The University of Hong Kong Takes a Page From the Taliban’s Playbook

In June 2019, the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, students clean the “Pillar of Shame” statue, an art piece dedicated to the victims of the massacre at the University of Hong Kong. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
And it is getting support from Mayer Brown, a law firm based in Chicago.
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The Chinese Communist Party — with the help of an international law firm headquartered in the United States — is erasing the history of the Chinese democracy movement and the countless students, writers, artists and underground activists who gave their lives for the cause of freedom.
Today, the sculpture Pillar of Shame, a monument to the victims of the …
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