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Tiananmen Square: Thirty Years Later

Posted by on Jun 12, 2019 in Current Events
Tiananmen Square building in Beijing
Tiananmen Square building in Beijing Credit: Image Source

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.

To learn more about this story, click here to visit the Election Central Web site and read the full posting.

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