Jun 04 Watch Legacy of Tiananmen Crackdown Lingers Over China's Politics Analysts reflect on the life of key Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, who died in 2005 after being under house arrest for almost two decades and kept a secret journal chronicling the events around the Tiananmen Square protests. Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch Police Crowd Tiananmen to Block Possible Anniversary Protests Independent Television News correspondent John Ray reports from Beijing on the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, where police maintained a heavy presence to tamp down on demonstrations. Continue watching
Jun 02 Geithner in China: How Is China Weathering the Economic Crisis? By Business Desk Question: How is China weathering the economic crisis? And does China want to remain the United States’ largest creditor? Paul Solman: With Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in Beijing for the past few days, the financial world has been watching and… Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Student Activist Yang Jianli By PBS News Hour Yang Jianli, a student activist at the Tiananmen Square anti-government protests in 1989, now lives in the United States and continues to advocate for human rights 20 years later. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Student Activist Wang Dan By PBS News Hour Leading up to the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, Wang Dan was one of the most high-profile student activists, spearheading efforts to try to bring democratic change to China's regime. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng By PBS News Hour In the weeks leading up to the military crackdown in Tiananmen in 1989, Chinese Premier Li Peng came to represent the conservative wing of the Communist Party leadership, speaking for those who favored the harshest response to student demonstrators. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Communist Party Official Zhao Ziyang By PBS News Hour On May 19, 1989, Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Zhao Ziyang picked up a bullhorn and urged student demonstrators to end their hunger strike against the Chinese government in the name of peace and national stability. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Patriarch Deng Xiaoping By PBS News Hour While Deng Xiaoping held many positions within the Communist Party and was never head of government or state, but did serve as the de facto party leader and leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early… Continue reading
Jun 01 China Appears to Tighten Internet Access Around Tiananmen Anniversary By PBS News Hour In the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen protests on June 4, concerns over Chinese censorship of the Internet are running strong, although problems with unpredictable Web access and other matters are proving just as tricky. Continue reading
May 15 Watch China Remembers Victims on Anniversary of Deadly Quake China marked the first anniversary of the fatal earthquake that ravaged the Sichuan province. NPR's Melissa Block was reporting in China when disaster struck and returned a year later to see how some families are faring. Continue watching