China is observed to be suffering from amnesia regarding the massacre that occurred at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. Some attribute this to state-enforced erasure of collective memory. The communist regime in China ‘tolerates no mention of the massacre.’
On June 3 and 4, 1989, students and mostly Chinese elite and intellectuals filled the tragic square with a [...]
U.S. and China are up against each other in what could be the new Cold War. This is despite their rather functional economic relations. The latest chapter in these two superpowers’ struggle for global hegemony involves the Pentagon’s report that warns about China’s military rise.
The report, currently causing considerable diplomatic friction between Washington and Beijing, [...]