"Tank man" blocks a column of tanks heading east on Beijing's Chang'an Boulevard (Avenue of Eternal Peace) near Tiananmen Square during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. This photo was taken from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile away, through a 400mm lens.
Graphic source: 5 June 1989, Jeff Widener (The Associated Press).
A number of sources have confirmed that the national flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on 20 September.
The date is in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of PRC.
The event is said to celebrate the friendship, magnanimous spirit, and kindness of the Chinese.
There seems to be few public recollections about the Tianamen Square massacre in which protesters erected the Goddess of Democracy; in addition, there were no American government commemorations this past June during the anniversary of the massacre.
If Americans do not recall Tianamen they certainly will not heed Washington's statement that we should avoid "entangling alliances." As Jefferson promoted our interests he stated:
“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.”
Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural Address, 1801
“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.... She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.”
John Quincy Adams, 1821
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