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Title    Tiananmen Square - Remember 1989
Date    Monday June 03 2019, @04:35AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the what-has-changed? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=19/06/02/1734215

takyon and an Anonymous Coward writes

Tiananmen Square: China minister defends 1989 crackdown

China has defended the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in a rare public acknowledgement of events. Defence Minister Wei Fenghe told a regional forum that stopping the "turbulence" was the "correct" policy.

[...] [After] a wide-ranging speech about trade and security at a regional forum in Singapore, General Wei Fenghe was asked about Tiananmen by a member of the audience. Mr Wei questioned why people still said China had not handled the events properly.

"That incident was a political turbulence and the central government took measures to stop the turbulence, which is a correct policy," he told the forum. "The past 30 years have proven that China has undergone major changes," he said, adding that because of the government's action at that time "China has enjoyed stability and development".

Also at NBC and Al Jazeera.

Thirty years ago, from April 15 to June 4, 1989, the world was gripped by coverage of some of the largest protests in modern Chinese history. As many as a million people occupied the central Tiananmen Square in Beijing in protest against inflation, government corruption, and restrictions on freedom of speech and political participation. There are no official reports on the actual number of dead, though they are estimated to be in the thousands.

In the time that has passed, the uncensorable Usenet is no longer widely used and rarely even available. Mainland Chinese censors have come down hard and heavy on the rest of Net and, later, the Web since then in an ongoing attempt to rewrite a false history. Sometimes this censorship even has the help of the social control media giants who know which side their bread is buttered on.

In commemoration of those events and in particular the massacre culminating the events thirty years ago, here is a partial news round up:

The New York Times: Twitter Takes Down Accounts of China Dissidents Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary
TechCrunch: Twitter takes down 'a large number' of Chinese-language accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary
Reuters: Online encyclopedia Wikipedia blocked in China ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
The South China Morning Post: Wikipedia blocked in China ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary
CNN: 30 years after Tiananmen massacre, Taiwan shows another way for China
The Straights Times: 'Tank man' video for Leica sparks outcry in China ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
CNN: The story behind the iconic 'Tank Man' photo
New York Times: Photos of the Tiananmen Square Protests Through the Lens of a Student Witness
Reuters: China's robot censors crank up as Tiananmen anniversary nears
Artnet: Chinese Authorities Have Detained an Activist Filmmaker for Posting a Picture Referencing the Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Epoch Times: In Memory of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Epoch Times: Photographer Releases Never-Before-Seen Tiananmen Protest Photos
The Daily Beast: Tiananmen Square: Why China's Leaders Want to Erase 'May 35'
Business Insider: China's internet censors are on high alert ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests
CNN: Inflatable 'Tank Man' appears in Taiwan ahead of Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary
University World News: Tiananmen Square a topic that still can't be studied
The South China Morning Post: 30 years on from Tiananmen Square crackdown, why Beijing still thinks it got it right
Hong Kong Free Press: The Tiananmen Massacre, 30 years on: The troubled history of the Goddess of Democracy
Quartz: Tiananmen Square photos China never wanted the world to see, 30 years later
The Ottawa Citizen: Glavin: Tiananmen Square – China's 30 years of denial and suppression


Original Submission #1Original Submission #2

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Tiananmen Square: China minister defends 1989 crackdown" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48489002
  3. "NBC" - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-defense-minister-says-tiananmen-crackdown-was-justified-rare-comments-n1012841
  4. "Al Jazeera" - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/china-defends-bloody-crackdown-tiananmen-protests-190602083719934.html
  5. "June 4, 1989" - https://chinachannel.org/2018/06/05/may-35th/
  6. "Twitter Takes Down Accounts of China Dissidents Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary" - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/twitter-china-tiananmen.html
  7. " Twitter takes down 'a large number' of Chinese-language accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary" - https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/01/twitter-china-takedown/
  8. "Online encyclopedia Wikipedia blocked in China ahead of Tiananmen anniversary" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-censorship-wikipedia/online-encyclopedia-wikipedia-blocked-in-china-ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary-idUSKCN1SL121
  9. "Wikipedia blocked in China ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary" - https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3010361/wikipedia-blocked-china-ahead-tiananmen-square-anniversary
  10. "30 years after Tiananmen massacre, Taiwan shows another way for China" - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/15/opinions/tiananmen-30-china-taiwan-intl/
  11. "'Tank man' video for Leica sparks outcry in China ahead of Tiananmen anniversary" - https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/tank-man-video-for-leica-sparks-outcry-in-china-ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary
  12. "The story behind the iconic 'Tank Man' photo" - https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/world/tiananmen-square-tank-man-cnnphotos/
  13. "Photos of the Tiananmen Square Protests Through the Lens of a Student Witness" - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/tiananmen-square-protest-photos.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
  14. "China's robot censors crank up as Tiananmen anniversary nears" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tiananmen-censorship/chinas-robot-censors-crank-up-as-tiananmen-anniversary-nears-idUSKCN1SW03Y
  15. "Chinese Authorities Have Detained an Activist Filmmaker for Posting a Picture Referencing the Tiananmen Square Massacre" - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/filmmaker-activist-detained-china-1554376
  16. "In Memory of the Tiananmen Square Massacre" - https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-memory-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre_2933327.html
  17. "Photographer Releases Never-Before-Seen Tiananmen Protest Photos" - https://www.theepochtimes.com/story-behind-newly-published-2000-historical-tiananmen-square-massacre-photos_2928820.html
  18. "Tiananmen Square: Why China's Leaders Want to Erase 'May 35'" - https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiananmen-square-why-chinas-leaders-want-to-erase-may-35
  19. "China's internet censors are on high alert ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests" - https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/china-censorship-tiananmen-square-protests-2019-5
  20. "Inflatable 'Tank Man' appears in Taiwan ahead of Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary" - https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/tank-man-inflatable-taiwan-tiananmen-square/
  21. "Tiananmen Square a topic that still can't be studied" - https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190524075558647
  22. "30 years on from Tiananmen Square crackdown, why Beijing still thinks it got it right" - https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3010835/30-years-tiananmen-square-crackdown-why-beijing-still-thinks-it
  23. "The Tiananmen Massacre, 30 years on: The troubled history of the Goddess of Democracy" - https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/05/19/explainer-30-years-troubled-history-tiananmen-squares-goddess-democracy/
  24. "Tiananmen Square photos China never wanted the world to see, 30 years later" - https://qz.com/1617627/striking-pictures-from-tiananmen-square-30-years-on/
  25. "Glavin: Tiananmen Square – China's 30 years of denial and suppression" - https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/glavin-tiananmen-square-chinas-30-years-of-denial-and-suppression
  26. "Original Submission #1" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=34163
  27. "Original Submission #2" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=34171

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