Chinese interference in the video conferencing company's operations is a stark lesson that governments need to get involved in countering Beijing's influence.
Illustration by Pete Ryan
On the evening of June 8, 2020, four days after the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, I received a message from Zhou Fengsuo, a student leader during the 1989 pro-democracy movement who now lives in New Jersey.
“Hi, Bethany, our Zoom account was closed with no explanation,” he wrote. “We have emailed Zoom asking for the reason, but we haven’t received a response.”
He wasn’t the only one affected. Numerous other Chinese pro-democracy activists in both the
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