That is more my dad’s expertise. He was a journalist in Tiananmen from May ’89, left on June 1 — good for our family; a colleague was shot on June 4. He later studied the student‑group dynamics for his Ph.D. and attended a Berlin reunion a year after the Wall fell. We were close to reformers; my living room in Germany had very young people thinking about democracy and technology. That is my starting point.

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