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The New Dissidence in China

The New Dissidence in China

There is a new breed of dissidents in China today as the country ‘tolerates a safer wave of protests’ 20 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. The ordinary Chinese are much more critical of human rights now and some of them have been keen to defend such rights. On June 3 and 4, 1989, a military crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s [...]