How the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China forever
by Ian Bremmer
Jun 17, 2019
2 minutes
OVER THE COURSE OF six weeks in 1989, Chinese students and those they inspired gathered in central Beijing in Tiananmen Square. It began as a spontaneous outpouring of respect and grief following the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang, but the event then took on a life of its own as mourning became protest against corruption and
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