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Ex-Beijing mayor and backer of 1989 crackdown dies

Chen Xitong, a former mayor of Beijing who backed the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democratic movement during his term but later expressed regret, died Sunday at the age of 82, two...

Chinese activists call on people to wear black

Activists in China are taking to social media to call on the public to wear black on the 24th anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square.

China accuses US of prejudice over Tiananmen

China has accused the United States of "political prejudice" after the State Department called on Beijing to fully account for those killed, detained or missing in the 1989 Tiananmen Square...

TV reporter broadcasts live from China police van

Sky News correspondent Mark Stone says he was broadcasting at Tiananmen Square when officials detained him.

Chinese world worries that Year of Snake may bite

As undeserved as the snake's reputation might be, its last two years did not go so well: 2001 was the year of the Sept. 11 attacks and 1989 was when Chinese forces crushed pro-democracy protests...

U.S. should closely watch censorship protests in China

After the violent end of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, many experts believed China could be close to realizing its centuries-old fear of coming apart.

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China announces new measures to curb air pollution

Alexander F. Yuan | AP Photo In this Sunday June 2, 2013 photo, paramilitary policemen patrol on...

BEIJING: Xi represents confident China in US visit

Jiang Zemin spent the 1990s guiding Beijing out of its diplomatic isolation following the 1989...

HK holds June 4 vigil as it bristles at Beijing

Vincent Yu A woman reads a book in front of portraits of victims of the crackdown of the June 4,...

Blogs

The women of Gezi Park are protesters, not pin-up girls

Positioned somewhere between that Tiananmen Square photo and Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the...

Will Bunch: From Istanbul to Rio to Philly, This Democracy Thing Is Broken

You know exactly what I'm talking about, the solitary protester in Beijing's Tiananmen Square,...

Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: 'Twas the War Before Christmas

My outrage meter stays well in the green zone when it comes to the butchers of Tiananmen Square...

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China arrests man for seeking repeat of Tiananmen protest

Gu, 37, applied in late May for permission to demonstrate on June 4, the 24th anniversary of the...

Chen Xitong, mayor of Beijing during Tiananmen crackdown, dies

Chen Xitong, a former mayor of Beijing who backed the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square...

Beijing Ex-Mayor Chen Xitong Dies

Chen Xitong, the mayor of Beijing during the Tiananmen Square democratic movement in 1989 who...