This week, Sinica presents a special live recording from the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) which convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Regular listeners, please note that the audio quality here isn’t up to our usual standards: we didn’t have professional audio equipment on hand during the meeting, but tried our best given the opportunity to trap
they call out in support of tiananmen square, but this student s worries are increasingly for his own freedom and that of taiwan. translation: in the face | of ever-increasing military threats by china in recent years, we can learn through events like this that they will use whatever suppressive tactics that they are already using on their own people to also suppress taiwan or any other place in the world. taiwan will now be one of the main centres of remembrance for those who lost their lives in tiananmen square. leana hosea, bbc news. i ve been speaking to jeffrey wasserstrom, a historian from the university of california irvine to understand how china deals with dissent more than three decades after tiananmen and why discussion is now wider to hong and macau.