The xenophobia stirred up by the Communists for the 150th anniversary of the Opium War in Tienanmen Square was obviously intended as a diversion from the anniversary of June 4--but there is a curious parallel between the two.
中共在天安門廣場紀念鴉片戰爭一百五十周年，固然是營造仇外氣氛以轉移人們對六四的注意力；但事實上兩者之間足有可堪玩味之處。