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Tuesday marked the 30-year anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese government slaughtered upwards of thousands of student protesters demanding democracy. In true Orwellian fashion, the Chinese government had effectively erased it from their history and arrested a CBS News crew for showing pictures of the massacre to young Chinese citizens. Meanwhile, outlets in the U.S. claim President Trump was the Orwellian one and the danger to press freedom.
Standing in Tiananmen Square, CBS correspondent Elizabeth Palmer remarked that, “It is hard to imagine this vast square filled with passionate students demanding more freedoms. 30 years on, the Chinese government has erased every reminder of those events 30 years ago.”
“Pictures like this are banned from television and school textbooks,” she noted as the famous picture of a man staring down tanks flashed on the screen. She described how she spoke with young Chinese citizens she met on the street and they couldn’t identify anything about it.
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