Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 4, 2019

Perry Link, DW: Why we remember Tiananmen Square

Thirty years have gone by since the world watched the Tiananmen Square massacre in China. So why must we remember the events of June 4? It's a deceptively simple question, says academic Perry Link.

We remember June 4 because Jiang Jielian, a student protester who was killed by the military on that day in 1989, was 17 at the time. He is still 17. He will always be 17. People who die do not age.

We remember June 4 because the lost souls that haunted human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo until he died will haunt us, too, until we do.

We remember June 4 because the glint of bonfires on bayonets is something one does not forget, even if one did not see it personally.

We remember June 4 because it taught us the essential nature of the Communist Party of China when all of the clothes, every shred, falls away. No book, film, or museum could be clearer.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 4, 2019

Tiananmen Square: 30 years after China’s crackdown -- SCMP

There is every reason why Beijing must revisit its Tiananmen Square verdict -- SCMP editorial

China Must Pay for Its Brutal Human Rights Record -- Michael Mazza, National Interest

Tiananmen Square: How memories of the 1989 massacre are secretly passed on in China -- ABC News Online

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping talk Russia-China relations -- Miodrag Soric, DW

Kim Jong Un: A showman in the family tradition -- Asia Times

Legacy of communism hotly debated in Poland 30 years on -- Anna Jaworska-Guidotti, Reuters

A look at what is at stake in Denmark’s general election -- Jan M. Olsen, AP

Danish election 2019 explained: Who will win and when will the results be announced? -- Kaisha Langton, Express

Germany's resurgent Greens set the agenda as SPD flounders -- Philip Oltermann, The Guardian

Is Germany Becoming Germany — Again? -- Victor Davis Hanson, NRO

It's tempting to look away from Syria, but that'd be reckless -- Steven Heydemann and Michael O'Hanlon, The Hill

The military crackdown in Sudan lays bare the dark heart of Bashir’s regime -- Nesrine Malik, The Guardian

The Coalition Out to Kill Tech As We Know It -- Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic

Is ‘Big Tech’ too big? A look at growing antitrust scrutiny -- Barbara Ortutay and Rachel Lerman, AP