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Tiananmen Square massacre (view source)
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Each year, on the “sensitive day” of June 4, the CCP stations dozens of police, in uniform as well as in civilian clothes, to guard the periphery of Tiananmen Square in order to prevent “troublemakers” from honoring anybody’s memory.<ref>https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/03/31/tiananmen-25-years-money-ideas/</ref>
Each year, on the “sensitive day” of June 4, the CCP stations dozens of police, in uniform as well as in civilian clothes, to guard the periphery of Tiananmen Square in order to prevent “troublemakers” from honoring anybody’s memory.<ref>https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/03/31/tiananmen-25-years-money-ideas/</ref>
[[File:Qian Qichen and Brent Scowcroft, Dec. 9, 1989 Beijing.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Brent Scowcroft toasting Qian Qichen after the Tiananmen massacre, hoping to preserve the U.S.-CCP relationship.]]
==U.S. response==
==U.S. response==
Four weeks after the slaughter, President [[George H.W. Bush]] sent [[National Security Advisor]] [[Brent Scowcroft]] and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger on a secret mission to Beijing to engage CCP Paramount Leader [[Deng Xiaoping]] directly,<ref>https://apnews.com/article/e91d5cfaf764de1750eb1a66b5e191d0</ref> after Bush’s attempts to reach Deng via telephone hotline were rebuffed. Bush personally wanted to “preserve” the U.S.-China relationship at all costs and get the relationship “back on track.” Bush and other senior officials praised and encouraged the collapse of communism as the regimes of [[Eastern Europe]] were being toppled in the second half of 1989 by their citizens one after another, but no praise and encouragement for the people of China.<ref>https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/other-tiananmen-papers</ref>
Four weeks after the slaughter, President [[George H.W. Bush]] sent [[National Security Advisor]] [[Brent Scowcroft]] and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger on a secret mission to Beijing to engage CCP Paramount Leader [[Deng Xiaoping]] directly,<ref>https://apnews.com/article/e91d5cfaf764de1750eb1a66b5e191d0</ref> after Bush’s attempts to reach Deng via telephone hotline were rebuffed. Bush personally wanted to “preserve” the U.S.-China relationship at all costs and get the relationship “back on track.” Bush and other senior officials praised and encouraged the collapse of communism as the regimes of [[Eastern Europe]] were being toppled in the second half of 1989 by their citizens one after another, but no praise and encouragement for the people of China.<ref>https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/other-tiananmen-papers</ref>