{"id":32743,"date":"2021-06-03T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T04:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/03\/tiananmen-june-4-events-china-hong-kong-taiwan-macao-crackdown-covid"},"modified":"2021-06-03T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T04:35:17","slug":"mourn-june-4-in-your-own-way-tiananmen-square-events-vanish-amid-crackdowns-and-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32743","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mourn June 4 in your own way\u2019: Tiananmen Square events vanish amid crackdowns and Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong, Macau and China ban gatherings, and Taiwan has a serious Covid outbreak, leaving people to remember the massacre alone or online<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, there will be no formal commemoration event held in the Chinese-speaking world for the anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two years after soldiers crushed student protests in Beijing and killed anywhere from several hundred to several thousand people, a combination of censorship, government crackdowns on criticism and pandemic restrictions will ensure no physical gathering is allowed in the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC), Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/03\/tiananmen-june-4-events-china-hong-kong-taiwan-macao-crackdown-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong, Macau and China ban gatherings, and Taiwan has a serious Covid outbreak, leaving people to remember the massacre alone or onlineFor the first time since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, there will be no formal commemoration event held in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48,80,74,431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-taiwan","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32743\/revisions\/32744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}