30 Years After the Massacre at Tiananmen Square China Became Active in Promoting Global Authoritarianism
Thirty years ago in China, there was a burgeoning pro-democracy movement made up mostly of young people that was brutally crushed by the Chinese military. This is now known as the Tiananmen Square massacre. Since then, not only has China continued its practice of authoritarian rule and human rights violations but it has become a superpower whose model of repression has been adopted by a good number of authoritarian regimes worldwide. China has become not only a huge repressor of social dissent and protest but also increased the capability of the state to spy on citizens and punish them harshly. The U.S. needs to take these powerful activities by an unfriendly competitor into account and proceed accordingly to develop and install anti-censorship mechanisms.

