The president urged young people to let the “banner of patriotism fly high in their hearts.”
By Anna Fifield Anna Fifield Beijing bureau chief. Email Bio Follow April 30 at 8:33 AM BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping celebrated the anniversary of a student protest with great fanfare and an hour-long speech in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday. But it wasn’t the student protest that took place in front of that majestic hall in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago in June that he was commemorating.
“Chinese youth in the new era shall love their great motherland,” Xi told the 3,500-odd young people gathered in the Great Hall of the People, including students dressed in brightly colored jackets from Beijing’s four most prestigious universities — the same universities that were involved in the 1989 protests.
Although the Communist Party did not exist in 1919, the president is using the centenary to co-opt what he called a “great patriotic revolutionary movement” in an effort to instill a deep sense of nationalism in the Chinese populace.The next few months are extremely sensitive ones for the Communist Party of China, with the May 4 anniversary this weekend and the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in June.
The student protesters of 1919 promoted Western ideals of science and democracy, and their movement was later credited with bringing about the successful reorganization of the Nationalist Party and the creation of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. “The people were also calling for a form of democracy, not necessarily on the Western model but something with much more consultation with the public,” Jackson said, adding that the movement was founded on anger toward the ministers of the day. “That kind of dissent against the government is obviously not possible now. So they’re just cherry picking the aspects of the movement that suit their own purposes.
A song called “The Path of Man,” which describes the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has disappeared from Apple Music’s service in China and from the Chinese streaming service QQ Music.
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