Tiananmen Square
Strange! On national holiday, Tiananmen pitch black
On the night of October 1st (China's National Memorial Day), Tiananmen Square, Beijing was again under martial law. Under the dim light, only police were on the street. The big square had an eerie emptiness to it, the large flower baskets standing in the dark square looked really scary. A ...
Want to cause trouble for Xi? Over 200,000 people go to Tiananmen Square
October 1 was Chinese National Day. Early that morning, more than 200,000 people flocked to Tiananmen Square to watch the "flag raising ceremony." According to Sound Of Hope, netizens mocked: Doing this before the 20th National Congress, to create some kind of pandemic outbreak, is this not causing more trouble ...
CCP tyranny increasingly entrenched in Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigil organizers arrested
Hong Kong police arrested on Wednesday, Sept. 8, members of a pro-democracy organization in charge of the city's commemoration vigils for the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre after they were charged under the Chinese regime's national security law in Hong Kong with working as "foreign agents," according to BBC reports. Four ...
Artist vows to remake anti-communist sculpture after suspected arson attack
A controversial artwork that accuses the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of starting the worldwide CCP Virus pandemic burned down on July 23. Artist Weiming Chen will remake his anti-communist sculpture from scratch. A suspected arson attack destroyed his 20-foot-tall work, which depicts Chinese leader Xi Jinping with "spike" proteins from the ...
‘China is more dangerous than Nazi Germany’: Harrowing account from a Tiananmen survivor
Thirty-two years after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) brought in the military to literally crush and kill students calling for democracy in China, a survivor of the incident recalls what happened that night and, comparing it to what the Chinese government is today, finds that ...
Hong Kong resists CCP tyranny: to commemorate the Tiananmen massacre with ‘individual vigils’
Organizers of Hong Kong's annual vigil to commemorate the deaths during the Tiananmen Square massacre announced on Tuesday, May 11, that individual vigils will be implemented on 4 June, after the government banned the historic mass event for the second year in a row, citing the pandemic as a pretext, ...
Hong Kong situation very different from 1989 June 4 event
Chinese state-controlled media released footage displaying armored carriers and other vehicles from the People's Armed Police of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) traveling toward the Hong Kong border. The footage provided by state-owned Chinese tabloid newspaper, Global Times, displayed a convoy of armored fleet traveling from Fujian Province to the city ...
China’s heroic tank man honored with statue in Washington in remembrance of Tiananmen massacre
The 30th anniversary of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was memorialized with a rally and dedication of a statue on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, June 4. The statue was unveiled and is called Tank Man. It was dedicated by the group Victims of Communism Memorial ...
30 years later, Tiananmen Square massacre exposes old and new wounds in China
It has been thirty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, yet China now has even harsher political repression and horrific human rights abuses as the country has catapulted up world economic rankings. Multitudes of reports of artists, writers, journalists, singers, and so on who have lost everything including their lives for ...
Artists who’ve dared to broach Tiananmen pushed into shadows
It has been three months since Chinese rock musician Li Zhi disappeared from public view. First, an upcoming tour was canceled and his social media accounts were taken down. Then his music was removed from all of China's major streaming sites — as if his career had never existed at all. Li ...
A look at key events in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
Over seven weeks in 1989, student-led pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square became China's greatest political upheaval since the end of the Cultural Revolution more than a decade earlier. Corruption among the elite was a key complaint, but the protesters were also calling for a more open and fair society, ...
A look at key events in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
Over seven weeks in 1989, student-led pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square became China's greatest political upheaval since the end of the Cultural Revolution more than a decade earlier.Corruption among the elite was a key complaint, but the protesters were also calling for a more open and fair society, ...
Veteran China dissident urges linking of human rights, trade
Veteran Chinese dissident Wang Dan urged Western nations to restore the link between human rights and trade with China in a speech Wednesday just days ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on student pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.China's authoritarian government is spreading its influence to ...
Cooperation best for both, China’s Xi tells Trump
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to U.S. President Donald Trump to mark 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations
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