Translations: “What We Commemorate When We Commemorate June 4”

Translations: “What We Commemorate When We Commemorate June 4”

This year’s 36th anniversary commemorations of the June 4 crackdown were marked by intense, AI-aided censorship on the Chinese internet, muted memorials and arrests in Hong Kong, and a wide variety of online and offline memorials across the world. Noteworthy coverage of the anniversary includes a statement from the Tiananmen Mothers, an interview with exiled Uyghur activist Örkesh Dölet, an interview with Ian Johnson about the online Chinese Fol…