President's EdgeThe Ghosts of Tiananmen: China’s Digital Noose Tightens

By Jeff KingPicture a regime so smug and dismissive of democracy that it brags about crushing lives and freedom. That’s China’s Communist Party (CCP) today, crowing on WeChat and state rags like Global Times about “smashing cults” — a fancy way of saying they’re bulldozing churches, jailing and torturing pastors, and strangling all the freedom of all citizens with a high-tech noose unlike anything the world has seen.While their methods are new, their impulse remains the same. In 1989, Tiananmen