Tiananmen Square: 30th anniversary of a massacre

It’s been 30 years since the Tiananmen Square protests and reform looks as distant as ever. Matthew Partridge reports.

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Wei Fenghe: a rare admission of an unpleasant truth

On the 30th anniversary of the "bloody crackdown" on protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, a top Chinese official has attempted to justify the action, says Alessio Perrone in The Independent. During a speech in Singapore, defence minister Wei Fenghe said that the massacre, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of unarmed protestors, was the "correct policy" to deal with "political turmoil". Even acknowledging that the massacre took place is rare for the regime, and reports on what took place are "heavily censored" on the mainland. Every year, police detain "dozens of activists, journalists and critics in the run-up to the anniversary" of the protests.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
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Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

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