On the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square events, June 4, 1989, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio fuels tensions in relations with China, claiming that «censorship could not have “erased” the 1989 repression».
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Those events that occurred 37 years ago, mass protests to which the authorities reacted with force to re-establish the status quo, are still a controversial topic in China today, to the point that any mention is forbidden.
The reaction from Beijing
A damnatio memoriae that clashes with the extremely demanding statements at a time when the US and China are trying, after the recent Beijing summit last month, to re-establish a reasonable balance in bilateral relations.
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Indeed, Rubio’s words were enough to unleash the reactions of the Chinese Government, which responded sharply through the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning. «The erroneous observations made by the US side distort historical facts – she said –, defame China’s political system and development path, and constitute interference in the country’s internal affairs». «China – concluded the spokesperson – is strongly dissatisfied with this».
The Chinese government has never acknowledged the events surrounding the Tiananmen massacre and prohibits all forms of commemoration.
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