Tiananmen Square 34 Years after

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contrary to the heroic advice of the heroic Western Media about heroically dying in defiance of Tyranny , people around grabbed the Tank Man out of the way . He hasn't been hanged yet .
 
and while on a roll , here he is again . Though if he is a 19 year old university student at the time , how does he have combat experience of 3 years or more against the Vietnamese , some of it in 1985 ?

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this is interference in the actions of Chinese Mechanized Infantry through the wireless set on the lead tank .

this picture came out in 2009 , 20 years after .

edit: Various spelling issues . And no , the Chinese do not travel in time . It is only mighty smart Americans .
 
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very small picture but covers it real well .


edit: Oh , how do ı know ?

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got this from a site where they do not like me , but , like it is most unlikely that one could have found it elsewhere , a page from some magazine by the world famous Jane's ...

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like it is in 1984 when some US newspaper ssys the US Navy might buy some planes from China to use as aggressors in Topgun , the training course at the Miramar Naval Air Base ... And Vought will modify them with Western gear in interests of safe and sound operations . The odd thing is that there is this decade thing in operation in this thing . And the Chinese do not have MiG-23s to sell to America . Nor , MiG-29s depicted here in the form CIA had cleared the Western Media to use . The last one is a VTOL thing Vought was working on at the time ; has been depicted by some as the starting point of the Chicom J-20 ...

there was this comic series in my youth . After the ones in which he goes to the Moon or discovers Atlantis or fixes a time paradox with Conan and Wolverine , the most incredibly impossible thing the comics hero guy did was test flying Russian fighters in a bid to buy them after the American arms embargo in the 1970s .

any real life eventuality of any such notion would be nullified after the licence production deal for F-16 with the Americans . Was signed in 83 , ı think .

pakistan has been the only friend or whatever the Communist China has had over the years . 1989 would still be too early for ISI , the Saudi infiltrated intelligence service of Pakistan or even Benazir Butto to recommend otherwise .

the Tiananmen stuff started with the Gorbachev visit in which he notified Beijing that the Soviets would no longer keep the military competition with stuff but could also sell the Chinese some stuff .

a previous deal had gone sour after Khrushev and Mao fell out spectacularly and the Soviets had not honoured trade agreements they had ... cut off support in all fields , the planned MiG-21 licence production suffering greatly .

lord Vader kept being pro-Vietnamese even after 1975 .

the Chinese Mechanized Infantry was expected to storm the hotel from where the iconic "tank man" pictures were taken , of which there were only known 4 versions , the 5th coming out in 2009 .

you are free not to believe or anything but those tanks are pro-Democracy in a very specific context .

it has been some "amazing time" to watch the matchless Western ingenuity to create miracles . Like matching HARMs to MiG-29s . Some work , as the Russians refused to turn over the blueprints and whatnot .

particularly impressed by the threat of Western volunteers who keep womanizing all day long instead of slapping Russians left and right . As they have done a few times but let the war go on and might attack if the glorious attack by the good side runs into trouble .

and of course it is known ! Conspiracy expert person on TV , telling how some business guy who kept a famous singer as his mistress stole the plans of MiG-28 from Vietnam . You know , MiG-28 being an F-5 painted black .

and yes , 1989 should also be the time when the CIA arranged a Turkic pilot to defect with a MiG-29 and the Americans were not "allowed" to be around as the Russians sent in a team to retrieve the plane the next day ...
 
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contrary to the heroic advice of the heroic Western Media about heroically dying in defiance of Tyranny , people around grabbed the Tank Man out of the way . He hasn't been hanged yet .
Here is a better version of what actually happened. So I guess you approve of the military crackdown and murder of hundreds. Yes, he was praised by the US and world press. You perhaps, should keep in mind that many millions of Chinese also, after 34 years, still remember his act of defiance. The link below has a section on him and what might have happened to him.

