It is reasonable to assume that the true demands of the students and others in mainland China are in fact the same as the mainland Chinese living abroad, namely, to overthrow the Chinese Communist dictatorship. Thus this is a revolutionary movement outside of the communist system, and this is the reason why the Chinese Communists had to suppress it with heavy weapons, something the Chinese Communists, including Teng Hsiao-p'ing, openly admit.
由於大陸內外學生及知識分子的理念應屬一致，我們自可合理推斷，大陸境內的學生與群眾的真正要求，就是要推翻中共暴政﹘ ﹘這即是共產體制外的革命運動，也是中共為何須以重兵鎮壓的原因，這一點中共當局（包括鄧小平等人）已供認不諱。