1989 Tiananmen facts

While investigating facts about 1989 Tiananmen, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Hu Yaobang, whose funeral triggered the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, wanted to have Tibetans and Uyghurs govern themselves, supported improved Sino-Japanese relations, investigated party nepotism/corruption, and was forced to resign as General Secretary for not silencing student protests

May 35th, the date Chinese dissidents use to fool the censors when commemorating the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, June 4th, 1989

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 28 of the best facts about 1989 Tiananmen I managed to collect.

1. 1989 Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke gave a speech allowing Chinese People to come to Australia following the Tiananmen Square Massacre, without telling the Australian government.

2. In order to evade internet censorship in China, people used to refer to the events that took place at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 as "May 35th", among many other alternative names

3. Chinese goverment banned Taylor Swift's merchandise during her 1989 tour, because the reference to that year conjured images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Also, Swift's initials. T. S., printed on some of her merch, happen to be initials for Tiananmen Square

4. The Tiananmen Square tank man during 1989 was not actual stopping the tanks to go attack the protesters, the tanks were actually going back to their barracks because the massacre happened the day before.

5. After the Tiananmen Square events in 1989 the General Secretary, who sympathized with the protestors, lost his job.

6. Although the protest in 1989 was originally started by students, more than one million people were there in support by the time the military intervened and stared killing the people in the square.

7. In 2007 a Chinese newspaper fired three editors for failing to censor a one-line classified advertisement that paid tribute to the mothers of protesters killed during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The tiny advertisement, said: "Saluting the strong mothers of victims of 64."

8. In 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square by students who demanded democratic reform became violent when the government and the military went in with tanks and soldiers and killed thousands of people.

9. The country of China still censors information about what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989

10. Operation Yellowbird. An operation carried out by various western intelligence services to help dissidents from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests escape China through Hong Kong. Over 400 people were successfully evacuated, including 7 of the 21 major leaders of the protests.

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Chinese singer Cui Jian pioneered Chinese rock music and is often labeled "The Father of Chinese Rock". Cui Jian first shot to stardom in 1986, when he performed "Nothing to My Name". The song became an anthem to student protestors at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

Indian Communist Party of India (Marxist)CPI(M) was the only party in the world to pass a resolution hailing the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. - source

Obsessed with modernization and technology, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of poverty. At the same time he answered to his authoritarian roots, when he ordered the crackdown in 1989 at Tiananmen Square - source

Tik Tok is owned by Chinese oligarchs, and its content guidelines forbid any reference to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Xu Qinxian, a former major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. As commander, he refused the order to use force against demonstrators in Beijing during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Xu was court-martialed, jailed for five years and expelled from the Communist Party of China. - source

Premier Li Peng was the most visible representative of China's government who backed the use of force to quell the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Li strictly refused to negotiate with the Tiananmen protesters out of principle, and became one of the officials most objected to by protesters

1989 Tiananmen Square protests are censored in China.

There is an actual video of "Tank Man," the unknown Chinese man who stood against a line of military tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The footage shows him angrily climb on top of the tank, swinging and trying to open the hatch to the driver's compartment.

Taylor Swift's new fashion line, "TS 1989" (her initials plus the year she was born), has had some difficulties in China, as the famous Tiananmen Square incidents happened in 1989.

About Cui Jian. The Godfather of Chinese Rock n Roll, he gained huge significance to the protesters in Tiananmen in 1989. He would perform his political anthem, "A Piece Of Red Cloth" while wearing a red blindfold across his eyes, before a government crackdown forced him into hiding.

The Chinese politician most responsible for the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests died just 3 months ago. When Premier and reformist Zhao Ziyang was away in North Korea for a state visit, Li Peng confronted DXP and published a newspaper article condemning the protests that same day.