{"id":254,"date":"2004-10-11T00:26:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T05:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=254"},"modified":"2004-10-11T00:27:35","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T05:27:35","slug":"chinese-president-rules-out-reclassifying-tiananmen-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Chinese President Rules Out Reclassifying Tiananmen Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing their Orwellian repainting of events, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/article.cfm?objectID=5A2485E6-2659-4E07-B8E80C32FC6ABFB8&#038;title=Chinese%20President%20Rules%20Out%20Reclassifying%20Tiananmen%20Events&#038;catOID=45C9C78B-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&#038;categoryname=Asia%20Pacific\">Chinese stand by their view of 1989&#8217;s massacre<\/a> at Tiananmen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Chinese President Hu Jintao says Beijing has no intention of reversing its view of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hu made the comment Saturday in Beijing at a news conference with French President Jacques Chirac.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the Tiananmen events, President Hu said there has been no consideration of re-classifying the official view that they were a subversive riot. He said the government&#8217;s decision to put down the protests led to China&#8217;s later economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The statements were Mr. Hu&#8217;s first public comments on the Tiananmen protests since he became head of the Chinese military last month. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Second verse, same as the first.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hu, ask Lenin, Stalin, <em>et al.<\/em>, about their control of history.  Their versions held true only for a time.  However, today&#8217;s more accurate view of history is not on their side of the story.  And the world moves ever quickly onwards.  Your spin of history may not outlast your days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing their Orwellian repainting of events, the Chinese stand by their view of 1989&#8217;s massacre at Tiananmen. Chinese President Hu Jintao says Beijing has no intention of reversing its view of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Mr. Hu made the comment Saturday in Beijing at a news conference with French President Jacques Chirac. When asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-general","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}