Tag Archives: Tiananmen Square
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Hong Kong protesters defy ban, rally to remember Tiananmen
4 June 2020 | Su Xinqi and Yan Zhao
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Tens of thousands of people across Hong Kong lit candles and chanted democracy slogans on Thursday to commemorate China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown, defying a ban against gathering as tensions seethed over a planned new security law. ...
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Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash in wake of coronavirus
4 May 2020
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An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation, people familiar with the paper told Reuters. ...
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Zhao Ziyang, who opposed Tiananmen crackdown, is finally buried
20 October 2019
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A former Chinese Communist Party leader ousted after he opposed the use of force to quell 1989 democracy protests was buried over a decade after he died, his family said. ...
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China’s celebrations to mark 70 years of the People’s Republic
26 September 2019 | Ben Blanchard
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Chinese President Xi Jinping will oversee a massive military parade through central Beijing on 1 October to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. ...
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Li Peng, Chinese premier during Tiananmen crackdown, dies
25 July 2019 | Ken Moritsugu
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Li, who died Monday at 90, warned Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters in May 1989 that “the situation will not develop as you wish” a day before he announced martial law. ...
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Beyond Beijing: 1989 in Changsha
6 June 2019
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Thirty years ago, the CCP’s army massacred peaceful demonstrators on Tian’anmen square, putting an end to a nationwide protest movement. Andréa Worden remembers 1989 in Changsha and Beijing. ...
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Silence, US tensions mark Tiananmen 30th anniversary in China
4 June 2019 | Poornima Weerasekara and Qasim Nauman
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Beijing marked 30 years since the deadly Tiananmen crackdown on Tuesday with a wall of silence and extra security, as the anniversary turned into a diplomatic slugfest with the US. ...
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On 30th anniversary, China says Tiananmen crackdown was ‘correct’ policy
2 June 2019 | Elizabeth Law
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China on Sunday defended the bloody Tiananmen crackdown on student protesters in a public acknowledgement of the event, days before its 30th anniversary, saying it was the "correct" policy. ...
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Tibetans and Chinese mark 30-year anniversary of Tiananmen protests
30 May 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal
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In the run-up to mark the 30th anniversary of the protests and the subsequent killings on 4 June 1989, Tibetan and Chinese activists spoke on various aspects of the historic event. ...
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China issues book commemorating reformist leader Hu Yaobang
21 November 2015
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President Xi Jinping and other top Chinese leaders gathered Friday to commemorate reformist leader Hu Yaobang, whose death catalyzed the 1989 pro-democracy protest movement that was brutally crushed in Beijing. ...