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| Subject: Can Hong Kong Serfs Avoid Becoming Tiananmen? Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:25 pm | |
| This is not 1989 and Hong Kong is not Beijing, yet unarmed students are again in danger of repression by the Chinese military.
Thirty years ago, on May 19, 1989, Zhao Ziyang, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, stood in Tiananmen Square. It was 5 in the morning and Zhao, exhausted, holding a loudspeaker, addressed student demonstrators, thousands of whom were on Day 7 of a hunger strike. “Students, we came too late,” he said. “I am sorry. Sorry. Whatever you say and criticize about us is deserved.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/hong-kong-china.html |
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