It has been 35 years since the violent crackdown on the Tiananmen protests of 1989. We talked to an activist whose work pushes for the change those protesters sought.
But for her, the event stirs up complex emotions.
“As people, their emotions can be manipulated and they are susceptible to rhetoric. And what we are seeing now with China s new superpower status is that it is increasingly displaying this hardened edge where national strength is interpreted as this unabashed, cynical power of force.”
Yangyang Cheng, a physicist and a fellow at Yale Law School and a columnist at SupChina
“As people, their emotions can be manipulated and they are susceptible to rhetoric,” Yangyang said. “And what we are seeing now with China s new superpower status is that it is increasingly displaying this hardened edge where national strength is interpreted as this unabashed, cynical power of force.”