Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations
Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters has been leaked online, offering a highly unusual glimpse into the upper echelons of the military at one of the most fraught moments in modern Chinese history.
General Xu Qinxian’s refusal to take his troops from the PLA’s prestigious 38th Group Army, a unit based on the outskirts of Beijing, into the capital has been the stuff of Tiananmen lore for decades.
The six-hour video recording of Gen Xu’s court martial hearing the next year sheds light on the rare act of defiance. In the video, Xu said he refused because he did not want to become “a sinner in history”.
ah, sure, I get how this is information warfare. But it’s honestly pretty mild and I think on its own it presents more historical interest than confirmation bias. I do appreciate however how these things are meant to pile up and slowly manufacture consent.
tbh I haven’t read once a prediction about China collapsing soon, maybe I haven’t been looking in the right places. But anyone paying attention should be able to tell the opposite is happening
and to be entirely honest I stopped short at reading the article… given that the audience recording is apparently 6 hours long
Well, that’s a mature response. My initial comment was mostly not really appropriate to this article in a vacuum; out of the context of the rest of the “World News” post that have been just a constant stream of cold war agit-prop against China. It’s why it just bothers me.
Nothing is being posted to learn from China’s success. It’s not even being posted to learn from their failures. It’s just being posted to manufacture consent as you said. That’s where my frustration comes from. It’s just western people eating up slop as we pay higher rents for everything in life. And accept that bombing brown kids and starting wars for oil are just part of our life.