Inflection EP13: Busting the Myths Surrounding 1989 Tiananmen Square

Week of 23-27, 2021

This week on Inflection, we talk about the truth behind the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident, how the Western media has lied about it every year on the anniversary of the violence since it happened, how this is part of a wider propaganda war waged against China and how the 1989 events themselves were part of attempts to deliberately destabilize and overthrow the Chinese government.

We also discuss recent news including Malaysia’s new prime minister, a recent bombing in Baluchistan Pakistan targeting Chinese engineers, and Cambodia’s ongoing efforts to uproot US meddling.

Inflection is a weekly show featuring Angelo Giuliano and Brian Berletic, discussing recent headlines and in-depth discussion of topics shaping the shift from West to East and unipolarism to multipolarism.

News:
Malaysia’s New Prime Minister

Voice of America (VOA, US government funded) - Malaysia’s King Names New Prime Minister from Corruption-Mired Party:
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/malaysias-king-names-new-prime-minister-corruption-mired-party

US-backed Terrorists Target Chinese Engineers in Pakistan (Again)

Al Jazeera - At least two killed in suicide bombing in southwest Pakistan:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/20/at-least-two-killed-in-suicide-bombing-in-southwest-pakistan
Guardian - Protests in Pakistan erupt against China’s belt and road plan:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/20/water-protests-in-pakistan-erupt-against-chinas-belt-and-road-plan
National Interest - Free Baluchistan:
https://nationalinterest.org/commentary/free-baluchistan-4799
GovTrack - H.Con.Res. 104 (112th): Expressing the sense of Congress that the people of Baluchistan, currently divided between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, have the right to self-determination and to their own sovereign country:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hconres104/summary
US House of Representatives Hearing - Baluchistan (2012):
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg72791/html/CHRG-112hhrg72791.htm

Cambodia Continues to Uproot US Interference

Al Jazeera - Cambodia union leader faces court verdict as crackdown continues:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/17/union-leader-in-cambodia-faces-court-verdict-amid-crackdown

US Meddling in Cambodia vs. China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Al Jazeera - Cambodia union leader faces court verdict as crackdown continues:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/17/union-leader-in-cambodia-faces-court-verdict-amid-crackdown
LD - Washington Post Denies US Meddling in Cambodia, Cites US Meddlers:
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2018/05/washington-post-denies-us-meddling-in.html

Main Topic:
Background of US Policy Toward China:

US State Department, Office of the Historian - Draft Memorandum From Secretary of Defense McNamara to President Johnson:
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v03/d189
US State Department, Office of the Historian - Review of Tibetan Operations:
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v30/d337

Tiananmen Square 1989:

The Telegraph - Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110605194652/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html
Wikileaks - SITREP NO. 29: ARTICLE JUSTIFIES MARTIAL LAW; PLA TO USE ANY AND ALL MEANS TO ENFORCE MARTIAL LAW; DEFENSE MINISTER APPEARS, SO DOES LI PENG; TENSION ON TIANANMEN SQUARE:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING15407_a.html
NYT - Witnessing China’s 1989 Protests, 1,000 Miles From Tiananmen Square:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/asia/china-1989-protests-chengdu-andy-levin.html
Financial Times - Tiananmen Square: the long shadow:
https://www.ft.com/content/4f970144-e658-11e3-9a20-00144feabdc0
Chai Ling interview:
​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__ESiklA1A
National Endowment for Democracy - GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY: SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY AROUND THE GLOBE:
https://www.ned.org/democracy-award/goddess-of-democracy-symbol-of-democracy-around-the-globe/
Nonviolent Struggle in China: An Eyewitness Account (by Gene Sharp and Bruce Jenkins):
https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/90sa/90sa_Sharp.pdf
LA Times - James Lilley dies at 81; ambassador to China and CIA operative:
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-james-lilley16-2009nov16-story.html
Washington Post - IMAGES VILIFY PROTESTERS (1989):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/06/12/images-vilify-protesters/33086896-3077-4166-a8af-b7245ff604d9/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.41ca580f6a38

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