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4th June 2009, 08:50
China has boosted security ahead of the anniversary of the killings. Did the protests change the country?

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Dimentio
5th June 2009, 16:29
China has boosted security ahead of the anniversary of the killings. Did the protests change the country?

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No, except that they put a short break in the process of having foreign corporations coming into the country (at least some symbolic isolation).
RedStarOverChina
5th June 2009, 21:35
No, except that they put a short break in the process of having foreign corporations coming into the country (at least some symbolic isolation).
They were actually calling for capitalist "market reforms". One of their demands was for the government to recognize private property--Not really surprising because they were largely whipped up by the propaganda machine of the American corpratocracy.

Wu'er Kaixi, an ethnic Uyghur who was one of the student leaders said that the China they wanted was one with Nike shoes.

Now we've got Nike shoes AND Nike sweatshops.
Ismail
6th June 2009, 12:25
The protests also resulted in The International being banned since a significant amount of students were Maoists who condemned the Dengist government as revisionist and that it sabotaged the construction of socialism.