culminated in 1989. We all know what happened in 1989. And 1989 was followed very quickly by the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1990. And essentially what happened was that the Chinese central government grew terrified that China would go the way of the Soviet Union and would crack up. And so they prioritized re-centralizing the apparatus. When you're talking about 1989, you're talking about Tiananmen Square. We know that the government cracked down heavily on the society after that, after the uprisings. But is there much information that is available? Because I know in China you can't get much of anything, right? Even if you Google Tiananmen Square, there's nothing there. Yeah, of course. You can't get a lot of information on what precisely the crackdown consisted in. There are very wide-ranging estimates on how many people were killed, how many people incarcerated. But I think for my purposes, what's really interesting is what happened in the years culminating in 1995 thereafter, (14/57)
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