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.
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Leaders from Russia, Iran, and North Korea are set to gather in Beijing next week as guests of the military parade in Tiananmen Square.
China’s economy is under strain, with reports that even government workers are going unpaid.
Army veteran, and survivor of the Tiananmen Square massacre
Capt. James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.) – Former chief of intelligence and information operations for the U.S.
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) engages in systematic efforts to curtail historical inquiry into subjects deemed 'sensitive,' such as the Tiananmen Massacre; control narratives regarding the history of the CCP; and erase the culture of repressed peoples
Recently leaked footage from 30 years ago shows a Chinese general refusing Beijing’s order to fire on Tiananmen protesters in 1989. He lost his freedom for the rest of his life, but remained a hero in the eyes of many.
An MSS agent tasked Tang with photographing and recording local protests against the CCP, including a 2023 event in Manhattan commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, according to a court filing.
With the death on April 15, 1989 of Hu Yaobang, the former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party who was beloved as a reformer, students in Beijing and around the country began taking steps to honor his memory.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown during the June 4, 1989, student protests in Tiananmen Square, marking the anniversary of the event.
Interviews were held with cleaners of Tiananmen Square, boasting of their work removing the detritus of the masses: collecting bags of cigarette butts, scraping gum off the ground with chisels, and scrubbing the gutters with steel wool.
Chow Hang-tung, founder of a now-defunct group that once organized the city's annual vigils to commemorate victims of the CCP's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was charged in 2021 with inciting subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and former Foreign Minister Bob Carr were both invited to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s military parade in Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3, which marked the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II and
Members of the People's Armed Police March in Tiananmen Square after providing security for the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on March 5, 2026.
Gao said at a forum held in Manila in September that China “enjoys military superiority above the United States” as he touted a military parade that Beijing held at Tiananmen Square in September.
On the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, an interview between Rubacek and ABC Radio Brisbane was released where she urged policymakers to consider the Australia-China trade relationship more holistically.
Ding Zilin, the spokeswoman for the Tiananmen Square mothers, published an open letter in which she asked why Chai did not take responsibility for the mistakes she had made during the Tiananmen Square event.
After partaking in the Tiananmen democracy movement, Arthur said, he had no regrets in life. Now, Alysa has exceeded his biggest dreams.
Whatever the regime does cannot intimidate him, he said.
From his small room he posed a question that is as vital to China’s future today as it was in 1989: “Do stability and economic growth justify lethal force of the kind used at Tiananmen?
