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From Tiananmen Square to Taiwan: Nancy Pelosi, the one woman who has defied China time and again
Fp Explainers • 3 years agoUS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a long history of standing up to China. It all began 31 years ago, in 1991, when as a young Congresswoman she visited Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to pay a tribute to pro-democracy student activists massacred there
World marks 33rd anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre as China censors memorials
Fp Staff • 3 years agoThe 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing was commemorated on Saturday. The 50-day protest to demand for political and economic reforms ended on 4 June, 1989, with a brutal assault by the People’s Republic of China’s military
Police patrol Hong Kong’s Victoria Park to enforce the Tiananmen Square vigil ban
• 3 years agoThe ban is seen as part of a move to snuff out political dissent and a sign that Hong Kong is losing its freedoms as Beijing tightens its grip over the semi-autonomous Chinese city
China, Hong Kong go to exhaustive lengths to scrub bloody Tiananmen Square memories on 4 June anniversary
• 3 years agoOn 4 June, 1989, the government sent troops and tanks to break up peaceful protests, crushing a weeks-long wave of demonstrations calling for political change and curbs on official corruption
'Politics of grandeur': Two Olympic Games and China's love of going big
• 3 years agoChina has thousands of years of doing things in a really big way, reinforcing its perceived place in the world and the political power of its leaders — from emperors to Mao Zedong to the current leader, Xi Jinping.
Hong Kong Police arrest Tiananmen vigil organisers under controversial national security law
• 3 years agoChina, in efforts to bolster control over the autonomous region, had imposed a sweeping national security law last year to quash pro-democracy protests
China is asking critical questions of the global normative order, and only India has a clue to the answers
Sreemoy Talukdar • 4 years agoFor the burgeoning Indian middle class, there’s a China-envy at work as the aspirational segment looks at the roadblocks posed by India’s chaotic democracy
Why CCP's authority in China is linked to Xi Jinping's ability to deliver economic benefits to citizens
Vishnu Prakash • 4 years agoIn China, President Xi Jinping is riding a tiger which he will have to dismount, sooner or later, with predictable consequence
Tiananmen massacre: Hundreds gather around Hong Kong park to remember victims despite constraints
• 4 years agoHong Kong Police banned the vigil for a second straight year, citing COVID-19 restrictions, although there have been no local cases in the semi-autonomous Chinese city for more than six weeks
Many in China still under surveillance, amid Communist Party's relentless efforts to erase Tiananmen from public memory
• 4 years agoCommunist Party leaders have imprisoned or driven activists into exile and largely succeeded in ensuring young people know little about the 4 June, 1989, deadly crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. But after three changes of leadership since then, they are relentless in trying to prevent any mention of the military attack that killed hundreds and possibly thousands of people.