What is not mentioned in Perry's writing is that Liu's claim that China needs to be colonized for 300 years (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/10/li...) has put him as a shameful character in Chinese history. He might have thousands of supporters in China, of course, it's a country with 1.3b people. It doesn't matter, most people see him as a pitiful puppet of western government, and he is, by accepting numerous funds from NED, and probably CIA as well (http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/Liu-Xiaobo_NED_CIA.htm...).
Yea he is not a hero, I don't care if he won Nobel prize, he is a trash with a bone, that's all he is.
I have a vague memory of CCTV(official media, not your backyard CCTV) footage that depicting students and other people as mobs and killing soliders and burning the dead soldiers body.
Over the years, I got more and more piece of information about what happened at the time. clearly Chinese government is still trying to cover up what they did, and many exiles is still making up fake stories.
Nowadays in China people don't really care that much as you thought they would. The general consensus is that they are willing to forget about what happened and move on since it's full of opportunities right now and most people are more focused on getting a better life.
Not saying Chinese government was right they knew what happened was shameful and still forbids open news covfefe or discussion about it. In a booming economy it's just hard to mass up enough momentum to really get into a discussion about what happens in 1989, people just don't care anymore.
Yea he is not a hero, I don't care if he won Nobel prize, he is a trash with a bone, that's all he is.