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Tiananmen Square anniversary: Tensions in the new era - analysis

The crushing of any critique of the government is part of China’s shifting stance on many issues.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Police detain a woman who holds placards to promote knee maintenance in downtown Hong Kong on the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Square crackdown, near the location where the candlelight vigil is usually held, in Hong Kong, China June 4, 2023.
Police detain a woman with paper flowers in downtown on the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown, near where the candlelight vigil is usually held, in Hong Kong, China June 4, 2023.

Police detain 23 people in Hong Kong on Tiananmen anniversary

Reuters witnesses saw more than a dozen people taken away, including activist Alexandra Wong, 67, who carried a bouquet of flowers.

|ByREUTERS
Taiwanese gather to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen crackdown in Taipei

Hundreds gather to mark Tiananmen anniversary in Taiwan

China bans any public commemoration of the event on the mainland, and Hong Kong has clamped down too, making Taiwan the only part of the Chinese-speaking world where it can be remembered.

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Activists hold candles beside the "Pillar of Shame", mourning those who died during the June 4 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, inside the campus of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China May 2, 2021.

Hong Kong university dismantles, removes Tiananmen statue from campus

Known as the "Pillar of Shame," the statue was a key symbol of the wide-ranging freedoms promised to Hong Kong at its 1997 return to Chinese rule that are becoming increasingly curtailed.

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Police pepper spray Hong Kong protesters defying ban to mark Tiananmen

It was the first time there had been unrest during the annual Tiananmen vigil in Hong Kong, which police had prohibited this year citing the coronavirus crisis.

JUNE 4, 2020ByREUTERS
Anti-government demonstrators scuffle with riot police during a lunch time protest as a second reading of a controversial national anthem law takes place in Hong Kong, China May 27, 2020.

China moves to suspend some history tests for U.S. college credit by 2020

"This is a bit sudden, we don't know the reason," a Nanjing-based center, SAT Test Web, said in a posting on social media site WeChat.

JUNE 21, 2019ByREUTERS
Williams College, Massachusetts

Middle Israel: Who won at Tiananmen?

Known since then as “Tank Man,” the rebel, whose identity and fate remain unknown, became an icon of the Chinese students’ crushed revolt and an emblem of freedom’s power, universality and price.

JUNE 6, 2019ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
THE ICONIC PHOTO of a man standing in front of a convoy of tanks in the Avenue of Eternal Peace in Beijing, China, June 5, 1989.

30 years after Tiananmen, world embraces authoritarianism - analysis

The lesson of Tiananmen was thought to be the heroism of one man against a tank, but the real lesson was that the tanks ended up winning in Tiananmen and around the world.

JUNE 4, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
FILE PHOTO - Military vehicles carrying DF-21D ballistic missiles roll to Tiananmen Square during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2015