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Safer? I guess that Great Firewall does work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_pro

• contingencies 10y ago
  Oh come on. 16 years is modern China not Maoist China.
  • idra 10y ago
    1989 is also modern China ruled by Deng Xiaoping and in no way Maoist China.
    • oblio 10y ago
      If we judge them by their history and by their results, the image changes quite a bit. They were on the verge of a major economic breakthrough and they needed political stability. Also, historically political instability in China lead to millions of people dieing. I don't approve of their actions, they reacted way too late and were too violent. A faster intervention, something like mass arrests (+ releases after everyone cooled down) would have probably been the best compromise. It's easy to judge them from outside.
      • ralfd 10y ago
        > It's easy to judge them from outside. To be fair, isn't that the only way to judge this? China forbids discussion of the Tiananmen Square protests and censors informations, younger generations aren't even aware of it.
        • yyhhsj0521 10y ago
          Nah... I live in China, and have just graduated from high school. There isn't a single person who doesn't know about the 64 protest. (but I am from one of those "elite high schools" so this may not tell much about the whole population). Few really care about it though, like (I imagine) few teens in US really care about the gulf war or the Vietnam war.
• yyhhsj0521 10y ago
  It is indeed safer (in term of murder rate at least). I'm not saying that the safety is achieved by the right method though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...