Acknowledgement is lip service, especially decades after the fact. If they provide significant compensation, then yes. There is hope for better days for China too, but not by portraying them as unmitigated evil. I can't think of any significant nation that has caved to orchestrated, vested moral outrage and said "sorry you guys... we'll hold elections next years and play by your rules henceforth", especially when the very countries asking for this unrepentant about their own past transgressions costing millions of lives (atomic bombs, Iraq invasion etc.)
Social project run by western NGOs I guess?
What is 1.1 billion when the west steals like 2~3 trillion each year since ww2 from the global south.
You can smooth over a lot of mismanagement or save a lot of costs this way.
It also seems the dividend from the colonial days is not enough anymore to keep the West going given their infrastructure seem to crumble every year.
> I can't think of any significant nation that has caved to orchestrated, vested moral outrage and said "sorry you guys... we'll hold elections next years and play by your rules henceforth",
Governments regularly cave in due to protests in democratic countries. It happened in the Netherlands a few months ago, for example.
Moreover, it's fundamentally important the fact that protests exist.
Comparing any western democracy to a dictatorship is the worst form of whataboutism.
How did they not "acknowledge" it? They did and they do. "They" call it "1989 incident" and despite the Western believe Chinese people are aware of that incident. And yet, most people I have spoken to in my countless trips to China follow the words of Deng Xiaoping that it was worth to sacrifice 3000 lifes for 30 years of stability.
Edit: by the way, it annoys me that I got trolled into posting something totally unrelated within a tech article. Why are all Chinese-related articles turning into exactyly the same direction in the past 3 years? I am tired of that.
> it was worth to sacrifice 3000 lifes for 30 years of stability.
No one knows what China would be like now had the CCP acceeded to the students' demands and liberalised.
Taiwan ended their long period of martial law around the same time too, and for a nation with so much stacked against it, you can hardly say they're doing badly.