Elizabeth Perry, an expert on Chinese politics and protests at Harvard University, says the intensified security reflects the insecurities of the current leadership.

Chinese President Xi Jinping “is very insecure,” she says.

Brilliant insight, you can really tell that she's an expert lmao

For real though, how does anyone take this sort of shit seriously

One of the links in the article was interesting, I didn't know that Nancy Pelosi visited Tianenman Square in 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Z8-Woj1eA

I wonder if the guard was like "Oh this guy is a journalist? Lets ~~google~~baidu what he writes- Oh it's just sinophobic nonsense. Tell him he has to come back tomorrow so we can waste more of his time"