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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

and have met those struggles with force, yes

They've met them with mass killings not just with "force" see Tiananmen square massacre for content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The riots surrounding Tian'anmen Square resulted in hundreds of deaths of protestors and PLA officers alike, it wasn't a rampant slaughter but the suppression of a western-backed color revolution. The student leaders admitted to inciting violence in order to provoke a violent response, hopefully triggering more widespread revolt in their eyes, but fled the scene to other countries like the US before the PLA was sent in.