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Welcome back to The Breakdown.

It is Saturday, June 6th, and today we have a little something different, a weekly recap.

And where I want to start with this comes from a tweet that I

shared on Friday morning, where I said, The Revolution will be retweeted. I've been thinking about

public media exposure and narrative a lot this week, even more than usual, for those of you

who know me, I think about narrative a lot. But it was the 31st anniversary of

the Tiananmen Square Massacres. And there was an extra symbolism this year, extra context. First,

there was the context of, in the New York Times, Tom Cotton, the Republican senator, published

an op-ed that was basically advocating for extreme force when dealing

with protesters that was published ultimately on the same day of the 31st anniversary of Tiananmen Square.

There was also the question of whether people in Hong Kong would be able to, as they have

for so many years, actually recognize this as China takes more control over Hong Kong.

So there's some current events context, but there's also a lot of more sort of big patternicity

historical context that I was thinking it in. On Friday, my episode was with Graham Webster,

and it was about the history of the U.S.-China relationship. And one of the arguments that he

made was that China's turn

away from sort of the established global order and towards a more illiberal authoritarian control

coincided with the rise of new types of social media in that country. And I think that that

was a point that really struck me, this idea that

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