June 4th Memorial Exhibit opens in Los Angeles; Wang Dan: History will not be silent

 Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

June 4th Memorial Exhibit opens in Los Angeles    Wang Dan: History will not be silent

Reporter : Marshall / Editor : Jialian / https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/25/6/4/n14523900.htm / Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. (Marshall/The Epoch Times)

Amid the anticipation of many Chinese, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, finally opened on Monday (2 June 2025).

Hundreds of guests attended the opening ceremony. Local democracy activists said that this new museum and the Southern California Freedom Sculpture Park complement each other, making Los Angeles a bridgehead for resisting the CCP in the United States in the future.

The new June 4th Memorial Exhibit is located in El Monte, Los Angeles County. The exhibition hall is spacious and divided into multiple exhibition areas. On the walls of the entrance passage, photos and reports from the 1989 student movement to the June 4th Massacre are posted in different categories, with bilingual explanations in Chinese and English. Frames of historical images and faces of deceased young students make guests seem to return to the eve of that shocking tragedy and regain that bloody memory.

A side room of the exhibition hall shows the protests of Hong Kong people before and after the introduction of the "Hong Kong National Security Law" in 2020, and the scenes of the "June 4th Candlelight Vigil in Victoria Park" from 1990 to 2020. Under the ban of the "Hong Kong National Security Law", this memorial event that gathers tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people every year has ceased to exist since 2021.

Director Wang Dan: Continue the mission and continue the struggle

In his speech at the opening ceremony, Wang Dan thanked the volunteers for their silent efforts in the past few months to prepare for the construction of the memorial hall and the exhibition, "making this place that was once just a dream become our common reality now." He said that the establishment of the June 4th Memorial Hall is not only to mourn the dead and accuse tyranny, but also a "responsibility and continuation of the mission."

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Museum, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. Director Wang Dan spoke. (Ma Shangen/The Epoch Times)

Speaking of future plans, Wang Dan said that this will not only be a silent exhibition hall, but also an active humanistic space; the memorial hall will regularly hold various activities, including concerts, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, humanities lectures, new book releases and documentary screenings, "The core of these activities is the transmission of culture, the exchange of ideas and the connection of emotions."

In addition to the core exhibition area commemorating June 4th, the museum will also set up a research center, an activity center and a data center, as well as a small library and a humanities bookstore. "I hope this will become an important part of the cultural life of the Chinese community in Los Angeles." Wang Dan said, "This will be a place where ideas meet, a place where emotions resonate, and a starting point for action."

Wang Dan summarized the theme of the memorial hall as follows: "June 4th will not be forgotten, history will not be silent, the struggle will not stop, and the future will not be disappointed."

Wang Chongyu, head of the Political Group of the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, attended the ceremony on behalf of the Economic and Cultural Office. In his speech, he expressed respect and gratitude to Director Wang Dan, Executive Director Jin Yan and other democratic figures for their persistence and dedication. He believes that the humanities salon and many other activities of the memorial hall will provide a public platform for people who care about freedom and human rights, promote exchanges and dialogue, and also help deepen and promote democratic concepts.

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. Wang Chongyu, head of the Political Group of the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, attended on behalf of the Economic and Cultural Office. (Marshall/The Epoch Times)

Ken Wu, secretary general of the Taiwan Association, attended the opening ceremony as a "Taiwanese friend in Los Angeles." He said that he was very encouraged to see the completion of the memorial hall and hoped that people would remember the June 4th Incident through the memorial hall.

Ken Wu also said that if the CCP does not fall, bloody suppression like the June 4th Incident will definitely happen again, "so we must unite to resist the CCP's suppression of us and harassment of the free world; only when everyone unites can we bring it down."

Guest: People should remember the truth

Eugene Perry Link, Jr., one of the guests attending the ceremony and a well-known American sinologist, said in his speech that it is a good thing to have such a memorial hall in the United States, which allows people to directly see the newspapers when the June 4th Incident occurred, the names and photos of the victims, and get a more direct feeling. "This allows overseas Chinese to remember the truth of this historical event and continue to move towards their ideal direction."

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. American sinologist Perry Link and Ann Lau, president of the Los Angeles human rights organization "Visual Artists Association", attended the event. (Marshall/The Epoch Times)

Former Hong Kong media person Ching Cheung said that the Tiananmen Square Massacre 36 years ago was a bloody massacre, and the massacre of Hong Kong by the "Hong Kong National Security Law" six years ago "although there was no blood, it strangled a vibrant and living Hong Kong." Hong Kong was once an important force in promoting China's economic development. He lamented: "The Chinese world was once the freest place, but now many people live in nameless fear."

Cheng Cheung hopes that every Chinese and Hong Konger will have the courage to fight against the CCP.

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. Former Hong Kong media person Ching Cheung spoke. (Marshallen/The Epoch Times)

Su Xiaokang, a former famous Chinese writer, mentioned in his speech that the CCP's economic rise after the June 4th Massacre was actually dependent on China's cheap labour, and was the result of Western society being deceived by the CCP's "hide one's strength and bide one's time" strategy and doing business with the CCP. He hopes that political leaders in Western countries can stay sober.

