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When you think about it, those kids were China’s brightest, most privileged 1%. To have treated them violently would have broken faith with the Chinese people and poisoned China for generations. (Many of the kids’ fathers were inside the Forbidden City). It didn’t. 95% of the Chinese people trust that same government today.

Tiananmen was an early, unsuccessful Color Revolution. Like the Ukraine coup which failed to goad Russia into reacting violently, it failed to provoke China to violent reaction and the kids went home peacefully early the next morning.

But would all the patient work of recruiting and training agents provocateurs (by then spirited out of China on handy US visas) go to waste?

The answer was to just SAY that the hoped-for violence happened. Say it often enough, loud enough, and backed with enough sanctions and, hey! it ‘happened. And to this day folks are repeating the story as given. Just as they are already bemoaning the non-event of the recent Ukraine ‘invasion’.

Happily, a little digging into the archives shows pretty clearly that the Tiananmen ‘massacre’ was just WMD-talk: it really, really didn’t happen. Here’s a start:

The Columbia Journalism Review critiques coverage of Tiananmen: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php?page=all

US State Department’s cables at the time:
http://www.alternativeinsight.com/Tiananmen.html

The Massacre that Wasn’t:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-really-happened-in-tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/5385528

Britain’s Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.htm

And the most comprehensive source:
http://www.bearcanada.com/china/letstalkabouttam.html

Killing Hope:
http://44days.net/tall-tiananmen-tales-and-the-little-red-pill/#sthash.EU4wrzWL.dpuf