... educated. The slow conversion from the Central Planning System to the New Economic Market to open up free trade affected China inadequately, leading China into chaos, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. There is no determined reason why Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party and the principal leader of China, unleashed millions of youths, soldiers and later ... beneficiaries of such corruption, so Deng fired him from his job. Soon after, Hu died of depression. This triggered an outpour in sympathy. The students started a peace protest at Tiananmen Square near a stat...

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... . Inflation was skyrocketing and corruption was also increasing which led to a movement for political reform in 1989 (The Rise). This reform began when students and workers gathered up in Tiananmen Square to protest to change the government into a new democratic system. Thousands of people gathered in protest, when on June 3rd and 4th, Chinese soldiers marched in and committed a massacre. They ... used any means necessary to subdue the protesting students. In total, it was estimated that there were about 3,500 casualties in just a few days at Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen). Due to the rise...

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... from the "Taiwan Option" described by Chiang. There are two major factors that support authoritarianism in China: scarcity of information and a stratified class structure. Oddly enough it is the Tiananmen Square movement that most clearly shows how these conditions help maintain China's dictatorship. The leaders of the pro-democracy rally in Beijing were mainly upper class college students who resided in ... ...

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... from the "Taiwan Option" described by Chiang. There are two major factors that support authoritarianism in China: scarcity of information and a stratified class structure. Oddly enough it is the Tiananmen Square movement that most clearly shows how these conditions help maintain China's dictatorship. The leaders of the pro-democracy rally in Beijing were mainly upper class college students who resided in ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate