Decades after the military crackdown, rights activists say the demonstrators' original goals – including a free press and freedom of speech – remain distant, and June 4 is still a taboo topic in China
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Chinese tanks rolled into the square before dawn on June 4, 1989, to end weeks of student and worker protests. Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-te said in a statement on Tuesday that “the memory of June 4th will not disappear in the torrent of history.” The official social media account of the Beijing subway network announced that an exit of Tiananmen East station would be closed from June 2 to 5.
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