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Chinese Students Hold Principal Hostage in Rare Protest

Students at a college in Nanjing, China staged an unusually energetic protest on Sunday that began as a peaceful march against university merger plans and ended with riot police storming the campus after the principal was taken hostage for 30 hours.

Police special tactical squad detain a protester (C) in Wanchai, Hong Kong on May 24, 2020

China Celebrates Tiananmen Massacre as a ‘Political Vaccine’ Against Democracy

China’s state-run Global Times pushed ahead with the regime’s revisionism of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre on Friday by insisting what actually happened 32 years ago was not the brutal suppression of pro-democracy youth, but an expression of the “Chinese people’s confidence” in the glorious leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Tiananmen Square (AP Photo / Jeff Widener)