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Re: A Glimpse of The TianAnMen Square Massacre 06/05/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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In Victoria Park, a man holding an electric candle while sitting on a bench was surrounded by police officers at around 4.30pm.

Shortly after 6pm, a woman holding up a small white flower on Great George Street was surrounded by police. They searched her belongings and escorted her away to the MTR station.

Two women – including a girl holding flowers and wearing what appeared to be a school uniform – were taken into a police van in Victoria Park.

Two women – including a girl holding flowers and wearing what appeared to be a school uniform – were taken into a police van in Victoria Park.

A man stood silently in the rain facing the football courts at around 8pm. Minutes later, he was escorted by police and taken into a police van.

Around 20 minutes later in the park, police questioned a man wearing a white T-shirt featuring a drawing of the Goddess of Democracy and a Chinese slogan saying, “Vindication of June 4 Comes Closer and Close,” before taking him into a police van.

At around 9pm, a man wearing a T-shirt saying “Core Values of Socialism” was taken away by police in Victoria Park.

Just before 9pm, a man wearing a pair of headphones with yellow Chinese characters, “Hong Kong Add Oil,” was stopped by police at the entrance of Fashion Walk in Causeway Bay and later led into a police van.

Re: A Glimpse of The TianAnMen Square Massacre 06/05/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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It was the nature of the artwork’s destruction, not its creation, that secured the Goddess’ place in history, said Perry Link, emeritus professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University and co-editor of “The Tiananmen Papers.”

“When it was bulldozed over I think that it was one of the most moving symbols of the repression,” he said in a phone interview. “Of course number one would be the ‘Tank Man,’ but number two is probably going to be the (toppling) of the statue.”

Re: A Glimpse of The TianAnMen Square Massacre 06/04/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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“It was a time of contradictions,” You said. The reforms also caused inequality, inflation, and corruption, leading students to protest in 1986 and 1987 “for a more open society.”

Re: A Glimpse of The TianAnMen Square Massacre 06/04/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Here are some landmark dates leading up to the demonstrations and the crackdown that followed:

Re: A Glimpse of The TianAnMen Square Massacre 06/04/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Even a picture of one banana and four apples in a line could be flagged because it shares a similar sequence with the Tank Man photo.

Re: A Glimpse of The TianAnMen Square Massacre 06/02/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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"When Hong Kong can no longer hold the June 4 vigils, and can no longer even mention it, Taiwan's existence becomes very important," Fu, 43, told Reuters in Taipei.
"It's one of the very few places in Asia, where people can openly commemorate the accident on June 4, discuss it, and even condemn the Chinese Communist Party. The existence of such a space is already hugely significant," he said.

Re: What are the favorite Dim Sum dishes? 06/01/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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I ordered their pineapple bun with roast pork because it's their most popular menu item. I've actually had this before, and, yes, it really is that good. The bun itself is soft and fluffy and sweet, while the pork filling on the inside is rich and fatty and basically melts in your mouth. It's the perfect snack or appetizer to wet your palate, and at only $3.10 you really can't go wrong. Give me 20 of them.

Re: Student Visa revocation could reverse the Mandarinization of Cantonese-America 06/01/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

I think Mandarin speaking students should pass a Cantonese fluency test as one criteria among others in order to be granted a student visa to study in the US. (I hope Crypto-currency does not get FDIC protections).

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US to Revoke Visas for Chinese Students

Re: What would Affirmative Action do if Harvard started to admit Smart Lampposts at the expense of under-represented Dumb Lampposts? 06/01/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

I don't want my taxes funding grants to Harvard, I want my taxes to help pay for trade schools. Actually, Harvard endowment and stock portfolio taxes should also fund trade schools and public colleges.

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How to destroy Harvard University

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Harvard is whore sleeping with the CCP. Harvard and all Ivy League Universities need to pay property taxes and stop leaching off the cities that are hosting their campuses with public funded infrastructure. If a university earns money on patents on intellectual properties or earns rent money on leasing campus dormitories, then the university is a business and should be taxed as a business.

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Re: The rise and fall of Chinatown: The hidden history of displacement you were never told 06/01/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

The end results of Redcar Ltd investment projects adds up to ethnic-cleansing.

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Chinatown has changed since Wong was a child. Many of the shops, restaurants, and other businesses catering to Chinatown’s working-class community are being pushed out and replaced by new businesses catering to a wealthier clientele.

That’s the situation at Dynasty Center, said Wong, who is now an organizer with Chinatown Community for Equitable Development, or CCED.

Community organizers and tenants are accusing the center’s owner, the Santa Monica-based real estate development corporation Redcar Ltd., of displacing small business owners with storefronts on the building’s Spring Street side, neglecting repairs at the Dynasty Center swap meet, and retaliating against vendors who criticize the company.

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