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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989
(lemmy.world)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
The protests lasted over a month; the massacre ended them in a flood of state-sponsored murder.
It sounds like that's what I'm talking about. It was Imperial -> ROC -> PRC, not Imperial -> PRC.
The only progress was ROC. PRC was worse.
It's like saying "Oh you don't like Trump fucking up everything in our government so it's way more authoritarian? Well it's much better than when the US was imperial England, so it's still progress."
There's a step missing.