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There 👏 was 👏 no 👏 Tiananmen 👏 Square 👏Massacre! 👏 #TiananmenSquare #TiananmenSquareMassacre https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/
There Was No "Tiananmen Square Massacre"

CBS News correspondent Richard Roth Was There, He Explains What He Saw, And Didn't See

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/
"But the greatest achievement of them all still has to be the myth of a June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre, with talk of hundreds if not thousands of protesting students mowed down by military machine guns." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/really-happened-tiananmen/#.XteFyjozaUl
What really happened at Tiananmen?

In recent years the Tiananmen Square "massacre" story has taken something of a beating as people in the square that night, including a Spanish TV unit, have emerged to tell us that there was no...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/really-happened-tiananmen/#.XteFyjozaUl
Reuter's Graham Earnshaw's first-hand account at #TiananmenSquare https://earnshaw.com/writings/memoirs/tiananmen-story
Tiananmen Story

Tiananmen Story By Graham Earnshaw It was so frustrating. It was early May, 1989 and I was in Tokyo reporting the financial markets for Reuters, fiddling around journalistically with the peak of th


https://earnshaw.com/writings/memoirs/tiananmen-story
Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside #TiananmenSquare https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html
Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim

Secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing have shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square when China put down student pro-democracy demonstrations 22 years ago.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html
Since Westerners love romanticising and fantasising about the #TiananmenSquare incident so much - here are some pictures of how peaceful the protesters were. https://twitter.com/city_affairs/status/1135449520421113856
And more pictures: https://twitter.com/stsy2020/status/1262658853943963648
Tiananmen Square: The Failure of an American-instigated 1989 Color Revolution https://www.globalresearch.ca/tiananmen-square-the-failure-of-an-american-instigated-1989-color-revolution/5690061
Tiananmen Square: The Failure of an American-instigated 1989 Color Revolution - Global Research

There are few places in China that seem more burned into the consciousness of typical Westerners than Tiananmen Square, and few events more commonly mentioned than the student protests of 1989. But...

https://www.globalresearch.ca/tiananmen-square-the-failure-of-an-american-instigated-1989-color-revolution/5690061
The US was at it again, this time in Hong Kong. Luckily for China, the US is a one-trick pony. #NationalSecurityLaw

Agents of Chaos. How the U.S. Seeded a Colour Revolution in Hong Kong https://medium.com/@italian4hk/agents-of-chaos-how-the-u-s-seeded-a-colour-revolution-in-hong-kong-2b5050b5ba0f
Agents of Chaos. How the U.S. Seeded a Colour Revolution in Hong Kong

If twenty years ago someone had predicted a colour revolution in Hong Kong, most political analysts would have laughed. Not because colour


https://medium.com/@italian4hk/agents-of-chaos-how-the-u-s-seeded-a-colour-revolution-in-hong-kong-2b5050b5ba0f
Back to #TiananmenSquare. There's more information about what happened in Beijing in 1989 than what the vast majority of the China-hating braindead zombies would care to read, because why would you want to ruin your favourite atrocity fantasies? 😭 https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/
Tiananmen Square Massacre – Facts, Fiction and Propaganda

“As far as can be determined from the available evidence, NO ONE DIED that night in Tiananmen Square.” What?! Who would make such a blatant propagandist claim? China’s communist party? Nope. It was


https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/
And in this thread Daniel has put together some 'age restricted' videos of the #TiananmenSquare incident, including footage from the West's favourite and 'iconic' Tank Man picture. https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1189038385278672896?s=20
In every 'colour revolution' instigated by the govt-toppling, election-meddling CIA/NED, there's always an abundance of useful idiots and sometimes just plain idiots that the big boys are happy to 'sacrifice'. https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1186650255997014017
Tiananmen Square protest student leader Chai Ling in a longer version of the same interview above before being evacuated to Hong Kong via CIA's Operation Yellowbird.
Tiananmen killings: Were the media right?

There was no massacre on Tiananmen Square.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8057762.stm
Which Tiananmen narrative is true?

Read between the lines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/06/commentary/world-commentary/tiananmen-narrative-true/
Which Tiananmen narrative is true?

There is little doubt about the Beijing spring of 1989 that called for greater openness, freedoms and democracy in China, or about its suppression. But there is a counter-narrative that receives no...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/06/commentary/world-commentary/tiananmen-narrative-true/
Tiananmen: The Massacre that Wasn’t https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/
Tiananmen: The Massacre that Wasn’t

The “pro-democracy” protest movement was led by privileged, well-connected students from elite universities who were explicitly calling for the replacement of socialism with capitalism. #asia #china

https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/
The Geopolitics Behind the Tiananmen Square Incident https://thegeopolitics.com/the-geopolitics-behind-the-tiananmen-square-incident/
The Geopolitics Behind the Tiananmen Square Incident - The Geopolitics

After Hu’s death in April 1989, students mourning the passing of a liberal leader, took to the street to demonstrate against corruption and called for more political reforms.

https://thegeopolitics.com/the-geopolitics-behind-the-tiananmen-square-incident/
The Truth Behind the Myth of the 'Tiananmen Square Massacre' https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/the-truth-behind-the-myth-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-opinion-piece-by-dr-dennis-etler
The Truth Behind the Myth of the 'Tiananmen Square Massacre' - Opinion Piece By Dr. Dennis Etler

Dennis Etler is a former professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College, California, and an expert on Sino-U.S. relations.Although it has been well established that no “massacre” actually took place...

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/the-truth-behind-the-myth-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-opinion-piece-by-dr-dennis-etler
The so-called Tiananmen Square “Massacre” is one of the most misleading events the US government and the Western media have used to demonize the Chinese government each and every year since 1989. https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-1989-tiananmen-square-massacre-what-happened/5589231
The 1989 Tiananmen Square “Massacre". What Happened? - Global Research

“Tiananmen Square “Massacre”? The Power of Words vs. Silent Evidence“, an e-book by Australian-based author Wei Ling Chua.  Wei Ling Chua’s E-book can be  downloaded here. Excerpt from Kim Petersen’s...

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-1989-tiananmen-square-massacre-what-happened/5589231
"..there is not a single shred of photographic, video, or any other kind of evidence for the “hundreds”, “thousands”, or “tens of thousands”, of protesters “massacred” by gun fire or tanks by the government in or around the square that night.." https://leohezhao.medium.com/notes-for-30th-anniversary-of-tiananmen-incident-f098ef6efbc2
Notes for 30th Anniversary of TianAnMen Incident

by He Zhao, Robert K Tan, Dennis Etler, Thomas Hon Wing Polin

https://leohezhao.medium.com/notes-for-30th-anniversary-of-tiananmen-incident-f098ef6efbc2
Australian prof. Greg Clark

http://www.gregoryclark.net/jt/page116/page116.html
The Tiananmen Square Confrontation
Rewriting History for a new Generation

http://www.alternativeinsight.com/Tiananmen.html 
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW - The Myth of Tiananmen
And the price of a passive press

https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php?page=all
It goes without saying that this thread is a compilation of resources that was shamelessly stolen from my fellow Twitter users by me from one degree to another - @transartforall original thread here is one of them, please give them a follow 😍 https://twitter.com/transartforall/status/1334460281410342920?s=19
If there are other reading materials out there that I've missed/haven't seen please feel free to add to this thread. 😊
Here's a good thread from @captainsacks https://twitter.com/captainsacks/status/1268151501425225729?s=19
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