At Tiananmen Square, tight security with metal detectors reflects a changing China
At Tiananmen Square, tight security with metal detectors reflects a changing China
There’s a police check to exit the subway, another to get in line, a third while standing in line, and metal detectors and X-ray machines before you finally reach the Beijing landmark.
Elizabeth Perry, an expert on Chinese politics and protests at Harvard University, says the intensified security reflects the insecurities of the current leadership.
Chinese President Xi Jinping “is very insecure,” she says.
Brilliant insight, you can really tell that she's an expert lmao
For real though, how does anyone take this sort of shit seriously
I wonder if the guard was like "Oh this guy is a journalist? Lets
googlebaidu what he writes- Oh it's just sinophobic nonsense. Tell him he has to come back tomorrow so we can waste more of his time"One of the links in the article was interesting, I didn't know that Nancy Pelosi visited Tianenman Square in 1991: