“The subway skips stops near Tiananmen, and this has been going on for days.”
Stores in affected areas have shuttered, and public transport routes have been altered to avoid the city center around Tiananmen Square.
"People used to say Tiananmen Square was like a prison," he said. "Now you could say the entire city of Beijing has become a prison."
Li said that checkpoints have also been established in areas bordering Beijing's Haidian and Changping districts.
Producer Kean Wong was living in Australia when the Tiananmen Square Massacre happened 25 years ago.
"I was a student, and I remember the tanks rolling in, and we all felt helpless," said Wong.
Meanwhile, the location of Tiananmen Square is the site of massacre on pro-democracy protesters in 1989, when the CCP military opened fire on citizens including thousands of students.
Waugh shared that she was actually in Tiananmen Square and had witnessed the persecution firsthand.
“When I was in China, they were actually persecuting Falun Gong. So I was there at the time in Tiananmen Square. So that's quite horrific,” Ms.
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The other follows young people confronting political oppression surrounding Tiananmen Square.
I came to realize that I wasn't writing about different histories at all.
“The students of Tiananmen Square came and stood by us and spoke for us and protected us. The students of Tiananmen Square are part of the history of Iranians fight for freedom,” said Ms. Momeni.
The Dialogue comes after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese toured China in July and Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews attended the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military parade in Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3.
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Missiles are seen during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2025.
A female protester reportedly set herself on fire on Tiananmen Square on March 5, just as the opening of the National People’s Congress was taking place in the Great Hall of the People located at the western edge of Tiananmen Square.
Soldiers march 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.
And it kept the memory of Tiananmen alive in a region where the state enforces silence.
Because of this, the vigil had to be dismantled. Its organizers had to be prosecuted. Its symbolism had to be extinguished.
years, several Western media outlets stationed in Beijing wrongfully stated as fact that Falun Gong practitioners had self-immolated on Tiananmen Square in January, 2001.
Zhao, too, was purged from the Party directly after the Tiananmen crackdown and spent the rest of his life under house arrest for his democratic ideals and sympathy for the Tiananmen Square protesters.
Despite the efforts by the Chinese regime to make the population forget the events around June 4, 1989, vivid photographs taken at the time continue to bear witness to the days and weeks leading up to the massacre.
Members of the People's Armed Police March in Tiananmen Square in front of Tiananmen Gate after providing security for the opening session of the rubber-stamp National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2026.
Last year, he launched efforts to establish a Tiananmen Massacre Memorial Museum in Thailand, which may have drawn the attention of Chinese authorities.
