Members of Congress and Chinese pro-democracy dissidents gathered on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to mark the 35th anniversary of the day some 200,000 Chinese troops launched a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters occupying Tiananmen Square.
Tiananmen’s legacy at 35: Protests spurred Communist Party toward total controlRep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the speaker emerita, joins member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and other lawmakers at an event to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen …
A group of bipartisan members of Congress, including former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, gathered outside the Capitol Tuesday to condemn the massacre. Several Chinese dissidents spoke out as well, including some who were in the vast Beijing square on June 4, 1989 when troops fired automatic rifles at thousands of unarmed protesters. Others died under the treads of tanks.
Miles Yu, a former State Department policymaker, said the CCP learned from the 1989 protests that political control can never be loosened. Rep. John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said hundreds of thousands of students and workers in Tiananmen joined millions more throughout China to demand democracy.
During the press conference, Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, ranking Democrat on the select committee, held up the iconic photo showing “tank man” — a lone Chinese demonstrator who stood down a line of People’s Liberation Army tanks heading for the square and tried to block their advance.
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