Tiananmen Square

A Beijing citizen stands in front of a row of Chinese tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace in this June 5, 1989 file photo during the crushing of the Tiananmen Square uprising.

Discussing Tiananmen Square is still risky after 25 years, even for Chinese students in the US

Global Politics

In China, the events in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989 remain a taboo topic. And even in the US, Chinese students studying at American universities find their curiosity to learn more tempered by fear of the possible consequences when they return home.

A Beijing citizen stands in front of a row of Chinese tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace in this June 5, 1989 file photo during the crushing of the Tiananmen Square uprising.

Discussing Tiananmen Square is still risky after 25 years, even for Chinese students in the US

Global Politics
A captured tank driver is helped to safety by students as the crowd beats him on June 4, 1989.

25 years later, China still blames the US for somehow fomenting the Tiananmen Square protests

People walk along the sidewalk of Chang'an Avenue as smoke raises in front of the main entrance of the Forbidden City at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on October 28, 2013.

Chinese police say the deadly car crash in Tiananmen Square was a terrorist attack

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