Q: Do these readings complicate your original reaction to Deng's crackdown on the protests?
A: My first thoughts while watching the video in class about the Tianamen Square crackdown was that the government was forceful, power-hungry and just unnecessarily brutal. The readings did not change my mind about Deng and his cruel crackdown on the protesters. The reasons for the protests aren’t the point here, the important thing to notice is that they weren’t happy. They wanted change in the government, as unhappy citizens would want. So Deng simply ended up killing them to preserve his own government and crackdown on any opposition. The Financial Times article only speaks of the reasons for the protests, and the different reasons for the Western and Eastern points of view.
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