After three decades, Tank Man is still unknown in China. We Chinese, who have learned the true story of Tank Man and the bloody Tiananmen Square Massacre, keep blaming its cover-up on the Chinese Communist Party. Except for the tens of thousands gathered at a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong yesterday night to mark 29 years […]
Tag: Democracy in China
“One Sunday morning, when the animals assembled to receive their orders, Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy. … The four young pigs who had protested … were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. … Napoleon … announced that he had already made all the arrangements.” (George Orwell, Animal […]
The street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. will be renamed “Liu Xiaobo Plaza” if a new bill to that effect can be passed by Congress. This symbolic move is meant to honor a human rights activist, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was put in jail for years by the Chinese […]