On April 15, 1989, Hu died of a heart attack, and, taking inspiration from the 1976 protests, thousands of university students began to gather in Tiananmen Square to mourn the former reformist leader.

Tiananmen Square, in the heart of the Chinese capital Beijing, has been a place of enormous significance in modern Chinese history. For seven weeks in the spring and early summer of 1989, it was ...

Tiananmen Square is the public square in front of the Tiananmen Gate, or the "Gate of Heavenly Peace," where Mao Zedong’s portrait has hung since he proclaimed the founding of the People’s ...

Beijing hit back at Secretary of State Marco Rubio for saying the world will "never forget" the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, describing his remarks as an "attack" on China.

The 36th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square massacre recalls the deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators and ongoing tensions between the CCP and Western values.

Security was tight Wednesday around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where weeks of student-led protests shook the party in 1989. The Communist Party bans any public commemoration of the events.

There’s no official death toll. In China, speaking about what happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, or commemorating the massacre, is forbidden. The history of the massacre has been erased.

The Tiananmen Square protest was crushed by the Chinese military on June 4, 1989, but Walz did not arrive in the country until that August, according to contemporary reports by a Nebraska newspaper.

For most Chinese, the 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China has passed like any other weekday. And that’s just how the ruling Communist Party wants it.