China: Pay No Attention to the Tiananmen Anniversary
This is the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. But the date isn’t being marked in China, where the Communist party has banned discussion of the events. Shirong Chen, the China Editor for BBC joins The Takeaway from London to talk about the ban.
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