Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents

In a previous naive world intoxicated by dreams of global citizenry and humanism it would be easy to get sanctimonious and posture about evil.

But cultural divides are real and are not going away. And these kind of events and stories simply become opportunities to target other countries weaknesses, reassert a jingoistic sense of superiority and perpetuate existing comfort zones.

Or there would be protests daily in western capitals about the sheer unimaginable scale of destruction, devastation and millions of families destroyed and lives lost in the middle east starting from Iraq to Libya and now Syria done purely to further geo-political and financial interests.

But that is handwaved away as 'necessary' somehow. The fact is people don't even care about the poor and suffering in their own cities and countries, so how can they care about an unknown people in another part of the world? It's posturing, China's problems will be only be fixed by those chinese who truly care for their people and country.

There's a very easy way anyone can start fighting against a brutal regime like this:

Stop buying stuff from China. Just stop. Support local made.

"Stop buying things from [x]" probably hasn't been an effective mantra for several decades. The U.S., E.U., China, Japan, and other nations are all intractably linked in the global supply chain economy.