Despite a group of diplomats defending the External Affairs Minister, he and the Prime Minister together are responsible for strained relations with allies, neighbours and super powers alike
What Happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and Why It Still Matters Three Decades Later
The hyper-nationalist, assertive popular mood that we see in Xi Jinpingâs China today, nurtured by the party-state, is a direct consequence of decisions taken by the Communist leadership that year.
A man stands in front of a convoy of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal peace in Tiananmen Square, June 5, 1989. Photo: Reuters/Stringer
In his new book,
Tiananmen Square; The Making of a Protest; A Diplomat Looks Back, Vijay Gokhale has given us a precise, accurate and valuable account by an eyewitness of a pivotal incident in contemporary Chinese politics â the demonstrations and clearing of Tiananmen square. This book is an analytical and detailed look at the events of three months in 1989 in Beijing, shorn of the myths that Western and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda attached to them, then and later.
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Book Title: Tiananmen Square: The Making of a Prtotest
Author: Vijay Gokhale
Sandeep Dikshit
In the scholarship on the Tiananmen Square crackdown, we have been treated to a treasure trove of books by western diplomats and journalists.
Here, former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale knocks the bottom out of those accounts that were “dubious and conjured”. They painted an inner-party struggle, in which students were pawns, as the stirrings of a mass uprising against the Communist Party of China (CPC).
A photograph showing a man standing in front of a column of tanks near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, at Hong Kong’s
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