I went to China in 1988 with my father, and it was an amazing experience, but seeing what happened a year later, the Tiananmen Square [student massacre]—was just very heartbreaking to me.”

After the bloodshed of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, U.S.–China relations hit a low point.

The effectiveness of the CCP’s surveillance and oppression makes another Tiananmen unlikely.

Lawmakers are voicing support for the ongoing fight for freedom in China, as Monday marks the 34th anniversary of the Tank Man's picture during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (2nd L-R), Chinese leader Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3, 2025, before a military parade marking the end of World War

Protesters called for democratic reforms in the Chinese government and staged mass protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Since the Fujian could not be transported to Tiananmen Square, it would have made far more sense to launch the carrier’s debut voyage on Sept. 3 and splice footage of the carrier into the parade’s media coverage.

Not since students assembled in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 had so many Chinese citizens gathered in public to appeal to the authorities.

The demonstration was one of the largest China had seen in recent history, along with that of the Tiananmen Square student protest a decade earlier. More than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gather on Fuyou Street in Beijing on April 25, 1999.

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In 2010, Chen sent two of his sculptures to Hong Kong for the annual memorial service for the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Chen is openly critical of the CCP’s policies and human rights abuse, including its repression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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Heng believes that the COVID protests are different from the Tiananmen protests in 1989.

Department of Defense stated in its 2024 annual report to Congress Missiles during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on Sept. 3, 2025.

Intelligence Service (CSIS) noted as far back as 2019 that these institutes engaged in political interference and censorship, and did not allow discussion of topics that Beijing deems sensitive, such as the political situation in Tibet and Taiwan or the 1989 Tiananmen

A soldier makes a gesture in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2022.

It used to be that the Chinese Communist Party would consider allowing films into the country so long as they didn’t mention the so-called taboo subjects: things like Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen Square, and Falun Gong.

A Chinese soldier salutes in front of a military drone during a parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese communist regime at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019.

Johnstone revealed many some Chinese agents had poor tradecraft (espionage skills), recounting an experience in Tiananmen Square where he was followed by men wearing belts with obvious MSS logos on it.

At Tiananmen Square, the couple unfurled a banner reading "Falun Dafa is Good."

, Deng stopped short of a full break with the political foundations—the CCP’s communist, one-party system—that enabled those abuses and he did not allow challenges to the Party’s monopoly on power—a limit underscored by his authorization of the 1989 Tiananmen

Since then, Tiananmen-related statues have been removed from universities and books about the event have been pulled off shelves. "There is an active approach to erase this history," said Kwan, who emigrated from Hong Kong when she was nine.

The lessons of Tiananmen Square that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) taught the world in 1989 were long forgotten—or, more likely, ignored.

Guo then said, “I would like to dedicate this song to those souls who were killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to pay homage to them.”

Some gamers recreated a scene similar to the Tankman in the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in 1989.

In a separate interview with 60 Minutes, Walz was asked whether he could be trusted after falsely claiming he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. “I can. I think I can,” Walz stated.

Campaign for Uyghurs founder Rushan Abbas speaks during an event commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre that happened in China on June 4, 1989, at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 4, 2025.

Her alleged offense was managing a Facebook page commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre. Her post reads, “Beneath the harmony and ‘business as usual,’ people’s voices are being erased.”