I've never accepted a single penny in exchange for my name. I have no titles beyond the ones of the books I read. Since I was old enough to read, my father taught me how to study, and I have done so ever since. Closest I've ever done to any professional writing would be translating adverts. I did that for a while.
As for Tiananmen Square, I think it's a strange and tangential remark. Referring to a single square in a city, as some kind of moral equivalency to a military hegemony that spans every single continent, and that has, according to CIA officers' own estimates, killed at least 6 million innocent people is, in my opinion, bizarre.
Especially given the irony of how the US spreads these kinds of alarmist foreign policy doctrines to justify killing tenfold more using sanctions and war. Saddam Hussein was a terrible man, but I've spoken to Iraqis who says that ever since the US army arrived, they miss him. So forgive me if I suspect you might act in bad faith.
To quote intelligence officer Steve Kangas from his Timeline of CIA Atrocities:
This scenario has been repeated so many times that the CIA actually teaches it in a special school, the notorious "School of the Americas." (It opened in Panama but later moved to Fort Benning, Georgia.) Critics have nicknamed it the "School of the Dictators" and "School of the Assassins." Here, the CIA trains Latin American military officers how to conduct coups, including the use of interrogation, torture and murder.
The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. (2) Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an "American Holocaust."
A good book about it is Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, it's a very extensive read to say the least. I found it harrowing at times, but it was very insightful.
Moreover, massacre might be a strong word. It implies the conflict was one sided.
If got the stomach for it, then google "Tiananmen Square Lynchings", and look at the numerous photographs of Chinese civil servants who were burned alive and then strung up from the lamp posts. This is why the army had to step in, people were being wantonly murdered in broad daylight.
Moreover, the Chinese government has condemned the events, one cause for the government escalating the violence was due to how they do not have the same police history as western countries.
Since China never had any equivalent to the Jim Crow era, they did not have the same level of development or experience with crowd control due to civil turmoil on this level. Most Chinese riots up until this point had vandalism and brawling that ordinary civil police could handle.
The main reason I know a lot about China is because I have lived in migrant and refugee communities for most of my life and I have known people from all over Asia, including China.
I also have a regular correspondence with a friend who lives in the Chinese mainland and frequently vents about all the ridiculous US propaganda they read about in western publications.
I have known a lot of refugees from places affected by that aforementioned 6 million death toll, from every corner of the world. I don't need any money to be motivated to write about it.
But thank you for the wikipedia article, very exciting stuff.
