“The subway skips stops near Tiananmen, and this has been going on for days.” Stores in affected areas have shuttered, and public transport routes have been altered to avoid the city center around Tiananmen Square.

“The authorities are afraid that group gatherings might lead to protests similar to the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989,” he said.

Producer Kean Wong was living in Australia when the Tiananmen Square Massacre happened 25 years ago. "I was a student, and I remember the tanks rolling in, and we all felt helpless," said Wong.

Tiananmen Subplot Simu Liu (Marvel’s Shang-Chi) has solid action chops and the right physicality for a former commando like Hale.

If Xi is good on his word, then the world won't see a tragic end to the Umbrella Movement, unlike at Tiananmen in 1989.

A premier with liberal views, Zhao was purged for opposing the brutal military crackdown of students in Tiananmen Square on June 3 and 4, 1989.

Meanwhile, the location of Tiananmen Square is the site of massacre on pro-democracy protesters in 1989, when the CCP military opened fire on citizens including thousands of students.

She noted the Transition Institute created a compilation of writings by Dai Qing, a freelance journalist and critic of the CCP, who publicly denounced the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, quit the CCP, and was later imprisoned for 10 months.

Waugh shared that she was actually in Tiananmen Square and had witnessed the persecution firsthand. “When I was in China, they were actually persecuting Falun Gong. So I was there at the time in Tiananmen Square. So that's quite horrific,” Ms.

China's HSU-001 underwater drones are seen during a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019.

Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), House Foreign Affairs Committee’s vice chair, cited the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 when asked about the incident.

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“The students of Tiananmen Square came and stood by us and spoke for us and protected us. The students of Tiananmen Square are part of the history of Iranians fight for freedom,” said Ms. Momeni.

21st Party Congress, but after that—when a fourth-term leader with no legitimate successor, a dysfunctional military command, and a decelerating economy must navigate what will almost certainly be the most consequential test of CCP legitimacy since Tiananmen

The Dialogue comes after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese toured China in July and Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews attended the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military parade in Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3.

Independent political commentator Heng He compared the incident to what he said was the staged self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square in 2001.

A female protester reportedly set herself on fire on Tiananmen Square on March 5, just as the opening of the National People’s Congress was taking place in the Great Hall of the People located at the western edge of Tiananmen Square.

Kirkland added that while in Beijing, she also had a chance to visit Tiananmen Square and was reminded of the Chinese Communist Party's tragic massacre of students demanding democracy in 1989.

What Xi Jinping’s real intentions are around the Tiananmen issue remain unclear.

Soldiers march during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2025.

And it kept the memory of Tiananmen alive in a region where the state enforces silence. Because of this, the vigil had to be dismantled. Its organizers had to be prosecuted. Its symbolism had to be extinguished.

years, several Western media outlets stationed in Beijing wrongfully stated as fact that Falun Gong practitioners had self-immolated on Tiananmen Square in January, 2001.

Zhao, too, was purged from the Party directly after the Tiananmen crackdown and spent the rest of his life under house arrest for his democratic ideals and sympathy for the Tiananmen Square protesters.

Despite the efforts by the Chinese regime to make the population forget the events around June 4, 1989, vivid photographs taken at the time continue to bear witness to the days and weeks leading up to the massacre.

His experiences during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre led him to decide against working for institutions affiliated with the CCP.

Last year, he launched efforts to establish a Tiananmen Massacre Memorial Museum in Thailand, which may have drawn the attention of Chinese authorities.

"The closest that I can come to, in terms of the scale of what Xi's doing, is probably the PLA turnover that followed the 1989 Tiananmen Square crisis," he said.

It is unknown if they survived the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Two plainclothes police officers arrest a Falun Gong practitioner at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Dec. 31, 2000.

A man holds a poster of the famous “Tank Man” facing Chinese military tanks at Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, during a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2020.