Johnstone revealed many some Chinese agents had poor tradecraft (espionage skills), recounting an experience in Tiananmen Square where he was followed by men wearing belts with obvious MSS logos on it.

At Tiananmen Square, the couple unfurled a banner reading "Falun Dafa is Good."

, Deng stopped short of a full break with the political foundations—the CCP’s communist, one-party system—that enabled those abuses and he did not allow challenges to the Party’s monopoly on power—a limit underscored by his authorization of the 1989 Tiananmen

Since then, Tiananmen-related statues have been removed from universities and books about the event have been pulled off shelves. "There is an active approach to erase this history," said Kwan, who emigrated from Hong Kong when she was nine.

The lessons of Tiananmen Square that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) taught the world in 1989 were long forgotten—or, more likely, ignored.

Guo then said, “I would like to dedicate this song to those souls who were killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to pay homage to them.”

Some gamers recreated a scene similar to the Tankman in the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in 1989.

In a separate interview with 60 Minutes, Walz was asked whether he could be trusted after falsely claiming he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. “I can. I think I can,” Walz stated.

In 1991, two years after troops crushed the Tiananmen Square protests, the CCP under former leader Jiang Zemin launched a “patriotic education campaign” that—as China scholar Zheng Wang has documented—rebuilt school curricula around China’s “century of

Campaign for Uyghurs founder Rushan Abbas speaks during an event commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre that happened in China on June 4, 1989, at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 4, 2025.

Her alleged offense was managing a Facebook page commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre. Her post reads, “Beneath the harmony and ‘business as usual,’ people’s voices are being erased.”

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

There were 153 times fewer posts on TikTok about the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests and massacre, a topic heavily censored by Beijing on the mainland.

Legacy of Tiananmen Square Massacre During the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, which happened on June 4, 1989, commemorative events were held in many major cities worldwide.

He shared an extract from a leader in the student movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989, whom he interviewed. “She told me: ‘U.S.

The assault occurred as Falun Gong practitioners held a rally near the popular tourist spot, exposing the Chinese regime’s human rights abuses ahead of the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

When vital economic interests were at stake, even the loudest champions of human rights often practiced selective restraint (witness decades of booming trade with China despite the Tiananmen Square massacre and ongoing repression).

He participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square student-led pro-democracy protests.

“During events held by some Hong Kong associations in Taiwan and events commemorating the June 4th Tiananmen massacre in Taiwan, you can see many of the CCP-supported and pro-China groups come to the scene to cause trouble,” he said.

The DF-61 intercontinental ballistic missile is seen during a military parade marking the end of World War II, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3, 2025.

The CIs forbid discussion on sensitive topics such as democracy, China’s military rise, issues in Tibet, the spiritual group Falun Gong, ethnic Uyghurs, Taiwan's contesting claims as the government of China, the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and

Came to Power After Tiananmen Massacre The CCP’s official obituary mentions Jiang’s role during the Tiananmen massacre on June 4 in 1989, saying that Jiang “supported and implemented the CCP’s stand against unrest” and “effectively maintains Shanghai’

While inside, the Tiananmen commemoration is now banned just like the rest of China, erasing memories of the past.

He said many older Chinese immigrants came after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre and may have felt gratitude towards late Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and that a similar dynamic plays out in Vietnamese communities.

Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the United States imposed an embargo on military exports to China. Israel, not subject to this ban, transferred advanced military technology to China in subsequent years.

Chris Smith (R-N.J.), co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, opened a May 14 congressional hearing by recalling a hot mic incident on Tiananmen Square last September.

It unknown how many people were were in what the world would soon call the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

As the tens of millions of people who practice Falun Gong in China continue to be severely persecuted by the same regime responsible for the 1989 massacre of students in Tiananmen Square, as well as numerous other atrocities over the years, the first

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese gathered in Tiananmen Square around a 10-meter replica of the Statue of Liberty (C), called the Goddess of Democracy, in Beijing, on June 2, 1989.

Information about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre cannot be found on Chinese internet search engines. Unsurprisingly, the CCP could not accept Falun Gong's spiritual tenets of truth and honesty.