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NEWS ABOUT: Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square stories: 19 news summaries
OPINION

 Communist China Turns 60, 
 Really Just Celebrates Past 30 

Communists used people as 'cannon fodder' before making it OK to get rich

Sep 30, 09 8:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - A blowout party is hours away in Beijing, where the People’s Republic of China will celebrate its 60th anniversary with an unprecedented display in Tiananmen Square. But it’s worth noting that only the second 30 of those years are worth applauding, Isabel Hilton writes—not the first 30... More »

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China • Tiananmen Square • anniversary • celebration • Communists • parade • economic development • People's Republic of China • Great Leap Forward • Cultural Revolution

French Tourist
Attacked Near  
Tiananmen

Second stabbing incident in 2 days
rattles Beijing

Sep 19, 09 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A French  tourist was attacked and injured by a knife-wielding man near Beijing's Tiananmen Square today, raising tensions as the Chinese capital prepares to mark 60 years of Communist rule, the AP reports. Two security guards were killed and at least a dozen other people were injured in another attack... More »

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China • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • stabbing • tourists

 10 Protests That 
 Changed History 

Iran's post-election storm has these precedents

Jun 19, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The post-election storm brewing in Iran prompted LiveScience to round up some of history's most significant protests:
  • A piece of paper nailed to a church door in 1517 sparked the Protestant Revolution.
  • Parisians moved more boldly, beheading the Bastille's governor to spark the French Revolution in 1789.
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Iran • Tiananmen Square • protests • revolution • Martin Luther King Jr. • political demonstrations • Mahatma Gandhi • Protestant Revolution • French Revolution • Boston Tea Party • American Revolution • Salt March • March on Washington

OPINION

Obama's Wrong:
He Must Take Sides in Iran

He's deserting the brave revolutionaries:
Krauthammer

Jun 19, 09 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Electoral fraud fueled the protests in Iran, but now there is a full-fledged revolution brewing—and according to Charles Krauthammer, the demonstrators are desperate for just one signal that the US supports them. Instead, President Obama has pledged "dialogue" with a "clerical dictator" and left the green revolutionaries... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • US foreign policy • Tiananmen Square • revolution • green revolution • Iranian politics • Obama administration • neoconservatives • Iranian election

 Tiananmen Sweeps Twitter 
 as Chinese Thwart Ban 

'Tiananmen' becomes one of site's most-discussed topics as users turn to proxies

Jun 10, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - China's blocking of Twitter ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre last week didn't foil the country's computer-savvy youth for very long, the BBC reports. Users swiftly shared information about visiting the site through proxies or software applications, and the subsequent twittering made Tiananmen one of Twitter's most-discussed... More »

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China • social networking • Tiananmen Square • web censorship • Great Firewall of China • Twitter

(Newser) - An annual vigil marking the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre brought a record 150,000 people to a park in Hong Kong, the only place in China to mark the event, reports the BBC. “It is something to remember not only for our generation but for the... More »

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China • democracy • Hong Kong • Tiananmen Square • protests • student activism • vigil • candlelight

(Newser) - Twenty years ago today, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times was in Tiananmen Square, sweating in fear and watching as "'People’s China' opened fire on its people." The soldiers had shot at ambulances, too, so no one was helping the wounded—except the rickshaw drivers.... More »

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China • democracy • Tiananmen Square • political protest • Nicholas Kristof

 How I Got This Shot: Photog 

Widener recalls capturing Tank Man image 20 years ago

Jun 4, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, one image endures: a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks, refusing to let them pass. Jeff Widener, the AP photographer who captured the moment, tells USA Today how he evaded the police and the censors to take the shot... More »

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China • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • protests • photograph • People's Liberation Army • Associated Press • photojournalist • photojournalism

China Blocks Twitter Ahead
of Tiananmen Anniversary

Flickr, Hotmail, Bing get shut down

Jun 2, 09 9:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Thursday's 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approaches, China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail, among other sites, TechCrunch reports. “The lead-up to any date like this is usually a time when the Firewall is tightened,” notes Mike Butcher, who was told by a... More »

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China • Tiananmen Square • Flickr • Twitter • Hotmail • Bing

OPINION

 How China Rewrote 
 Tiananmen History 

Recalling Tiananmen 20 years later

May 27, 09 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Tiananmen Square massacre isn’t something the Chinese government wants the world to remember, and it's doing a good job keeping the matter quiet, writes Terrence Cheng in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In China, “those who dare to speak about it are swiftly silenced,” he writes.... More »

