China Censors Athlete Hug Photo for Inadvertently Showing Tiananmen Anniversary Date
A particularly controversial photo of two female track and field athletes hugging after a match at the Asian Games sparked widespread online censorship in China this week. This is because of the numbers they were assigned (6 and 4 together form the month of June, the date of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre). Four. Lin […]
Hong Kong Arrests Dozens for Honoring Tiananmen Square Massacre Victims
Hong Kong police detained at least 24 people on Sunday, the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, for violating the Communist government’s ban on wakes and memorial services. Hong Kong was the site of the world’s largest Tiananmen memorial rally for Chinese-speaking people until 2020, when the annual mass rally was held […]
White House dismisses critics of US officials’ China visit on Tiananmen massacre anniversary
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Monday that two recent close encounters between a Central American military aircraft and a warship were “unacceptable”, while also marking the anniversary of the controversial Tiananmen Square massacre. He also downplayed visits by U.S. officials to China. “Kirby said at a White House press conference on Monday […]
Biden admin slammed as granting ‘major coup’ to China after top officials visit on Tiananmen massacre date
Exclusive: The Biden administration has been accused of staging a “massive coup” against Chinese President Xi Jinping after two senior officials visited China on Sunday to ease tensions between the two countries. Critics are quick to point out that Sunday, June 4, marks the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, in which Chinese forces […]
Four Arrested for ‘Seditious’ Acts on Tiananmen Anniversary
(AFP) – On the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, police arrested four people in Hong Kong on Saturday on charges of “sedition” and “disturbance.” The bloody crackdown in Beijing in 1989 is a very sensitive topic for the Chinese Communist Party leadership, and it has long been forbidden on the […]
China Pressures San Francisco to Remove Tiananmen Massacre Memorial
city journal According to Thursday reports, a Chinese government agent said: put pressure on The city of San Francisco has called for the removal of the Tiananmen Square monument in Portsmouth Square Park, which is scheduled for renovations in the near future. The allegations were made by sculptor Thomas Marsh, who created the monument, a […]
China Launches Online Censorship Sweep Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary
The Chinese Communist government is stepping up online censorship ahead of the June 4, 1989, anniversary of the massacre of student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. It is illegal to mourn or discuss the incident in China. Every year, the Chinese government removes content from the heavily blocked, cracked and censored internet backwaters of Tiananmen, but […]
Hong Kong Leader Defends Removing Tiananmen Square Books from Libraries
Chief Executive of Beijing-controlled Hong Kong, John Lee, said on Thursday that the Hong Kong government should identify books with “bad ideology”, such as those that tell the truth about the Tiananmen Square massacre, and remove them from public libraries. Lee was previously Hong Kong’s security chief. success In May 2022, Carrie Lam, who took […]
