[Rubber Duck]

Well, Tianamen Square is quite a while ago, and China has come an awful long way since then.

China main priorities are economic development and stability, which until this stage of its development are probably actually more important than political reforms. The US has managed to prove in Iraq, exactly how important it is to maintain stability.

Act of extreme repression against its own people has also been part of American recent history, or have you forgotten Mississippi, and you own apartheid systems. And this at a time when the US really had few excuses, and your political system has not undergone radical reform since then. If anything civil liberties have probably been eroded in a quite a number of ways.

I am not suggesting that China should not be pushed towards more political reform, but it needs to be done in a mutually supportive way. Anything that is perceived as external pressure will be fiercely resisted. That is just human nature.