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COMMENT AND OPINION
American media refuses to ask:
What do Chinese students want?
By Brian Smith
■ Western Heiaid
Western Michigan U.
The U.S. media indicated the magni
tude of tiie news of the Beijing uprising;
unfortunately, the complexity of the
events and what the students do and do
not want has been clouded by the media's
neglect to ask the students one question:
"What do you want?”
Of course, the answer might refute the
f S. media's implications that the stu
dents want Western style liberal demur
racy, complete with a complimentary
serving of supply-side capitalism
This became evident on a CBS report
After showing student sit-ins, CBS fol
lowed up with a report about what young
Chinese want The report focused on a
supposedly typical 12 vear old Chinese
boy and his family And what did that
young boy desire in life?
He desired to manage a large factory
in which he would control lots of workers
and, of course, make lots of money.
The question of whether the majority
of those in Tiananmen Square were
crushed by tanks in order to control each
other and to make lots of money can be
left up to the survey takers.
But, it is questionable as to whether
the students, the community members
and military members who now support
them, are dying fora better cheeseburger
and the right to control several franchis
es that make those cheeseburgers.
But because the protesters put up a
replica ofthe Statue of Liberty, this action
was interpreted as an attempt to be just
like us.
After all, doesn't everyone want to be
just like us'.’
Although we have some good charac
teristics that other nations do not have,
this does not mean that we are the perfect
society for which others strive Now that
Solidarity has gained power in Poland,
LYNETTE TSAI. JAI; Y BRUIN.
U OF CAUFORNA LOS ANGELES.
A student weeps while listening to an account of
the bloody suppression in Tiananmen Square.
CHINA CRISIS
THREE STUDENT PERSPECTIVES
Americans are about to l>e sent a shock
Solidarity is not the Republican Party,
Polish style. It is still a socialist party,
and will govern as a socialist party — the
major difference being that it will govern
democratically. And it would seem :i •
the same would hold for the Chn
protesters, if and when they gain po ■
Unfortunately, the U.S. med: .
attempts to make the uprising appi
pro-capitalist rally is only one mislead.
aspect of their coverage.
The other was the result of then
neglect to reflect on how the U.S. gover
ment has dealt with similar pro-dem
racy movements at home.
China could take a few tips by look:
at U.S. history.
For instance, perhaps China’s bigg
mistake is the manner in which t:.
have killed their protesters.
China needs to learn to shoot its
dents in groups of four, as we did at K.
State, and not 400. China needs to It-.;
to use dogs that look and act like Rm T
Tin on acid, not tanks that look
Czechoslovakia in 1968.
China needs to learn to use a half-ci\
urn, half-military militia — a Nation
Guard — to quell protests, and not to c
out its main militia. Governme
response can, thereby, be labeled pol
action; and headlines mentioning n
war are avoided.
China needs to learn to make the s
dent movement appear threatening
infiltrating rallies with undercover ’
cers who, through their violent a>
make a protest appear violent.
The United States found this '
quite successful in making the (
Rights and anti-Vietnam War protest
the 1960s appear violent
China also needs to better control t
foreign media; international pressu
will then lessen.
Rut China is a naive, communist, tote,
itanan nation - we are a smart, deni
cratic, capitalist nation (with goo
cheeseburgers and good eheeseburg
managers). That is why they want to :
like us.
Right?
Peace activists’ silence indicates
consent to Beijing totalitarianism
By Mat Gleason
■ University Times
California State U„ Los Angeles
We have watched President Bush impose sanctions on the
Chinese government that were followed by calls, from both nght
and left, for stiffer penalties. Every group associated with inter
national causes from Amnesty International to The John Birch
Society, has spoken against these atrocities — except the peace
activists.
Tiananmen Square was the setting of the most deliberate and
heinous systematic violence in the past 40 years, yet the lack
of protests by non-Chinese Americans is not only appalling, it’s
scary.
This question, this unabashed indifference immediately
reveals the wolf in sheep’s clothing who has successfully hidden
from the press. The worldwide network of peace activists are
politically motivated, and their politics preclude certain gov
ernments. Which governments are spared the ‘hit-list" treat
ment? Illogically, it is the most repressive and brutal govern
ments that are spared the wrath of peace demonstrations. In
addition, these lucky regimes are rarely democratically elected.
How convenient.
The peace activists’ silence is an act of support for Beijing’s
totalitarian regime. Their motives, disguised as concern for the
oppressed, are exposed The Peace Movement is an anti-demo*
racy leftist faction that, while probably not an organized con
spiracy, has stemmed t he tide of democratization
Nicaragua has no free press. How can the Peace Movement
uphold the myth that it holds free elections? Yet, when El
Salvador democratically elects a president, the Peace
Movement demands that we cut aid. They want us to cut off
aid to one of the few democracies in the world because a majority
of Salvadorians don’t agree w'ith their pseudomarxist views.
Next time a non-socialist, democratically elected government
supported bv the U.S.A. is involved in violence against sonii
rebel faction or guerilla group, you can bet that we’ll hear their
impassioned pleas.But they won’t protest the Chinese govern
ment’s use of violence and suppression against pro-democracy
supporters.
An activist told me, in the days when we were normalizing
our relationship wath The Peoples’s Republic of China, that
China was the closest approximation to pure communism ever
I’m afraid that they may be realizing how true that is.
( hina has a limitless capacity to fascinate. But it is not
Disneyland.lt is, as it has been since 1949, a Communist dicta
torship held together by brute force.No one who knows China
should be surprised when its leaders turn to violence to pursue
their political goals. They have done far worse before. Tiananmen
Square - Former President Richard M. Nixon.