The Umbrellas Of Tiananmen

The lengths China will go to in order to censor and control is really unbelievable (see video below for umbrella censorship at work). At first I was completely in shock that Chinese officials would act so ridiculously in front of Western media outlets' cameras. But then I remembered that for the Chinese government, the most important objective is preventing the dissemination of information and images regarding the Tiananmen massacre within their own population. From what I understand many Chinese people have little knowledge of what went on that fateful day almost twenty years ago. The images that we associate with Tiananmen (like the "tank man" seen below etc.) have never been seen by many Chinese because of the government's fear of another Tiananmen-like event.