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. Su Xiaokang, a former famous Chinese writer, spoke. (Marshallen/The Epoch Times)

Some people use the June 4th Massacre in 1989 as a boundary to divide the CCP regime into two stages: the 40 years before June 4th were very evil, and the 36 years after that focused on economic development and had become better. In response to this misunderstanding, Chen Chuangchuang, executive director of the China Democratic Party, pointed out in an on-site interview that the essence of the CCP has never changed.

"The June 4th Massacre made people see clearly that the nature of the CCP's totalitarianism cannot be changed." He said, "It is true. It has not changed in 36 years. It is still the same as the previous 40 years."

Chen Chuangchuang pointed out that the CCP launched a "memory war" after June 4th and obliterated the truth of the "Tiananmen Massacre"; and the greatest value of the June 4th Memorial Museum is to help people recognize the nature of the CCP.

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. Chen Chuangchuang, executive director of the China Democratic Party, attended. (Ma Shangen/The Epoch Times)

The 2025 "Youth Chinese Human Rights Award" was awarded at the opening ceremony, and Cao Tian, ​​a former Henan billionaire entrepreneur, writer and lawyer who fled to the United States, won the award.

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. Zheng Cunzhu, chairman of the China Democratic Party United Headquarters, attended. (Marshal/The Epoch Times)

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. Jin Xiuhong, founder of the China Democratic League for Human Rights and vice chairman of the International Headquarters of the Democratic China Front, spoke. (Marshal/The Epoch Times)

Image : On 2 June 2025, the June 4th Memorial Exhibit, which moved from New York to Los Angeles, held an opening ceremony. Jie Lijian, chairman of the International Alliance of China Democracy, and party members took a group photo with the director Wang Dan. (Provided by Jie Lijian)

Guests attending the ceremony also included Zheng Cunzhu, chairman of the United Headquarters of the China Democratic Party, Chen Weiming, founder and sculptor of the Liberty Sculpture Park, Jin Xiuhong, founder of the Democratic China Front, Zhang Boli, a Chinese pastor in Los Angeles, Wang Chaohua, assistant professor at UCLA, and Jie Lijian, chairman of the International Alliance of China Democracy. 

Sandals in China found to cause early puberty and are toxic

Direct translation

Horrible! This kind of sandal in China can easily cause children to have early puberty and is also toxic

Reporter : Li Enzhen / Editor: Fan Ming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2025/06/03/a103992599.html / Image : In recent years, children's sandals produced in many places in the mainland have been found to have serious excessive plasticizers. (Video screenshot)

Today (3 June 2025), the topic of "this kind of sandal in summer can easily cause children to have early puberty and is also toxic" has been on the hot search list, causing public concern. Everyone has questioned where the regulatory authorities have gone. Why can such toxic sandals be produced and sold on the market?

According to Upstream News, there are various styles of children's sandals on the market, such as crystal shoes, hole shoes, jelly shoes... but these beautiful sandals may have potential safety hazards. Due to different materials, if they are not distinguished when purchasing, it is very likely that "toxic" products will be purchased, causing harm to children's bodies.

According to the survey conducted by the "Non-Toxic Pioneer" of Shenzhen Zero Waste Environmental Protection Public Welfare Development Center, an environmental protection charity organization, 10 samples of the top ten sales were purchased from 5 e-commerce platforms and sent to qualified third-party testing agencies for testing. The survey results show that 25 of the 50 pairs of PVC children's sandals sampled exceeded the standard for phthalates, and the overall phthalate exceeding standard rate was 50%.

The average excess multiple of the 25 pairs of children's sandals with phthalates exceeding the standard was 365 times, and the highest excess multiple was 509 times. One of the samples with phthalates exceeding the standard by 496 times even sold more than 1 million pieces. In addition, the survey found that 20 of the 25 pairs of samples exceeding the standard were unlabeled products, accounting for 80%.

Phthalates are a cheap plasticizer that can enter the human body through skin contact, respiratory tract and other routes. Exceeding the standard will increase children's precocious puberty and impair the development of the reproductive system; increase the risk of diseases such as asthma, allergies, and chronic heavy metal poisoning; reduce the quality of sperm in adult men and disrupt endocrine in women.

Industry insiders remind parents to avoid buying shoes of unknown origin and unclear labels; choose regular brands to reduce the risk of online shopping for "three-no products"; check information such as brands, manufacturers, and quality inspection certificates; pay attention to the material when choosing, and choose sandals made of EVA and other materials, which are relatively safe, and avoid choosing PVC materials.

This matter has sparked heated discussions and doubts among mainland netizens today.

A big V, "Factory Manager in the Wind", posted on Weibo, "It just so happens that I used to be in this industry. Let me tell you that this kind of excessive material is mainly PVC material. Excessive phthalates can cause precocious puberty and asthma in children, and most of the hole shoes are made of EVA material, which usually does not require phthalate plasticizers, which will be much safer. When buying slippers and sandals, try to choose EVA and PU. In addition, be careful not to get stuck in the elevator."

"Why are half of the slippers ranked at the top of the e-commerce platform excessive, and the excess is hundreds of times? It is mainly the result of price wars. In order to compete on price, manufacturers have to use inferior plasticizers. Inferior plasticizers are like water retainers in the food industry. The same, the more you add, the lower the cost, the more money you make without a bottom line. "

Some people say, "It's terrible, it's hard for you to tell the difference after you buy it." "Instead of dealing with it from the source, you let consumers have a keen eye. What is the market supervision department for?"

