The recent anti-government protests in China have attracted Chinese people from all walks of life. One protest group that stood out is Chinese youth, especially college students. Their participation in anti-government protests spells particular trouble for Beijing.
Today’s Chinese college students were mostly born after 2003 and have no memories of the atrocities the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed since 1949. The CCP has worked hard to erase its bloody history between 1949 and 1989 (including the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre) from the Chinese people’s collective memory. Students’ only exposure to that period is from a few historically inaccurate
