Jeffrey Wasserstrom

the use of shooting to kill on the streets. They were shooting to wound. There was beanbag shot. There were rubber bullets. There was enormous amounts of tear gas. There was even tear gas let fly inside subway stations in 2019. And all these things are really brutalizing, but they don't make the kind of images that sear in the mind the way something like

the Tiananmen tank man image or the image of a Vietnamese woman being burned by napalm, young woman that became another of the iconic images during the Vietnam War, those images really can have an extraordinary power. And I think the Chinese Communist Party is now aware of that. There are no really gripping, there are very few photographs allowed of the Xinjiang image extra legal detention camps.

the Tiananmen tank man image or the image of a Vietnamese woman being burned by napalm, young woman that became another of the iconic images during the Vietnam War, those images really can have an extraordinary power. And I think the Chinese Communist Party is now aware of that. There are no really gripping, there are very few photographs allowed of the Xinjiang image extra legal detention camps.

the Tiananmen tank man image or the image of a Vietnamese woman being burned by napalm, young woman that became another of the iconic images during the Vietnam War, those images really can have an extraordinary power. And I think the Chinese Communist Party is now aware of that. There are no really gripping, there are very few photographs allowed of the Xinjiang image extra legal detention camps.

There are very little, very little photo. There is an awareness of how much power a photograph of a certain type can have.

There are very little, very little photo. There is an awareness of how much power a photograph of a certain type can have.

There are very little, very little photo. There is an awareness of how much power a photograph of a certain type can have.

I assume he was killed.

I assume he was killed.

I assume he was killed.

I assume. He was just disappeared. It's interesting because very often figures are made an example of in one way or another. I mean, Leo Chabot was imprisoned and not allowed to get enough medical care, so you can talk about him having died earlier than he should have. But there are there's been relatively few of like for political crimes recently sentencing to death and things like that.

I assume. He was just disappeared. It's interesting because very often figures are made an example of in one way or another. I mean, Leo Chabot was imprisoned and not allowed to get enough medical care, so you can talk about him having died earlier than he should have. But there are there's been relatively few of like for political crimes recently sentencing to death and things like that.

I assume. He was just disappeared. It's interesting because very often figures are made an example of in one way or another. I mean, Leo Chabot was imprisoned and not allowed to get enough medical care, so you can talk about him having died earlier than he should have. But there are there's been relatively few of like for political crimes recently sentencing to death and things like that.

It's much more just remove them, imprison them. But the tank man, there was never a trial. There was never even a trial that was a, was one that you knew what the result would be, which there was for Liu Xiaobo and others. Not even a hidden trial, but simply disappeared. And there's been somebody who's like another figure like this who's disappeared.

It's much more just remove them, imprison them. But the tank man, there was never a trial. There was never even a trial that was a, was one that you knew what the result would be, which there was for Liu Xiaobo and others. Not even a hidden trial, but simply disappeared. And there's been somebody who's like another figure like this who's disappeared.

It's much more just remove them, imprison them. But the tank man, there was never a trial. There was never even a trial that was a, was one that you knew what the result would be, which there was for Liu Xiaobo and others. Not even a hidden trial, but simply disappeared. And there's been somebody who's like another figure like this who's disappeared.

A couple of years ago in Beijing, there was a lone man who put up a banner on a bridge, Sitong Bridge in Beijing. And it was extraordinary. It had denunciations of the direction Xi Jinping was taking the country. It was denunciation of COVID policies, but also a dictatorial rule. And the banner, somehow he managed to have it up and get it.

A couple of years ago in Beijing, there was a lone man who put up a banner on a bridge, Sitong Bridge in Beijing. And it was extraordinary. It had denunciations of the direction Xi Jinping was taking the country. It was denunciation of COVID policies, but also a dictatorial rule. And the banner, somehow he managed to have it up and get it.

A couple of years ago in Beijing, there was a lone man who put up a banner on a bridge, Sitong Bridge in Beijing. And it was extraordinary. It had denunciations of the direction Xi Jinping was taking the country. It was denunciation of COVID policies, but also a dictatorial rule. And the banner, somehow he managed to have it up and get it.

long enough to be filmed and to draw attention and the film to circulate. Again, another image of the power of images. And he's disappeared. And there hasn't been a show trial or even a secret trial. And again, we don't know if he's still alive, but these are cases where I think the Chinese Communist Party really doesn't want a competing story out there.