it shows a column of tanks near tiananmen square. captured the bravery and the tragedy of the chinese democracy in one single image. it appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world. on the 25th anniversary of that moment, i am pleased to have jeff widener here. >> when you see that, what do you first think? >> i think how close i came to losing that photograph. i botched the exposure. it taunts me to this day. i don't even have it on the wall of my apartment. >> because of how close you came to not having it? >> it's like being vacated a basketball game. if you missed the winning point, you would be scarred for life. when i look at it-- >> only you would've known. >> no, i think everyone would've known. i had been in beijing for about a week. i had covered the events of june 4. that night i was hit in the face with the rock. the camera saves my life. my head goes back, boom, the rock went through the mirror. then i started asking people around me if anyone had a flash. i have no camera but a flash on. i went to rich par

you cannot type tiananmen square . you cannot type june 4.il yesterday, you cannot search the word "today tiana nmen." if you search that come it shows up all the memorial discussions. therefore, the authority has to ban the word "today." that is how sensitive this topic is 25 years later. >> does the government have reason -- are they right in believing that if they don't maintain this tight political repression, that their hold is so fragile that they will be overthrown and the party will lose control? >> that is their fear. >> is the fear well-founded? founded after the massacre. after that point, there is no to retreatieve -- from what they have done to the people. >> you just wrote a book, and we talked about it here on the program. reflect on how the government anded tiananmen square, with this economic liberalization, why aren't they more confident? >> the government is acutely self-conscious about what happened in 1989. officially what it says was that this was, in its own way, a tragic but necessary step on the path of china's econom

they have hundreds of them square.on tiananmen their cameras.eras in other hands are dangerous and with good reason. powder keg.an be a on a june night in 1989, square was a war zone. the people's liberation army its way into beijing from four directions with orders to the square. up a armed citizens and students faced armored personnel tanks and soldiers armed with semi automatic weapons. june 4, 1989 the army's mission had been accomplished. dawn came up.he >> okay. is prologue. let's go to nick. you were there looking at your it was your junior year abroad covering that for the "new york times" as an intern or something. but tell us what it was just set will for thoseu of us who weren't there 25 years ago. >> sure. well, the one thing that agreed in early 1989 was that protests were very unlikely. that people were not interested weren'tics, students engaged and that protests weren't going to happen and lead huya1989, the leade die. was symbolic of of the reform. >> he was not a wild eyed but had been pushed out being harsh enough in the prote

one said, looks like tiananmen square but it can't be. of 100 students, only 15 recognized the image. that shows the chinese government enforcing amnesia on so many young people. >> brown: how important is the memory for dissidents in china and how strong is that dissident movement today? >> i would even say the tiananmen generation is simply using the word dissidents. 25 years ago, that was an entire generation of chinese, even just college students alone, it's nationwide participating in the pro-democracy demonstration, and beijing, there's millions and millions of citizens, too, and nationwide. so all of these people, most of us, are alive, and have the real remembrance. but it's been brutally suppressed, and then 25 years later, this trauma and this memory, where does it exactly go? it's a question of -- to answer many questions -- it's a question that needs to be answered, but it's also the answer will tell us where china is going to go tomorrow. let's say louisa's question, many young generations don't know about tiananmen square. t

her husband was shot and killed in tiananmen square in 1989. said she was being watched by police and could not leave her house, so we went to her. mrs. yo, it's seth doane from cbs. no one came to the door, but five policemen came outside. we're just trying to interview mrs. yo. chinese security prevented us from speaking to a number of people for this story, so we traveled to hong kong, beyond the reach of mainland police. >> no one really know how many people died. >> reporter: there we met lee kond chian who opened a museum. he was in beijing the night of the crackdown. he told us he thought the pro-democracy movement had momentum, but then the tanks rolled in. he remembered the gunfire and the fear when the lights went out. >> that was the darkest point of my life when the whole tiananmen squa square, when the lights switched off. >> when did you realize there had, indeed, ben this massacre? >> in the morning when the lights come out. you could see bodies already being transported to the hospitals. >> reporter: 25 years later lee's museum

it's been 25 years since the tiananmen square crackdown. it's an anniversary chinese authorities would rather people forget. >>> the lead author of papers on an easy way to create cells that can be developed into any type of organ says she'll retract them. and business people in japan are turning to digital technology to update a time honored tradition. >>> security is tight in china's tiananmen square on the 25th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. hundreds of people were killed in the incident. chinese leaders aren't allowing any memorial events, and they're trying to muffle all criticism. nhk world has the story from beijing. >> reporter: tee rnman square is crowded with tourists, but many police officers are keeping watch over the scene. officials have installed metal detectors at all entrances to the square. the police are frisking people for weapons. these measures have been in place since at least tuesday, but on wednesday, security officials began searching everyone's bags, as well. they've also deployed mor

