June 3rd CPD China conference in DC

For his liberalization

Of the Chinese economy

What happened in the spring of 1989 was far bloodier

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The Communist Party view the Tiananmen protest

One of many across the country in the spring of 89

As an existential threat

Party hardliners feared a potential government coup

And as a result

They won the debate

In the intra-party

Discussion about what to do

From that moment began to reign of Oppression

And manipulation of the Chinese people

Through ultra-nationalism and propaganda

A rain that has not ended

Those party hardliners feared the unarmed student protesters

They secured a modest statue that they erected

In Tiananmen Square

The student protesters called at the goddess of democracy

And it was patterned after our own Statue of Liberty

And here please allow me to

Take a few words in tribute to the great Man Franks spoke about

Lee Edwards

He's chairman of our foundation and it took over a decade of work

I'm by Lee and and many others but in 2007 President George W bush dedicated the first Memorial in the

The world

In honor of every single victim of Communism since 1917

If you haven't seen it the victims of Communism Memorial at the corner of New Jersey and Massachusetts Avenue is a few blocks away

And that by selecting the Sino specific symbol for the memorial

Which is a bronze replica of the goddess of democracy statue

That decision was controversial at the time

Badly understood something important

The Berlin Wall had fallen like communism hadn't

Most powerful Romanian Communist dictatorship was of course the People's Republic of China

And the

The choice of that symbol has proven prescient now that Americans are wising up to the fact

That the greatest threat to freedom and peace in the world today is the Chinese Communist Party

One of the principal ways in which unjust regimes govern without the consent of their people is by distorting history

And hiding truth

To be sure the China today is not

Miles China

The Communist Party since the 1990s has incorporated limited market-based reforms

But China remains a single-party Communist dictatorship

It stifles free speech and dissent

And

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With Chinese characteristics

China's government stubbornly refuses to come to terms with the victims that has unjustly imprisoned since labor

Abraham's and killed