In the second part of this two-part essay, Bao Tong, a former political secretary to late, ousted Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, comments on then Premier Li Peng’s accounts of the events leading up to the June 4, 1989 bloodshed by the People’s Liberation Army that put an end to weeks of student-led protests on Tiananmen Square.
Judicial authorities across China are setting up “people’s legal struggle militias” to aid law enforcement, recruiting lawyers 18-45 “in good physical condition,” according to official notices posted online. A notice issued by bureaus of justice in Shanghai, Guangdong, Hubei and other locations said the militias would be formed in support of “our online forces.” “Plans
Imprisoned Hong Kong barrister Chow Hang-tung, who is waiting for trial under a heavy-handed nationwide security law troubled the city by Beijing, has alerted the international community to take the crackdown on dissent there as a caution. In an acceptance speech from jail on being awarded the Outstanding Democrat of China award by activists in
