Pro-Beijing lawmaker denies Tiananmen Square 'massacre'

What an interesting coincidence! After talking about rising Chinese(PRC) nationalism yesterday, today the article mentioned in the title appears on The Straits Times! The good news is, the denial was immediately met with cries of outrage from the media and other lawmakers. So at least not everybody has lost their mind or is being controlled by the Communist Party of China.

The bad news is, I think that this is just a start. I am pretty sure that the lawmakers comments were designed to test the waters to see what the PRC government can get away with. We already know that the PRC government doesn't acknowledge the millions of deaths during the Cultural Revolution caused by the policies of Mao Zedong (more people, I might mention, than the Japanese killed in their invasion of the PRC). On a more humorous note, the PRC didn't participate in the 1960 Paralympic games because " there were no disabled people in China".

At the same time, the PRC Navy has just fielded a missile designed to take out American carriers. This, after their anti-satellite missile tests. The PRC is also aggressively pursuing relationships with african nations in order to secure the Indian Ocean. Which, I might mention, is not looked upon kindly by the Indians themselves.

You can draw your own conclusions from this facts.