Orville Schell, the director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, reminded in a televised interview that “nobody could quite believe that China would send troops in” to crush the Tiananmen student protests in 1989. “But they did,” he said.
Speaking on the “Charlie Rose” show, Schell said there was an “extremely dangerous prospect” that Beijing might move to quash the students in Hong Kong.
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