"Why can such toxic products still be mass-produced? Many consumers are not professionals, how can they know that buying a pair of shoes is toxic?"

"So, what about the supervision bureau? You sit in the office and play with your mobile phone every day, don't you do your job? It has already flowed into the market, how can you let consumers pay attention? How can consumers pay attention? If you don't deal with it from the source every day, and then talk about it when something happens, is it interesting? ”

“Life is so hard. From food to clothing and daily necessities, people have to identify them by themselves. What are the regulatory departments for? Almost every county and city has this so-called quality supervision unit, but what are they doing? Since you can produce and sell, and then tell ordinary people to learn to identify and not buy, it’s really funny! Or you can just release the brand and the store! Ordinary people can avoid it. Every time it is on the news, there is traffic, and then there is no follow-up. This kind of hole shoes will basically be bought and worn at home, so there is a hot search, but has the problem been solved? ”

Big V, "Those Things about Technology" said, "1. Inadequate supervision; 2. People's hearts are unpredictable; 3. Obsessed with interests. This type of sandals has entered the market, all for their own interests, regardless of the public. ”

Big V, "Cai Yanyan" said, "Summer is here, the season for wearing sandals. This kind of sandals is made of PVC material, and too many inferior plasticizers are added. It can't stand the current blind price competition, and there is no bottom line. ”

Big V, "Dr. Chen from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology" said that it is not just plastic sandals. It has been reported before that several plastic book covers also contain phthalates. Phthalate plasticizers are a very cheap plasticizer that is often added to plastics. This plasticizer can enter the human body through the respiratory tract, digestive tract, skin, etc. After entering the human body, it will bind to estrogen receptors, thereby exerting the effects of estrogen, causing boys to "feminize" and girls to have precocious puberty. Therefore, everyone should be careful when buying book covers for their children in the future. Otherwise, just don't use plastic.

Be vigilant about the NB1.8.1 strain epidemic

 Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

What should we do if the COVID-19 outbreak comes again? Expert: Chinese people should be vigilant

Reporter : Jin Hong / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2025/06/03/a103992769.html / Image : After the local COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan, some patients died suddenly at home, which may be related to silent hypoxia. (Shutterstock)

Recently, a new wave of COVID-19 (CCP virus) variant NB1.8.1 has begun to spread in China and Asia. In the past two months, Taiwan has received a total of 1.8 million medical visits. Recently, the United States has also reported an epidemic.

In order to help everyone better understand the new wave of COVID-19, JoJo, the host of the "Health 1+1" program, invited Dr. Lin Xiaoxu, an American virology expert, to analyze the epidemic. He believes that the severity rate outside China is not high, so people do not need to panic. But the information in mainland China is not public, so everyone needs to be vigilant.

Mutant strains spread rapidly in Asia, only 20 cases in the United States

Dr. Lin Xiaoxu said that according to the results of gene sequencing, the new wave of mutant strains (NB1.8.1) was first discovered in China in January this year, and soon Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and other Southeast Asian countries also appeared in the strain.

He said that official data from Taiwan showed that the number of infections in the past two months reached 1.8 million, which is nearly one-tenth of Taiwan’s total population but China is said to have only 160,000 people infected with the virus, so China’s data is not credible, and China’s data cannot see the actual number of visits, hospitalization rate, severe disease rate, mortality rate, etc. Due to the lack or cover-up of Chinese data, Dr. Lin believes that China’s preventive measures have not kept up.

In other countries, such as the United States, the infection rate is not as fast as in Asia. Dr. Lin said that as of 30 May 2025, there were only 20 cases of NB1.8.1 in the United States, so the virus has not been considered a virus that needs to be tracked. Dr. Lin therefore believes that the United States will not take measures such as closing airports to prevent cases from entering the United States now.

The new virus has stronger immune escape and low morbidity

The new strain NB1.8.1 has stronger immune escape ability but Dr. Lin said that there is no sign that the new strain is more pathogenic, which means that the severe rate is not too high, so the public does not need to panic.

However, Dr. Lin also pointed out that the situation in the United States, the situation in neighboring countries of China and the situation in China cannot be regarded as the same, because there are many people infected with multiple pathogens in China now. Dr. Lin introduced that information from the China Influenza Center showed that according to the test data of respiratory diseases in sentinel hospitals, 40% of the cases were infected with multiple pathogens, that is, they were not only infected with the new strain, but also with influenza or other respiratory pathogens.

Dr. Lin believes that the Chinese people's lack of immunity and the degree of damage caused by vaccines are very serious, so he judges that the possibility of severe illness caused by new crown infection in China is higher than in other regions.

The best way to resist the new virus: Strengthen immunity

As the number of infections in China and Asia accelerates, Zhong Nanshan, the CCP's royal expert, delivered a speech. Dr. Lin reminded the mainland people that Zhong Nanshan's speech has two purposes: One is to maintain stability; the other is to sell medicine. Therefore, for the public, the most important thing is to improve their immunity, protect their respiratory tract, and follow common sense. He said that improving one's own immunity is better than seeking external drug treatment, because there is no particularly effective medicine now, and vaccines cannot keep up with the speed of virus mutation.

Will zero-covid measures and extreme lockdown come again?

