Yes, as I say, the photo is great for campaigning. Only a few years later, half a million people was massacred with knifes(!) in Rhuanda, and nobody in the Wes

Yes, as I say, the photo is great for campaigning. Only a few years later, half a million people was massacred with knifes(!) in Rhuanda, and nobody in the West really cared. So, the photo didn't really change anything. Its just good to lobby against China. And talking about the "Tiananmen Masacre", only 20 years before that, the same thing happened in Mexico, and the West had no problem celebrating the Olympic Games a week(!) later, only 1 Kilometer(!) away from the place of the crime. The Mexican Gov't of the time used Snipers instead of tanks, though. Look up "Massacre of Tlatelolco". Ironically, human rights abuses at that time where actually declining, having seen a peak towards the end of the Mao regime.