The Tiananmen Square Massacre was when Chinese troops charged through Tiananmen Square killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese government assault on the protesters shocked many people in China, but mostly westerners. In May 1989, it turned into mostly young students who crowded into central Beijing to protest for democracy. The events that happened during this time in China shocked both its allies and cold war enemies. Many were saddened by the events in China. Consequently it made china look very bad. For instance, "members of Congress denounced the Tiananmen Square massacre and pressed for President George Bush to punish the Chinese government." And in turn the United States did not want to have anything to do with China economically because of the way they violated human rights. The Tiananmen Square massacre was the first democratic uprising in 70 years, the shock surely would have been felt in the Communist authority, which in turn lead to the violence. The claim that zero deaths occurred in the massacre, although claimed by many to symbolize the political stubbornness of the Chinese, I think represents a fear of change, which was, in fact, going on all around the world. It was the shock of the protest that lead to its apparently small political effect, but the stage it set for changes going forward was immense.