1/ This incident have to do with the global context. The West...has thrown its entire #propaganda machine into agitation work and has given a lot of encouragement and assistance to the so-called democrats or opposition in China — people who are in fact are the scum [of 17]
2/ Some Western countries use things like #HumanRights or like saying the socialist system is irrational or #illegal, to criticize us, but what they're really after is our sovereignty...
3/ Two conditions are indispensable for our development goals: a #stable environment at home and a peaceful environment abroad...
4/ Imagine for a moment what could happen if China falls into turmoil. If it happens now, it'd be far worse than the #CulturalRevolution...We talked about "full-scale civil war," but actually no large-scale fighting took place, no true civil war ever happened.
5/ Now it's different, though. #ThisTimeIsDifferent
If the turmoil keeps going, it could continue until Party and state authority are worn away. Then there would be civil war, one faction controlling parts of the army and another faction controlling others.
If the turmoil keeps going, it could continue until Party and state authority are worn away. Then there would be civil war, one faction controlling parts of the army and another faction controlling others.
6/ If the so-called #DemocracyFighters were in power, they'd fight among themselves.
Once #CivilWar got started, #BloodWouldFlowLikeARiver, and where would human rights be then? #threat
Once #CivilWar got started, #BloodWouldFlowLikeARiver, and where would human rights be then? #threat
7/ Our biggest mistake was in #education. we haven't educated our kids and students enough...Which makes it even more our own faults that people misunderstood.
8/ We must cast a sober and critical eye upon ourselves, review the past while looking to the future, and try to learn from experience as we examine current problems. If we do this, it's possible a bad thing could turn into a good one.
We could benefit from this incident.
We could benefit from this incident.
9/ A majority of the people will sober up, too. After we #PutDown (#murder) the #turmoil, we'll have to work hard to make up all those missed lessons in #education.
It'll take years, not months, for the people who demonstrated and petitioned to change their minds.
It'll take years, not months, for the people who demonstrated and petitioned to change their minds.
10/ We can't blame the people who joined the hunger strike, demonstrated, or petitioned.
We should target only those who had bad intentions or who #TookTheLead in breaking the law. #Education should be our main approach to the student...
We should target only those who had bad intentions or who #TookTheLead in breaking the law. #Education should be our main approach to the student...
11/ This principle must not change. We should set the majority of the students free from worry. We should be forgiving toward all the students who joined marches, demonstrations, or petitions and not hold them responsible.
12/ We will mete out precise and necessary punishments only to the #minority of adventurers who attempted to subvert the #PRC 🇨🇳.
13/ We cannot tolerate #turmoil. We will impose #MartialLaw again if turmoil appears again. Our purpose is... construction, and our logic is simple: with so many people and so few resources, China can accomplish nothing without #peace
14/ No one can keep China's reform and opening from going forward. ...without reform and opening our development stops and our #economy slides downhill.
Living standards decline if we turn back. The momentum of reform cannot be stopped.
Living standards decline if we turn back. The momentum of reform cannot be stopped.
15/ Some people say we allow only #EconomicReform and not #PoliticalReform, but that's not true.
We do allow political reform, but one condition: that the Four Basic Principles of Marxist ideology and Communist Party rule are upheld.
We do allow political reform, but one condition: that the Four Basic Principles of Marxist ideology and Communist Party rule are upheld.
16/ ... If today we have a big demonstration and tomorrow we have a great airing of views and a bunch of wall posts, we won't have any energy left to get anything done. That's why we have to insist on clearing the square. ~ [#DengXiaoping -1989] #TiananmenSqure
17/ Four Cardinal Principles: [Basic]
1. #socialist
2. people's democratic #dictatorship
[state represents and act on behalf of the people]
3. Leadership of the #CCP [no #voting]
4. Mao Zedong Thought [#education]
1. #socialist
2. people's democratic #dictatorship
[state represents and act on behalf of the people]
3. Leadership of the #CCP [no #voting]
4. Mao Zedong Thought [#education]
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