China: 25 Years after Tiananmen

Still Resilient, the Regime Faces New Challenges Twenty-five years ago on the night of June 4, the Chinese government used troops to suppress student protests on Tiananmen Square. The official version of the events remains intact, a counterrevolutionary uprising, with the very subject kept strictly taboo since the ruling elite regards the student outbursts in Beijing and other large cities as a threat to the Communist ...