Regarding “A Tiananmen Memory Crime in Hong Kong” (Review & Outlook, Jan. 31): It’s tragic that three Hong Kong citizens could face up to a decade in prison for holding a remembrance of what happened ...
Dictatorships rewrite the past to control the present, and so it goes in Hong Kong as its former British legal system becomes a replica of China’s. This month three Hong Kong citizens went on trial ...
A powerful image showing a lone Iranian protester defiantly sitting in front of armed security forces has drawn striking comparisons to the iconic “Tank Man” photo near Tiananmen Square — as fierce ...
In 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian defied orders to crush the pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now, leaked video from his court-martial is on YouTube. By Chris Buckley Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan When China ...
In the beginning of Ha Jin’s new novel, “Looking for Tank Man,” a sophomore at Harvard seems to be on the verge of throwing her life away. Pei Lulu is the pride of her divorced parents. Her life in ...
Earlier this year, a Chinese AI chatbot called DeepSeek sent Silicon Valley into a tailspin when it released a new AI model that rivaled the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, while relying on only a fraction ...
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Tiananmen Square Massacre

Tiananmen Square, in the heart of the Chinese capital Beijing, has been a place of enormous significance in modern Chinese history. For seven weeks in the spring and early summer of 1989, it was the ...
On a sunny September afternoon, Portsmouth Square was full of life. Chinatown residents filled every bench and shady spot, deep in card games as police officers moved through the plaza, setting up ...
Against the backdrop of protests in Los Angeles and the deployment of both National Guard troops and U.S. Marines, President Trump continues to peddle his cultural revolution with a requirement for ...
This June 4th, the 36th anniversary of the crackdown on demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, passed quietly in the People’s Republic of China. Of course, the atrocity could not be mentioned, ...