The Chinese people still remember the three-year "anti-epidemic" nightmare, so many people will panic when they think of the epidemic coming again. Dr. Lin believes that the CCP will not promote the lockdown on a large scale again, but he revealed that the CCP is actually building square cabin hospitals in many places. Once someone is infected, they may be secretly taken away and locked up, and the media will not report it, so many people will not know the truth about the epidemic. Therefore, the Chinese people must be careful.

Dr. Lin revealed that Beijing is ready to do its best to defend Beijing, so buffer zones are being added at the gateways into Beijing, which are said to be very similar to temporary quarantine areas. On the issue of human infection with avian influenza, Beijing has set up 10 avian influenza detection points in Miyun District for comprehensive screening to protect Beijing. Therefore, Dr. Lin reminded everyone that since Beijing has done this, the situation in other regions may be far more serious than what is officially reported, and we must remain vigilant.

A major restructuring of power within the CCP, Xi Jinping's team sidelines

Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan， KUCINTA SETIA

A major restructuring of power in Zhongnanhai, Xi Jinping sidelines

Reporter : Wang Duruo / Editor: Fang Xun / https://www.aboluowang.com/2025/0603/2227654.html / Image : Web Screenshot

On 29 May 2025, the State Council of the Communist Party of China announced the personnel adjustment of the Taiwan Affairs Office, appointing Zhao Shitong, a former assistant of the International Liaison Department, as deputy director and removing Qiu Kaiming from his post. This move makes two of the three deputy directors of the Taiwan Affairs Office have diplomatic backgrounds, and only Pan Xianzhang is from Fujian. Analysts pointed out that this adjustment reflects the decline of Wang Huning's influence on the Taiwan system, and at the same time, Xi Jinping's dominance in personnel layout is being systematically weakened, marking the acceleration of the power reconstruction within the Communist Party of China and the diplomatic shift of Taiwan Strait policy.

The three deputy directors under the leadership of Song Tao, the current director of the Taiwan Affairs Office, are Pan Xianzhang, Wu Xi and Zhao Shitong. Wu Xi was the director of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was known as the "American expert"; Zhao Shitong worked in the International Liaison Department for a long time, focusing on Northeast Asian affairs, and was regarded as a "Japanese expert". This time, Zhao Shitong replaced Qiu Kaiming, and the senior management of the Taiwan Affairs Office showed a pattern dominated by the diplomatic system. Qiu Kaiming, born in 1964, a student of Wang Huning, was the director of the Cross-Strait Relations Research Center. He was just promoted to deputy director in 2024. At the age of 61, he met the delayed retirement policy, but was dismissed early, which attracted attention from the outside world. Zhao Shitong was an old subordinate of Song Tao when he was in the International Liaison Department, and his appointment was seen as a blessing from Song Tao's power.

Ding Shufan, Honorary Professor of National Chengchi University in Taiwan, said that the Taiwan issue has evolved from a cross-strait affair to a global focus. The 2022 report of Rhodium Group pointed out that a conflict in the Taiwan Strait could cause at least $2 trillion in global economic losses, with high-tech industries bearing the brunt. If other industries are involved, the losses may double. French President Macron's public speech on the Taiwan Strait at the Shangri-La Dialogue further highlighted its internationalization. The CCP introduced officials with diplomatic backgrounds in order to respond to pressure from the United States and Japan through external propaganda and diplomatic lobbying but Ding Shufan bluntly stated that this move would not be able to fundamentally resolve the Taiwan Strait crisis, and "both sides are preparing for the worst."

I analyzed that Zhao Shitong replaced Wang Huning's student Qiu Kaiming, showing that Wang Huning's political layout in the Taiwan system was dismantled. More deeply, Xi Jinping's personnel control is facing a direct challenge. Recently, Tianjin, Shanxi, Hangzhou and other places have successively replaced "non-Xi faction" officials, from Liu Guiping, deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, who was personally appointed by Xi in the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, to Ge Haijiao, Wei Jianfeng and Hu Dapeng, who are across the financial and political and legal systems. Ge Haijiao, formerly chairman of the Bank of China, is now the governor of Shanxi Province. Wei Jianfeng, formerly secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, is now the secretary of the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and acting director of the Supervisory Commission. Hu Dapeng, formerly deputy governor of Yunnan Province and director of the Public Security Department, has now been promoted to member of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, forming a "non-Xi faction" cadre echelon. This shows that the party has started the implicit power decentralization mechanism of "bypassing the general secretary", and the soft landing procedure of the "post-Xi era" has accelerated.

Wang Duran analyzed that Zhao Shitong's airborne transfer to the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council not only weakened Wang Huning's ideological narrative, but also reflected the strengthening of Song Tao's power promoted during the Hu Jintao period. The cooperation between Song Tao and Zhao Shitong symbolizes the CCP's Taiwan Strait policy shifting from ideology to "external propaganda + diplomacy" to deal with the trilateral situation between Taiwan, the United States and Japan.

However, Su Ziyun, Director of the Taiwan National Defense and Security Research Institute, pointed out that the Taiwan Affairs Office is only a "mouthpiece" and the transfer of diplomats is personnel training or tactical adjustment, which is difficult to change the essence of the CCP's suppression of Taiwan. "The core of the Taiwan issue is the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism."

