This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Friday, June 3rd, 2022. I'm Caleb Brown.

It's been more than 30 years since an anonymous lone man stood down tanks in Tiananmen Square.

And yet for the Chinese government,

that event still loudly resonates.

When Robert Anthony Peters was seeking screenings

of his film Tank Man, which tells the story

of how that iconic man's Day might have looked, he discovered

that the long arm of the Chinese state has incredible reach.

We spoke in April in Las Vegas.

A few years ago you made a short film called Tank Man and it's interesting because we know

nothing about that man who stood in front of that

Tiannaman Square and you sort of imagined what his day might have been like and how he

might have just been a normal guy who was fed up and decided to take matters into his own hands.

And of course when Ed Crane, who created the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty,

when he talks about who should receive that prize, the you know moving to one side as the tank tries to go around him I mean really just in

the boldest possible way saying you're gonna have to kill me I mean. And so you made this film and there were problems before and

after making it that sort of, I think think highlight the degree to which China exert its influence around the world.

Yes, well, of course, that image is an inspiration, as you were saying, not just Ed Crane, of course,

or to folks in the Liberty Movement, but to people around the world.

There's a great documentary about the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre that had an interview with a journalist who said

he was in Berlin later that year and interviewing people who were rushing up to the wall with

sledgehammers and he asked one fellow, hey why is it you think you can go and do this?

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