Our secretary of state, fresh from her didactic ruler-smacking session with Israeli knuckles, put on her goody two-shoes habit yesterday and suggested to Beijing that it could mark the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre by publishing the names of those mowed-down–hundreds of protesters-against-government-repression who, notwithstanding all that Chinese reform (never mind on whose enslaved backs it is taking place), have never been acknowledged. Said she: “A China that has made enormous progress economically and is emerging to take its rightful place in global leadership should examine openly the darker events of its past and provide a public accounting of those killed, detained or missing, both to learn and to heal.” The Chinese government had a different idea of how things should go in the square. FoxNews.com reports:
Not, perhaps, the rejoinder she was seeking? Whatever. There was Cairo today to console her.
