I Don't give a Dam about the Western Media,
Even if the Talk with the Student Protesters Failed there are Non Lethal Ways to Control them,
These People were not Armed Rebels, So there was No need for the Lethal Force to be Used against them,
All CCP wanted was to save there A**and be the Sole Ruler of China.
And Do you Really Think CCP can be Termed as a Government,
As for We Indian's Government is someone who is Chosen by Us through Elections.
There could be non lethal ways, but deng's reforms are unpopularamounst hardliners and if the clearing of the squre haven't happened atthat time, he might have lost power and china be reverted back to communism.
It is unfortunate, but neccesary evil for china to move forward. At that time, chinese people were not rich like now. The coorporations have no power or even existed, the people can't afford meat on a daily bases, democracy wouldn't have worked. It lacked the power of the people, that we back then just didn't have.
At that particular time only single minded economic reform would be best, or else we would have been india when it just started democracy, and be decades behind india instead of the reverse.
Anyone can say anything, but the facts speak louder than words, look at china then look at it now. Could democracy be better then, doubt it, maybe it could, but all i know is what it did do, and that is second economic power in the world, and is poised to take first.
Is ccp a government, ccp is just a party, not government, china had countless governments throughout the ages, ccp is one of them, it isn't the first and won't be the last. However it is what we have and respect needs to be given when it is due.
Elections are good, but there are flaws, i won't say india should be dictatorship or china shouldn't be democracy, but certain conditions needs to be met for it to work effectively. Democracy in egypt resulted in military coup, in the states, a superpower.
Dictatorship, in africa, genocide, in china second most powerful nation on earth.
So we can see just because there is democracy doesn't mean people have power, just because it is dictatorship doesn't mean people don't have it.
I'm generalizing of course, not writing an essay here.