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Originally Posted by oil pan 4

If a billion people rise up against the commie China gov the gov will be squashed like a moist rice grain.

That would require freedom of thought and the ability to question authority, which China has thoroughly controlled. Only 15% of Beijing students even recognize the famous "tank man" photo, and probably even less know of the Tiananmen massacre.

Keep this number in mind the next time you hear about Chinese students' vaunted performance on international standardized tests. Only 15 out of 100 seem to know about the most important event in the last quarter-century of their country's history. It would be sort of as if only 15 out of 100 Harvard university students were able to recognize an iconic photo of the September 11 attacks, which killed about as many people in New York as the Tiananmen massacre killed in Beijing.