Reply #8: The government response

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The putting down of the rebellion in Tianenmen Square decisively re-established government control. This allowed the Communist Party to continue to implement economic reforms in an orderly fashion, and to also implement some political reforms as well.

Had the rebellion succeeded, chaos would have ensued. In the Soviet Union theis resulted in regions breaking away and weak leaders presiding over economic systems that were geared to planning and control that no longer existed. In China, either the same thing would have happened, or the geopolitical disintigration would have been opposed by competing warlords, as in the period prior to the Japanese invasion.