Wang Dan (dissident)
Based in the United States, he travels the world to garner support from Overseas Chinese communities as well as from the public at large.At that time, he was invited by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China to talk about politics ahead of the 15th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown.This short sentence was thought to be caused by two things: the government was unsure of what to do with so many students, and felt pressure due to their high-profile nature.[10] Almost immediately after his release in 1993 Wang began to promote democracy in China and contacted exiled political activists in the United States.Wang believes the CCP must change its ways, and in an interview with the US magazine The Weekly Standard he states: "The key to democracy in China is independence.Wang has been able to publish articles such as "Rebuild China with an Olympic Amnesty" and "20 years after Tiananmen" as well as give public interviews.[2] According to a Chinese language article from Radio Free Asia, as of July 2009, Wang has a Facebook page that he hopes to use to communicate with people in mainland China.[16] In April 2011, news media reported that Wang testified in court that he had received two grants from the Chen Shui-bian administration totaling 400,000 USD and that the source of the money was not clear."[20] In April 2022, Chen disclosed 21 cases of "Guowu Jiyao Fei"[clarification needed], including two payments to Wang Dan, totaling 6.6 million NTD.The notice indicated that, based on Lee's testimony, chat records of his confiding in others, and personal trauma-related posts he had made on Facebook around the anniversary of the June Fourth Incident each year, the prosecutors concluded that Wang Dan's act of forceful kissing was established and constituted a suspected offense of forcible indecency.However, the prosecutors determined they lacked jurisdiction over non-Republic of China nationals accused of crimes committed abroad and therefore decided not to prosecute.In an interview with The New York Times published 2 June 1989, Wang states, "I think that the student movements in the future should be firmly based on something solid, such as the democratization of campus life or the realization of civil rights according to the Constitution,… Otherwise, the result is chaos.Despite pointing out failures, Wang feels the protests affected the mentality of many Chinese people, arguing the hunger strike was necessary as it allowed greater attention on the movement.[41] Wang has claimed that the Black Lives Matter movement is a plot by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to prevent Donald Trump from winning the 2020 presidential elections and to disrupt US civil society.
Chinese namefamily nameWang (王)BeijingPeking UniversityHarvard UniversityChineseStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinYue: CantoneseYale RomanizationJyutpingChinese democracy movementTiananmen Square protests of 1989TaiwanNational Chengchi UniversityNational Tsing Hua Universitydemocracy in ChinaOverseas ChineseChinese Communist PartyOxford UniversityChinese Constitutional Reform AssociationdocumentaryMoving the MountainShen TongAlmost a Revolutionmainland ChinaHong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of ChinaPeople's Liberation Armylist of the 21 most wanted student leadersQincheng PrisonOlympic GamesInternational Olympic CommitteeUnited StatesBeijing SpringUnited Nations Commission on Human RightsThe Weekly StandardHsinchuRadio Free AsiaWikiLeaksChen Shui-bianTang BaiqiaoFeng CongdeFlushingNew YorkDeutsche WelleZoom Video CommunicationsThe New York TimesTorontoBlack Lives MatterDonald Trump2020 presidential electionsDemocratic PartyJoe BidenList of Chinese dissidentsSouth China Morning PostThe Wall Street JournalThe Taipei TimesTimes Books1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacreMay Fourth MovementProclamation of the People's Republic of China1976 Tiananmen IncidentBoluan FanzhengNew EnlightenmentEconomic reformCampaign against spiritual pollution1986 Chinese student demonstrationsCorruptionHousehold responsibility systemSocialism with Chinese characteristicsCriticism of communismApril 26 EditorialApril 27 demonstrationsHunger StrikeDialogue between students and the governmentFunding of student organizationsMao portrait incidentSino-Soviet SummitJune 9 Deng speechMilitary involvementCommunistPartyEldersDeng XiaopingChen YunYang ShangkunLi XiannianWang ZhenPeng ZhenBo YiboStanding CommitteeZhao ZiyangLi PengQiao ShiHu QiliYao YilinLi XimingChen XitongJiang ZeminZhu RongjiHu JintaoBao TongHu YaobangLuo GanYan MingfuYuan MuWan LiWen JiabaoWu XueqianBei DaoChai LingCui JianDai QingDing ZilinFang LizhiFang ZhengLiu GangHan DongfangHou DejianLiu XianbinLiu XiaoboQin BenliWang BingzhangWang YoucaiWu'erkaixiXiong Yan