Saturday, August 17, 2019

Ai Weiwei fears 'Tiananmen' crackdown in Hong KongWatching the Hong Kong protests from afar, Chinese dissident-artist Ai Weiwei fears the worst, warning of a repeat of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing. China "is a society which sacrifices anything to maintain its control," he warned. Ai's bleak warning comes after two months of protests that have turned increasingly violent, and as Beijing has massed security forces nearby on the mainland in a show of force.




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