This deserves more votes... qualm, I think including "Tiananmen Square" in the title, too, would get this vid the attention it deserves. People are probably skimming past without looking closely enough to see what's what.

Agreed. A better title would help. I almost missed this one myself.

Agreed on the title, I almost passed this over as a game clip or something. Games I'm not much interested in but this is a good find.

Yeah, bad title for a very world-wide signifigant event.

A good heads-up. Title edited.

I watch a great deal of documentaries, this one is very good, great post qualm.

Tags changed from "resistance,tiananmen square,mystery" to "resistance, tank man, china, mystery" by gold star member joedirt.

I saw this many months ago (I think it was posted on reddit too) before I was a member of VS. I am happy to be able to vote this up... great submission!

Qualifies for *history, *asia and *documentaries

Adding video to channels (Asia, Documentaries, History) - requested by maatc.

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 2:58pm PDT - promote requested by mauz15.

It is quite ironic and tragic that 1989 protests delayed political reforms indefinitely. The failure to negotiate with protesters peacefully in the first 5 weeks was an excuse to remove the moderate elements of the communist party from power, putting a halt to any hope of political reform following the then recent economic reforms.

I wonder what these protesters think now, knowing that their noble but misguided efforts ended up doing more harm than good in the long run. All they accomplished was to remind the government to invest in non-lethal weapons and riot control training.