Tiananmen Square

[ tyahn-ahn-men ]

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noun

a large plaza in central Beijing, China: noted especially as the site of major student demonstrations in 1989 suppressed by the government.

Tiananmen Square

Location in Beijing of pro-democracy demonstrations that were brutally suppressed in 1989 by troops loyal to the communist regime of the People's Republic of China .

The surge of Chinese interest began in earnest following the Tiananmen Square massacre.

But had Obama invited Mubarak to turn Tahrir Square into Tiananmen Square, Egypt might look more like Syria today.

Tian Hou was imprisoned after the Tiananmen Square crackdown and spent a dozen years in exile.

Gao Wenqian, a former panegyrist for the Communist Party, fled after the horrors of Tiananmen Square and now works in New York.

Washington has not sold arms to China since its crackdown against dissidents in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

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