“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.

Ilshat Kokbore, research director at the Uyghur Studies, speaks during a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 4, 2026.

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.

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

Members of the People's Armed Police march in front of a portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 5, 2026.

“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.

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.

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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.

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.

Guns and tanks at Tiananmen Square likely wiped out thousands in 1989.

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.

Pro-democracy activists participate in a protest commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington on May 30, 2026.

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.

In late June 1989, shortly after the military massacre of pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, then 70-year-old Song was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee, the CCP’s top decision-making body.