Kerry Brown
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There will be no turning back.
When one tries to find out whether the existing policy is here to stay, he should first examine whether the policy is correct, whether the policy is right for the country and the people, and whether the life of the people is gradually improving under the policy.
So long as the people think the existing policy is correct, whoever wants to change it will be brought down.
The party became almost like a business rather than a political movement.
And all of this sort of built up to the events over April to June 1989.
Ambulance drivers were prevented from getting into the square when the troops were trying to take it over.
Students protested over a whole series of things, but mostly corruption.
The prices of things, kind of just very frustrated, and put up the goddess of democracy in Tiananmen Square.
They were pushed in something of a panic down from the steps of the monument, and people were crushed.
The party, though, just couldn't compromise.
It did not compromise.
It was an existential threat.
They did turn their military on protesting, mostly protesting students, but some protesting workers pretty brutally.
At the time, I remember, I mean, I remember kind of observing this from Britain.
The idea really was that China was going to close the door, that it was not going to continue developing its economy because it had been too risky.
So what we see after 1989 is the appearance of this very specific form of Chinese capitalism, but with socialist characteristics and with a very strong insistence on it being a Chinese model with Chinese cultural characteristics.
democracy and the democracy movement was stopped in 89 and never really has really never really come back to China.
There were rumors almost every month about him being dead.
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