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The Remarkable Survival of Free Thought and Activism in China | Freedom House

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The regime’s repressive efforts are increasing, but they are also failing in important ways.

The regime’s repressive efforts are increasing, but they are also failing in important ways. Thirty years ago this week, thousands of students occupied Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, engaging in a hunger strike to call for political and economic reform. Other citizens across the country—professors, workers, even Communist Party cadres—were slowly joining in their demands for democracy and transparency. The movement was violently crushed on the night of June 4, 1989, but over the decades that followed, a budding civil society sector began to develop and professionalize;…

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