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For the Tiananmen Square massacre’s victims, and for those whom an increasingly aggressive, totalitarian Beijing would victimize in the future, we must remember June 4, 1989.

Security was increased in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Friday morning, with police checking pedestrians’ IDs and tour buses shuttling Chinese tourists as on any other day.

The UK drafted plans to evacuate millions of people in Hong Kong in an “Armageddon scenario,” following China’s Tiananmen ...

Zhou Duo helped evacuate Tiananmen Square in 1989. These days he defends the movement, but sees democracy in retreat in the West and far off in China.

Tiananmen Square was described as “a bloodbath in the center of a world capital." The massacre shocked the international community, while highlighting humanity’s innate desire for liberty.

BEIJING — China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of ...

On Tuesday, CBS News attempted to access Tiananmen Square at about 5 p.m. local time. We waited for an hour in a line along with about 150 other people, but were eventually turned away.

An anti–government protester stands in front of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. (Jeff Widener / Associated Press) By The Times Editorial Board .

Instead, Tiananmen Square has been reduced to a single euphemistic sentence in most school textbooks, making vague reference to "political turbulence in 1989." Advertisement.

Hong Kong has banned vigils and gatherings marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests amid what is viewed by critics as an effort by China to crack down on political dissent.

Tiananmen Square massacre 30th anniversary is June 4, 2019. China doesn't want to mark it, but the world should. China is incredibly powerful, but its leaders remain afraid of losing that power.