In Tiananmen Square the ranks of protestors now ... Soon, the young man is whisked to the side of the road by an unidentified group of people and disappears into the crowd. To this day, who ...

BEIJING — It was my second attempt in as many days to visit Tiananmen Square, and it wasn't looking good. When I tried the day before, a guard said I required an online appointment — and ...

Its name means “gate of heavenly peace,” but in 1989 the iconic gate at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square overlooked a scene that was anything but peaceful. Earlier that year, the square had been ...

The photo and footage of the so-called “tank man” became the defining image of the Tiananmen Square crackdown ... the column of tanks coming down the road, when “this guy with shopping ...

For the Chinese government, however, Tiananmen remains a frightening portent ... aimed to uphold national sovereignty and ethnic respect, uphold the socialist road, uphold the combination of planned ...

The summer of 1989, when soldiers shot and killed hundreds and possibly thousands of demonstrators in Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square, helped shape China into the security state it is today.