Tiananmen Square

During CNN’s vice presidential debate coverage on Tuesday, CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama adviser David Axelrod stated that 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) answer about his false claim about where he was during

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has subpoenaed Alejandro Mayorkas about unspecified allegations of CCP connections against Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). 

Federal prosecutors filed charges in New York on Monday against Yuanjun Tang, a Chinese dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, for working as an illegal operative of the People’s Republic of China.

Taiwan held various public events on Tuesday to observe the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

A Hong Kong university has fired a professor who researches China’s deadly Tiananmen Square massacre after being denied a visa extension.

A court in Brisbane, Australia, upheld a fine of upwards of 3,000 Australian dollars (nearly $2,000) on Tuesday against anti-Chinese regime activist Drew Pavlou on the grounds that holding a sign protesting the Tiananmen Square Massacre near a shopping mall amounted to “advertising … without permission.”

The Chinese Communist Party celebrated “National Day” with a public rally for the first time since the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Members of the Uyghur community and supporters organized a protest in front of the White House on Sunday urging the administration of President Joe Biden to take “meaningful action” to end the genocide of their people in China, as well as condemn American corporations such as J.P. Morgan Chase and Tesla for profiting from business with the Communist Party.

Police arrested four people in Hong Kong for “seditious” acts on the eve of the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary.

The Chinese Communist government is ramping up online censorship ahead of the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, massacre of student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square – an event that is illegal to commemorate or discuss in China.

City Journal reported on Thursday that surrogates for the Chinese government are allegedly pressuring the city of San Francisco to remove the Tiananmen Square memorial in Portsmouth Square Park, which is due to undergo renovations in the near future.

The tide of protests and other acts of dissent — including posting banners, distributing petitions, or individual protest posts that grew tremendously in China throughout 2022 — has yet to ebb, the Freedom House China Dissent Monitor revealed in its latest update this week.

Hong Kong’s Beijing-controlled chief executive John Lee on Thursday insisted his government should identify books with “bad ideologies” – such as those which tell the truth about the Tiananmen Square massacre – and remove them from public libraries.

Jiang Yanyong, a former Chinese military doctor who blew the whistle on his government’s cover-up of the 2003 SARS epidemic, died from pneumonia on Saturday at the age of 91. The regime in Beijing intimidated his family into taking a “low-key approach” to his passing because it does not want parallels drawn between Jiang and Covid-19 whistleblowers like Dr. Li Wenliang, who was persecuted by the State for trying to sound an early warning about the pandemic that would ravage the world.

Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) fact-checking unit, the Asia Fact Check Lab, thought it might be interesting to ask OpenAI’s famed ChatGPT some questions of political significance to the Chinese Communist Party in Chinese, and see if the answers were different from the bot’s responses in English.

Western media commemorated former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin, who died of alleged leukemia on Wednesday at the age of 96, as a reformer and visionary with an affinity for the Western world, while skimming past his role as the leader who buried the atrocities of Tiananmen Square and oversaw brutal crackdowns like the oppression of the Falun Gong movement.

Former Chinese President and Communist Party Secretary Jiang Zemin, whose main priority after taking office was justifying the Tiananmen Square massacre and mercilessly crushing any further dissident, died on Wednesday at age 96.

China’s Communist Party boasted this weekend of packing Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, site of the party’s most famous massacre, with over 200,000 people to celebrate the fall of China to communism.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday chose to eulogize Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, by calling him “naive and immature” for “cozying up” to the Western world instead of using an iron fist to hold his empire together.

Two weeks after one of China’s most popular social media personalities, “Lipstick King” Li Jiaqi, abruptly disappeared over a minor and probably unintentional defiance of Chinese Communist Party dogma, Beijing is cracking down on other livestreamers by publishing a list of “norms” they could be instantly sent to the digital gulag for violating.

Top Chinese social media influencer Li Jiaqi, known as the “Lipstick King” because he once managed to sell 15,000 units of lipstick in five minutes flat during a livestream performance, was evidently “disappeared” by the tyrannical Chinese government on Friday after he pointed his webcam at a cake that looked like a tank, one day before the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

China’s effort to impose Communist ideology on the formerly free island of Hong Kong accelerated this week with the introduction of new textbooks that will teach “citizenship” — and edited Communist history — to students. 

Hong Kong police arrested six people for “public order offenses” on Saturday, the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

The Pillar of Shame, a haunting memorial to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, stood proudly in Hong Kong for over twenty years until Communist goons finally managed to tear it down last December. The original statue has been buried in storage by the Chinese Communists, who are desperately trying to erase the Tiananmen massacre from history, but replicas are rising around the world with the blessing of the artist.

Hong Kong police warned the public Thursday not to “test” police officers with “unauthorized assemblies” on the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported.

Outgoing Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that vigils for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre could violate not only coronavirus safety protocols, but also the draconian “national security law” imposed on the island by Beijing in 2020.

Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday that the Leisure and Cultural Service Department (LCSD) has suspended any bookings at Victoria Park for June 4, effectively shutting down the famous vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre for the third year running. 2022 marks the 33rd anniversary of the savage Communist slaughter of dissident students.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) softened her criticism of China’s 2008 Olympic games after her family’s business ties with Beijing grew, bestselling author Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi softened her previous criticisms of China’s communist regime as her husband and son scored big business deals in China, according to revelations in Peter Schweizer’s new book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.”

2021 was the year Communist China smashed the dream of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong, with only modest opposition from the civilized world.

Chinese officials tore down the “Pillar of Shame,” a 26-foot-tall statue of brutalized bodies commemorating the 1989 massacre of Tiananmen Square protesters by the Chinese Communist government, on Thursday over the objections of its creator.

Viewers of the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong noticed on Friday that an episode of the long-running animated series The Simpsons disappeared from the lineup without notice or explanation.

(AFP) — An episode of The Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is missing from the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city.

Whistleblower Emma Reilly said on Tuesday the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) terminated her employment less than 24 hours after giving an interview to France’s Le Monde in which she revealed U.N. employees provided the brutal Chinese government with the names of Uyghur dissidents who planned to testify against Beijing’s human rights abuses.

A leading Australian political cartoonist has been sacked by his newspaper after likening the enforcement of vaccine mandates in the former British colony to Tiananmen Square.

A Hong Kong pro-democracy group known for organizing the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil disbanded on Saturday, citing political pressure from pro-China forces in Hong Kong’s government, Radio Free Asia reported on Monday.