Monday, June 03, 2019

Sydney Surrenders to Communist Chinese Warships

It’s obvious that for most mainland Chinese, the Tiananmen massacre never happened (‘‘Tiananmen truth must be spoken’’, June 4). How prescient was George Orwell? Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth are flourishing today in China. - Paul Stevens, North Epping


AFP raids journo after Chinese spy expose


A trove of footage from the weeks leading up to the Tiananmen Square massacre shows scenes of joy and optimism on the streets of China that have not been seen since the Communist Party's brutal killing of its own people 30 years ago. 
On the night of June 3, 1989, the People's Liberation Army turned its guns on students and ordinary Chinese who had been calling for a democratic future for the country. 
For weeks the students had been camped out in Beijing's Tiananmen Square as part of their protest.


Bill Birtles, via ABC News
Thirty years after the uprising, Beijing students were asked what they know about ‘tank man’.


IT IS ALWAYS ENDANGERED, UNLESS DEFENDED. AND EVEN THAT SOMETIMES THAT’S NOT ENOUGH: Tiananmen Square and the Death of Freedom.

Exclusive. Images circa 3 June 1989



 
 The timing, from the Chinese government's point of view, seems intended to intimidate the large Chinese warships

Chinese warships enter Sydney Harbour: Hidden detail we missed - NEWS.com.au



What on earth is the government thinking? Our navy is prohibited, under threat of war, from sailing near China’s artificial island military bases in the South China Sea. Yet our government allows the Chinese navy to dock here. Has the government thought this through? - Renato Sburlati, Sans Souci

Why the West has underestimated China’s military abilities - NEWS.com.au

Three Chinese warships have arrived in Sydney Harbour amid increasingly strident rhetoric from Beijing over its territorial claims in the South China Sea.

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Chinese warships arrive in Sydney with no public Government announcement