@jermwarfare on Odysee.com interviews Matt Ehret, who reports on extensive research into how the CIA trained and manipulated the students that protested at Tiananmen Square in 1989. From HSBC and the control of money in Hong Kong, to CIA agents John Promfet and Alan Pessin, he digs into the meat and marrow of the CIA operation intended from the outset to sacrifice the students by forcing the Chinese government to violently suppress the demonstration.
As I have long admired the man who stood down the column of tanks that fateful day, blocking their path with his fragile person, and when they would not run him down, climbing atop the first tank and beating on the hatch with his briefcase (I used a picture of him as a banner on my blog before Hive), I have been frustrated at the lack of verifiable information availed Americans about the event. The many Western journalists present did not reveal his name. The video shown of his confrontation and discussion with the crew of the tank, who opened the hatch and spoke with him, ended with him being dragged off the tank by two men, and we never heard anything further about his fate. This certainly created the presumption that he was killed, perhaps tortured, for his actions that day (and China, of course, says they have no idea where he is), creating a martyr to the desire of the Chinese people for freedom, which we were told was what the students were seeking.
However, History.com reports his name: Wang Weilin, and that he was arrested for 'Political Hooliganism'. He was certainly courageous, and few men have ever revealed the caliber of their character so clearly, at such certain cost. Much else was concealed from the West regarding the protests, such as that the students were initially outraged at favorable treatment of blacks from Africa that were granted scholarships to matriculate there, and it was the CIA that insinuated the powerful propaganda, at least to Western civilians, that their quest was nothing less than freedom from the Communist yoke the hapless Chinese labored under.
That was a lot more palatable than the stark racism that instigated the riots to Americans.
The most compelling and harsh truth of the political machinations and manipulations of the CIA to me was the interview that Chai Ling, the 'Student Commander in Chief', gave Philip Cunningham on May 28, in the documentary 'Keys to the Heavenly Kingdom' before the military intervention.
In it she says:
"The students kept asking, what should we do next? What can we accomplish? I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed, for the moment when the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain this to my fellow students? I can't say all this to my fellow students. I can't tell them straight out that we must use our blood and lives to call on the people to rise up. Of course, the students will be willing. But they are still such young children! And what is truly sad is that some students, and famous well-connected people, are working hard to help the government, to prevent it from taking such measures. For the sake of their selfish interests and their private dealings they are trying to cause our movement to collapse and get us out of the square before the government becomes so desperate that it takes action."
When asked by Cunningham if she was willing to die, she says:
"No, no. I am much too important to die."
Matt notes, during his narration, how that so resembles the Malthusians convinced overpopulation is a problem, yet all are themselves too important to be 'depopulated'. They only want everyone else to die, so they can take their stuff. Then he shows the pictures we never saw in the West, of the hundreds of PLA soldiers the rioters burned to death.
The blood lust of the CIA was concealed from America, and the West, as well as from their cannon fodder, the students themselves. The CIA was deeply entrenched in the media. John Promfet was with the Associated Press, and is today with the Washington Post, while Alan Pessin worked for Voice of America.
I highly recommend the video from @jermwarfare. Matt Ehret concisely and factually conveys his informative research and a much deeper understanding and clarity about the Tiananmen Square uprising, and how it was brought to you by the same people that brought Juan Guaido to Venezueala, and the Maidan to the Ukraine in 2014.
Who knows, maybe Prigozhin has learned some tricks from them too.