The Communist Party only has one option: it has to avoid a bust at all costs, and continue to make like the fireworks and boom, writes Matthew Clayfield, a freelance correspondent, in Beijing.
Tiananmen anniversary
Breaking the Tiananmen taboo
An official Beijing newspaper made a quiet but unprecented mention of the Tiananmen Square Massacre yesterday. Why did they do it and — more importantly — why were they allowed to?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: More on The Chaser’s latest controversy
Crikey readers defend and lambast The Chaser for their Make a Realistic Wish skit, while one reader remembers Tank Man.
Tiananmen Square revisited: a Crikey history wrap
Twenty years ago today tanks drove across Tiananmen Square and crushed a student rebellion in China, Crikey resurrects the news archives.
China’s fight for freedom, twenty years on
China will one day have to deal with Tiananmen, but it’s impossible to say how long that might take.
China’s unknown massacre
The truth about Tiananmen is still being supressed in China — but it’s a double-edged sword for the government, who are no longer able inspire fear in young Chinese, says Gordon Chang.
The Tiananmen taboo
Banned Chinese novelist Ma Jian was at the Tiananmen protests. He returns to Beijing 20 years later to find a country desperate to erase all memories of the incident.
20 years on, life after Tiananmen
NPR speak to three student leaders involved in the Tiananmen protests. Twenty years on, their lives have followed three very different paths.
The wound that hasn’t healed
Tiananmen survivors look back on the day China’s heart froze.
Covering Tiananmen: a journalist looks back
Press coverage of violence in Tiananmen Square have shaped foriegn perceptions of China for over two decades. The BBC’s then-Beijing correspondant James Miles reflects back on the difficulties of the assignment.
Video of the Day: Do you remember Tiananmen?
Footage and eyewitness accounts from Tiananmen Square in 1989, from Frontline’s ‘The Tank Man’.
Tiananmen and democracy
The democratic spirit of the students who demonstrated and died in Tiananmen Square has weakened — but it isn’t dead.
CNN on Tiananmen
CNN reporters look back on a watershed moment for the network.
