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30 Years Ago: Students Urge End to Siege of Square

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China, and the subsequent June 4th military crackdown in Beijing. To commemorate the student movement, CDT is posting a series of original news articles from 1989, beginning with the death of Hu Yaobang on April 15 and continuing through the tumultuous spring.  From the May 28, 1989 New York Times: China’s student leaders today called for an end to their two-week occupation of Tiananmen