In the mid-19th century, the foreign minister (and future prime minister) of Britain, Lord Palmerston, famously asserted that "we have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies," and that Britain's interests "are eternal and perpetual."
On the 15th anniversary of China's suppression of student protesters in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, few in the West seem aware that Beijing is again confronting a growing volume of popular protest.
