Hill's Pop

The twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre - and Hill marks the occasion by having a futile and counterproductive pop at China, urging it to 'examine openly the darker events of its past'. What are the chance of that happening? Zero - this is pure ethical grandstanding (backed, inevitably, by little Millie Band), and China has immediately, and predictably, expressed 'strong dissatisfaction'. That's their polite way of saying something very much more robust. Hill should remember that China now owns rather a lot of the US and is virtually keeping the States' (and therefore the West's) embattled economy afloat...
I remember hearing the news of the massacre - so terrible, so shocking, so unsurprising - coming in on the World Service. I was in a hotel room in Dieppe. Was Tiananmen a JFK moment? Do other people remember where they were when they heard?