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Tiananmen Anniversary: ​​Beijing Indicates Washington for Its Own Historical Violations

THE China He blamed the United States for its human rights abuses in response to Washington’s tribute to the victims of Tiananmen Square, 32 years after the bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing.

Addressing reporters, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin reiterated that his country had “long since drawn a clear conclusion” about “the riots of the late 1980s.”

On the night of June 3 to 4, 1989, the Chinese army had carried out a bloody crackdown on students who had been protesting for seven weeks in the huge Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, resulting in hundreds or even more than a thousand deaths. This is taboo in China, where the communist regime has never expressed remorse for the 1989 massacre.

The United States, on the other hand, honored the memory of the victims yesterday, Thursday, through Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken, who asked Beijing to announce a casualty account of these events.

In response, Chinese diplomacy called on Washington to “look in person at its own human rights abuses.” “The Statue of Liberty has been erected for over 100 years. “But minorities in the United States still do not have real freedom.”

“A century has passed since the Tulsa massacre, but George Floyd is still unable to breathe,” he said, referring to the death of a black man who was killed in May 2020 by police in the United States. In Hong Kong, where a vigil was traditionally held in honor of the “Beijing Spring”, the ceremony was banned for the second year in a row.

About 7,000 police officers mobilized to discourage residents from defying the ban, and one of the organizers of the vigil, Chou Hang-tung, was arrested at dawn.

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