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Where Is Tank Man?

June 4, 2019 – 9:19 am

Thirty years ago a lone Chinese protester blocked a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. June 5, 1989 in front of the Beijing Hotel one days after the Tiananmen massacre. Cameras and videos captured the young man’s defiance of governmental power. Steel versus flesh. After a conversation with the driver of the […]

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Great Olympic Moments

July 27, 2012 – 11:49 pm

Jessie Owens taking the gold medal at the Nazi Olympics 1936  Lee Evans, Peter Norman, and Tommie Smith protesting racism at the Mexico Olympics 1968.   Tank Man Beijing 1988

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Tank Man Plus 22

June 5, 2011 – 7:58 pm

22 years ago young protesters gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to mourn the passing of a liberal official. Communist countries in Europe were collapsing like dominoes and the Chinese Politburo feared this non-violent threat to their regime. The hardline Premier Li Peng attempted to establish martial law, however the city troops had no heart to […]

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Where is Tank Man?

June 4, 2009 – 7:12 am

A Chinese protester blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. June 5, 1989 in front of the Beijing Hotel. Twenty years ago a single man stopped a convoy of tanks near Peking’s Forbidden City one days at the Tiananmen massacre. Cameras and videos captured the young man’s defiance of governmental power. […]

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Behind the Green Curtain redux by Jocko Weyland

January 19, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Jocko Weyland left the USA for the Orient. The reasons for this departure are his own and so his choice of Beijing. My prerequisites for a place to live are good food, warm weather, and beautiful women. Guess I’m shallow as an evaporation stain on an Arizona Highway. Jocko went for a world-class intellectual city, however […]

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