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167 sats \ 17 replies \ @TNStacker 4 Jun \ on: Remembering Tiananmen 35 Years Later news
I remember it well. For a very brief moment some of us optimists in the west thought the Chinese population would rise up. Some did. However the brutality and totality of the crackdown was not imaginable. Now we know fully why they don't rise up.
I felt the same way. It was crushing when it went bad.
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The CCP has done an amazing job of allowing market activity (something the Chinese diaspora thrives at all over the planet, by the way.) yet keeping control by correcting, disappearing, or killing ANYONE that gets too big for their britches.
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Jack Ma learned his lesson.
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Didnt he run away to Japan?
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I don't know. If you have information I would be interested in learning of his fate. You're talking about the tank man, not Jack Ma, right?
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He was made to bend the knee. He's back now, I think. He made some sort of an appearance in China recently.
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I don't think so. Carlos Ghosn ran from Japan. 🤣
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MAN!
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