Balloon sculpture memorialises standoff that millions of mainland Chinese have still never heard aboutTourists walk past an inflatable “tank man” at Liberty Square in Taipei on Saturday. (AP Photo)TAIPEI: An artist has erected an inflatable display in Taiwan’s capital to mark an iconic moment in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests three decades ago. The tank standoff, memorialised by several photographers including Jeff Widener of The Associated Press, has become a symbol of defiance around the world. Mikel Zhang, a lawyer from Shanghai who visited the “Tank Man” installation on Saturday morning in Taipei, said that the students’ beliefs were different than those of the government. Taiwan split from mainland China amid civil war in 1949, though Beijing still claims the island as part of its territory.

Source: Bangkok Post June 01, 2019 10:30 UTC