Hard to believe but it is 20 years on Thursday since China's military cracked down on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. We now know China as a burgeoning capitalist kind of place that owns vast swathes of the United States economy through U.S. debt and which many hope will actually lead the world out of this nasty recession we are in.
We should not forget, though, that China is brutal to many of its own people. It stamps on human rights, executes those it does not like and shuts down freedom of speech and expression.
To remind us, I offer two photographs. The one on the left is the inspiring one we know and love. Something poetic about it. The other picture, on the right, which was re-published today in The Guardian, tells the real story.
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