On the morning of June 4, 1989, months of student protests were violently quashed by China’s soldiers in the heart of Beijing, leaving a legacy that the world will not soon forget In April of 1989, ...
This year’s 36th anniversary commemorations of the June 4 crackdown were marked by intense, AI-aided censorship on the Chinese internet, muted memorials and arrests in Hong Kong, and a wide variety of ...
For the fourth year in a row, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park – historically the site of annual candlelight vigils to remember the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown – will host a patriotic food ...
The United States has led an international chorus, reminding China of the slaughter in Tiananmen Square 36 years ago, as human rights groups urged Beijing to own up to the massacre and make amends ...
Then-U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing, February 1989. Credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen ...
June 4, the date of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, is among the most sensitive dates on the Chinese political calendar. Any attempts to draw attention to the event are routinely censored on the Chinese ...
People join the Memorials for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, Jun. 4, 2015. The candlelight vigil has been banned since 2020. “They won’t let us go to Wan’an ...