Chinese Democracy
This iconic picture was taken 20 years ago tomorrow. It was taken the day after the tanks cleared Tianamen Square of protesters and an unclear number of civilians were killed by government forces. Time plays funny tricks and sometimes it seems like important world events, even media surpressed ones, happened far longer ago. Regardless, it was 20 years today that the Tianamen Square Massacre or Incident happened.
China has come a long way since then. It has embraced (partially) free market economics, brought millions out of poverty and into the worlds largest middle class, and invited the world to take a look at last year's Olympics. Nevertheless there is still major skeptisicm when swallowing any news from China because we know it's all state censored. No matter really, with the way things are going the Chinese government will be censoring our news within the next 50 years.
I for one am preparing for our new overlords by learning Tai Chi, drinking Chai tea, ordering Chinese take-out weekly and catching yellow fever.
Pace out.
posted by Vitamin S @ 5:31 p.m.
3 Comments:
Si,
I've got a story for you. I was friends with a guy named Kirk in Taiwan. He was with the photographer (Jeff Widener) who took that famous picture of the tank man. They were in a hotel room across the street from Tianamen Square when it happened. Kirk smuggled the film out of the hotel in his underwear and took it to the US embassy.
Geoff
Wow,
What a freaking cool story. Nice work to add a little more depth to the post.
Good job Clack!
BCalhoun
Wow,
What a freaking cool story. Nice work to add a little more depth to the post.
Good job Clack!
BCalhoun
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