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At the northeast edge of Tiananmen Square, along Chang'an Avenue, shortly after noon on June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese government's violent crackdown on the Tiananmen protests, "Tank Man" stood in the middle of the wide avenue, directly in the path of a column of approaching Type 59 tanks.[9][10][11] Stuart Franklin, who was on assignment for Time magazine, told The New York Times: "At some point, shots were fired and the tanks carried on down the road toward us, leaving Tiananmen Square behind, until blocked by a lone protester."[1] He wore a white shirt and black trousers, and he held two shopping bags.[12] As the tanks came to a stop, the man gestured at them with one of the bags. In response, the lead tank attempted to drive around the man, but the man repeatedly stepped into the path of the tank in a show of nonviolent action.[13] After repeatedly attempting to go around, the lead tank stopped its engines, and the armored vehicles behind it followed suit. There was a short pause with the man and the tanks having reached a quiet, still impasse.

Having successfully brought the column to a halt, the man climbed onto the hull of the buttoned-up lead tank and, after briefly stopping at the driver's hatch, appeared in video footage of the incident to call into various ports in the tank's turret. He then climbed atop the turret and seemed to have a short conversation with a crew member at the gunner's hatch. After ending the conversation, the man descended from the tank. The tank commander briefly emerged from his hatch, and the tanks restarted their engines, ready to continue on. At that point, the man, who was still standing within a meter (yard) or two from the side of the lead tank, leapt in front of the vehicle once again and quickly re-established the man–tank standoff.

Video footage shows two figures in blue pulling the man away and disappearing with him into a nearby crowd; the tanks continued on their way.[13] Eyewitnesses are unsure who pulled him aside. Charlie Cole, who was there for Newsweek, said it was the Chinese government PSB (the police),[14] while Jan Wong, who was there for The Globe and Mail, thought that the men who pulled him away were concerned bystanders.

 
OK, so what is your "position" on the protests and the crackdown in Tiananmen Sq. June 1989?
 
the thread has been started with removal from things from up above . While the one below was the last answer in thread .
in case it has escaped your attention , ı might or might not have claimed the guy was PLA officer or NCO some years ago in CFC . That the media says something is no guarantees that the thing is true or whatever . In case you haven't noticed he keeps carrying his groceries or whatever or it might even include his ID papers and a Scorpion submachine gun or whatever the Chinese had in those days . Want to believe he is a martyr in the name of Democracy ? What , ı can't be fixing that , right ?

and easy with painting with anti-democracy thing or whatever , too . You have had just 4 years of Trump . You lack experience in defining what's what .
ı have no position on Tiananmen . Will have no position on the 2030 or whatever war you will have with China . Will have no comment on the commander of US Military transport planes ordering his troops to become proficient in small arms so that they can execute traitor Americans a la Argentinians in the Dirty War or whatever years .

what ı have is a guest membership in a weird Turkish language forum where some old guy who claims the Tank Man later escorted them to the airport . Even American journalists are saying the tanks (at least that day and that neighbourhood) did not fire on the civilians and it is only natural for the tank commander to become disoriented after being told on the "net" that he should order to load the guns with "anti-tank" rounds to engage the APCs under a different set of commanders . Who were later demoted .
 
contrary to the heroic advice of the heroic Western Media about heroically dying in defiance of Tyranny , people around grabbed the Tank Man out of the way . He hasn't been hanged yet .
We saw the footage. We know he was pulled out of the way.
 
so ?
 
The way the OP is structured, it seems to suggest those in "the mythical west" wouldn't know this, however that sample is defined, they'd know only lies?
 
tank Man , one heroic guy who stands up to a tank where hundreds have been killed . Lost , never heard off again . Was assuming your point of contention would have been that that he was taken away which would prove he couldn't have been anything but a brave Chinese civilian . Instead of the verbal virtuosity much in view elsewhere in the New CFC . Painting me as a Communist doesn't make me one , right ? And like you haven't seen anything yet .

uh , that's not cool though . Let me give you more Communist propaganda instead .

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is this it ? Right on the verge of 21st Century D-Day , especially after the bad side has provided the waters ? Just a single statement that known Communist Agent r16 says stuff and is not to be trusted ? With no extra effort ?

do not open the Spoiler . Has people who are dead or are about to die .

