New York has the greatest number of exiled Chinese activists in the world, and Flushing is the effective headquarters of the minyun — the movement for democracy in the People’s Republic of China.
The Trump era only widened the rift between the minyun’s old guard and the youth. Teng Biao, a human-rights activist and professor at the University of Chicago, says that many older dissidents support Trump because they adhere to a “conservative brand of western liberalism.”
Now, when Teng goes out to dinner with friends, he says, “we have to consider, ‘Oh, this person is a Trump supporter, this person is not.’ That’s a big harm to the dissident community.”
A young Chinese feminist activist did not even want to be mentioned in the same article as the minyun.
The activist also rolled her eyes at the old guard’s relative disinterest in progressive causes like racial justice.
The activist also rolled her eyes at the old guard’s relative disinterest in progressive causes like racial justice.
One reason Li Jinjin aka Jim Li's death hit the community so hard was that he didn’t live to see a democratic China.
After all they’d suffered, Jim’s death needed to have meaning. If it had been a state-sanctioned assassination, then he died for a reason.
After all they’d suffered, Jim’s death needed to have meaning. If it had been a state-sanctioned assassination, then he died for a reason.
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