Tiananmen Anniversaries

American and Chinese AI models give starkly different responses, showing that a model can only be as effective at establishing and recognizing truth as its creator. By Jianli Yang and Deyu Wang 2025.06.09 Last week marked the 36th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen...

Online culture and censorship have broken the ties that once spurred protesters. BY: JIANLI YANG Today, June 4, marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—a moment of both tragedy and hope. It was the bloody end to a nationwide democracy movement that...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of articles written by someone deeply involved in the events leading up to June 4, 1989. The events in this installment begin after the replacement of Zhao Ziyang with Li Peng as China’s prime minister, and the latter’s...

Editor’s note: what follows is another in a series of remembrances by a participant in the events leading up to the June 4, 1989 Beijing massacre. Here, the author talks about events in middle May, 1989, when the authorities are desperate to get the students of...