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On 4 June 1989 (commonly cited as "6/4"), Chinese troops and armoured units moved into Beijing to clear weeks‑long pro‑democracy protests centred on Tiananmen Square, resulting in a violent crackdown ...
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The Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in 1989
On 4 June 1989 (commonly cited as "6/4"), Chinese troops and armoured units moved into Beijing to clear weeks‑long pro‑democracy protests centred on Tiananmen Square, resulting in a violent crackdown ...
Photographs of “” crystallized the crackdown into a single, globally legible symbol that hardened Western public opinion and became a durable touchstone in diplomatic debates about . That symbolic pow...