The Tiananmen Square protest had many causes, the corruption within government, the cost of food, aspects of incompetence in time of famine, and especially the price of cooking oil, the growing disparities between rich government and poor people, and there were some bright pro-democracy elements, for sure. It was a multi-faceted, multi-polar uprising.
The interesting thing is that many of the protestors then have become able to send their kids to Oxford and Cambridge now, and own at least one house and are the most conservative Chinese around the place.
The suppression of the protest had many results, some negative, some positive, but in time it brought with it a degree of stability and indeed, right now, coming through time, a stoic crackdown, a Government suppression of corruption. The Chinese Government doesn't want people to be unhappy...goodness me...when the Chinese get really unhappy they throw the most bloody and vicious revolution imaginable.
They've done that in the past to rise above their foreign 'keepers' and they know how to do that now when necessary...but if things are okay, then they'd rather have a good job, a good income, push kids to excel in education and in careers, and buy an Audi.
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