Tiananmen Square

Balloons were released, flags fluttered, and the socialist anthem The Internationale filled Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
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It’s a very different question to the one that observers were asked in June 1989, when Beijing cracked down on student protesters at Tiananmen Square, shocking the world and exposing deep fissures within China’s political elite.
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Last week marked the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest, which produced the “tank man,” one of the most iconic photographs of all time.
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Hong Kong police on Friday arrested an organizer of the annual Tiananmen Square vigil and sealed off parts of the park where the event is usually held, according to Reuters.
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“Sue it, punish it, fine it,” said Yang Jianli, a survivor of the Tiananmen Square massacre who now runs a nonprofit organization in Washington.
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The surge of Chinese interest began in earnest following the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Tian Hou was imprisoned after the Tiananmen Square crackdown and spent a dozen years in exile.
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Gao Wenqian, a former panegyrist for the Communist Party, fled after the horrors of Tiananmen Square and now works in New York.
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Washington has not sold arms to China since its crackdown against dissidents in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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Cultural definitions for Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square

[ (tyahn-ahn-men) ]

Location in Beijing of pro-democracy demonstrations that were brutally suppressed in 1989 by troops loyal to the communist regime of the People's Republic of China.