Status Updates From Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen D...

Yes I think the Russians crushed Budapest like the Chinese are crushing their own people. The “Peoples Army” against the People. And all my Chinese friends were still assuring me last night that if one drop of students blood was she’d the whole nation would boil over. Maybe it will, but I doubt it.

Odd sensation—listening to a broadcast coming from Washington D.C, to find out what’s happening a block and a half up the street.

I did think the government had been tolerant..but I was suspicious that this tolerance was the velvet that conceals the mailed fist.