China's Revolution: A Revolution Sure to Come
The Tienanmen Square protests of 1989, referred to in much of the world as the Tienanmen Square massacre and in the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the June Fourth Incident (officially to avoid confusion with two prior Tienanmen Square protests), were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the PRC beginning on 14 April 1989. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world.
The protests were sparked by the death of a pro-democracy and anti-corruption official, Hu Yaobang, whom protesters wanted to mourn. By the eve of Hu's funeral, 100,000 people had gathered at Tiananmen square.Communist Party of ChinaTrotskyists as well as free market reformers, who were generally against the government's authoritarianism and voiced calls for economic change and democratic reform within the structure of the government.
To this day the Chinese Government has blocked access to it's civilian population of viewing anything related to the subject. In China you can not google the words Tienanmen Massacre and receive any truthful results to your inquirers on the subject. Instead you are brought to a page that has zero information about the event, just useful tourist information and vivid pictures of the square, but nothing about the event that took place there.
Some of the top Social Science Professors in China have predicted a soon to come revolt from the civil population. Mostly due to the censoring and strangulation that China's Government takes on their civil liberties.
China's top expert on social unrest has warned that hardline security policies are taking the country to the brink of ''revolutionary turmoil''.
In contrast with the powerful, assertive and united China that is being projected to the outside world, Yu Jianrong said his prediction of looming internal disaster reflected on-the-ground surveys and also the views of Chinese government ministers.
Deepening social fractures were caused by the Communist Party's obsession with preserving its monopoly on power through ''state violence'' and ''ideology'', rather than justice, Professor Yu said.
Some lawyers, economists and religious and civil society leaders have expressed similar views but it is unusual for someone with Professor Yu's official standing to make such direct and detailed criticisms of core Communist Party policies.
Professor Yu is known as an outspoken insider. As the director of social issues research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Rural Affairs he advises top leaders and conducts surveys on social unrest.
He previously has warned of the rising cost of imposing ''rigid stability'' by force but has not previously been reported as speaking about such immediate dangers.
''Some in the so-called democracy movement regard Yu as an agent for the party, because he advises senior leaders on how to maintain their control,'' said Feng Chongyi, associate professor in China Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Author used Wikipedia as a source and JOHN GARNAUT post as another source.







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