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the Tank Man avenue , no explanation given because it can be searched without imagesearch stuff and it will be more gruesome , is not the execution of Japanese General Hisao Tani on April 26th, 1947 for Nanking because the wikipedia stuff does not match . Has been considered a fake but in the current fad of stating all Communists are Fascists , it would do a good thing on how the Chinese wore Nazi uniforms ... The uses of the others are Chinese are invasive of everything and Tank Man the PLA guy didn't save any lives . Even if his primary concern at the time was stopping the Mechanized Infantry charging some hotel ... When this had been said , your response should have been this . The tanks had Mechanized Infantry with them , after them tanks .

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count up to 10 tanks , and you have a whole field of APCs ... This way , you would have saved the legend of tank man . Whom the Western journalists looked for but all the dead had been moved to children's hospitals and the hospitals the Chinese allowed people to visit were regular ones , with not a single dead person . See , how easy ...

it is to do the thing 07-06-2023e.jpg indeed ...


is 1200p picture that last one .
 
oh-kay , gonna be the last post here , with suitably diverse nonsense and stuff .

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am pretty sure this is the exact Tank Man spot , with the bus in the frame and all . Resistance and stuff invariably involve people who think far too much of themselves . Some amounts of unhinged folks who would be rather better if locked up in some institution . And those who have the heart and the courage and the readiness for necessary sacrifice . All deaths in the end are a waste , some arguably more than others . Had those people in that particular moment in time not misjudged things , they could have been alive , and certainly more influential in improving things in China . But then there were already those who encouraged others to wear yellow or something like that , reportedly the Taiwanese colour or something . When the pressure was just about right and maybe , just maybe Beijing would re-evaluate its enduring alliance with America and would go for a balanced growth . Instead of becoming a forced labour camp for American and select Western countries , destroying local production stuff across the world , easing the global domination of the Wall Street . But yeah , evil Chinese and known Communist agent r16 ...

the sentiment against the original picture and whatnot , the globally famous Tank Man image , is betrayal . That brave men who believe in Western Values are most undesirable for the West .

but yeah , that's too much to ask from people .

not strictly for this thread or something as it started before , there is this thing that gains a following in aviation sites ...

the US Congress now claims to have 12 UFOs in "its possession"

with remarkable statements by the pointmen . Like company trolls that push the products of the said company and so on , but without telling things to the full extent . So , it turns out UFOs have been crashing down with the frequency of raindrops and every country (!) has been collecting them . It is a cold war and an arms race for the last 80 years . The job of reverse engineering is not easy , involves fit and starts and it is very possible for the adversaries of the West to get a lucky break and have a quantum leap . That might lead to full destruction of the West in an alien Pearl Harbour ...


thanks to steady work of stuff like CFC , nobody cares for the Russian threat and there is bound to be a large number of idiots asking for balanced military budgets ... Ugh , Russians can have Phasors this next week !

even more lovely is the notion that the best UFO wreck with the highest potenyial might predate the WW II and the owner country is not the Nazi Germany .

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imagine a country nobody likes and does not like any of its citizens in return ... A country of idiots who identified it through a cryptic reference to Galyum Arsenid chips or whatever . People in aviation sites were laughing at claims that such stuff were being worked on . Most probably can not be true , unless somebody gave it away . They can't blame the Jews -as that would soon start to revolve around the question whether there are Nazis in power in the European continent ... (true problem being if there is a local production capability , addition of kill switches become somewhat harder) Yes , what if a morally corrupt society promised heaven on earth to an innocent Nazi Movement and deceived it and cheated against it by the end ? Not even Jews would like them then !

and explains the failure of Centcom at a certain task when its alumni now hold true power in Pentagon . Like if the Czechoslovak Navy was running amok in 1938 with mere scraps ..?

no , it is not meant for you , them dear people of CFC . You have going at it for so long that the Trumpians are idiots , have you not ? Hmm , actually love the way everybody is talking about the documentary evidence , the whole lot of them ...

