At present I'm not venturing away from my desktop at home, reading BF and listening to SEN / 3AW / 5aa for the latest on Essendrama and glancing incessantly at the TV news and then at my new Nancy Kwan avatar which
HaroldOliver seems to think might in fact be me...
No trams running. Taxi routes screwed up. Long walk to the MTR. Call me a couch potato.
I well remember the Beijing Spring of 1989. Got involved here in the protest marches myself that Sunday, June 4. Those were hairy times - considering Beijing was going to take over here eight years later.
This time there are a number of the same parameters in place. We need cool heads at the top of all participating institutions. Hopefully, boredom will set in, an interim deal will be reached and the streets will clear. The most worrying parallel between 1989 and now is that the students, those innocent young minds who always mean well, are in a position to again have their cause hijacked by older heads with ulterior motives.