[coldtea]

>Any example of events 'us' is actively removing from history the same way China is doing with the the Tiananmen event ?

All kinds of events, from the Philippines war, to provoking Japan in WWII, to Mosaddegh, Vietnam atrocities, to the bloody US labour history, and so on [1].

Though in the US, as long as their importance is downplayed at official politics and the educational system, you can still let people talk and write books about those events, since nobody really cares. A lot of the suffering in those events happened to people outside the country anyway.

Whereas in China, talk about their things could seriously polarize people and have extended consequences (not just the CCP elites falling from grace, but also a hellish period of power struggles to fill the power vacuum, even a civil war).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_Un...

[johnchristopher]

> Though in the US, as long as their importance is downplayed at official politics and the educational system, you can still let people talk and write books about those events,

Which is a far cry from what China is doing regarding Tiananmen.

The same for Labour day.

[coldtea]

>Which is a far cry from what China is doing regarding Tiananmen.

Well, that's because talking about those things in the use and people wont care anyway (it's not like they'll rebel against the government). Whereas talking about those things in China could create mayhem and turn the country into a chaos of civil war and power struggles as I wrote above. So the US can afford to be magnanimous about it. In areas where it wants to keep stuff secret, people exposing them have the fate of Snowden, Manning, Assange and co.