Forgetting and remembering June 💭 | Following the Yuan

China’s economic development owes much to its authoritarian regime, and its problems stem from it as well.

This is a special month. After the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen protest on June 4, there followed June 9, when Hong Kong’s mass protest in 2019 broke out. In the era of digital advocacy, Chinese speakers flock to the likes of Instagram, Threads, and X, sharing diverse perspectives of collective memory. (Among these, I particularly appreciate WOMEN我…