Well this was China's answer then and it continues today.
Tanks and dead bodies on Tiananmen Square at dawn of June 4th, 1989 (student bodies are in the lower-left corner).
Ten armed soldiers beating a student to death in Tiananmen Square during the massacre (Jun 4th, 1989).
Plainclothes police hold a knife to a Falun Gong practitioner's throat on Tiananmen Square 
China is a totalitarian state that as recently as 2002 threatened to exterminate with nuclear weapons all of our West Coast cities. They practice slave labor, product dumping and ignore all treaties they don't feel like upholding, regardless of their signatures.
It's been 16 years since the Tianiman Square massacre and lots of Free Trade, yet nothing has "changed" except that China is now a major industrial power house spending gobs on new weapons.