The diplomaticization of the Taiwan Affairs Office is aimed at easing pressure from the United States and Japan. For example, Zhao Shitong may lobby Japan and Wu Xi will deal with the United States, but the effect is limited.

Wang Duran analyzed that the Taiwan Affairs Office is only a policy implementation agency, and strategic decisions are controlled by the Central Leading Group for Taiwan, and Xi Jinping is still the leader in theory. However, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee has been delayed, the Xi Zhongxun Memorial Hall has been renamed, and Zhejiang has frequently seen "non-Xi faction returnees", making the "Xi-led theory" untenable. Wang Huning's "Taiwan Strait narrative" has been abandoned, and the "Xi family army" has collapsed in the local and Taiwan-related system layout. Regardless of who is behind the scenes, the reality is that Wang Huning's "Taiwan Strait narrative" has been abandoned, and the power layout of the "Xi family army" in local and Taiwan-related systems is collapsing. The top leaders of the Communist Party of China are facing a silent but extremely critical power reconstruction.

Remember the Tiananmen Hell on 4 June 1989

Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

Remember the Tiananmen Hell!

Special Issue of China Spring (chinaspring.org)

Writer  : Ma Jian / Editor : Li Guangsong / Source: China Spring / https://www.aboluowang.com/2025/0604/2228185.html

(Sixteen years ago, the Chinese government let me into China for the Olympics, so I wrote this essay.)

Two thousand years ago, Confucius stood on a high slope and sighed at the river: Time flies, day and night... He watched time flow like water, and his life was soon solidified by history. The Tiananmen incident that happened in Beijing 20 years ago also seemed to be locked in the 20th century and forgotten by the hurried modern life.

However time is still alive, it strongly follows the memory, trying to revive the forgotten history. Whenever I return to China, passing by Tiananmen Square or walking in the streets and alleys, some people and things that happened 20 years ago will jump in front of my eyes for a long time. Especially on the day of the Olympic Games, I took my son to Tiananmen Square through a security check that was stricter than boarding a plane. Looking around, there were huge flower beds and dense police all around. It seems that the Communist Party is the one who dares not forget "June 4th" the most.

Standing at the place where the Statue of Liberty was erected 20 years ago, it can be seen that the Tiananmen Gate Tower has been covered with fake decorations used on sensitive days, leaving only Mao Zedong's face for people to watch and take pictures. My five-year-old son pointed and asked: Who is he?

I put down the camera and said, "His name is Mao Zedong."

"Is he dead?" My son asked with sweat on his forehead.

I replied, "He died a long time ago, lying in that house."

My son stopped asking questions, and he was running in the world's largest square. Twenty years ago, I also ran with a box of popsicles to give to my literary friends from Lu Xun Academy of Literature in the parade. They shouted against corruption and wanted democracy... When they saw me, they all raised their victory signs. That day, five million people filled the square. The sun was still blazing, but the difference was that the wind was filled with the fragrance of green grass and flowers, and the ground was quiet and relaxed. In the past, there was a constant smell of sweat and shouts rolling over the head with the heat wave. The Communist Party spent so much money just to completely eradicate all traces of twenty years ago.

Tiananmen Gate is still heavily guarded to prevent petitioners from jumping into the Jinshui River to commit suicide. Perhaps it is the portrait of Mao Zedong hanging above that makes petitioners constantly regard this place as a desperate cemetery. In the past 20 years, 30 million people have come to Beijing to petition. The struggle between petitioners and defenders far exceeds the scale of the Olympic Games. No one has enjoyed freedom of speech in the past 20 years. For those intellectuals and human rights activists who fight for freedom of speech, they have even lost their personal freedom. The sense of morality and trust established by people 20 years ago no longer have room to grow. More than 10,000 waves of resistance every year have turned the resentful people into mobs. This is also the beginning of a terrorist society, and it was created by the Communist Party. The economic boom that relied on the labor of migrant workers and the sale of land will also go downhill this year. A large number of migrant workers will be unemployed, and riots in various places against enclosure will cause the Communist Party to be tossed by the people. I think that as long as Mao Zedong is still lying in this square, China will never have peace.

In front of the History Museum under the scorching sun, there is a slogan of "One World, One Dream" made of green grass, surrounded by pink, lavender and blood-red flowers. Twenty years ago, in this flowerbed, students and Beijing citizens sat in silence in front of nearly a thousand helmeted soldiers forming a human wall. When a cart was pulling a corpse past, a 15 or 16-year-old child, holding a stone in his hand, wailed to the soldiers guarding the stone steps of the museum: "My brother was shot to death, shot to death, I will fight to the death." My friend Li Lanju hugged him tightly at the time. But not long after, she saw people carrying the bloody child passing by again, and she fainted from fear. Of course, this history museum will not record the history that happened in front of its door.

At that time, I stood here and said to my girlfriend, "If the army opens fire, you run to the history museum with me, it is the safest place." She stared and said, "Shoot, you psychopath!" She was wearing a straw hat on her head at the time, and four brush-written characters were written on it: "Sad, happy!" Twenty years ago, if someone said that the army would shoot, college students would regard such remarks as crazy talk. On the night of June 3, students who ran from Peking University to the square were shot to death on the street wearing cotton coats to protect against rubber bullets.

