The Tiananmen Reckoning
Any true reckoning of the cost of June 4, 1989 in Tiananmen Square should go well beyond a full account of the dead, detained and missing
This article was originally published in Forbes magazine.
It’s 24 years since China’s government crushed the mass uprising we remember by the name of Tiananmen Square. I was there, reporting then for the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page. Having witnessed the events of the bloody night leading to the grim dawn of June 4, 1989, in and around Tiananmen, I raced back to my hotel room to phone my editor in New York and file the story. When I had finished detailing what I had seen — the burning barricades, the soldiers firing into the crowds, the armored personnel carriers and tanks rolling into Tiananmen — he asked the big question: What does it mean?
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