Thirty years on, China is still trying to whitewash the Tiananmen crackdown from its history
- Written by Chongyi Feng, Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney
The official line in China is that the Tiananmen 'incident' was necessary for stability. This whitewashing of history has largely been accepted by many in China as the truth.How Hwee Young/EPA
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