The crackdown on June 4, 1989 cowed the Chinese people and the world, eroding democratic values. The significance of the massacre in Beijing remains poorly understood to this day.
Several factors – some new and gaining traction – influence China’s alterations of its absolutist stance on sovereignty and non-interference.
It can be foreshadowed that governments will craft laws that target citizen-journalist activities. But against the world’s states stands a vanguard of internet-based transnational civil society – nowhere and everywhere.
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