security to try to snuff out any commemoration of the pro-democracy protests at kamman square -- tiananmen square. -- 25 been 30 years since years since troops left thousands dead. looks ---assad reelection looks to be all the foregone conclusion. ♪ >> also coming up for you this hour, tom cruise makes a new record, screening his movie in three countries in just one day. we will get the latest from the paris premiere of "edge of tomor row." and this friday marks the 70th anniversary of d-day but this day some history buffs will be commemorating the anniversary underwater. footage of the wreckage of some of the votes that brought allied troops onto the normandy beaches. but first, barack obama has thrown his weight behind the u.s. commitment to its nato allies. the u.s. president's speech in warsaw was a show of solidarity with eastern european nations. after russia's intervention in the ukraine. todayave come to warsaw on behalf of the united states, on behalf of the nato alliance, -- reaffirm our commitment to poland security. article five is clear, an attack all, and an attack on we have

>> >>> security ramps up in china's capital, 25 years to the day after tiananmen square. >>> decades after the crackdown, beijing residents fear reprisals. >>> also coming up, the taliban releases video showing the handover of the soldiers in qatar. >>> a show of strength. president obama tells ukraine's head of estate that the u.s. is black head of state that the u.s. is committed to the country in the long term. >>> hello, increased numbers of police on patrol in beijing's tiananmen square on the 25th anniversary of a violent crackdown on protesters, as well as a heavy police preps, sensors erased a mention of the crackdown from the internet. the chinese government doesn't allowing public discussion of the protest, leaving hundreds of unarmed people dead. the early hours of june the 4th, chip oos government troops opened fire on unarmed civilians in beijing's tiananmen square. the crowd was mostly students and young people holding peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations for weeks. an official death toll was never released. human rights groups say it to range from hundreds to several

yo's husband was shot and killed near tiananmen square in 1989. she was being watched by police and could not leave her house. so we went to her. mrs. yo, it's seth no one came to the door, but five policemen showed up outside. we're just trying to interview mrs. yo? >> chinese security prevented us from speaking to a number of people for the story so we traveled to hong kong, beyond the reach of mainland police. >> no one really know how many people die. >> reporter: there we met lee, who founded a new museum about tiananmen. >> i hope one day my museum is in beijing. >> reporter: he was in beijing the night of the crackdown. he told us he thought the pro- democracy movement had momentum, but then the tanks rolled in. he remembered the gunfire and the fear when the lights went out. >> that's the darkest point of my life, when the whole tiananmen square light was switched off. >> reporter: when did you realize that there had indeed been this massacre? >> in the morning, actually, when the light come up. you can see body already being transport to

this week is the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square protests. coming up, we will give you some of the reaction from the u.s. government in the days following the chinese government crackdown on demonstrators. we will start with remarks from bush a-- george h.w. couple of days after the chinese troops marched on protesters killing hundreds and arresting thousands. president bush announced several measures including a suspension of the chinese military. >> during the past few days, elements of the chinese army have been brutally suppressing popular and peaceful demonstrations in china. there has been widespread and continuing violence, many casualties and many deaths. we deplore the decision to use force and i now call in the chinese leadership publicly as i have in public channels to avoid violence and to return to their previous policy of restraint. the demonstrators in tiananmen square were advocating basic human rights, including the freeze -- freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of association. these are goals we support aroun

james fallows is joining us to look at the 25th anniversary of tiananmen square. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> today marks the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. united states -- u.s. senators took to the floor just days after the event to do not -- condemn the actions and support protesters. speakers included george mitchell of maine and bob dole of kansas. this portion is about a half hour. >> mr. president, people the world over watched with admiration for weeks as millions of chinese people, led by a group of brave young students, staged the largest peaceful demonstration in all of human history. but people the world over watched with disbelief and horror over the past few days as the chinese people's liberate. -- liberation army brutally suppressed the demonstration, killing, wounding, and beating their unarmed fellow citizens. this cruel suppression has been the chinese government's answer to the modest demands of the chinese people for a voice in their own future. the chinese people have provided a dramatic demonstration of the

today is the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. tonight we mark the occasion with a look at what was happening at the time and the impact it had around the world. we begin at 8:00 eastern and we'll show a discussion with journalists who covered the event, including "new york times" reporter nick cass chris tauf who -- nicholas christophe who won a prize. this week he discussed some of the acts of courage that happened outside tiananmen square. >> i remember troops were coming in on the airport road a bus driver parked his long bus across the airport road to block the troops. the first truckload of troops arrived, demanded he moved aside his bus, he refused. an officer pulled out his pistol, pointed it at him and demand head drive the bus off and the driver had the keys in his hand, this is night, he threw them into the verge, the -- i verge there and don't -- he was not executed immediately. i don't know what happened to him but to do that, block the troops from going into tiananmen square, you know, boy. i'm incredibly admiring --

