thePodcast: Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre, 35 years later

June 02, 2024 00:18:14
thePodcast: Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre, 35 years later
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thePodcast: Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre, 35 years later

Jun 02 2024 | 00:18:14

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Show Notes

For the week of June 2, 2024: The 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is June 4.  Throughout the spring of 1989, university students occupied the vast square in the centre of the capital, demanding democratic reforms.  Then the People’s Liberation Army violently quashed the protests as the world watched the horror unfold. Nobody knows for sure if the death toll was in the high hundreds or low thousands. Since then, the Chinese Communist Party has only become more powerful inside and outside China. Xi Jinping has taken away civil liberties from Hong Kongers and is threatening to invade […]

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