A still from the Leica promotional video The Hunt. Photo: YouTube

Leica Camera’s advert depicting Tiananmen Square’s ‘Tank Man’ causes uproar from Chinese online

Leica draws fire from online commenters and is censored on Chinese social media platform Weibo
Spokeswoman says the advert was not an officially sanctioned marketing film commissioned by the company

Topic | Tiananmen Square crackdown

Owen Churchill and Nectar Gan

Published: 6:01am, 19 Apr, 2019

Updated: 5:25am, 5 Jun, 2019

A still from the Leica promotional video The Hunt. Photo: YouTube

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Owen Churchill

Owen joined the Post as US correspondent in 2018 after several years working as a reporter and editor in China. He covers US-China relations, trade, and wider issues concerning China's global presence. A co-founder of the Shanghai-based news outlet Sixth Tone, he is an alumnus of London's School of Oriental and African Studies and Fudan University in Shanghai.