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Unless the Chinese are patient and strategic. They need to sway the masses when the opinions of the people count. The bad reputation was no obstacle to people buying from China.
The image is still bad because it is linked to whatever happened on the square. If they point out that it is false, people will ask what happened. If they say nothing, people remember this image.
It's the opposite. The negativity of the picture comes from wild associations.
Tanks breaking for a civilian and soldiers not reacting with violence is in itself good.
Tankman was a huge propaganda win for the west. However upholding it in times of wikipedia is silly if the tanks were leaving. The man is not trying to prevent students from being crushed. What's the message now?
To clarify, I don't think that killing the protesters on the square was acceptable.
You don't condone the murder but you condone the cover up of the murder?
Edit: dumb
I don't condone the murder.
Yeah I swapped condone and condemn because I'm dumb
The journalist argues that the picture is a cover up. I don't condone it, I point it out.
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