June 5th, 2014 by Christine Chung
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On June 19, 2014, at the Asia Society Texas Center, author and NPR China correspondent Louisa Lim will discuss her new book about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Yesterday, the world marked the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Continue reading
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Posted 5 June 2014 8:24 GMT
Students in the data journalism class at Northeast Normal University searched Wikileaks for references to the 1989 demonstrations at Tiananmen Square and organized the diplomatic cables into a chronology of Continue reading
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Alia | June 4th, 2014 – 10:15 pm
“Shame on those bystanders who watched a woman beaten to death without any intervention.”
Thus is the response by many Chinese netizens to the recent news that a mom of seven was beaten to death in a Mcdonald’s in the city of Shandong by a group of six for refusing to give her phone number. Continue reading
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Harsh security on the anniversary of the pro-democracy protest suggests deep official concern about any potential unrest. But many Chinese don’t know what happened – and may not care.
By Peter Ford, Staff writer / June 4, 2014
Tiananmen Square in Beijing was under close guard to short-circuit any possibility of demonstrations marking the 25th anniversary of bloody pro-democracy protests there. Continue reading
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Using a loudspeaker, a student asks soldiers to go back home as crowds flooded into central Beijing on the night of June 3, 1989. Continue reading
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June 4, 2014 – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement:
“On behalf of all Canadians, we join with Chinese citizens and people around the world in commemorating the 25th anniversary of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. Continue reading
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China’s suppression of the memory of the June 4 massacre of demonstrators in Beijing in 1989 is a perennial and important subject of commentary. Continue reading
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