China’s massive protest movement in the spring of 1989, centered in (but not confined to) Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, seems to have been the anti-Communist revolt that failed. As the brutal crackdown on and following June 3-4 played out, political freedom was being won in Central Europe – first in Poland and Hungary, and then, beginning … Continue reading IAN BURUMA. Deng Xiaoping’s victory. (Asia Times 3.6.2019)… Continue reading »