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Indiana Jones is fictional.
 
joke in a joke .
 
r16, can you outline what your point is here, exactly? your mixture of indiana jones sarcasm and poor english is really working against you here.

if your point is just that Tank Man Lives, as has been outlined here, the west doesn't actually know the fate of the guy. but seeing your rants after that about the Grand Western Conspiracy, this does not seem to be your point. and the things you imply can range from the horridly absurd to the infractable, but is shielded with a veil of atrocious english.

like, write out two lines. please. a short paragraph. what's your topic? what's your point?
 
-didn't start the thread , it was cut from somewhere else .

-basically a warning against calls for heroism and sacrifice .

-as shown by the last picture up above because the West betrays anyone who wants Western Values and whatnot for real .

-the reason for sudden interest ? Considering Xi Jinping has no need of CFC to know that ı do seriously reject his alliance with the US ?

-it is the second time that lightly armed Russian intelligence ships with specialized equipment and carefully vetted crew members have come under attack by drone boats Pentagon refuses to acknowledge as Ukranian operated . While on guard duty over Turkishstream , a pipeline that smuggles Russian gas and funds the corruption that currently has to be seen fighting . Interestingly these drones fail to explode on contact with their targets . And if there is going to be a Nordstream in Blacksea , it is perfectly June here .

-as such Russian TV commentators claim a couple or three million Chinese troops will intervene . Probably not aware that a Chinese recon element somewhere was spotted by Russian border guards (long ago) and flown to Moscow , had passports and stuff arranged and sent back .

-this causes the unhappiness . Here and elsewhere on CFC .

-that the essential trump card of the West is so casually dismissed .

-before ranting about off-topic , ı don't think it is common knowledge in CFC that the Tank Man happened to be the first to be cashiered or something with Xi's appointment in 2012 . As a signal for the end of a certain duality Jiang Zhemin started with Deng's approval and Hu Jintao maintained .

-there is nothing wrong with my English , too ...

-if still gonna insist , rather harp on how ı reject to be satisfied by the glory of Thrawn series that starts with such cool lines like "Its neighbors are left in peace, its enemies are left in ruin. It is light and culture and glory...It is the Chiss Ascendancy" and like reject woke taking over Star Wars . Oh , that possibly can not be any threat to you or something .
 
ok so it's a spillover (probably from ukraine?) where you warn against call for heroism and speculate about western realpolitik over actual calls for freedom. gotcha.

for the former, sometimes rebellions are won with blood, sometimes they aren't. most are, though (and yes, most bloody rebellions fail).

for the latter, i'd like to say that i agree the west is much more realpolitical than it makes itself out to be, so your drawing of the lines there are something i appreciate; but that does not mean china or russia are something you can defend,

and further than that: nor does it mean "New CFC" is in any way meaningful. it's not like we're tankies, but the "so i'm apparently a communist now" thing you say is not the main appeal the posters here go by, neither is it really the appeal of the moderation team in general. we aren't jingoistic in the sense that you're the great Other if you defend china, and then are therefore both communist and fascist at the same time or whatever, that's more of a right wing thing in the west, and the forum very much leans left.

like this:
-if still gonna insist , rather harp on how ı reject to be satisfied by the glory of Thrawn series that starts with such cool lines like "Its neighbors are left in peace, its enemies are left in ruin. It is light and culture and glory...It is the Chiss Ascendancy" and like reject woke taking over Star Wars . Oh , that possibly can not be any threat to you or something .

that's completely absurd if you know my position at all, or care to know it, but you seem more interested in thinking a danish hippie is inherently a paleoconservative. it's bizarre.

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for your english, it's very hard to parse. you usually make very little effort to be understandable. even when you're grammatically coherent, it's a zodiac puzzle of criss-crossing referencing of names and events you don't care to explain beyond the implications you have - implications you usually explain by listing more names with more implications that are more names that are more implications. so even when god damn indiana shows up, it's never clear when you start/stop being sarcastic.
 
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