Tag: Tiananmen Square

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 18:33 UTC

  US lawmakers asked Zoom to clarify its relation with the Chinese government

  

  Three U.S. lawmakers asked Zoom Video Communications Inc to clarify its data-collection practices and relationship with the Chinese government after the firm said it had suspended user accounts to meet demands from Beijing.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Zoom admits to have yielded to Beijing on the Tiananmen crackdown anniversary

  

  Zoom said on Wednesday that it had temporarily closed a US account of activists who met to mark the anniversary of China's crackdown in Tiananmen Square, raising alarm over free speech on the fast-growing video-meeting service.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  On Tiananmen anniversary US destroyer sailed the sensitive Taiwan Strait

  

  A U.S. warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries said, on the same day as the 31st anniversary of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Wall of silence hangs over Tiananmen Square, thirty years since the mass killings

  

  China is set to mark 30 years since the deadly Tiananmen incident with a wall of silence on Tuesday after arresting activists and tightening internet censorship ahead of the politically sensitive anniversary.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Beijing justifies Tiananmen square repression 30 years ago as the “correct” policy

  

  China on Sunday defended its policy during the Tiananmen protests in a rare public acknowledgement of the event, days before its 30th anniversary, saying it was the “correct” policy.

• Sunday, April 21st 2019 - 11:45 UTC

  A Tiananmen Square publicity video triggers the fury of the Beijing government

  

  Germany's Leica Camera AG drew criticism on Chinese social media over a video depicting a news photographer covering the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square three decades ago. The five-minute dramatization, released this week, touches on a highly sensitive topic in China.

• Monday, June 6th 2011 - 06:54 UTC

  Tiananmen Square deadly crackdown remembered in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei

  

  Thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists flocked to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Saturday, the anniversary of the deadly 1989 crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests, amid a noticeable massive police presence.