Tiananmen Square, 1989 – Revisited

He starts off with a decent point:

"The idea that any elite–let alone the child-worshipping Chinese–would murder its own children for demonstrating peacefully over legitimate grievances is even sillier than the notion that they were demonstrating about democracy."

Although the author is an obvious China shill:

http://www.unz.com/author/godfree-roberts/

What really got me was the full picture of "tank man": http://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TianAnmen-4.jp...

I had always understood (and I don't believe that I've misread media reporting on this) that it was a man trying to stop the advancing tanks that were heading in to massacre the protesters.

Turns out that it was the day after the clashes and they were heading out of the square. It's weird. On the one hand, the picture does inform correctly that a) tanks where there, b) a guy tried to stop them, but on the other hand it's very misleading when used in "man tries to stop tanks heading for Tiananmen Square to squash protests" context.