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Il 4 next June, it will be thirty years since the massacre ordered by the Chinese government of Li Peng, prime minister at the time, supported by Deng Xiao Ping, the chairman of the Central Military Commission, and by President Yang Shangkun. In the middle the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhao Ziyang, in favor of mediation between the executive and the students in revolt in Tiananmen Square, the theater of clashes between the Beijing army and the students in revolt on the night between 3 and the 4 June 1989. A real massacre, of which for decades there was talk of "hundreds" of deaths. But until 2017, when an English cablegram, quoted in an article in the Independent, he even talked about 10 thousand deaths. There were a month and a half of events that followed one another, starting from 15 April of 1989, when the former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party died, Hu Yaobang. On the occasion, Beijing University students posted dazeabos, with which they praised the reformist political leader, criticizing, indirectly, those managers who, In the 1987, they had forced him to resign.
Gorbachev too, the then president of the USSR, advocate of glasnost (transparency) in your own country – which in mid-May of 1989, attended a Sino-Soviet summit – stood up for mediation, when, pressed by journalists, he stated that if such a protest had been in Moscow, he would have started a dialogue. Words that fell on deaf ears, because repression won, in that China where the government called, to then bloodily suffocate the student revolt, soldiers from the most remote areas of the State, speakers of dialects unknown to most people, precisely to avoid any exchange or agreement between the uniforms and the demonstrators. In short, the Chinese government decided to cut all sorts of "pidgins", of a common communication code, linguists would say, to reach an agreement. The only means of comparison, they were the tanks, who crushed those who stood between them. Facts that, thirty years later, they are still taboo in China today. It's being talked about in Taipei, the capital of the rebel province of Taiwan, where it began, these days, a series of celebratory events. Academic conferences, a photographic exhibition, a candlelight vigil, concerts. Taiwan is free and democratic and can remember liberally. He can do it (who knows how much longer).
However Beijing's strategy was to remove the incident from the population's memory, more interested in the progress of the economy, than to the political debate. Representatives of the diaspora following the Tiananmen repression will also go to Taipei, and representatives of the Hong Kong democracy movement (where a museum about those days has just reopened 1989, unique throughout China). On the future of Taipei freedom, but, there are those who warn against easy optimism. Al Taipei Times, Indeed, Professor Chen Li-fu, vice president of the island's university teachers, stated that, «For years we have commemorated the massacre to defend human rights in China, but today we also do it to protect our sovereignty: we are afraid for our democracy". The Italian government, who in recent weeks rolled out the red carpets in Rome for President Xi Jinping, signing a series of economic-commercial agreements with China for the so-called new Silk Road, on the occasion of the tragic anniversary, he will have something to say?
source – https://www.loccidentale.it/articoli/147023/piazza-tienanmen-dopo-trentanni-e-ancora-tabu-il-massacro-del-governo-cinese