Taipei, May 18 (CNA) Pro-democracy advocates and activists marked the 30th anniversary of the Tianamen Incident at an international conference in Taipei Saturday, urging the world not to forget the bloody crackdown and keep on working toward the sustainable growth of democracy around the world.
Larry Diamond, a professor of sociology and political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, said at the conference that China has tried to systematically erase the world's memories of the student-led pro-democracy uprising that took place on Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.
To serve that end China has been using a united front strategy and penetration schemes to purchase media and lobby politicians as part of efforts to wreck democratic systems around the world, according to Diamond.
"We hope that the world's memories (of the Tiananmen Incident) can be refreshed and rebuilt through this conference. Many who participated in the protests are still upholding their ideals and moving forward," Wang Dan (shown) (王丹), one of the student leaders in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who is now living in exile in the United States, said. http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201905180013.aspx
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