I had just returned to Beijing and had not even settled down when I received a call from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. The plainclothes police asked me to meet with them at the Great Wall Hotel for an hour. The main point was to remind me not to meet with Liu Xiaobo, Zhou Duo and other people they were monitoring, saying that it was for the sake of a harmonious Olympics. Twenty years ago, Liu Xiaobo, Zhou Duo and other friends went to the square to participate in the hunger strike, which led to their imprisonment. I had stayed at Zhou Duo’s house for a few days before that. When I heard him talk about democracy, human rights and freedom, I thought he was crazy and advised him to stay away from Liu Xiaobo. They have different personalities, one is passionate and the other is introverted. They are also polar opposites and cannot get along but Liu Xiaobo once said that he was the most important thinker of the contemporary era, which made him feel comfortable. Zhou Duo’s specialty is philosophy and aesthetics. He usually learns painting from me, and I also learned to listen to classical music from him. When I heard that Zhou Duo followed Liu Xiaobo to the square to go on hunger strike, I really felt that his choice was wrong. Later, I thought that if it was the hot-tempered Liu Xiaobo, not the scholarly Zhou Duo, who negotiated with the martial law soldiers to buy time for the students to withdraw in the early morning of June 4, the Tiananmen Incident might have been even bloodier.

Today, Liu Xiaobo was imprisoned for the third time for taking the lead in signing the "Charter 08", and Zhou Duo is still under surveillance because of the "June 4th Incident". He is often taken to the suburbs of Beijing and locked up in early June every year. He also believed in the Lord, and his residence became a house church. The police who monitored him all year round said that as long as they did not receive foreigners, they would turn a blind eye. He lost his job and his pulpit, and for more than ten years he buried himself in piles of books studying China's political future. I couldn't talk to him too much on the phone, for fear that he would violate the rules and expel me from Beijing, so I said that we would meet when I was free, but I didn't call the monitored phone number again until I left.

The Tiananmen crackdown caused the Communist Party to put aside its belief in communism and quietly move towards a capitalist market economy, even throwing away Marx's class struggle society and building a "harmonious society".

After the Tiananmen Incident, the Chinese people also realized a way out: To have democracy and freedom, it is better to live a rich life and stop caring about human rights and politics. People's energy was also invested in the competition to get rich. The intellectual elites in society also abandoned their ideals, and most of them became vassals under tyranny. Poets and artists also quickly adapted to the market. Zhang Xiaogang, a student elite of the 1989 student movement, became China's richest popular painter, and Kong Qingdong, chairman of the Tiananmen Student Union, became a famous anchor of CCTV. The dead, victims, and students and democrats who fled overseas were quickly marginalized. Tiananmen Mothers Ding Zilin and others who are looking for the families of the victims live under police surveillance every day. Totalitarian dictatorship can have all material wealth, but it is completely unconfident in the spiritual field, and even afraid of people talking and thinking. Therefore, ideological dictatorship is becoming more and more extreme. It can be said that any writer or poet who has written about the "Tiananmen Incident" on the Internet will not escape the disaster of prison.

As time goes by, China has been built up with a new look and has entered an era of extreme power and privilege of "killing the poor and helping the rich". But in China, with a population of 1.3 billion, nearly 100 million people live below the poverty line, and less than 0.5% of the urban rich own 60% of the country's personal wealth. High-rise buildings and private cars are full of modern people's dreams of becoming the richest in the world. At the same time, workers and farmers in rural and remote areas are also full of hatred for being exploited. As a result, the tools of the proletarian dictatorship: the army and the police, have become China's largest power center, and China has become a police power.

However, everyone understands that a society under high-pressure control for a long time will definitely not develop healthily. From the official 2006 "On the Systematic Misappropriation and Embezzlement of Public Funds by Party and Government State Organs", it can be seen that in just one year, the party and government organs spent 2 trillion yuan on eating, drinking, traveling, going abroad, and giving gifts, which is equivalent to 50% of the national tax revenue in 2006. The anti-corruption and bribery bureaus, discipline inspection committees, supervision bureaus, and anti-corruption bureaus that have been established in the past two decades can only make the government more and more corrupt, which is also the inevitable result of one-party dictatorship.

The history of students dying tragically in the streets for fighting corruption has long been suppressed by the more corrupt reality. But I believe that the truth of history will be known to people sooner or later, and China must find hope from historical lessons.

I thought of my brother again. He fell and became a vegetable 20 years ago. Apart from eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping to prove that he is still alive, he has no emotions, no fear, and even lost his dignity. He can laugh at the TV, laugh like crying, and stare at the ceiling in a daze. He has lost the passion to choose between life and death. In other words, he has lost his spirit and is just a living body. The whole of China is in a numb state of losing faith.

