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"A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels (edition.cnn.com)

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Depicting a heap of contorted bodies and screaming faces, the statue was unveiled Tuesday as part of an exhibition of “forbidden art” that organizers said had been censored or “deemed subversive” by Hong Kong and mainland China.

The exhibition was hosted by Jens Galschiøt, the Danish artist behind the famous sculpture, and Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, a member of the European Parliament (MEP). A further six MEPs, including representatives from each of the parliament’s five largest political coalitions, were listed as co-hosts.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah! I mean, if things were shit it in the past it seems silly to do anything to fix it now! Duh! 🤪

/s, obviously…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where do you take that from? What I’m saying is that these populist dogpiling calls are nonsense, because most nations have a similar oppressive history and/or present. Why must we put up a trade ban on exclusively China for not apologizing for the TS massacre, but not on turkey for the Armenian genocide? If it’s about todays oppression and exploitation why exclusively China and not UAE, Qatar, Israel or Congo? If it’s about supposedly threatening war, why exclusively China and not the USA? If it’s about spying, why exclusively China and not Russia or the USA? For each issue China has, there is at least one other nation doing the same for which we would never consider a similar treatment. Russia now has some trade restrictions, but not for its USSR crimes, not for spying, it took a full-fledged war for some rules (with tummy ache).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It seems like the powers-that-be are trying to manufacture animosity toward China among the commoners. I guess that means they see China as a threat and want us to fight China for them. They'll do anything to distract from the class war but I know it wasn't the Chinese people that shipped jobs to China, it was the western capitalists.