{"id":958,"date":"2009-06-04T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2009\/06\/a-day-to-remember-how-china-treats-dissent\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:09:44","slug":"a-day-to-remember-how-china-treats-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2009\/06\/a-day-to-remember-how-china-treats-dissent.html","title":{"rendered":"A Day to Remember How China Treats Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Twenty years ago on this day a brief and exciting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">moment of hope<\/a> for democracy in China ended\u2026<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tiananmen Square Massacre\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AGJoaHr2QdM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>My great fear is that as we witness China\u2019s brand of new fascism and its rise on the world stage is how possibly we\u2019re also witnessing the world\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>These are interesting times, no doubt\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-4398424679816070754?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago on this day a brief and exciting moment of hope for democracy in China ended\u2026 My great fear is that as we witness China\u2019s brand of new fascism and its rise on the world stage is how possibly we\u2019re also witnessing the world\u2019s future. 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