Tiananmen Square Analysis

Yuang Li
J. Keeperman
Writing 39B
Feb.18.2014
Attacks Out of the Box
The Tiananmen Square Event, also known as the June 4th Incident, refers to a protest in Beijing, the capital of China, in 1989. It started with the memorial event of Hu Yaobang, former General Secretary of the Communist Party, at Tiananmen Square on April 15th, 1989. Since some opinions of Hu’s political reforms were similar to capitalistic (but still communist) liberalism, many leaders rejected Hu’s political reforms and named them opinions of “bourgeois liberalization.” Coincidently, Hu died right after the Chinese government ceased Hu’s reforms (Oikawa). After Hu’s death, many students from Peking University and Tsinghua University joined the gathering together. Besides giving public orations to commemorate Hu, the student speakers focused on discussing problems of domestic political development and the advantages of Hu’s political reforms (Searle). To continue those reforms, many students in Beijing later protested while trying to rush into the State Council, stop the traffic and continue the fast that had started earlier at Tiananmen Square (Butcher).
Even though the government attempted to provide face-to-face communications with the student leaders, the protest still became a “counterrevolution riot.” Some students raised scrolls of anticommunism and obstructed the preparation of Gorbachev’s welcoming ceremony (Li, 29). In the other major cities such as Shanghai and Chengdu, students who proclaimed to join the protest in Beijing, however, engaged in beating, smashing, and looting in the commercial areas (Long). After warning the students for many times, the government ultimately announced curfew restrictions and sent armed forces to dismiss the protesters...

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In conclusion, the Tiananmen Square Event conspiracy is an Enemy Outside conspiracy that have many similarities with the John Sassamon and King Philip conspiracy. Both of them lack of clear origins, have aliens at home are agents of a foreign power, and have achieved significant goals. Although there is still not enough evidence to prove a conspiracy theory to a truth, an Enemy Outside conspiracy theory is still possible to be true based on the conspirators rational implies.