Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
At the 30th anniversary of the 4 June Incident, Wei Fenghe, a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, said in the Shangri-La Dialogue: "The 4 June Incident was a turmoil and unrest. The Central Government took decisive measures to calm the unrest and stop the turmoil, and it is because of this decision that the stability within the ...
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square (/ ˈ t j ɛ n ə n m ə n / [1]) is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen ("Gate of Heavenly Peace") located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden City.
On 4 April 2019, the fourth of four Sichuan men who were arrested in 2016 for producing a home-made liquor commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre was sentenced to jail for 3 1 ⁄ 2 years. The three other men were also charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", but were instead given suspended sentences.
The 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests featured events in China and elsewhere on, and leading up to, 4 June 2021 – to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, in which the government of China ordered the army to fire on protestors, killing hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件; pinyin: liùsì shìjiàn), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing (the capital of the People's Republic of China) in 1989.
(video) Two shots of the gate followed by a shot of inside Tiananmen Square next to the gate, 2017. The Tiananmen / ˈ t j ɛ n ə n m ə n / [1] (also Tian'anmen, [2] or the Gate of Heaven-Sent Peace, is the entrance gate to the Forbidden City imperial palace complex and Imperial City in the center of Beijing, China.
The PLA soldiers operating the tank then opened a hatch used for entering and exiting the tank, and briefly talked to the man. The incident was filmed and shared to a worldwide audience. Internationally, it is considered one of the most iconic images of all time. [3] [4] [5] Inside China, the image and the accompanying events are subject to ...
The death of Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, a widely respected senior Chinese leader, on January 8, 1976, prompted the incident.For several years before his death, Zhou was involved in a political power struggle against other senior leaders in the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, with Zhou's most visible and powerful antagonists being the four senior members who came to be called the ...