Tiananmen Square - Chai Ling hoping to cause bloodshed

“I wanted to tell them [students] that we were expecting bloodshed, that it would take a massacre, which would spill blood like a river through Tiananmen Square, to awaken the people. But how could I tell them this? How could I tell them that their lives would have to be sacrificed in order to win?” She was ratlined out of China a couple of days before June 4, 1989.