Published: June 5th, 2023,
Last updated: June 5th, 2023
Yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the student protests in Beijing on 4 June 1989. While any commemoration is rigorously prevented in Mainland China as usual, police in Hong Kong are now also cracking down demonstratively, with many arrests. The vigils of the past: impossible. Only in Taiwan are the victims allowed to be commemorated. William Lai, Taiwan’s Vice President, sums up what the different ways of handling remembrance also show. Namely, „that democracy and authoritarianism are the biggest differences between Taiwan and China.“ Find out more in our News section.