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| Asian Games: China censors 'Tiananmen' image of athletes hugging | Asian Games: China censors 'Tiananmen' image of athletes hugging |
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| The race numbers for Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni form '64' | The race numbers for Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni form '64' |
| A photo of two Chinese female athletes that made an inadvertent reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre has been censored on Chinese social media. | A photo of two Chinese female athletes that made an inadvertent reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre has been censored on Chinese social media. |
| The race numbers for Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni form "64" - a common allusion to the incident which happened on June 4. | The race numbers for Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni form "64" - a common allusion to the incident which happened on June 4. |
| Discussions of the incident remain taboo in China, with authorities routinely scrubbing any mention of the topic from the internet. | Discussions of the incident remain taboo in China, with authorities routinely scrubbing any mention of the topic from the internet. |
| In 1989, troops shot dead hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing. | In 1989, troops shot dead hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing. |
| It remains unclear how many people actually died that day, but human rights groups' estimates range from several hundred to several thousand killed. | It remains unclear how many people actually died that day, but human rights groups' estimates range from several hundred to several thousand killed. |
| Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? | Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? |
| China's Lipstick King sparks Tiananmen questions | China's Lipstick King sparks Tiananmen questions |
| The athletes had embraced each other after a 100m hurdles race at the Asian Games in which Ms Lin won gold. She was wearing her lane number 6 next to Ms Wu's lane number 4 in the photo. | The athletes had embraced each other after a 100m hurdles race at the Asian Games in which Ms Lin won gold. She was wearing her lane number 6 next to Ms Wu's lane number 4 in the photo. |
| Users had posted their congratulations to Ms Lin on Weibo, one of China's biggest social media platforms, but posts which included the photo were replaced with grey squares. | Users had posted their congratulations to Ms Lin on Weibo, one of China's biggest social media platforms, but posts which included the photo were replaced with grey squares. |
| However, the photo does not appear to have been completely scrubbed off the internet, with some Chinese news articles, external still showing a photo of the two athletes. | However, the photo does not appear to have been completely scrubbed off the internet, with some Chinese news articles, external still showing a photo of the two athletes. |
| China has won nearly 300 medals so far in the Asian Games, which are currently taking place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. It is due to go on until 8 October. | China has won nearly 300 medals so far in the Asian Games, which are currently taking place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. It is due to go on until 8 October. |
| Photos of the athletes hugging have been scrubbed from Weibo | Photos of the athletes hugging have been scrubbed from Weibo |
| Discussion of the events that took place in Tiananmen Square is highly sensitive in China - with generations of younger Chinese growing up with little to no knowledge about the Tiananmen Square massacre. | Discussion of the events that took place in Tiananmen Square is highly sensitive in China - with generations of younger Chinese growing up with little to no knowledge about the Tiananmen Square massacre. |
| Posts relating to the massacres are regularly removed from the internet, which is tightly controlled by the government. | Posts relating to the massacres are regularly removed from the internet, which is tightly controlled by the government. |
| Last year, a popular Chinese influencer's livestream, which took place on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of the massacre, ended abruptly after he showed his audience a vanilla log cake which resembled a tank - a reference to a iconic image of one so-called Tank Man, which shows a civilian with shopping bags standing in front of a queue of tanks, attempting to block them. | Last year, a popular Chinese influencer's livestream, which took place on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of the massacre, ended abruptly after he showed his audience a vanilla log cake which resembled a tank - a reference to a iconic image of one so-called Tank Man, which shows a civilian with shopping bags standing in front of a queue of tanks, attempting to block them. |