A man with a Hong Kong umbrella blocks a series of tanks. The image is similar to the scene at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Tank: Deja vu all over again...
When we saw Tianenmen Square, I wondered how many of the Chinese tourists in the place knew of the significance it has for those outside the country. (I didn’t ask anybody, not being nuts.)
I predict they’ll eventually have a regime that will talk about the confrontations of that day. It will happen when they’re far enough away in time that they can disown the acts of the government of the earlier day.
At the time, my thought was that one day there would be a sculpture of the face-off between the tank and the protester, and that the tourists (mostly Chinese) would take their picture standing in front of it.
When we saw Tianenmen Square, I wondered how many of the Chinese tourists in the place knew of the significance it has for those outside the country. (I didn’t ask anybody, not being nuts.)
I predict they’ll eventually have a regime that will talk about the confrontations of that day. It will happen when they’re far enough away in time that they can disown the acts of the government of the earlier day.
At the time, my thought was that one day there would be a sculpture of the face-off between the tank and the protester, and that the tourists (mostly Chinese) would take their picture standing in front of it.