
CHINA | S05 Bonus episode - The story behind Bob Hawke’s mysterious Tiananmen Cable
From If You're Listening
Published 6/10/2021

From If You're Listening
Published 6/10/2021
In 1989, five days after tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square in Beijing and brutally ended weeks of protests, the then prime minister Bob Hawke gave a horrifying description of what Australia thought happened.But where did the account come from? And what did it get wrong?Over the past three months…