Opinion | Frida Ghitis: China doesn't mark the Tiananmen Square massacre's anniversary. But the world should. - NBCNewsTHINK
. This reluctance to press President Xi Jinping extends to the United States, where President Donald Trump is focused on trade, with seemingly little interest in human rights.China became a global pariahThirty years ago, amid national protests demanding more freedom, Beijing crushed a massive pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen, the heart of the capital, in full view of the international news organizations gathered for a summit between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his Chinese counterparts.
Idealistic students converged in the square, honoring a Chinese reformer who had just died. They demanded political reforms, an end to media censorship and a solution to official corruption. The square grew crowded as tens of thousands built a makeshift version of the Statue of Liberty, theHundreds of thousands of people fill Peking's central Tiananmen Square in front of the Monument to People's Heroes and Mao's mausoleum on May 17, 1989.
Many young Chinese have not heard about Tiananmen. Authorities never mention the event. In a rare exception, China’s defense minister, Gen. Wei Fenghe,The event marked a turning point. Until then, China had engaged in a gradual process of economic and political reform. After Tiananmen, the Chinese Communist Party made
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