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TopicTiananmen Square

Topic: Tiananmen Square

Journey of China’s PLA: From guerrilla force to modern military display at Victory Day Parade

New Delhi: 3 September marked the 80th anniversary of China repelling Japanese forces at the end of World War II. Earlier this week, China...

UN ‘alarmed’ after Hong Kong police detain 23 people on Tiananmen anniversary

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Twitter for the release of anyone detained for 'exercising freedom of expression and peaceful assembly'.

34 years since Tiananmen Square: Hong Kong detains scores, Taiwan commemorates massacre

As many as 6,000 policemen deployed at the site where residents of Hong Kong have been uniting on the anniversary of the massacre for years. Four arrested for "seditious intent".

Xi Jinping to win third term as CCP general secretary, here’s how the CCP Congress works

The conclave of 2,300 party representatives held every five years began last Sunday at the vast Great Hall of the People on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, with most proceedings behind closed doors.

A new white paper insists China is a democracy. It wants you to forget Tiananmen

Rather than explaining clearly why China should qualify as a democracy, the strategy Beijing adopts is to point at failures of the US democracy.

Off The Cuff with Vijay Gokhale

The Chinese Communist Party has lot of factionalism and difference of opinion, it continues to draw lessons from the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989...

RSS mouthpiece rakes up China’s Tiananmen Square massacre as border standoff continues

Editorial in ‘Organiser’ also says China is ‘shamelessly’ defending its irresponsible behaviour of 'hiding the Covid pandemic' even after global backlash.

In 1989, it was Tiananmen Square. In 2020, world’s Covid fury could isolate China

In 1989, China was in the middle of economic reforms and was affected by the world's reaction to Tiananmen Square, which included sanctions.

China could face ‘Tiananmen-like’ backlash for its handling of Covid-19, says report

The 'internal report' reveals that Beijing is taking these threats of a growing backlash from the US and other countries very seriously.

Israel’s ‘battle tested’ weapons on sale as a Trump blimp steals the show

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On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.