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Tiananmen Square
[ tyahn-ahn-men ]
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 .
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The surge of Chinese interest began in earnest following the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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But had Obama invited Mubarak to turn Tahrir Square into Tiananmen Square, Egypt might look more like Syria today.
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Tian Hou was imprisoned after the Tiananmen Square crackdown and spent a dozen years in exile.
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Gao Wenqian, a former panegyrist for the Communist Party, fled after the horrors of Tiananmen Square and now works in New York.
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Washington has not sold arms to China since its crackdown against dissidents in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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