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    The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 saw thousands of peaceful student protesters killed by the Chinese military, marking a turning point where the government strengthened its control over citizens. Now, China has an extensive surveillance system and social credit system to monitor citizens and prevent dissent, removing anyone deemed not an "ideal Chinese." Millions of ethnic Uighurs and other minorities are detained in re-education camps, where many report rape and torture aimed at forcing assimilation to Han-Chinese norms. Modern China represents a chilling mix of totalitarian control seen in George Orwell's "1984" and the oppression of minorities under Nazi Germany.

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    The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 saw thousands of peaceful student protesters killed by the Chinese military, marking a turning point where the government strengthened its control over citizens. Now, China has an extensive surveillance system and social credit system to monitor citizens and prevent dissent, removing anyone deemed not an "ideal Chinese." Millions of ethnic Uighurs and other minorities are detained in re-education camps, where many report rape and torture aimed at forcing assimilation to Han-Chinese norms. Modern China represents a chilling mix of totalitarian control seen in George Orwell's "1984" and the oppression of minorities under Nazi Germany.

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    The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 saw thousands of peaceful student protesters killed by the Chinese military, marking a turning point where the government strengthened its control over citizens. Now, China has an extensive surveillance system and social credit system to monitor citizens and prevent dissent, removing anyone deemed not an "ideal Chinese." Millions of ethnic Uighurs and other minorities are detained in re-education camps, where many report rape and torture aimed at forcing assimilation to Han-Chinese norms. Modern China represents a chilling mix of totalitarian control seen in George Orwell's "1984" and the oppression of minorities under Nazi Germany.

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    The Guardian

    Tiananmen Square: A Brutal Reminder of


    China’s Regime of Terror
    Opinion Column
    By Ishaan Pan
    May 2021

    On June 4, 1989, the Chinese government had decided that the student-led protests, that had
    been ongoing since April, had gone on for long enough. The military had marched into
    Tiananmen Square and with merciless brutality, brought the protests to a complete halt. The
    death toll is widely disputed, ranging between ‘10,000’ into the hundreds of thousands. No
    other protests of the scale have ever happened again in mainland China.

    The Tiananmen Square protests were a turning point. The future of China would have
    been vastly different depending on the victors. For weeks, it seemed as if social change
    was coming. The government of China had been slowly opening up their economy and
    embracing liberal reforms. This gave people hope. Hope that maybe they could live under
    a government that doesn’t dictate every aspect of their lives. Unfortunately for them, the
    government did not like having dissidents amongst their country.

    The resulting massacre is now the most well-known protest that is furiously being
    covered up by the Chinese government and to that extent, they have been very successful.
    Barely anyone actually knows about the protest in China. The government even learned
    from Tiananmen Square: they were giving their citizens to much freedom to think for
    themselves. They needed to heighten their control over their citizens even more so they
    don’t have to spend unnecessary costs in fuel sending the military to stop more protests.
    Modern day China is more autocratic and
    totalitarian then it ever was. They have a massive
    surveillance and social credit system in order to
    keep every one of their citizens in check. Any
    small and inconspicuous act such as jaywalking or
    playing music too loudly in public may be seen as
    an offense and hurt your social credit score. If your
    score goes too low, you will be denied access to
    public facilities such as health care, or public
    transport.

    This technology is used to prevent another


    Tiananmen Square from happening before the
    thought of staging a protest ever crossed the mind
    of the citizens. Dissidents will be removed before
    they even know what they did wrong. Anyone who
    disagrees with the government, anyone who is not
    an ‘ideal Chinese,’ will be systematically removed.
    China has made ‘1984’ into a non-fiction report on
    how to set up an authoritarian regime.

    They even decided to take in one step further by


    taking something out of Hitler’s book of ideas.
    ‘Re-education Camps’ have been set up in the
    Xinjiang province of China were millions of
    Uighurs and other ethnic minorities are being
    tortured and brainwashed to become more like the
    ‘ideal Han-Chinese citizen.’

    Several former detainees have reported of a


    massive system or organized rape where guards
    and others are able to pay money have their “pick”
    of the “prettiest young inmates.”

    Modern day China is a mix between Hitler’s Nazi


    Germany and George Orwell’s 1984. There is mass
    surveillance, systematic oppression and torture of
    minorities and dissidents, and an absolute lack of
    regard for anyone against the government.

    The voice of the people was oppressed once in


    1989. People of the outside world saw what had
    happened. The same is happening now, the only
    difference is we don’t know what is happening.

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