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June 4, 1989: the 27th and 28th Armies of the People's Liberation Army move in to break up the Tiananmen Square protests by force. The 38th Army, stationed in Beijing, mutinies and sides with the demonstrators. Chinese and international television broadcast the events in Beijing across the country and the world. The capital is overtaken in the revolts, as the public and much of the police force sides against the Armies brought in from out-of-province.

Violent confrontations between police and student demonstators in other Chinese cities occur. Shanghai and Nanjing see particularly strong resistance in solidarity with those in Beijing. Peaceful solidarity demonstrations take place in Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, across Taiwan, and in Singapore, as well as Chinatowns the world over. The Kuomintang government in Taiwan declares solidarity with the "freedom fighters for democracy" around 10:00 PM, when images of a burned-out tank are broadcast across the world.

Violence continues throughout the night in several cities across China, with the 38th Army having seized the Forbidden City, and then occupying it with several hundred demonstrators. Deaths in Beijing are estimated at about 3200 by Red Cross officials by the next morning.

Over the next several days, every major city in China proper sees revolutionary activity. In some cities, like Xi'an and Shanghai (and previously Beijing), large numbers of the police forces and local military forces defect to the other side, resulting in a decree on June 7 that all urban military forces are to be disarmed, forcefully if necessary. Nationwide martial law is also declared. Military forces must be brought into the cities from more rural sectors of the country.

Organizations like the Democratic Reformists of the People's Republic, the Movement for Democracy in China, and Han Chinese Patriots for Unity and Democracy arise in the weeks to come, staging peaceful demonstrations that tend to turn violent, violent attacks on police stations, the manufacture of illegal weapons, and the vandalism and occupation of various state buildings and enterprises. On June 11, the Chinese government decrees the temporary of closure of all universities, which have both been the targets of vandalism and destruction, and the centres of revolutionary activity.

Tibetan nationalist activity increases drastically in Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang, particularly after many of the military divisions are pulled out of these remote areas to fight in the cities of the East. The skeleton forces remaining find it difficult to hold onto the areas under their jurisdicgtion, and only maintain control of areas they deem important: Aksai Chin (not to be lost to Indian control), Lhasa, Shigatse, Ürümqi, Hohhot, Battou, and Lop Nur. Gyantse, for one, is lost to the Tibetans.

The Tibetans are being armed with weapons smuggled in from India - provided by either the sympathetic (but none-too-forgiving) Indian government or by the Tibetan diaspora and its sympathizers. A somewhat more nationalistic communist regime in Mongolia provides some logistical support to Mongol nationalists, whereas Afghan mujahideen have been slipping into Xinjiang and bringing weapons with them. The Soviet Union and China haven't been able to stop much of this flow of weapons and people from going on. In China proper, some guns provided by the Chinese diaspora and the Vietnamese government have managed to get onto the mainland from Hong Kong, Macau, Hainan, and from Arunachal Pradesh, where many overseas Chinese have set up shop temporarily - along with Taiwanese intelligence, presently tolerated by the Indian government.

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