Remembering Tiananmen Square’s Radical Reactionaries
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June 4 (Bloomberg) -- During the spring of 1989, Chineseactivists gathered in the heart of Beijing to fight fordemocracy. The tragic conclusion of the events around TiananmenSquare, 24 years ago today, is well known.
What isn’t widely recognized, however, is that many of theprotesters were reactionaries who opposed the Western-styleeconomic reforms introduced a decade earlier.