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In this image taken from video footage shot on May 22, 2019, Wu'er Kaixi speaks during an interview in Taipei, Taiwan. Wu'er was among the most outspoken of the student leaders during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, famously reproaching then-Premier Li Peng at a meeting broadcast on national television. (AP Photo)

Tiananmen veterans look back on movement’s mistakes, passion

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JOHNSON LAI - Associated Press

In this May 14, 2014 photo, former student leader in the Tiananmen protests of 1989, Wu'er Kaixi poses for a portrait at a local coffee shop in Taipei, Taiwan. Kaixi's last glimpse of China was a fading shore from a boat that had come to collect him on a cloudy summer’s night. Now 46, Wu’er has spent longer in exile in the United States and on the self-governing island of Taiwan than in his homeland China. He is an investment banker in Taipei, husband to a Taiwanese and father of two sons, aged 19 and 16. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

25 years on, no fading of Tiananmen wounds, ideals

By LOUISE WATT and ISOLDA MORILLO - Associated Press