Well-known Hong Kong bookstore owner Lam Wing-kee says China’s work to crush dissent continues unchanged. Lam was speaking Thursday during an interview in Taipei.

Lam has lived in Taiwan for a year since fleeing Hong Kong due to the threat of Chinese persecution. In mid-April, he reopened his Causeway Bay Books in Taipei. His original Hong Kong store of the same name had been known for selling books banned in China.

June 4 marks the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Exiled Hong Kong bookstore owner and dissident Lam Wing-kee says the Chinese Communists were seeking to strengthen their power when they cracked down on the protests in the square. He says that mentality of cracking down to gain power remains unchanged among the Communists 30 years on.

Lam says China’s continued attempts to crush dissent can be seen in its response to last year’s mass protests in Hong Kong. To reach its goals, Lam says China reused the same methods it has used before to suppress young people.

Lam says that once it has consolidated control over Hong Kong, the Communist party will set its sights on Taiwan. He says there is nothing that China won’t do--even killing people.