theBreaker.news Podcast: Why Canadians should care about Tiananmen Square Massacre's 30th anniversary

May 26, 2019 00:23:12
theBreaker.news Podcast: Why Canadians should care about Tiananmen Square Massacre's 30th anniversary
theBreaker.news Podcast
theBreaker.news Podcast: Why Canadians should care about Tiananmen Square Massacre's 30th anniversary

May 26 2019 | 00:23:12

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Show Notes

China dominates international news. Whether it is the trade war with the United States, questions about Huawei Technologies’ role in China’s surveillance state or the detention of up to a million people in the Muslim-dominated Xinjiang province. Human rights activists around the planet will pause June 4 to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. The military crackdown in Beijing may have killed 10,000 people, when peaceful protests demanding democracy were snuffed out. “It was one of the most important and significant and gallant uprisings in the cause of democracy for the past half century,” said Terry Glavin of the National […]

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