On June 1, this past Sunday, police came to the Beijing home of the artist Guo Jian—an Australian citizen, living in Beijing with an Australian passport—and took him away. Two days before, the Financial Times had published an interview with Guo. In it, he talked about how he'd privately made an installation of a diorama of Tian'anmen Square, buried in a layer of ground pork, till the meat had rotted. Guo went on to tell the reporter about his own experience at Tianan'men in 1989: a hunger strike, tear gas, bullets, blood, "the emergency room packed with bodies."

Next to all the vast political, historical, and human tragedies that were playing out in China 25 years ago, it's a tiny thing to regret, but: This Bloomberg story about the rescue of dissidents after the Tian'anmen Square massacre would be an ideal Hong Kong movie scenario, if only Hong Kong were able to make such a movie.*