His sculpture titled “The CCP Virus”—unveiled on June 4, 2021, to mark the Tiananmen Square anniversary—was torched just over a month later.

Ilshat Kokbore, research director at the Center for Uyghur Studies, speaks during the Tiananmen Square massacre candlelight vigil held at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 4, 2026.

Trump and Xi first attended a welcome ceremony near Tiananmen Square, followed by a bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People. The ongoing trade tensions are expected to dominate discussions between the two leaders.

After Tiananmen Square, she publicly declared she would not do so until the two Chinas were united under freedom, not communism.

On the platform overlooking Tiananmen Square, Zhang Youxia appeared alongside retired Party elders, who, by Party hierarchy, are above his station.

(Left) Two Chinese police officers arrest a Falun Gong practitioner on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2000. (Right) Chinese police detain a Falun Gong practitioner on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in this file photo.

According to Zhao Zhen (alias), seven or eight people started to beat Cui with thick metal sticks around “70 to 80 centimeters long” (about 30 inches) among a large crowd on Tiananmen Square. Cui cried out for help, but the beating did not stop.

Chew where he referenced events at Tiananmen Square in June of 1989 as a “protest.” The Arkansas lawmaker asked Mr. Chew whether “anything else happened in Tiananmen Square?” After Mr.

A vigil commemorating China’s bloody 1989 military massacre of Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests was banned. Pro-democracy figures were barred from running in Macao’s 2021 legislative elections.

Having fled China following the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, the dissident said the CCP flag was “not a cultural emblem” but rather “a painful and personal symbol of trauma, fear, and systemic oppression.”

“Places like Tiananmen Square all have security checks. Petitioners are basically inspected wherever they go.” In many cases, she said, individuals flagged as “key persons” may be stopped entirely.

Dong, 68, is a former Chinese police officer who lost his job in 1999 after he criticized the Chinese regime and participated in a memorial for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Miyun Reservoir sits more than 330 feet higher than Tiananmen Square. Like the Guanting Reservoir, it hangs over Beijing like a sword of Damocles.

Video footage that circulated online on March 29 showed a heavy police presence along Chang’an Avenue, or Chang'an Jie, one of the capital’s main thoroughfares that passes Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.

In 1989, tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of armored vehicles crushed peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.

The first event named was the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Jie spent May 26–28 protesting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to the United Nations in New York and helping coordinate June 4 Tiananmen Massacre commemorations.

Mou became famous for trading trainloads of consumer goods for Russian passenger aircraft and publicly supported the CCP during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, echoing Beijing’s propaganda that stability was the top priority.

Any remaining illusions she had about the Chinese regime shattered about a decade later, when Beijing opened fire on unarmed students protesting for political reform in Tiananmen Square. Chinese authorities denied any bloodshed.

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is observed outside China.

slaughtered landlords and rich peasants, the man-made famine of the Great Leap Forward that killed tens of millions, the Cultural Revolution that devoured its own children and destroyed thousands of years of traditional Chinese culture, and the 1989 Tiananmen

He said that securing this access could mean filtering out factual answers on sensitive topics, such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, to meet Beijing's political red lines.

The moment came as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ascended the Tiananmen rostrum in Beijing for a massive military parade commemorating World War II.

Arthur Liu, who fled China in the 1990s because of his involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, said his 20-year-old daughter is “fascinated” by his life story—from his upbringing and decision to protest against the Chinese communist

Ph.D, co-founder of the CCP Biothreats Initiative; senior adviser for the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG); assistant professor of biomedical science at Fei Tian College in Middletown, NY; and a survivor of the Tiananmen

Xi and Kim last met in Beijing in September 2025, after Xi presided over a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square to mark the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.

The EU’s arms embargo on the CCP, imposed on June 27, 1989, in response to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, remains politically binding but is not codified in law, unlike the U.S. embargo.

“I remember the Tiananmen Square [massacre], I remember different things from history. So I understand a little bit of what goes on in the country, but I’m not that well informed,” Mr. Chandler said.

screen shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping (C), Russian President Vladimir Putin (3rd L), North Korean leader Kim Jung Un (2nd R), and others arriving at a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen

Like they openly claim they didn't kill anybody during the Tiananmen massacre, nobody died in the Tiananmen area. That kind of thing is open lies.