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In recent years, an upbeat note on the Chinese economy has been hard to find. Step forward Nomura, which on June 3 raised its GDP forecast for the second quarter from 7.1% to 7.4% and its full year forecast from 7.4% to 7.5%.
One day after the United States said it would slash carbon emissions from existing power plants by 30% below 2005 levels, China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, said it would set an absolute cap on its emissions by 2016.
Cowed by capricious commodity prices, political instability and a string of lost investments, Chinese financiers aren’t as gutsy as when state-owned giants whipped up business abroad 15 years ago.
To my generation, the widespread patriotic liberalism that bonded the students in the early 1980s feels as distant as the political fanaticism that defined the preceding decades.
Every Saturday in Hong Kong, volunteer curator and translator C.S. Liu helps guide visitors through the first permanent museum dedicated to the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989 in Beijing.
At the entrance to the June 4th Museum stands a replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue that Beijing students rallied around 25 years ago. Liu, now in his 40s, explains how important it is to preserve their story for future generations.
Amy Chung is a freelance journalist who has reported from Canada, India, and most recently China, where she has been learning Mandarin since 2012. In India, she spent two years reporting for Daily News & Analysis. In Canada, she worked as a news reporter for the Toronto Sun and Postmedia News. She holds a B.A. from York University.
This Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of the deadly suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen protests on June 4. It has been a quarter of a century of enormous change in China, but one key fact of life in that country has not changed: its leaders continue to maintain that they were correct to use tanks and automatic weapons to crush the demonstrations and correct that the killing defines neither the killers nor their country.
Twenty-five years ago, before the Tiananmen massacre, my father told me: “Son, be good and stay at home, never provoke the Communist Party.”
