Tiananmen Square News

In a televised address from Tiananmen square, Chinese President Xi Jinping marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of China`s ruling Communist Party.

The Chinese Communist Party, which came to power in 1949 under Mao, initially recruited peasants and workers It has now evolved to embrace markets and entrepreneurship under "socialism with Chinese characteristics" while retaining a Leninist model of authoritarianism China will build up its military to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development, elevating it to world-class standards, said President Xi

The estimate, given on June 5, 1989, the day after the crackdown, is almost 10 times higher than that commonly accepted at the time of several hundred to more than a thousand dead.

The Hong Kong protests that Wong and others helped drive represented one of the biggest populist challenges in decades to the leaders of China's Communist Party since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement in Beijing.

The founder of one of China`s few websites dedicated to reporting human rights abuses has been formally arrested for "leaking state secrets", Amnesty International said Thursday -- the latest blow in a broad crackdown on activists.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people were killed as tanks and troops converged on Beijing on the night of June 3-4, 1989.

Lu Jinghua, a well-known Tiananmen Square activist, was scheduled to attend the meeting of dissidents and exiles in Himachal Pradesh.

A major accident was today evaded by emergency workers following damage to an underground gas pipeline during repairing near the iconic Tiananmen Square.

Veteran Chinese pro-democracy campaigners have protested Britain's treatment of an activist detained during Chinese President Xi Jinping's pageant-filled visit to Britain.

British police arrested a survivor of the Tiananmen Square crackdown and raided his home after he stepped out in front of Chinese President Xi Jinping's motorcade, police and campaigners said on Friday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top leaders on Wednesday paid tributes to the martyrs who laid down their lives fighting for the country's independence.