Friends of foreigners in danger after Tiananmen Square massacre
- Title
- Friends of foreigners in danger after Tiananmen Square massacre
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 9 Jun 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:01:24
- Description
- Western witnesses of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the subsequent fighting have said they thought the soldiers were poised to mount a raid. A Cambridge academic just back from Beijing says the situation is now so volatile that even a letter from the West could be a death sentence. Valerie Grosvenor Myer says any Chinese person who upsets the army is likely to be shot, and she warns people ouside of China not to contact Chinese friends there because it could prove fatal for them. Interviewer’s words not included.
- Contributors
- Valerie Grosvenor Myer
- Keywords
- Politics; Government; Armed forces; UK; China; International relations; Demonstrations; Protest movements; Personal safety; Foreigners; Beijing; Tiananmen Square
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LBC/IRN, "Friends of foreigners in danger after Tiananmen Square massacre". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0006600420012 (Accessed 11 Jul 2025)