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Remembering June 4th

This post was co-authored with Samuel Wade. The approach of the 30th anniversary of the 1989 protest movement in Beijing and elsewhere in China, and the subsequent violent military response on June 4th, has been a time of reflection for participants, family members of those killed, observers, and members of a younger generation who learned about the incident often many years later. Government officials and state censors have been working with extra vigilance to forestall