{"id":2827,"date":"2014-08-30T19:22:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2014-08-30T19:22:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T19:22:14","slug":"a-debate-over-tiananmen-finds-echoes-in-germanys-fascist-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/a-debate-over-tiananmen-finds-echoes-in-germanys-fascist-past","title":{"rendered":"A Debate Over Tiananmen Finds Echoes in Germany\u2019s Fascist Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW AUGUST 27, 2014 6:00 PMAugust 27, 2014 6:00 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/27sino-letter01-tmagArticle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2828\" alt=\"27sino-letter01-tmagArticle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/27sino-letter01-tmagArticle-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/27sino-letter01-tmagArticle-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/27sino-letter01-tmagArticle.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nArmy tanks hold positions on an overpass in Beijing on June 6, 1989, <!--more-->two days after the crushing of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.Credit Vincent Yu\/Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>The military suppression of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests in June 1989 was a \u2018\u2018one-off\u2019\u2019 in China\u2019s recent history. Its leaders lost control of the situation. China is freer today than in 1989. Its people have the right to forget.<\/p>\n<p>That was the gist of recent articles by Frank Sieren, a Beijing-based German media consultant and columnist for Deutsche Welle, a German state-run broadcaster, the first of which ran on the station\u2019s website on June 4, the 25th anniversary of the killings in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>They prompted outrage among Chinese political exiles and rights activists in Germany, and an impassioned exchange ensued on the broadcaster\u2019s website between Mr. Sieren and Chang Ping, a Chinese journalist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/27\/a-debate-over-tiananmen-finds-echoes-in-germanys-fascist-past\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW AUGUST 27, 2014 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/a-debate-over-tiananmen-finds-echoes-in-germanys-fascist-past\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,95,167],"tags":[828,94,792,101],"views":3588,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}