This year marks the 33rd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre; it is the first June 4th without the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HK Alliance), after its disbandment. 
As we are proceeding halfway along the “50 years unchanged” of the Basic Law, 2022 is the second year that there has not been a large-scale remembrance event at Victoria Park. A poll by Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI) showed that the rate of Hongkongers supporting June 4th vindication called “reversion of the official stand on the incident,” in the survey questions was at the lowest in nearly 20 years, while the rate of those who agree that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) handled June 4th appropriately, is set at a new record high. …