Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong police took at least two people off the streets as the effort to prevent any public remembrance extended beyond the mainland.
A man walks by a security and a policeman sit inside a police van stationed at a bridge along the Chang’an Avenue in Beijing, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. China has quashed large-scale commemorations of Tuesday’s 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen …BEIJING — Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
The economy boomed in the ensuing decades, turning a once impoverished country into the world’s second largest economy, but societal controls have been tightened since party leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. “As to the political disturbance that occurred in the late 1980s, the Chinese government has long had a clear conclusion,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said without elaborating. Asked about Western government statements on the anniversary, she added, “We are firmly opposed to anyone using this as a pretext to attack and smear China and interfere in China’s internal affairs.”
An AP journalist saw another woman taken away after being searched, and an online Hong Kong media outlet that reported a fourth person was taken away in a police vehicle, but in both cases it was unclear why.
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