… according to the western narrative.
This event as well as whole, years long, upsurge of Chinese social consciousness and imperative of self-rule to serve proletariat (starting from Mao death) in the international context is to date very controversial mostly because almost anyone who could provide objective view and analysis was either corrupted by CPP or the West or they were exiled, imprisoned, intimidated or directly executed while guilty and their cronies are still in power.
Story of CCP controlled media about the background of the protest is as hopelessly biased as western narrative as nobody wants to unswer inconvenient questions of involvement of internal (CCP politburo political split on Deng’s policies ) and external (US elite and surveillance and security) political forces in fact instigating the protest and for a time tolerating it only to destroy it by means of massive political cleansing of opponents of China plan of abandonment of still remaining elements of socialism.
That would have been pure speculation on my part if not for hard proof of western direct collusion, instigation and interference and funding by US and West of disastrous events in Eastern Europe in 1989 and Soviet Union 1990-91.
Secret preparation to transition to capitalism in Poland was planned by Goldman-Sachs bankers invited to Warsaw in 1988 and funded by Polish (supposedly run by Workers Party, PZPR) government capitalist program and legislation of “market reforms” passed by Polish Parliament (Sejm) later that year (kept until Poland joined EU), following by mysterious deaths or assassinations of many PZPR political figures culminating in parliamentary coup in aftermath of controlled elections of June 1989 and shocking dissolution of PZPR in January of 1990 or in 1989 overthrowing Ceausescu regime by join operation of CIA and KGB and assassination of Ceausescu and his wife by Kangaroo court so people would never know the truth, or in 1985-1989 secret infiltration of GDR government with CDU political operatives as well as CIA infiltration of … STASI and KGB agents in East Germany not mention of infiltration of CIA into Soviet unions elites decades before collapse.
It is just to name few examples of Western instigation and cooperation with corrupted elites in Eastern block or their political enemies what makes some sort of coordination with the West of the Tiananmen square apriori and posteriori events is almost sure and most of all the outcome resulted not in slowing down but in accelerated abandonment of socialism in China.
Whatever details, in China and Eastern block return to capitalism was planed recognizing that shock and awe tactic must be applied and economic foundation of working class threaten destabilized or destroyed, political opposition lured from institutional woodwork and eliminated from government, economy and education and role of Stalinists everywhere in procuring false working class consciousness and damage to cause of international working class cannot be underestimated.