The Myth of Tiananmen

Someone should tell the Washington Post that they've had a Chinese propagandist on their payroll for at least two decades. Their first Beijing bureau chief, no less. Assuming the CJR piece doesn't lie about his bio.

From TFA:

Hundreds of people, most of them workers and passersby, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances.

The Chinese government estimates more than 300 fatalities. Western estimates are somewhat higher. Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city, where, it should be added, a few soldiers were beaten or burned to death by angry workers.