{"id":941,"date":"2026-06-04T05:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:38:58","slug":"taiwan-presses-china-to-confront-tiananmen-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan presses China to confront Tiananmen past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>TAIPEI\/BEIJING, June 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Taiwan \u200bhas pressed China to recognise the deadly crackdown on protesters in Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square 37 years ago, in commemorating the \u200canniversary on Thursday of an event that remains taboo for Beijing.<\/div><div>&#8220;I sincerely hope that China can face up to the June 4 incident of 37 years ago, acknowledge the truth, soothe the pain, and open the door to reconciliation and dialogue,&#8221; Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said in \u200ba post on his Facebook page.<\/div><div>The events on and around the central Beijing square on June 4, 1989, when \u200bChinese troops opened fire to end the student-led pro-democracy protests, are not publicly discussed in China \u2060and the anniversary is not officially marked.<\/div><div>Public commemorations now take place in overseas cities, including Taipei where senior Taiwanese government \u200bleaders often use the anniversary to criticise China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory.<\/div><div>Lai warned against &#8220;blindly believing&#8221; in militarism \u200band said a healthy government and society should strive to support better lives for the next generation rather than use &#8220;violence, surveillance, and other means to strangle their dreams and erase their opinions&#8221;, his Facebook post showed.<\/div><div>China&#8217;s Taiwan Affairs Office did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment on \u200bLai&#8217;s remarks.<\/div><div>China calls Lai a &#8220;separatist&#8221; and has rebuffed multiple offers of talks from him. He says only Taiwan&#8217;s people can decide \u200btheir future.<\/div><h2>U.S. HONOURS MEMORY<\/h2><div>U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that Beijing&#8217;s censorship could not erase memories of the military assault, in \u200ca \u2060statement that followed past practice of the United States&#8217; top diplomat marking the anniversary, drawing Beijing&#8217;s ire.<\/div><div>&#8220;Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday,&#8221; Rubio said.<\/div><div>China&#8217;s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Rubio&#8217;s statement. A year ago, Beijing criticised Rubio for his Tiananmen comment, accusing him of &#8220;distorting&#8221; historical facts \u200band attacking China&#8217;s political system.<\/div><div>Chinese \u200btanks rolled into Tiananmen Square \u2060before dawn on June 4, 1989, crushing weeks of pro-democracy demonstrations by students and workers.<\/div><div>China has never provided a full death toll, but rights groups and witnesses say the figure could \u200brun into thousands. China blamed the protests on counter-revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the ruling Communist \u200bParty.<\/div><div>In Hong Kong, \u2060where a candlelight vigil in the city&#8217;s Victoria Park once drew tens of thousands of people each year, public remembrances came to an end after Beijing imposed a national security law in 2020.<\/div><div>Such vigils were once hailed as a symbol of the Asian financial hub&#8217;s \u2060relative freedom \u200bcompared to mainland China, but the anniversary in the city is now marked \u200bby a heavy police presence and few visible remembrance activities.<\/div><div>Several vigils were still expected to take place in a number of cities around the world on Thursday, \u200bincluding four in Germany and one in Australia.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Ben Blanchard\" class=\"wp-image-122\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/99cff2fc1674c64fa961ed4f30bd5dd2.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Ben Blanchard<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=939\">Ohio State University reaches $100 million settlement with nearly 300 sex abuse survivors<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=937\">Flesh-eating screwworm confirmed in Texas calf as parasite crosses border from Mexico<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=933\">Oil falls as Lebanon and Israel agree to implement ceasefire<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan \u200bhas pressed China to recognise the deadly crackdown on protesters in Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square 37 years ago, in commemorating the \u200canniversary on Thursday of an event that remains taboo for Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,12],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-human-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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