30 Years Ago: Li Peng Meets Student Representatives
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
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Detentions Continue as Tiananmen Anniversary Nears
Yet more detentions have been added to the dozens already carried out ahead of the 25th...
Tiananmen Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown now only a week away, The New York...
HK Officials Reject Tiananmen Dissident’s Surrender Bid
In another attempt to return to the country of his birth, exiled June 4th dissident Wu’er...
China Uses Passports as Political Cudgel
The Chinese made a record 83 million trips abroad last year, reflecting the increasing prosperity of the country’s growing middle class. But at least 14 million people, mostly Tibetans and Uyghurs, are denied the chance to...
Sensitive Words: Foreigners and Cannibals (Correction and Update)
Correction: Zhang Yongming is the suspected Yunnan killer, not a victim. Update: “Lei Feng” is...
Wu’er Kaixi: China’s “Most Unwanted”
Former Tiananmen protest leader and long-exiled dissident Wu’er Kaixi marched up to the Chinese Embassy in Washington today, looking to get arrested. In a seeming inversion of recent appeals to U.S. diplomatic missions in...
Wu’er Kaixi: Prosperity Can’t Erase Tiananmen
Tiananmen student leader Wu’er Kaixi writes for the Wall Street Journal about the impact of Tiananmen and the trade-off for economic growth: The crime we committed in 1989 was to hope for change. In 1919, students...
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