A Tiananmen Square publicity video triggers the fury of the Beijing government

Sunday, April 21st 2019 - 11:45 UTC

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Germany's Leica Camera AG drew criticism on Chinese social media over a video depicting a news photographer covering the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square three decades ago. The five-minute dramatization, released this week, touches on a highly sensitive topic in China. Read full article

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Brasileiro
Did Bolsonaro's neoliberalism unravel China? When? In 1989? LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KERktyzwPPs
Apr 21st, 2019 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Don Alberto
Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989 - that's the reason why the Chinese government is blocking any and all references to the date and place.

Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989 - that's the reason why the Chinese government has mobilized its troll army to deny it happened.

Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989 - that's the reason why the Chinese trolls condemn Leica's video.

If something did happen in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, It is claimed that it was an attempted overthrow of the Chinese government by the CIA.

So, CIA mobilized 20-30-50,000 unarmed young men, with no combat experience or training at all, to overthrow a goverment, which had more than 1,000,000 well armed and trained soldiers at its disposal. Why didn't I think of that before?

Could it be, perhaps, because the idea is intensely stupid?
Apr 26th, 2019 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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