The 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was principally events that occurred in China and elsewhere on and leading up to 4 June 2014—to commemorate the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
[1] In the run-up to the anniversary, the authorities in the People's Republic of China detained and silenced dissidents as in previous years.
[2] One prominent dissident included human rights lawyer and free speech advocate Pu Zhiqiang, detained on the charge of "causing a disturbance" after attending a meeting urging a probe of the 1989 crackdown.
In a daily news briefing, foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei announced that "The Chinese government long ago reached a conclusion about the political turmoil at the end of the 1980s...
In the last three decades and more of reform and opening up, China's enormous achievements in social and economic development have received worldwide attention.