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Today, the 4th of June, is the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests (as known as National Remberance Day in China), which has successfully toppled the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. While watching a broadcast of the President of China laying wreaths in the Goddess of Democracy statue to commemorate the victims of political repression, a question popped up in my head: what if the Tiananmen Square protests failed, with the protests being suppressed brutally by the Chinese government? How would the PRC fare out in the 1990s and the 21st century? Would the crackdown on protesters eventually led to a civil war?
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