Friday, June 4th, marks an anniversary of the massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square where members of the Peoples Liberation Army opened fire on unarmed Chinese protesters, mostly young students who came together to protest peacefully against government acts of suppression. Hundreds, maybe thousands were killed outright. The true number is not known: Communist officials and the PLA concealed the facts.
Today, Beijing will not allow any memorial events that recall that day in 1989. It MUST remain hidden; it must remain a non-event; it must not become another blemish on the reputation of the Communist Party. As a result, Tiananmen Square was largely empty on Friday, excepting the ever present military guards who monitor all visitors, even those curious enough to visit the mausoleum of Mao Zeo Dong who lies inside his final resting place in mummified repose, surrounded by yellow daffodils offered by the faithful. In Hong Kong, a city undergoing a change from historical freedoms to a modern police state managed by Xi Jing Ping from Beijing. No commemorative gatherings are allowed here, at all. If you appear in certain urban settings dressed in all black clothes, you will be arrested. If you carry a placard with written protest vocabulary, you will be arrested. Such is the new Hong Kong. Good Bye Old Hong Kong, Hello Communist Government.
A traditional world finance center, H.K. will now become a financial backwater as business enterprise will depart in droves as Beijing tightens its grip on the local population. Prisons in the area are filling up with dissidents. No trials, no charges: just removal. Ask Jimmie Lai: where is Jimmie Lai? What happened that put this wealthy, outspoken, popular Chinese man into the crosshairs of the PLA? Hmmm. Too much popularity not acceptable to the PLA. Pity poor Hong Kong.
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