Modern Eastern Civilization: Correcting the Record on Tiananmen Square

Episode 48: The Enduring Ideas of Eastern Civilization

Foundations of Eastern Civilization

Dr Craig Benjamin (2013)

Film Review

The last of Benjamin’s 48-episode course, this lecture is meant to summarize the course. However Benjamin devotes most of it to the alleged Tienanmen Square “massacre” in 1989. Canadian historian Matthew Ehret* and others have carefully documented these protests were actually a failed “color revolution” orchestrated by philanthropist turned color revolutionary George Soros.

Soros was present in Beijing during the May 4, 1989 protest, where years earlier he had launched two “think tanks” years that interfaced closely with the National Endowment for the Democracy (aka: CIA). The NED set up two offices in China in 1988.

By 1989 Soros’ chosen replacement for the aging Deng Xiaoping, Zhao Ziyang, who the Western press nicknamed “China’s Gorbachev,” had reached the apex of political power as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.***

Despite acknowledging there is no photographic, video or documentary evidence of any civilian deaths at Tienanmen Square, Benjamin estimates there were 3,000.

According to Larry Romanov, who also asserts Tienanmen Square was a color revolution, the anarchists (ie mercenaries) who infiltrated the protests, were conveniently armed with clubs and gasoline bombs cocktails (despite strict gasoline rationing). It was mercenary thugs who initiated the violence against Chinese police and soldiers. Romanov has seen to photos of dead soldiers burned to a crisp, some strung up from lampposts, others lying dead n the street or on stairs or sidewalks where they died, others hanging out of the windows of burning buses and Armed Personnel Carriers.

The 1989 book Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 reports the death of “scores” of army and law enforcement personnel, with 6,000 wounded, and civilian casualties including roughly 200 deaths and 3,000 wounded.

*See George Soros, Gene Sharp and the 1989 Failed Color Revolution in Tiananmen Square

**See https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.Tianamen Square: The Failure of an American Instigated Color Revolutiontigated-1989-color-revolution/

***Following the uprising, Zhao Ziyang was place on house arrest until he died in 2005 and the NED, Soros and his think tanks were permanently expelled from China.

This film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/5808608/5808705