Here is an example of the level of integrity of the men reigning over the People’s Republic of China.
Thirty years ago, a man stood in front of a column of tanks, halting their hulking passage from Tiananmen Square a day after the bloodshed of June 4.
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“Tank man” images are ruthlessly excised from Chinese social media, according to monitoring services.
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Now the Chinese government is seeking to exert the same sort of control over how China’s history is seen in the rest of the world.
President Xi Jinping and his henchmen are increasingly restricting access by foreigners to PRC—even academic—databases of the nation’s history (such as it’s allowed to exist) along with actively purging them to control domestic consumption.
Nor is just this relatively passive censorship. Here’s Glenn Tiffert, a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution:
The way to think about the PRC on the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen is that it isn’t just trying to bury a set of inconvenient truths and facts, but is trying to construct a new narrative.
Xi and his men aren’t lying about their nation in a fit of self-delusion, nor is this an attempt simply to keep such knowledge from circling back to the citizenry from outside; Xi and his men are lying in a conscious effort to delude us.
Such men cannot be trusted in any venue.