Hong Kong: Tiananmen statue removed
"The worry is that if the party's history is undermined, the party could collapse."
A prominent statue marking the Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed from public view in Hong Kong. The 'Pillar of Shame' showed piled-up corpses to commemorate pro-democracy protesters killed by Chinese authorities in 1989, a highly sensitive topic in China.
Its removal - by Hong Kong's oldest university - comes as Beijing has increasingly been cracking down on political dissent in Hong Kong.
Robert Kuhn is a long term advisor to top Chinese leaders and international corporations, based in New York.
(Photo: The statue before it was taken down. Credit: Getty Images)
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