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 [...]

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 [...]