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Commercial depicting Tiananmen Square’s ‘Tank Man’ creates online headache for Leica in China | South China Morning Post

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German camera manufacturer Leica is dealing with a Chinese social media backlash over an advertisement video depicting a man standing off against a column of tanks – recalling the iconic “Tank Man” filmed during the bloody suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

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