By George Lewis, NBC News Correspondent I was thinking, on my last visit to China, how much has changed since I first went there in 1989 to cover the events surrounding the student “democracy movement” in Tiananmen Square. Today, you... ...full story at NBC World Blog
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Tiananmen Square Massacre Video »
YouTube video The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in China referred to as the June Fourth Incident to avoid confusion with the two other Tiananmen Square protests and as an act of official censorship, were a series of... |
| 27 Apr 09 |
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Tiananmen Moon: Beida Summit » China Beat Philip J Cunningham marched with student protesters in 1989 at Tiananmen Square and conducted interviews with student activists for BBC and ABC news. His memoir of that time, Tiananmen Moon; Inside the Chinese Student Uprising in 1989, will be published... |
| 03 Jun 09 |
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A brief history of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre » angrychineseblogger In June 1989 the Mainland Chinese government sent in tanks and troops to crush peaceful demonstrators who had gathered in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. And every years since it has done it's level best to prevent the Chinese people from discussing a |
| 01 May 09 |
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June 4, 1989 anniversary: 20 years of tired clichés » Laowiseass Snapshot of Tiananmen Square on June 4, 2004: Foreigner laughs with friendly local, life goes on.Bloodshed, massacre, crackdown and cover-up. We’ll hear those words in the approach to the twenty-year anniversary of whatever happened on Tiananmen Square ... |
| 21 Jun 09 |
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Tehran Events and Tiananmen Analogies » China Beat With so many references to Tiananmen showing up in the news, we wanted to take a quick break from our time away to recommend a couple of the best uses of 1989 analogies (if we weren't on hiatus, we'd also look at some of the worst, and there have been... |
| 03 Jun 09 |
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Photo of the Day: CNN anchor meets umbrella foil at Beijing's Tiananmen Square » Shanghaiist Earlier today, CNN anchor and Beijing correspondent John Vause was filming in Tiananmen Square, Beijing when he suddenly encountered a man holding an umbrella who won't step away from his cameraman's lens. Maybe its the matching umbrella and pants, but... |