Tiananmen at 35

On June 4th 1989, student-led demonstrations which had been brewing across China for a few months were violently crushed in Beijing by the Chinese Communist Party or CCP under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping in what became widely known as the Tiananmen Square massacre. From the outset, the Chinese government downplayed the significance of the event and suppressed any discussion of it inside China. Commemorations however, still take place every year in multiple cities around the world and in this episode, we talk to some of the people who commemorated the 35th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square at a gathering in Liberty Square, Taipei on June 4th, 2024.