As part of extravagant military and civilian parades to Tiananmen Square, China marched thousands of troops with pristine coordination, rolled hundreds of tanks and other heavy artillery, and drove dozens of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads to the United States through the main thoroughfare of Beijing. Says David Shambaugh, China expert with the Brookings Institute: "This is really, from a public relations standpoint, a major mistake on the part of the Chinese government. But this is not being done for the outside world; this is being done for the internal audience."
Looks like the propagandist, opportunist, exploitative Party of Mao's era is still alive and well.
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