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Tiananmen Square protests
Tiananmen Square protests news and analysis from The Nation
June 4, 2020
The 1989 massacre didn’t just end China’s democracy movement. It ushered in a new era of US-inspired worker suppression.
June 4, 2019
Remembering the Tiananmen Movement is not just about repression—it’s about hope.
May 11, 2016
Authorities now see it as a dangerously chaotic period, and they attack other youthful protest movements as resembling the turmoil caused by the Red Guards.
November 17, 2015
Before the Tiananmen Square massacre, everyone loved China; now everyone loves the renminbi.
September 12, 2014
Hong Kong’s democracy movement stands at a crossroads.
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June 9, 2014
China has changed a lot in twenty-five years, but there are still valuable lessons to be learned from the Tiananmen protesters.
June 3, 2014
The Nation published one of the few accounts of what actually happened in Tiananmen Square twenty-five years ago.
June 2, 2009
The Tiananmen Square massacre remains shrouded in myth. This eyewitness report by a Human Rights Watch observer makes the horror plain.
May 27, 2009
China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.
