What Caused The Tiananmen Square Massacre

The Tiananmen Square Massacre greatly impacted the way the rest of the world viewed the Chinese government. Imagine not having the freedom of speech that we do today, or living in a country that kills the innocent. In 1989, college students exercised their right to freedom of speech while protesting their communist leaders, and the leaders of Communist China put the demonstration down with military force resulting in possibly thousands killed. But, throughout the last 25 years China has grown and developed into a much different country than it was during the late 1980’s. Granted, the country still has a long way to go before it resembles the democracy present in the United States today, but it seems to be headed in the right direction.

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On June 5, 1989, soldiers and tanks from China's People’s Liberation Army physically oppressed the student led protesters. The events surrounding this day are referred to as the Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989, a democracy movement calling for political and social reforms in the Republic of China. The deaths that occurred as a consequence of the Tiananmen Square Protest was not the fault of the students, but rather, the disastrous situation of China beforehand, the common belief that demonstrations would succeed, and the government’s obstinate decisions.

The Prodemocracy Movement, the Bloody Massacre in Tiananmen Square, and the Tiananmen Square Incident or Massacre are just a few of the names of the protests that went wrong that began in April 1989 and came to an upsetting end in June 1989. The citizens of China had wanted a political form for a long time, but did not know how and when to start. The protests started when a favored government official died. Shortly after, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Communist China, and everyone was jealous of the relationship he had with his people. The protesters went on a hunger strike because they wished they had leaders like Gorbachev. This gained the support of many people, and eventually there were over one million people camped out in Tiananmen Square asking for a change in their corrupt government. The government officials got very angry and send out an army to use against their own people. A great deal of people died and a ton were injured. Because the media was able to cover a majority of everything that happened, everyone around the world saw it, and it changed their thoughts of the Chinese government. The Tiananmen Square Massacre ruined China 's international image throughout the world.

But this does not mean that friendship has been reached when the Chinese government massacred some of their own students in Tiananmen Square (around 2000 people) in 1989 the rest of the world protested at the brutality. But, unlike the past, China was too powerful to fight or attack in any other way. The past still causes problems mainly over Taiwan. In a speech from the Chinese ambassador in 2001 he stated “To China the issue

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Maoist government in China implemented a socialistic economy wherein the state controlled nearly every aspect of national and economic development. The process of making the Chinese economy public took the better part of the decade, but resulted in an explosive rate of expansion. Both the nation’s industrial and agricultural sectors grew exponentially until finally reaching a tapering off point during the late 1960s.

In 1989 Beijing, China at the Forbidden City, an event happened on June 4th at the Tiananmen Square. There was a massacre caused by the government at the Tiananmen Square, due to the actions of the university students protesting for democracy. But thousands of university students along with Chinese citizens were slayed and arrested that night including my friends Lao Xu and Xin Hua.

This investigation will assess the significance of the propaganda that arose out of the student protesting Tiananmen Square in 1989. Using specifically the "Tank Man" photograph taken by Jeff Widener on the 5th of June 1989 during the protests, I will investigate the extent to which this piece of media influenced relations between Australia and China immediately after the events of the student protest. In short, the investigation will try and answer the question as to how influential western media coverage was in its representation of China and if it acted to highlight divisions in foreign relations.

Thousands of university students gathered in Tiananmen Square to demand democratic reform in 1989. Because of the severity, every year thousands of Chinese citizens rally in the streets, all throughout China in a remembrance of the event. The Chinese government refuses to discuss the event, and even doesn't acknowledge that the massacre even happened. All information regarding the Tiananmen Square is not available in China, even Google, YouTube, and Twitter are all blocked to help keep the event as secret as possible. As a result of the Cultural Revolution, millions were killed., and a cult following for communist leader, Mao Zedong became about. On April 15, 1989, Hu Yaobang passed away. On May 19, 1989, 1.2 million people gathered in Tiananmen

The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre in China or the June Fourth Incident was one of the most famous student protests in the world’s history. The Massacre took place on June 4th 1989 – the last day of a series of pro-democracy demonstrations around Tiananmen Square beginning from April 14. The Tiananmen protest ended in tragic failure and bloodbath as the Chinese state decided to put down the protest with a martial law. At last, army troops and tanks were sent to take control of the city and were ordered to clear the square by firing at the crowd of protesters. The number of deaths has been a matter of controversy over the world until now, which ranges from several hundreds to thousands. In spite of the massiveness and the great influence of

“Chinese troops violently retook the square in Beijing where pro-democracy protesters had set up camp for weeks. The Tiananmen Square massacre left an unknown number dead, with some estimates in the thousands, and smothered a democratic movement.” (Rayman, 2014)

The loss of life from the 1989 Tiananmen Square, China slaughter appears to have been closer to 10,000 deaths, thousands more than what was known at the time, a declassified secret British document has revealed.

June fourth, 1989. A day like many at that time in Beijing, China, where university students were protesting for democracy in Tiananmen Square. But on that day, the Chinese government couldn’t tolerate it any longer. The army and the police were sent out to clear the students from the square, using as much force as they wanted. Estimates of the death count vary from the hundreds to the thousands, but no one knows for sure. Even today, there is still one prisoner left over from the massacre.

China's transition from the leadership under the iron fist of Mao Zedong to the more liberal Deng Xiao Ping gave the People's Republic a gradual increase in economic freedom while maintaining political stability. During Mao's regime, the country focused on bolstering and serving the community, while subsequently encumbering individual growth and prosperity. Deng advocated a more capitalist economic ideology, which established China as an economic force in the global community while endowing its citizens with more liberties and luxuries than previously granted.

One of such events that shook the world became the student protest on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, in 1989 which eventually