Recently, I took a long-distance bus to Bobai County, Guangxi for an inspection and visited many towns. In 2007, the fine for having more than one child triggered the largest anti-family planning uprising since the Tiananmen Incident. More than 50,000 people in the county surrounded and smashed six township government office buildings, dug up roads to block police cars, and at least seven people died in the incident, including two policemen beaten to death by demonstrators, five demonstrators trampled to death by the crowd, and more than 200 people and more than 100 students were arrested. The incident also exposed the local government's corruption, treating family planning fines as fiscal revenue, and treating women as a money-making village. At that time, the county's official website summarized: ... The county invested a total of more than 5,800 people and dispatched more than 200 motor vehicles to sterilize, insert IUDs, and perform artificial abortions on more than 17,000 women in the county, and collected fines of 7.88 million yuan... but the farmers paid a heavy price for this: some old mothers went to fill in the number to sterilize in order to ask the government to release their sons, some women were sterilized three times repeatedly, and female students who were just 15 years old were also arrested and sterilized while walking on the road. More often, the family planning teams seized valuable electrical appliances, farm tools, iron beds, aluminum window frames, pigs, chickens, cows, and sheep, and smashed all worthless daily necessities such as pots and teapots. Many villagers dragged their children to spend the night in the woods on the mountain. Countless families were separated and their families were broken up. A woman suffocated her child to death because she was afraid that her crying would attract the family planning personnel who were searching her house. Shuangwang Town, where I have been, is a small town with a population of less than 50,000, but it was required to pay a fine of 6 million yuan. After a villager's house was searched, he actually received a fine of 90,000 yuan. The means of suppressing stability copied from the "Tiananmen Incident" have been revived again. These are all the consequences of the original sin of the revolution that has not been eliminated.

After 20 years of suppression, the Communist Party has indeed achieved great economic results, but at the same time, it has also brought about huge environmental pollution. Lakes, rivers, and oceans across the country are all polluted without exception. As long as the autocratic system reaches, it will not escape the disaster.

Guiyu Town in Guangdong Province is a famous e-waste dismantling base. It handles millions of tons of e-waste from the United States, Japan, and China every year. The primitive dismantling handicraft industry almost introduces pollution for the sake of wealth.

I smelled the smell of burnt plastic before I arrived at Guiyu Town on a bumpy motorcycle. I checked into a small hotel and took a quick shower. After the shower, I smelled like I was roasted.

The streets and alleys here are all family workshops that dismantle various electrical appliances, circuit boards, and plastic shells. More than 80,000 migrant workers from all over the country use primitive manual methods such as smashing, baking, sawing, etc. to decompose mobile phones, computers, printers, etc. into gold, silver, lead, zinc, etc., and use sulfuric acid water to wash the circuit boards to remove the electronic tubes. The plugs being cooked in the rice cooker are to classify plastics and copper and iron. Farmers also use the method of processing grains to dry colorful plastic fragments. Really useless materials are burned in the fields or dumped by the river.

The air here is suffocating, the river water is polluted, and the soil is poisoned, as if it has just been through a chemical war.

After the medical school conducted a physical examination on the migrant population in Guiyu, it was found that 88% of them suffered from skin diseases, nervous system, respiratory system or digestive system diseases. Because the chemical liquid used to refine the metal of old electrical appliances was poured into the river, all the water below six meters underground in Guiyu Town was polluted. The drinking water of the local people had to be transported back from the nearby villages and towns by tractors for sale. The daily supply of more than 400 tons of tap water has become a new industry in the town. Doctors in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the local hospital reported that some women workers engaged in the decomposition of hazardous waste found that some babies were soaked in green amniotic fluid during delivery.

The rise of the Communist Party relied on the ownership of land and resources and the cheapest migrant workers in the world. Most of the migrant workers I visited were illiterate and had never used computers. They exchanged their lives for a monthly salary of 500 to 900 yuan, which could not solve their own future. Although the farmers' bodies are alive on the ground, their lives have been buried underground. There is a famous saying in China: Heartless and lungless, live a hundred years! But the development of the past 20 years makes people feel heartless. They have done it, but living a hundred years is not enough. The abnormal development that does not respect people and nature will not live long. The crisis caused by extreme wealth and extreme poverty will even exceed corruption. The combination of wealth and tyranny is the culprit for the loss of conscience in society.

Therefore, the development of society is not only from agricultural society to industrialized modern society, but also from market economy to free democratic system to prevent the expansion of the evil consequences of autocratic monopoly, otherwise it will lead to the extinction of nature and humanity.

In the past 20 years, China has not only lost its humanistic spirit, but also lost its people's hearts and sincerity, and even the value of life. The lying government and contaminated food make us understand that the further we go on the road of pursuing material things, the further we are from happiness, because happiness is a life without moral pollution, inner freedom, and the happiness of not being controlled by others' thoughts or even imagination. We do not have all of this yet. We are rich but monitored by others, so we are not as rich as a free beggar.

Standing in this "Tiananmen hell" like a flower festival, I remembered what Deng Xiaoping said most often in the past 20 years: "Kill 200,000 people in exchange for 20 years of stability." However, the massacre was exchanged for fear, indifference and even disgust towards power, that is, no one dared to repeat the "Tiananmen Incident" again - the "massacre" was hated by the people, and today's Chinese Communist Party dared to use massacre to exchange for 20 years of "harmony".

We are also fortunate to live in time, which gives us the memory of history and makes us respect the victims more. They used their lives and blood to defeat the empire of communism in the 20th century and changed the world's political map, thus giving humans the criteria for judging right and wrong. Even in the era of global economic recession, when everyone's wallet is shrinking, it still reminds people that in the world 20 years later, communism can no longer spread, and this is a safer century.

The "Tiananmen Incident" is the source of this moral power.

Ma Jian

2009.6.3

Uploaded on 1 June 2025

Translated on 4 June 2025 by Gan Yung Chyan, Singapore

The plenary session may confirm Xi Jinping's resignation

 Direct translation

Big change! Will the plenary session confirm Xi Jinping's resignation?

