Stoking the anti-China fires, and refreshing anti-communism
Remembering Tiananmen Square, 25 years later
Dispatches from the Ministry of Truth
Branch: CBS News
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We know perfectly well how selective the American media are when it comes to their delicate sensibilities in exposing “tyrants”. While we hear little or nothing about Thailand’s coup masters (our clients), or Egypt’s new brutal henchman (our man in Cairo), or the scores of bastards we support openly or stealthily in Africa and other continents, we know the current dumping on China is not out of principle, but following the official line of antagonizing the greatest rival American oligarchs have in the Far East, and one of the two only possible powers to challenge US global hegemony.
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Caveat Emptor: Consume with huge lumps of salt.
JUNE 1, 2014, 9:44 AM|On June 4, 1989, Chinese forces attacked student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. It’s a day many of us remember well. But as Seth Doane reports, it’s a day the Chinese government wants the world to forget.