Twenty years after the bloody crackdown in Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party indeed “glides smoothly upon the tide of history,” as you conclude your review of the anniversary of Tiananmen protests (“The Party Goes On,” May 30, 2009). The behemoth counting seventy-four-million people has reformed itself in the meanwhile, and it has found myriad ways to control the Chinese “mind prison.” Wisely, however, you added two words to your concluding sentence: “for now.” Those in control of the party itself know perfectly well that they will never be able to fathom what is cooking under the tight lid atop of which they are precariously perched. Control so tight is always close to uncontrollable explosion. So, everything is hunky dory for now, but there is no telling when and how things will change, except that change they must. For, as you quote Bill Clinton telling Jiang Zemin in 1998, China cannot forever remain “on the wrong side of history.”