From Prospect, the ghosts of Tiananmen: China’s rulers have more to fear from the economic crisis than they do from democratic dissidents — so was the democracy movement in vain? (and more and more). From Words without Borders, dissident leader Wang Dan speaks out on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre (and more, and an excerpt from his Prison Memoirs). An alternative history of China: The memoirs of Zhao Ziyang provide insight into what China would be like today if the 1989 democracy movement had prevailed (and more). From Diplomatic Courier, an article on China's unhappy neo-Leftists. From The Globalist, a series on Spain and China in the Age of Globalization (and part 2 and part 3); and an article on Barcelona and Madrid: A Tale of Two Cities (and part 2). There's no judicial

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