Remembering Tiananmen: Unforgotten Voices Amid Censorship
Rubio said 37 years after the crackdown, censorship cannot erase the past and those who defended free expression and assembly will be vindicated.
- On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized Beijing's censorship of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, marking 37 years since the military assault on peaceful demonstrators.
- The Chinese Communist Party ordered troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989, yet the government has never provided a full death toll.
- Restrictions in Hong Kong have silenced local vigils, shifting commemorations to international cities including London, New York, Berlin, and Taipei to honor the demonstrators.
- Washington lawmakers plan to mark the anniversary on Thursday with hearings and press conferences, upholding what Rubio called 'unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly.'
- President Donald Trump maintains a trade truce with Xi Jinping despite mixed messages, while his administration includes China hawks like Rubio who previously faced Beijing sanctions.
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On the anniversary of the events of Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989, American Secretary of State Marco Rubio throws gasoline on the fire in relations with China claiming that censorship...
The head of U.S. diplomacy paid tribute to the victims of the bloody repression in Tian的anmen in 1989.
June 4 marks the 37th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). Commemorating this event is banned in mainland China and Hong Kong, and the Chinese government has intensified a campaign to erase the public memory of the harsh military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, which took place for approximately seven weeks from mid-April to J…
On June 4, 1989, China's People's Liberation Army had shot down demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Despite China's massive censorship, the victims would "experience justice," says the US Secretary of State.
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