Category: Tank Man

TV Series Review: ‘Chimerica’: What Happened to ‘Tank Man’?

June 4th represents the anniversary of the CCP’s massacre of democracy protesters on and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Thirty-four years after the 1989 mass killings, the world still does not know the identity of the man dubbed “Tank Man,” who stood in front of a column of tanks, then leaving the scene of the…


John Robson: We May Laugh at Totalitarian Rhetoric and Ideology, but the Pronouncements of the ‘Woke’ Are No Less Ridiculous

Commentary It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry at the news that the Chinese communist authorities might release COVID whistleblower Fang Bin after three years in jail for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” It’s a classic unfree-society story in that we don’t really know whether they’ll release him, where he’s been, what his…


Pentagon: US Faces Critical Time in Countering China

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin warns of a crucial point in countering China—with today’s actions deciding the next generation’s future. Anti-lockdown protests in China are now spreading to Wuhan. Hundreds of people are taking to the streets, tearing down COVID-19 control barricades. Other cities are loosening COVID-19 curbs and removing virus testing booths. But the Chinese regime…


‘Let the World Know Our Stance’: Overseas Chinese Students Echo Beijing’s ‘Bridge Man’

Just days ahead of China’s 20th National Congress, a protester unfurled banners from an overpass in Beijing, calling for reforming the country’s communist leadership and removing draconian COVID-19 measures. Following the rare protest, overseas Chinese students expressed their solidarity with “Bridge Man” through slogans that appeared on college bulletin boards. On Oct. 13, Peng Lifa,…


Sydney Pro-Democracy Activists Voice Support for ‘Bridge Man’

Pro-democracy Chinese activists held events at four landmarks in Sydney to support the “bridge man” who protested in Beijing last week. On Oct. 16, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s 20th national congress, several pro-democracy activists from the Federation for a Democratic China gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate in Sydney to kick off the pop-up…


Video Shows Ukrainian ‘Tank Man’ Trying to Block Russian Military Convoy

A Ukrainian man apparently tried to block a Russian convoy of armored vehicles by stepping in front of the trucks, according to footage of the incident that has since gone viral. The 28-second video, shared by Ukraine news agency HB, shows an unarmed man running in front of several armed vehicles advancing down a road….


Microsoft Appears to Censor 1989 Tank Man Image

Eighteen million virus tests were administered in three days and supermarket shelves stood empty, as a new virus spike in a southern Chinese city makes officials nervous. Lawmakers in the United States, the European Union, and nine other countries are urging their governments to boycott Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics. China’s censorship extends to the United…


11 Parliaments Move to Boycott Beijing Olympics

Eighteen million virus tests were administered in three days and supermarket shelves stood empty, as a new virus spike in a southern Chinese city makes officials nervous. Lawmakers in the United States, the European Union, and nine other countries are urging their governments to boycott Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics. China’s censorship extends to the United…


‘Tank Man’ Image Search Showed No Results on Bing Due to Human Error, Microsoft Says

Microsoft on Friday said that its search engine Bing yielded no results when users entered the query “tank man” in the United States and elsewhere for part of Friday because of “accidental human error.” Users in the United States and other countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, and Singapore, reported that Bing returned the message “There…