History of 2022

Keeping filmmaker Chen Pinlin in jail is part of a massive effort to cancel all traces of the victorious fight of students and citizens that compelled the CCP to abandon the “Zero COVID” policy.

There are many ways in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tries to erase history. What may seem futile to the non-Chinese readers of “Bitter Winter” may actually work in China. All traces and references to the Tiananmen Square June Fourth Incident of 1989 are carefully cancelled. The event does not exist in textbooks about China’s history and even Internet searches about the incident are blocked. Of course, the CCP cannot prevent the world outside China to remember and celebrate June Fourth. But its efforts are not entirely fruitless as many Chinese born in the 21st century have never heard of the event.

Read more at “China Tries to Erase the History of 2022”

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