Tiananmen Square: 30 Years Later

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China's Defense Minister Defends 1989 Crackdown

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48489002

Many Chinese Citizens Don't Recall 1989 Protests

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiananmen-square-30-years-later/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424 ... 1555317344

https://shanghaiist.com/2010/04/23/chai ... christian/

Bravery at its finest. Like many, the story of the "Tank Man" has intrigued me given all the theories as to what became of him after the protests were over.

I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence.

Twitter takes down ‘a large number’ of Chinese-language accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary

Twitter has suspended a large number of Chinese-language user accounts, including those belonging to critics of China’s government. It seems like a particularly ill-timed move, occurring just days before thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4.

“A large number of Chinese @Twitter accounts are being suspended today,” wrote Yaxue Cao, founder and editor of the U.S.-based publication China Change. “They ‘happen’ to be accounts critical of China, both inside and outside China.”

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/01/twitt ... -takedown/

Leica apparently has caved to the Chinese communists and apologized for an ad that featured the Tank Man photo:

tbh i have no practical memory of it ..

besides i dont think the tuananmen event was as horrible as racism at 2016 oscars

The famous closeup doesn't give a sense of how large the scene was.

China:
How the authorities luv individuality. <sarcasm>
With the new technology these days via face recognition, etc, it is more 1984 than the U.S.S.R. ever was. EEP!