Chew where he referenced events at Tiananmen Square in June of 1989 as a “protest.” The Arkansas lawmaker asked Mr. Chew whether “anything else happened in Tiananmen Square?”
After Mr.
A vigil commemorating China’s bloody 1989 military massacre of Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests was banned. Pro-democracy figures were barred from running in Macao’s 2021 legislative elections.
Having fled China following the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, the dissident said the CCP flag was “not a cultural emblem” but rather “a painful and personal symbol of trauma, fear, and systemic oppression.”
“Places like Tiananmen Square all have security checks. Petitioners are basically inspected wherever they go.”
In many cases, she said, individuals flagged as “key persons” may be stopped entirely.
Dong, 68, is a former Chinese police officer who lost his job in 1999 after he criticized the Chinese regime and participated in a memorial for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Video footage that circulated online on March 29 showed a heavy police presence along Chang’an Avenue, or Chang'an Jie, one of the capital’s main thoroughfares that passes Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.
Any remaining illusions she had about the Chinese regime shattered about a decade later, when Beijing opened fire on unarmed students protesting for political reform in Tiananmen Square.
Chinese authorities denied any bloodshed.
slaughtered landlords and rich peasants, the man-made famine of the Great Leap Forward that killed tens of millions, the Cultural Revolution that devoured its own children and destroyed thousands of years of traditional Chinese culture, and the 1989 Tiananmen
He said that securing this access could mean filtering out factual answers on sensitive topics, such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, to meet Beijing's political red lines.
The moment came as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ascended the Tiananmen rostrum in Beijing for a massive military parade commemorating World War II.
Arthur Liu, who fled China in the 1990s because of his involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, said his 20-year-old daughter is “fascinated” by his life story—from his upbringing and decision to protest against the Chinese communist
Ph.D, co-founder of the CCP Biothreats Initiative; senior adviser for the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG); assistant professor of biomedical science at Fei Tian College in Middletown, NY; and a survivor of the Tiananmen
Xi and Kim last met in Beijing in September 2025, after Xi presided over a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square to mark the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.
The EU’s arms embargo on the CCP, imposed on June 27, 1989, in response to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, remains politically binding but is not codified in law, unlike the U.S. embargo.
The resolution cites the CCP's records of human rights violations, including the massacre of student-led protesters demanding political reform and greater freedom at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
“I remember the Tiananmen Square [massacre], I remember different things from history. So I understand a little bit of what goes on in the country, but I’m not that well informed,” Mr. Chandler said.
screen shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping (C), Russian President Vladimir Putin (3rd L), North Korean leader Kim Jung Un (2nd R), and others arriving at a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen
And then when Tiananmen Square happens, and China’s relations temporarily cool with the United States, he reaches out to Beijing. He supports the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Radars are displayed during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2025.
It refuses to answer questions on topics the Chinese regime doesn't normally discuss, such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the persecution of Falun Gong.
According to Wu, these developments point to an escalating internal power struggle reminiscent of the factional infighting that surrounded the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Mr. Liu experienced firsthand the 1989 student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square before graduating from university.
At that time, he attended gatherings at Tiananmen Square several times.
By 1994, Walz was honeymooning in Kunming, China, after he had deliberately scheduled his wedding to be on the same day, June 4, as the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Sensitive delivery addresses include top universities, student associations, and venues close to Tiananmen Square.
CCP’s Fear of the 'Tiananmen Square Effect'
The truth surrounding Mr.
Terms such as “democracy,” “freedom,” and “human rights,” along with references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, were found to be conspicuously absent from the apps’ generated content, according to the NSB.
