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Cato Video • June 18, 2008 

# Johan Norberg discusses Klein’s take on the Tiananmen Square Massacre. 

Naomi Klein’s recent book, *The Shock Doctrine*, alleges that the Tiananmen Square crackdown was intended to crush opposition to pro-market reforms. [Johan Norberg](https://www.cato.org/people/johan-norberg/), in his recent analysis, “[The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9384)” shows that in fact it caused liberalization to stall for years. 

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