{"id":72112,"date":"2025-06-04T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/world-wont-forget-tiananmen-square-us-and-taiwan-say-on-36th-anniversary-of-massacre"},"modified":"2025-06-05T00:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:25:32","slug":"world-wont-forget-tiananmen-square-us-and-taiwan-say-on-36th-anniversary-of-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72112","title":{"rendered":"World won\u2019t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date of 4 June remains one of China\u2019s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion <\/p>\n<p>The world will never forget the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/31\/tiananmen-square-anniversary-what-sparked-the-protests-in-china-in-1989\">Tiananmen Square massacre<\/a>, the US secretary of state and Taiwan president have said on the 36th anniversary of the crackdown, which China\u2019s government still tries to erase from domestic memory.<\/p>\n<p>There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed by China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army in the streets around Tiananmen Square, Beijing\u2019s central plaza, on 4 June 1989.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/world-wont-forget-tiananmen-square-us-and-taiwan-say-on-36th-anniversary-of-massacre\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of 4 June remains one of China\u2019s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion The world will never forget the Tiananmen Square massacre, the US secretary of state and Taiwan president have said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1541,74,431,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-marco-rubio","category-taiwan","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72127,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72112\/revisions\/72127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}