以下是读者推荐 2021年6月6日 Facebook 的贴文（英中版）：
Human Rights is vital, but not one dimensional
TAN WAH PIOW
Many human rights defenders in Southeast Asia use today 6th June to commemorate the events at Tiananmen in China.
I too am eager, awaiting for the arrival of this new book. Vijay Gokhale was junior diplomat then in 1989, and later became indian foreign minister.
His book criticises western reporting on Tiananmen at the time, and also criticised Western embassies take of the event. He was at the square. he said there was no massacre, or fights between different PLA factions as reported in Western media. He wrote as an eyewitness.
During an interview with Book Corner, Vijay Gokhale criticised one well known US journalist for taking out a Tiananmen ‘hunger striker’ for dinner without mentioning it in the report which was about the man going on hunger strike till his death.
A similar ‘contrarian’ account was published in 2010.
Certainly something happened in 1989 , there were deep resentments in Chinese society over the economic impact of rolling out the market economy and neo-liberalism; there were competing political narratives.
Most importantly very few in the West, in Singapore or HongKong who ritually use today to vent their disapproval of Beijing are aware, or care to investigate the ideological debates within China since 1989.
These debates are in Mandarin, amongst intellectuals of the 1989 generations on democratisation in China, on rule of law, on how technological changes have injected a new culture of mass democracy taking on a new form which is in the making.
As ‘Human Rights Defenders’ we need to extend our world view of democracy beyond the narrow remit of our own political experience; and at the same time be conscious that the ‘human rights industry’ in the West is currently being weaponised as the instrument in the service Western political-cultural imperialism, in place of Christianity in the 18th and 19th Century. If you have doubt, read The Elements of the China Challenge, US the Secretary of State Department policy paper published in Nov 2020 by Mike Pompeo, and adopted in spirit by Blinken.
My view is Human Rights is vital, but not one dimensional.
人权是至关重要的，但不是单向的
作者：陈华彪
在东南亚许多人权捍卫者利用今天纪念1989年6月4日天安门事件。
我也是一样渴望等待着一本 Vijay Gokhale 撰写的新书的出版。作者 Vijay Gokhale 在1989年是一名初级外交官，后来成为印度外交部长。
他出版的书批评了西方国家在当时天安门事件的报道。同时也批评了西方国家的当时在这起事件所采取的立场，他当时是在天安门广场。他说，当时根本就没有如西方媒体所报道的大屠杀，或者是不同派系解放军之间互相残杀。他是以目击者撰写这起事件的。
在图书馆角落接受采访期间，Vijay Gokhale 批评了一位我所知道的美国记者谈到天安门事件的‘绝食者’。他并没有报道这些声称将绝食直至死亡的‘绝食者’进食晚餐的情况。
在2010年类似于这样的‘反向’内容被出版。
在1989年肯定发生一些事情。人民对市场经济和新自由主义给中国社会经济冲击深感不满；有相互竞争的政治叙事。
最重要的是，中国北京注意到，在西方、新加坡或者是香港，今天在形式上利用这起事件发泄不满，或者在1989年期间关于调查意识形态的争论.
于1989年的知识分子当中以普通话进行的争论有关中国的民主化，其中包括了关于法制问题、技术变革注入了新的大众民主文化，正在形成一股新的形式。
身为‘人权捍卫者’，我们需要超越受自己的狭隘的政治经验的影响，扩大对民主的世界观；与此同时，要意识到目前‘人权工业’在西方已经被利用为一种工具为西方帝国主义的政治-文化服务，取代了18和19世纪的基督教。假设您感到疑惑，你可以阅读2020年11月由美国国务卿迈克·蓬佩奥(Mike Pompeo) 撰写的《美国国务院政策白皮书》：《中国挑战的因素》。
我认为，人权是重要的，但是，不是单向的。