White House praised the 'courage' of Chinese protesters who died in the Tiananmen Square massacre

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

days after tear gas and rubber bullets were used against protesters in DC

The White House released a statement on Thursday praising the "courage" of Chinese pro-democracy protesters that stood up to Chinese authoritarianism in 1989, days after a chemical irritant and rubber bullets were used to violently remove protesters from near the White House.

The statement was made by White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which Chinese troops entered Tiananmen Square in Beijing and fired on unarmed pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed, though China has never released an official death count.

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McEnany's statement comes as protests denouncing systemic racial injustice and police brutality continue across the US.

According to data from Mapping Police Violence, thousands of people in the US have been killed by police in the last decade.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-praised-courage-chinese-081859536.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. And here's what His Lardship had to say at the time:

“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world,”

[JHB]

2. That's not what Donnie said back in 1990. He loved the crackdown

I can't dig for it right now, but in a 1990 Playboy interview he called China's initial leniency toward the protests "weak", but they saved themselves by sending in the army to go in hard and put it down. He loved that part.

On edit: see reply#1 above. Ocelots are fast.