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Thank, Dave.

Victoria 

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My view on this subject and was not reflected  in the interview at  beginning of this  blog page is this:

In 1989 the economic reform had been going on for about 10 years.  Along with the realignment of policy with ideology, was the redistribution of economic opportunities and wealth, restructuring of institutions and rearrangement of social order.  On top of that, there was  power transition from old revolutionaries to a new generation of technocrats. Understandably, there was a great deal of anxiety, fear, uncertainty and discontent.  People felt lost amidst all the dizzying changes.   That explains the  lack of a clear agenda on the side of the protestors and the  indecision on the side of the government.  There were mixed messages and misjudgment on both sides, and a great deal of confusion in the media as well.  The conflict was inevitable.  It was a result of the increasingly  diverse and complex social demands besieging an inadequate system.  The disastrous outcome of the government action also exposed the lack of governing experience and skills of the leadership at the time and the Chinese people paid a terrible price for that.  Since then, the Chinese leadership has made deliberated effort to accelerate its learning curve by changing its reclusive attitude to participate in interntionational organizations, adopt certain international standards and subject itself to certain international regimes.   It would not help the American public understand and appreciate the complexity of the context in which the conflict took place by  framing it in a simplistic good vs. evil  narrative.

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