Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong

Denise Y. Ho | June 2014 | Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

In between state and society, there is the individual. In between China and the world, there is Hong Kong.

Between the voice and the mouthpiece, between the pen and the sword, there is courage.

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Move to condemn Tiananmen Square crackdown defeated in Legco

Tony Cheung | 26 June 2014 | South China Morning Post

A motion condemning the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was defeated in the Legislative Council last night.

Pro-establishment lawmakers largely remained silent during the debate – the 15th time the motion has been tabled and defeated since 1999.

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