My 'Confession'

My ‘Confession’

June 23, 2011

Fang Lizhi, translated from the Chinese by Perry Link

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On June 3, 1989, Deng Xiaoping ordered tanks into Beijing to suppress students who were demonstrating peacefully at Tiananmen Square. On the night of June 5, Raymond Burghardt, political counselor in the US embassy in Beijing, came to the hotel where my wife, Li Shuxian, and I were temporarily staying and invited us to “take refuge” in the embassy as “guests of President Bush.” He said we could stay as long as we needed. The matter soon became a point of contention in US–China relations.

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