Chinese star taken offline after showing ‘tank cake’ on Tiananmen anniversary

Li Jiaqi, a blogger with millions of fans, had his livestream abruptly cut on Friday, and has posted nothing since

One of China's top bloggers has gone silent after livestreaming footage of a cake apparently shaped like a tank just before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, prompting debate over the highly sensitive event among tens of millions of young fans.

Discussion of the crackdown on 4 June 1989, when China set troops and tanks on peaceful protesters, is all but forbidden on the mainland.