Chinese star taken offline after showing ‘tank cake’ on Tiananmen anniversary
by Agence France-Presse in Beijing from World news | The Guardian on (#60213)
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.
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