THE People’s Republic of China has marked the 25th anniversary of everyone having a pleasant, uneventful day out in Tiananmen Square.
The square, which is known internationally for its giant pictures of Mao and the respectful attitude to authority it engenders in the young, remained as quiet and orderly as it has always been.
A Chinese government spokesman said: “We celebrate a day when absolutely nothing out of the ordinary took place, except a number of students deciding never to contact their parents again.
The summer of 1989 saw revolutions across communist Europe, the break-up of the Soviet Union, and the unconditional and absolute support of Chinas rulers by the entire population.
Western reports of bloodshed are wild exaggerations of the truth, which is that a bicycle fell over with a loud clang and everyone ran away home.
The footage shown by Western media of a man in front of tanks has been doctored to remove the STOP! Children Crossing sign he was holding and the happy pupils streaming across the road to a waiting ice-cream van.”
Wang Congde, a Chinese student living in London, said: The Western accounts of events is self-evidently false.
Where is the sense in fighting for democracy when it brings you leaders like David Cameron and Nick Clegg?
