The Chinese government cannot tolerate dissent. The Chinese people care about economics not politics. The Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing is now largely forgotten.
Those three statements are a rough summary of the current conventional wisdom about China. And yet, last Friday night, I witnessed an event that undermined all three ideas. More than 100,000 people gathered in a park in Hong Kong to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the crushing of the Tiananmen protests on June 4 1989.
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