Even '1984', the novel, couldn't go that far," he told AFP in New York, referencing George Orwell's seminal novel on life in a totalitarian state. "I'm getting more and more pessimistic," he told AFP by phone from his home in San Fransisco. - Ailing parents -Years of exile have taken a heavy toll on the Tiananmen survivors, especially when it comes to being so far away from ailing parents. Of the Tiananmen survivors AFP interviewed, Wang Dan remained the most optimistic. In the long term, he believes, China's party cannot control the population indefinitely.

Source: Bangkok Post June 02, 2019 03:45 UTC