China's Fear of Contagion: Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Example
The MIT Press Podcast
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The Surprises of 1989
The Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, takes great pains to erase the memory of 1989. The party had extensive contacts with the Communist Party in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. East Germany was one of the few countries in the world to explicitly praise the party's handling of Tiananmen Square. And then finally, it was surprising how little attention they were paying to the American response,.
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