Tiananmen Square Massacre

Westerners learn the wrong lessons from a distant massacre.

The Chinese leader learned one key thing from his father: The party comes first.

Chaos worsens in Sudan, Theresa May exits No. 10 Downing St., and the United States marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Washington once mistakenly thought the crackdown would be temporary. It was wrong then, just as it’s wrong about a new Cold War now.

Thirty years after Tiananmen, the CCP has largely triumphed over history. But its failure to recognize that could spell trouble.

Chinese students marched into Tiananmen Square 100 years ago in a movement that is still shaping attitudes in the country today.

On the podcast: A look back at the student protests that changed China’s trajectory.

Leery of anything political, young Chinese elites are helping the government banish the student massacre from memory.

Some are becoming more pro-China; others believe the city should secede from the People's Republic.

A young witness recalls the aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre and how three months later, fear still haunted Beijing.

Twenty-six years after the killing of student protesters, the code of silence is spreading worldwide.

It's hard to remember just how impassable the Berlin Wall was -- until one day it wasn't. A memoir.

Watch what happens when a young Egyptian woman and a young Chinese woman discuss free speech.

Some here think the usual Tiananmen commemoration is too soft on the Communist Party.

The secret history of Mikhail Gorbachev's ill-timed trip to Beijing -- and why Russia still fears the contagion of Tiananmen.

On the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, China is writing a new legacy of repression.