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China • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • massacre • history • Opening Ceremony • killings

Pelosi Won't Slap China on Human Rights

Long critical of Beijing, speaker will focus on environment in visit

May 24, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like Hillary Clinton before her, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will sidestep Beijing's human rights record on her weeklong trip to China that began today, reports the Washington Post. Pelosi, who has been a vocal critic of the Tiananmen Square massacre and Chinese policies on Tibet, says the focus of her... More »

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China • climate change • Nancy Pelosi • human rights • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • Tibet • human rights abuse

 20 Years On, 
 Chinese Youth 
 Forget Tiananmen 

Democracy recedes for today's student generation

May 22, 09 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's now been 20 years since the Chinese army rolled into Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds of students in the final push to put down a growing democracy movement. Beijing is anxious as the June 4 anniversary of the massacre approaches; Google "Tiananmen" in Beijing and you'll likely find pages... More »

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China • censorship • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • massacre • Great Firewall of China • apathy • Jay-ZTV

 Delirious Throngs
 Greet Torch in Beijing

But Yank, Brit protesters busted for 'Free Tibet' banner

Aug 6, 08 3:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - After a beleaguered relay dogged by Tibet protesters in many of its legs around the world, the Olympic flame finally reached Beijing today. Ecstatic crowds under smog-choked skies shouted "Go Olympics, go Beijing" to greet torchbearers in Tiananmen Square, with Chinese basketball sensation Yao Ming holding the torch above... More »

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Beijing • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • air pollution • Students for a Free Tibet • Olympic flame • global relay

 Olympic Torch Lit in Beijing 

Security is tight as flame begins global journey

Mar 31, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Olympic torch was re-lighted today in Beijing’s Tienanmen Square in an elaborate ceremony marked by tight security, the AP reports. President Hu Jintao passed the flame to a champion Chinese hurdler in a televised event attended by some 5,000 people. Confetti floated over bright red seats and... More »

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China • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Hu Jintao • Tibet • Olympic torch • ceremony

China May Ban Shots of Tiananmen During Olympics

Fearing protests of Tibet policy, iconic square may go unphotographed

Mar 22, 08 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese government may ban live footage of Tiananmen Square during the coming Summer Olympics in Beijing, the AP reports. Increasingly concerned about protests,  Chinese Olympic officials this week told broadcasting organizers an earlier agreement on live shots had been canceled. If the decision stands, it would be a... More »

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China • NBC • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • broadcasting • Tibetan independence • International Olympic Committee

The Man Behind the Smile

Chinese artist takes New York with his signature troubling grin

Nov 14, 07 5:38 PM CST
(Newser) - It's contemporary Chinese art's most indelible image—the smile so huge it becomes false, accusatory—and it belongs to Yue Minjun, the artist who uses the grinning self-portraits, often many of them, in his paintings. The New York Times chats with Yue, who is enjoying his first US show in... More »

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parody • Chinese art • art • Sotheby's • Tiananmen Square • painting • Yue Minjun • terra cotta

Junta Cremates Protesters

Crackdown carries on, as soldiers arrest more activists and the wounded are refused treatment

Oct 7, 07 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Burma's army is burning the bodies of activists in secret cremations, hiding their true death count forever, the Sunday Times reports. Locals near Rangoon report trucks are driving by a crematorium at night as smoke rises constantly from its chimneys. Rumors of victims burnt alive have swept the city,... More »

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United Nations • Tiananmen Square • Red Cross • Myanmar • Burma • Buddhist monks • junta • Rangoon • humanitarian workers • omen • superstition

Internet Users Slam Chinese Censorship

As top sites are banned, web surfers
rail against 'Great Firewall'

Jun 20, 07 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Frustration with government curbs on the Internet is growing among China's 140M web users. Wikipedia has been banned, and the censors recently shuttered photo-sharing web site Flickr, after a user uploaded a picture of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tens of thousands of human monitors and an elaborate filter system... More »

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China • Internet • Wikipedia • communism • human rights • censorship • privacy • online privacy • Tiananmen Square • online monitoring • Communist Party • Flickr • website

China Eases Up Slightly
on Tiananmen Anniversary

Government allows memorials for the first time

Jun 5, 07 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - As part of its campaign to attract Western visitors to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China allowed Tiananmen Square memorials this year for the first time since the protests of June 4, 1989. The government maintains that the uprising was a counterrevolutionary riot and refuses to release details; a security crackdown... More »

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China • Hong Kong • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • political reform • Olympic Games

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