
Thirty-Seven Years On, a Wound That Never Closed
A former star of Chinese state television turns her camera on a Taiwanese journalist wounded in the Tiananmen crackdown — and on the limits of what witnesses could say at the time.

On May 23, 2025, the Nanfang Media Group (南方報業傳媒集團), a Guangzhou-based state media conglomerate under the provincial CCP Committee, jointly launched a media platform in Lisbon with Guangdong’s South International Communication Center (南方國際傳播中心) and the China-Portugal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The South International Communication Center editor-in-chief stated that the “Greater Bay Area Chinese-Portuguese Media Content Platform” would collaborate with Portuguese media and think tanks to disseminate “stories of Chinese-style modernization” (中國式現代化故事) as well as stories of China-Portugal cooperation to Portuguese-speaking audiences. The Chinese Ambassador to Portugal attended the event, saying that the platform could help introduce China to Portuguese-speaking countries and vice versa. According to state media reporting, representatives from Iris FM and Global Media Group also participated.
