Why is Tiananmen Square censored?
13.06.2025 01:27
The media, politicians, and their avid supporters rarely speak of these events. It is therefore hypocritical for them to speak of China’s.
Chinese society at that time lacked experience and some intellectuals began to blindly follow Western values, with a group even advocating a thorough Westernization as the ultimate goal of the reforms. Social turbulence took place in such a context and went to extreme under the inducement and manipulation of some political forces
Compare that to Operation Yellowbird, in which:
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I do think that banning the words “Tiananmen Square” from DeepSpeak and RedNote is a little too far, and only invites trouble. However, it must be acknowledged that this is far less than the censorship the West is guilty of.
the CIA had been helping student activists form anti-government movements, providing typewriters, facsimile machines, and other equipment to help them spread their message.
Some people have pointed out the role of the left and the Maoists in the protests. Allying themselves with color revolutionaries would be a major mistake on the part of Maoists. It is one thing to join a big-tent protest against an antagonistic government, but it is another thing to affirm the views of an even more antagonistic insurgent movement. That would be like the “MAGA Communists” of modern America who believe that allying with right-wing conservative politicians is the way to go.
Though I am no ally of Deng Xiaoping, I recognize the imperative to know the truth and context of this topic.
Finally, insofar as not the incident itself but the reaction to it has been used to smear not just Chinese politics but Chinese identity as well. Whenever a problematic liberal hears something good about China, chances are they are going to bring up this one occurrence.
Secondly, there were legitimate concerns that the protests could spark a color revolution. While American liberals whine all the time about how January 6th attempted to overthrow the U.S. government, those MAGA rioters did not have financial support from foreign intelligence agencies.
Many whites do not understand true racism. They think that taking a knee for black lives is “reverse discrimination.” Yet if people went around in your face, telling you in all seriousness, “Go overdose on fentanyl and die in the Twin Towers,” you wouldn’t want to be around them. That’s flat-out bullying.
However, a study cited on the incident’s Wikipedia article asserts that moderates and hardline groups split before June 4, with the moderate groups wanting to leave the square. Accordingly, the protesters who remained in the square at the time of the military action were the most extreme, most organized and abided by the liberal “seven points doctrine.” It is unlikely that Maoists would have sided with such a bourgeoisie movement, and much more plausible that they left the square beforehand.
Firstly, we must come to terms with the fact that the Chinese government is not the only government that has been accused of similar acts. At Kent State University in 1970, the Ohio National Guard killed four college students protesting against the Vietnam War.
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Kent State Students were simply kids who had enough of a heart to fight for an end to the war. They did not attempt to convert their nation into a blind semi-colony of an imperialist power. One can’t say the same about the Tiananmen Square.
The Amritsar Massacre, under the British Raj was a thousand times more brutal. The French police committed a massacre of Algerians in Paris, which was covered up. Peruvian liberal President Alan Garcia Perez’s government murdered 250 inmates in cold blood. The British later opened fire on Irish civil rights protesters on a Bloody Sunday in 1972. As the list goes on and on, it becomes clear that killing dissidents is not the exception in the West, it is the norm.
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Likewise, those who vehemently hate China’s people enough to bring up Tiananmen Square all the time, just save them the trouble and say them a word that rhymes with “ping pong.”
With memes like this flooding the internet, it is clear how this event is unfairly used to degrade not the government but rather the people.
It doesn’t stop there.
“Tiananmen Square” has unduly become a legend in the mythology of neoliberalism. A weapon of propaganda to dissuade the masses from venturing beyond the ideological confines of the West, those who see the term censored in Chinese media, including DeepSeek, could form a misconstrued belief that their freedom in the West is indeed precious. Everything wrong with modern China is that it is too similar to America, not because it is opposed to it. As it has taken this hideous form, the myth must be responded to.
Maybe something did happen in Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989. Regardless, its abuse as a weapon to superimpose neoliberalism onto the rest of the world must be called out for all of its falseness.
It is plain ignorant to see past what is happening in the West now and only criticize China for one thing that happened thirty years ago.