Reporter : Sun Ruihou / Editor : Fang Xun / https://www.aboluowang.com/2025/0603/2227813.html / Image : Web Screenshot

A reliable source from within the system said that Xi Jinping has been decided to step down by the top leadership of the Communist Party of China, and all his trusted lackeys in the military, including senior generals, have been secretly detained. This change with the color of a military coup is currently waiting for the Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Committee to be concluded for final processing. Public opinion speculates that the Fourth Plenary Session may confirm Xi Jinping's resignation.

Commentator Jin Taopai wrote an article in Visions China that the mode of removing Xi Jinping this time will be different from the way Hua Guofeng, Zhao Ziyang, Hu Yaobang and others were publicly removed. In 1989, Deng Xiaoping abolished Zhao Ziyang through a secret meeting of elders without holding any formal Politburo meeting, which was completely in violation of the Party Constitution. In 1987, Hu Yaobang was forced to resign, and he "reviewed" at the enlarged meeting of the Politburo, and "confirmed his resignation" at the plenary session nine months later. The current Communist Party of China is on the verge of splitting and disintegration, and it is unlikely to repeat the public model of Zhao Ziyang. If a smooth transition is to be achieved and the political situation is to be prevented from getting out of control, the Hu Yaobang-style "decent resignation" plan may be adopted.

The article analyzes that Xi Jinping has been in power for ten years and has piled up "Xi Thought", cut off the source of his re-election, restored Mao Zedong, formed a personal dictatorship system, seriously undermined the principle of collective leadership within the party, and caused an irreversible deadlock. The top leaders of the Communist Party of China have determined that his continued rule will bring about a crisis of institutional collapse, and the veterans have decided to take action.

The current scenario is that Xi Jinping will resign from the positions of General Secretary, Chairman of the Military Commission, and President of the State for "health reasons". The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee will not criticize, convict or explain the reasons, but will use vague language to issue a communiqué to preserve his "dignity" as much as possible and avoid "self-humiliation".

Jin Tao Pai An commented that Xi Jinping's "stepping down" is not an ordinary mistake, but a "crime". The many evil deeds he committed are actually the cause planted by the Communist Party of China itself and the result of Xi's succession. Therefore, the elders must abandon Xi Jinping, but they cannot completely deny his line, so as not to implicate the entire system.

The focus of the outside world is: Who will take over? Current analysis shows that the Politburo Standing Committee will not be significantly adjusted, and only Xi Jinping will be dealt with to avoid a complete reshuffle. Although existing Standing Committee members such as Cai Qi and Li Qiang are Xi's confidants, they may not be eliminated with Xi. Li Xi, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning and others may also continue to serve.

Zhang Youxia's position change in the military is a high-probability event, and his "defection" is very likely to be the key to the success of the coup instigated by the veterans. Among the Politburo members, Chen Jining is favored because of his official career trajectory and may be included in the consideration list but the person who is truly "selected" by the elders is likely to be Wang Yang.

Jin Tao Pai An analyzed that although Wang Yang had conflicts with Wen Jiabao, his political propositions are relatively close to Wen. He once proposed that "the wrong perception that people's happiness is a gift from the party and the government must be eliminated", and he has the symbolic value of "reformists" and has a certain appeal inside and outside the party. In the eyes of the elders, Wang Yang's appointment as general secretary can not only stabilize the political situation, but also promote institutional repair.

In summary, this coup was driven by the "right-leaning reformists" of the old guard, whose goal was not to destroy the CCP, but to "save the party from danger." However, Jin Tao Pai An gave a final warning that this "decent handover" plan is also a risky move for the CCP to continue to survive. If Wang Yang really takes office to lead the reform, it will be tantamount to kicking off the final countdown for the destruction of the CCP by heaven. No matter who becomes the party leader, he will be powerless to save the situation in the completely corrupt CCP system.

Krabi Airport increases passenger service fees on 1 October 2025

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA       Image : Web Screenshot

According to Thailand Headline News Agency, on 2 June 2025, the Airports Authority of Thailand issued an announcement on its official social media platform, announcing that it will officially increase the departure passenger service fee from 1 October 12025. This adjustment is based on the resolution of the 1st Civil Aviation Committee meeting held on 4 February 2025, and aims to cooperate with the upgrade of the airport service system and enhance the travel experience of passengers.

Dhanai, director of the Airports Authority of Thailand, said that according to the adjustment plan approved by the meeting, the departure passenger service fee will be implemented according to the following standards:

The passenger service fee for international routes will be adjusted from 400 Baht per person to no more than 425 Baht;

The passenger service fee for domestic routes will be adjusted from 50 Baht per person to no more than 75 Baht.

This fee adjustment only applies to airports that have fully introduced the following three advanced boarding service technology systems:

1. CUTE (Common Use Terminal Equipment): Common Check-in Counter System;

2. CUSS (Common Use Self Service): Common Self-service Check-in System;

3. CUBD (Common Use Bag Drop): Self-service baggage drop system

Currently, the above technical system has been deployed in six airports in Thailand, namely: Krabi, Surat Thani, Ubon Ratchathani, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Phitsanulok. The new standard will apply to all domestic and international passengers departing from the above airports.