling indication that “free” can also be “misled”. One is not free if misled taking up the agenda of others. That is virtual enslavement.

Now I don’t know what the deal is with this story about the Tank Man, I can’t make a decision about it’s correctness atm, so I will leave by opinion on it open for now. However, Wikileaks has supportive statements that even US diplomats, who are a cautious against saying positive about a Communist government, revealed that there was no massacre and Western eyewitnesses describe police and army who were behaving within reason (considering the scale of the protest, there must have been some strong force used).

By: laptop bag

laptop bag — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:07:00 +0000

Funny one, it makes me think of the Chinese I know.

By: Summermann007

Summermann007 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:54:00 +0000

10000000% ertain that you just sit front the laptop and watch some vedios and then you think that you know the world .
hihihi :-)
god bless u

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:50:00 +0000

Isn’t this website a testimony to the free-thinking of western people though?

By: Honestyprevails

Honestyprevails — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:07:00 +0000

LOL

So, this is the tank issue, and not the gunning down of Chinese citizens issue?

Ok. Whoever wrote the article never watched the video.
10000000% certain.

By: huijia

huijia — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:23:00 +0000

I just love this website…I also love the fact that some people writing comments believe those news.

makes you wonder about the so called free-thinking of western people

By: Number One search engine shows the happy side of China | China Daily Show

Number One search engine shows the happy side of China | China Daily Show — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:44:58 +0000

[...] Other, more modern, political myths are also being debunked, says Li. For example, typing in “Tiananmen” and “Tank Man” links directly to a page revealing new evidence showing the alleged “dissident” was almost certainly a shortsighted grandfather mistakenly trying to hail a bus. [...]

By: Delajello

Delajello — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:04:00 +0000

BullCrap! Watch the video and tell me again that it’s an old man jumping up and down the tank!