Commentary The West should ban companies from cooperating with totalitarian regimes like China in the suppression of democracy and free speech. A Hong Kong university is using a U.S. and UK law firm to erase the Tiananmen Square massacre’s physical history, in the form of assisting in the removal of an almost sacred Hong Kong statue of the June 4, 1989 victims. The statue by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot depicts a “Pillar of Shame” that shows in wrenching and emotional detail the suffering of dozens of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. On Oct. 7, the Chicago and London law firm Mayer Brown delivered a letter on behalf of the university to a Hong Kong organization that was a caretaker of the statue. The letter demands removal of the statue by 5 p.m. on Oct. 13, and threatens its disposal. “They really want to destroy everything about a story that China …
Beijing Pressures Cause Removal of Hong Kong Statue About Tiananmen Massacre
October 10, 2021
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