Jens Galschiot—sculptor of the "Pillar of Shame" artwork that commemorated the Tiananmen Square Massacre and was forcibly removed from the University of Hong Kong in 2021—also participated in the exhibition with his work "Stand with Hong Kong."

Smith said he was familiar with what happened at Tiananmen Square:  “I know about things like that.” “You see on the TV that they have advertisements about how they want to suppress the show. And then when you see it, it's ridiculous, you know.

And so when you think of China, you think of Mao Zedong, you think of Tiananmen Square, you think of armies marching down the street,” Mr. Guevara said. “But that is not what this is.

Trump and Xi first attended a welcome ceremony near Tiananmen Square, followed by a bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People. The ongoing trade tensions are expected to dominate discussions between the two leaders.

His son, Zha Aiguo, a Tiananmen student protester, was fatally shot in the head by the Communist troops in 1989. 

Zha Weilin, the father of student Zha Aiguo, a Tiananmen student, hung himself on Saturday May 26.

Zhang's comment on WeChat commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre got him arrested within four hours of posting the message. Mr.

The National Security Bureau accused her and others of posting anonymously on a social media page, using the "upcoming sensitive day," meaning the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, 1989, to incite netizens to organize or participate

The letter mentions the "plan to inform the media of any activities" and that the banner is meant to "remind everyone of the Tiananmen incident."

(Left) Two Chinese police officers arrest a Falun Gong practitioner on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2000. (Right) Chinese police detain a Falun Gong practitioner on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in a file photo.

The Minnesota governor has worked to raise awareness about China's human rights issues dating back to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. A remote Australian island has caught the U.S. military's interest.

Li Hengqing was studying at Tsinghua University when the 1989 student protest happened, and he was among the last to leave Tiananmen Square. Toward the CCP, he said there should be a sense of "shared animosity."

"I'm old enough to know what happened in Tiananmen Square, for example," he added. For thousands of years, the Chinese believed their culture was divinely inspired, a gift from the heavens.

Chinese missile launchers 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.

The Hong Kong Public Libraries also require special registration to access the film collection of the Tiananmen Square incident.

Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army's Honour Guard Battalion march outside the Forbidden City, near Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, on May 20, 2020.

“How can a sign that says, ‘Nothing happened on June 4, 1989,’ a comment about the Tiananmen Square Massacre, be considered advertising material?”

His writings covered topics deemed by the Chinese regime to be sensitive, including the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests in 2014 and 2019, and detailed guides teaching the Chinese public how to bypass the regime’s internet

, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

The night of June 3, Wang said he and his wife went to Tiananmen Square and left after 10 p.m., returning to their home near the gate tower of Yongdingmen, a seven to eight minute bike ride to Tiananmen Square.

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A practitioner surnamed Yang, who had been detained by the CCP while in China, said that the banner the consulate employee tried to steal debunked the "Tiananmen self-immolation hoax," a lie the regime still tries to push as it seeks to discredit Falun

The ghost of Tiananmen still haunts Chinese authorities, even though the surveillance and control that the CCP has over its people is light years ahead of the Tiananmen Square era of 1989.

And while Washington stopped its sale of military technology to China following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the European Council issued a non-binding arms embargo, and a 1998 European Union Code of Conduct was similarly non-binding.

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She said the document required her to promise not to travel to politically sensitive sites in Beijing, including Tiananmen Square, the Zhongnanhai leadership compound, foreign embassies, and venues hosting major meetings and events.

Her father fled a one-party state after participating in the pro-democracy protests that ended in the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. He chose the United States deliberately.

leader Kim Jong Un, and former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in the top-right corner, pose for a photograph before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the end of World War II, in Beijing's Tiananmen

Very highly recommended, especially on the anniversary weekend of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. "Chimerica" tells the story of the search for Tank Man during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989.

A policeman stands watch next to surveillance cameras as people take photos on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on July 15, 2021. (Ng Han Guan/AP Photo) Tang Bing and Gu Xiaohua contributed to this report.