Tiananmen Square: Thirty Years Later

This week’s story update on the Election Central Web recalls an important moment in China’s recent history.

Here in the United States, we often take the right to protest for granted. But in China in 1989, the government strongly and publicly cracked down on a group of student protestors in Tiananmen Square, with deadly results that have affected the country ever since. Here, Election Central takes a closer look at what happened, as well as the effect that the crackdown still has on the political climate of China today.

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