Rep. Smith Issues Op-Ed: 'Remembering Tiananmen'
June 05, 2020
June 05, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, issued the following op-ed published in the New Jersey Globe:
Thirty-one years ago, the world watched with a mixture of hope and anticipation as over a million people gathered peacefully to demand democracy and human rights in the streets of Beijing and over 400 other Chinese cities.
The promise of those heady days ended tragically with broken bodies and broken dreams. Dreams that were brutally suppressed by a Chine . . .
Thirty-one years ago, the world watched with a mixture of hope and anticipation as over a million people gathered peacefully to demand democracy and human rights in the streets of Beijing and over 400 other Chinese cities.
The promise of those heady days ended tragically with broken bodies and broken dreams. Dreams that were brutally suppressed by a Chine . . .