Opinion: The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime
Opinion: The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime
- October 12, 2025
- Jeffrey Wasserstrom, history and Long Institute affiliate, The Guardian, Oct. 12, 2025 (Opinion)
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A few years ago, young pro-democracy activists in Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Myanmar spoke of a “Milk Tea Alliance”: each place had a different version of the drink, but it acted as shorthand for their shared struggle against autocracy, as UCI historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom [Chancellor’s Professor of history and Long US-China Institute core faculty] notes in a new book.
For the full story, please visit https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/12/the-guardian-view-on-gen-z-protests-these-movements-share-more-than-an-interest-in-anime.
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