Remembering Tiananmen Square 1989

Thirty years later, a radically different world looks back and in communist China, people must mourn the massacre in secret, if they know about it at all.

A Chinese man stands in front of Tiananmen Square as it looks today. (Photo by Sabel Blanco from Pexels)

Even today, in the Information Age, we don’t know how many student demonstrators were killed during the Chinese government’s infamous military crackdown in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.