Former Chinese Premier Li Peng — known as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown — has died at the age of 90, state media said Tuesday. Li died of an unspecified illness in Beijing after he failed to respond ...
What's not happened since May 35, 1989
The West badly misread China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square incident.
Which Tiananmen narrative is true?
There is little doubt about the Beijing spring of 1989 that called for greater openness, freedoms and democracy in China, or about its suppression. But there is a counter-narrative that receives no mention in the China-bashing mainstream media.
Today's U.S.-China clash began at Tiananmen Square
Ever since the massacre, Beijing has pushed authoritarianism at home and abroad.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed Tuesday that the United States would preserve the memory of the crushed Tiananmen Square movement, as China imposed a wall of silence on the 30th anniversary. Pelosi, a longtime advocate for human rights in China, said she was making the ...
Hong Kong, fearful for its own future, remembers Tiananmen crackdown
Large crowds turned out for a mass candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on Tuesday evening marking 30 years since China's bloody Tiananmen crackdown, a gathering tinged with symbolism as the city struggles to preserve its own cherished freedoms. The eye-catching spectacle — in which thousands ...
As U.S. rips China on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary, Japan takes a different tack
In an annual statement, the U.S. State Department marked the 30th anniversary of China's June 4, 1989, Tiananmen crackdown with one of its most harsh criticisms to date, delivering a scathing assessment of the massacre and praising the "heroic protest movement" — a message ...
In China, prosperity and repression prevail 30 years after Tiananmen massacre
Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China's economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression in the country is harsher than many who watched those events would have anticipated. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without charge, student ...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Monday urged China to guarantee universal values. "Freedom, respect for fundamental human rights and the rule of law are universal values of the international community," Suga told a news conference. "It is important that these values are guaranteed also ...
The world has an obligation to remember what happened on June 4, 1989, so that it has no illusions about the nature of the regime with which it must deal.
The CCP's continued reliance on brute power to keep China's citizens in line could eventually leave it on the ash heap of history.
30 years after the Tiananmen massacre, can Japan do more to keep its memory alive?
The West and Japan have sought to balance human rights concerns with reaping the rewards of economic relations with China.
