Ask Deepseek what happened in Tianmen Square in 1989 and get back to me about that "open" thing.
How about we ask college students in America on visas about their opinions on Palestine instead?
who cares, only ideologues care about this.
Yeah I'm sure every Chinese knows exactly what happened there.
It's not really about suppressing the knowledge, it's about suppressing people talking about it and making it a point in the media etc. The CCP knows how powerful organised people can be, this is how they came to power after all.
Caring about truth is indeed obsolete. I'm dropping out of this century.
> Caring about truth
I suggest reducing the tolerance towards the insistence that opinions are legitimate. Normally, that is done through active debate and rebuttal. The poison has been spread through echochambers and lack of direct strong replies.
In other terms: they let it happen, all the deliriousness of especially the past years was allowed to happen through silence, as if impotent shrugs...
(By the way: I am not talking about "reticence", which is the occasional context here: I am talking about deliriousness, which is much worse than circumventing discussion over history. The real current issue is that of "reinventing history".)