The Chinese military massacred students on Tiananmen square in 1989.
That is not what happened. In fact, in the square itself, literally no one died.
- Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
- Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
- Tank Man video footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
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Afterward, in Operation Yellowbird, “brave dissident leaders” were evacuated by western intelligence agencies. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to question whether they may already have had close ties to these agencies before the protests began.