photo via glutter

(this post will be updated throughout the day.)

Horse’s Mouth has several posts on now and then.

Glutter has photos from Hong Kong and a new banner. Also, Yan makes an excellent point about the photo I, and most others, choose to use:

"That one photo should not symbolize June 4th 1989, and what China did. It may symbolize human spirit, the hope of democracy, the devotion to the cause. It may remind us of that each of us can make a stand, and we could face the inevitable without fear. But it does not speak of June 4th 1989"

I’ve amended accordingly. (22:20: Glutter now moblogging the HK candle-light vigil)

Are things better now? Michael DeGolyer says yes, and that it may be time to stop protesting. Fons, while not mentioning 04/06/89 notes probable related incidents, but says focusing on these makes it too "easy to frame China in the classic way as an evil force." T-Salon says some things haven’t changed. False Positives says "nothing has changed."

China Digital Times is worth visiting for two CBC items. No doubt more items will follow.

Enzo has a post at Simon World detailing what happened. Simon offers his usual excellent linkage and his own thoughts: "…how would the CCP
leadership respond today? The answer is clear - in the same way. The
CCP are good at learning the lessons of history."

While many blogs are carrying the above ‘tank man’ photo Open Democracy chooses a different image.

Snarkatron has personal memories of reactions of Chinese students at grad school: "I still remember my Chinese friend, shouting into the phone at the US
editor of the Chinese government newspaper. I don’t understand a word
of Chinese, but I understood exactly what he was saying."

Gullyborg notes the massacre as a segue into a post on the value of the right to bear arms (point taken, although it seems a crass way to make it).

Rebecca MacKinnion does not forget and does not need a reminder from Glutter that there are other images besides ‘tank man.’

Peking Duck notes that the arrest of Ching Cheong, Straits Times reporter, "is going to reignite the
TSM debates, not quell them(.) Such obtuseness is hard to fathom, but I’m
afraid it exists."

what’s Ming? has more questions than answers.: "Almost every expat blogs about China would mention it and call it  Tiananmen Square Massacre. However, in my history text book, it is called Tiananmen Square Disturbance or Tiananmen Square Incident. I read some articles and watched some video clips(forbidden, of cause) and I realized it was much more than an incident.:

K-PAX人在地球 posts a link to a Joan Baez mp3.

From Mine Blogging’s Alex Hung: " On June 4th, I was disgusted to be Chinese. From that day onward, I
make sure people I meet know I am from Hong Kong, not China…I think 1989 was the year that I started the process
of becoming more western and less Chinese. I no longer care about
Chinese traditions, I embraced western values and beliefs."

TibetBlogger reproduces a Dilip D’souza article with this quote from Tenzin Tsundue: "I can never think of being party to the corrupted Communist China,
which has brutally massacred her own children on Tiananmen Square when
they demanded freedom and democracy.”… "For Indians who have long believed
Tibet must be free, it is galling to watch Indian courtship of the
Chinese."

Bring on the Revolution has a long post that warrants reading.

Maobi stops short of endorsing the massacre, although through analogy suggests that the murdered students made fine fertilizer: "Modern history now tells us that the death of the students, a treagedy
indeed, did not snuff out the nation. In fact, today China is an
economic flower that is beginning to bloom in a big way."

(Other bloggers who remember: Michelle Malkin, Big White Guy, Rambling Commoner  , Laowai19790204, LawHawk, Jawa Report, Meister Planet, Dominatio Per Malum, Babalu Blog, West Campus Insider, Supernaut, Milton J Madison, Instapundit, 1972, Rodney Hide MP, Not Quite Right, Singlish Simon, Plum Blossoms, Angry Chinese Blogger, Tim Fong. Adam Shostack, Greg Piper, Rajan, CakeEater, Andrew Cory, Ezra Klein)