From the Asia Wall Street Journal, via Utopia:
China’s leaders may have convinced themselves that the country’s relatively new, albeit unbalanced, material prosperity will be enough to keep an uneasy population from peering into some of the darker corners of the country’s communist history. And the popular reaction (or lack thereof) to purged former leader Zhao Ziyang’s death last week appears at first glance to prove them right. The relative tranquility does make it appear as if young Chinese, intoxicated by the opportunities of China’s dizzying economic growth, don’t really understand–or care–about what really happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989, or why Zhao’s sympathies with the student protesters led to his downfall.
But that is not exactly the case. Increased access to information through the Internet, which is just one of the many fruits of China’s development, is producing a predicament for China’s leadership.