that's the legacy of tiananmen square in 1989.y when the government made a statement about its view and attitude towards political reform versus economic reform. it would not tolerate political changes but at the same time, would push ahead with economic reforms. and that is a big question for china going forward. for the next 25 years, it's looking to embrace these deeper economic reforms, even as we've seen xi jinping, the president of this country, consolidating his power, he's also unveiled a broad liberalizing agenda for the economy. but are the two really compatible? that is the big question that a lot of people have here. >> yes. i suppose we'll see what happens there. eunice, thanks very much indeed for joining us. that's the latest from beijing, cnbc's eunice yoon. >>> the u.s. real estate and office sector has been slow to recover from the recession with weak jobs growth and skittish employers leaving many spaces vacant. with bigger tenants harder to come by, office landlords are looking to change their business model. k

next a generation that grew up in the shadow of tiananmen square.ot far from where i'm standing at the u.s. capitol, 50 years ago, the first american use him dedicated to african art opened its doors. a diplomat whoby started gathering pieces to display. the collection eventually became the national museum of african art. >> the traditional art of liberia and sierra leone convey a culture rich in spirit and symbolism. ceremonial masks and carvings dating from the 15th century to modern times are part of a major exhibition at the national museum of african art. >> we have the joy of helping people to read think how they think about africa. >> this is only one aspect of african art, often mistakenly described as primitive. it is half a century after america's first dedicated african art museum opened its doors in washington, perceptions are changing. >> what i really feel excited about is that we no longer, i hope, have to go to europe or to the united states to justify the beauty, the diversity, the value of african art. we can see it in its own cont

>>> today is the 25th year anniversary of the tiananmen square demonstrations.uprising that began with the sudden death of the reformer and evolved into a broader night for democracy. on june 4, 1989, the chinese government ordered a military crackdown on student protests. images from tiananmen square showed arm troops and tanks and people's liberation army suppressing the movement with a brutal efficiency, even shooting many protesters dead in the street. today in hong kong, thousand held a vigil. hong kong was not part of the mainland in 1989 and still remains a semiautonomous city state. one of the places connected to china where public demonstrations are occurring. why? that's because the government of course in beijing has spent decade suppressing even the mere existence of the tiananmen square protests. that means no discussion, news coverage and basic references to june 4th, this anniversary date, are scrubbed from the internet. activists try to subvert the restriction by referring to the event as may 35th. it may be hard to appreciate how effective that

a sense of injustice lingers. >> tiananmen square's complex legacy. world leaders will gather on the beaches of normandy to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the d-day landing. it was the biggest invasion the world had ever seen but crucial to the efforts in the air. by planeearheaded known as the c 47 dakota. paratroopers were dropped on enemy targets. a look back at the key role they played. >> it was the plane that helped make d-day possible. the d.c. three, or dakota, once again flying over southern england. the plane that became the airborne workhorse. daycoders flew on that delivering power troopers -- paratroopers on entre friend soil, taking the fight directly to germans. now 70 years on, some of the few remaining dakotas have gathered again to re-create that epic flight and invasion. >> some of them i have known since the brigade formed. >> 94-year-old lawrence bell parachuted out of many dakotas and recalls a fine but unforgiving aircraft, especially during its unpressurized dives. >> i have seen strong, brave men screaming with pain. well

day marks an infamous anniversary, may remember, 25 years since tanks stormed tiananmen square. if you were to ask a young chinese man or woman about the moment in history they might not know anything that you are talking about. we have a pretty extraordinary look of china's censoring. and jonah hill apologizing for using the f word, not that f word, but a different one. an apology that is rare in our culture. an apology we should look for more often. that apology and reaction, coming up to night. stay with us. i'm their mom at the playground and i'm his mom at the dog park. the kids get trail mix, and here's what you get after a full day of chasing that cute little poodle from down the street. mm hmm delicious milo's kitchen chicken meatballs. they look homemade, which he likes almost as much as making new friends yes, i'll call her. aww, ladies' man. milo's kitchen. made in the usa with chicken or beef as the number one ingredient. the best treats come from the kitchen. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becom

the people spoke out in 1976 and '86 ten years later in tiananmen square.t's unlikely that this party will allow people to somehow examine what happened during those decades. more so, it has nothing to gain from such an examination. it knows very well that any closer scrutiny, public or otherwise of its own record, will inevitably lead to an even greater loss of credibility. >> frank dikotter, thank you very much for sharing your perspective. appreciate it. >>> 70 years after the largest seaborne invasion in history, they've come back. >> elderly world war ii veterans being awarded a special norman did i medal at a ceremony in the french town of caan. hundreds of survivors of the d-day invasion will be in france for friday's 70th anniversary. >> we'll remind you to stay with cnn for live coverage marking that fateful day. for our international audiences, special coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. for those of you in london that's on friday. cnn's christiana amanpour and max foster will be live for this historic event. >>> world war ii veterans have lost another b

how did tiananmen change china's middle class? >> well, we have to also remember what happened then in the context of what was going on, and then what happened elsewhere around the world. we also know that the tv yet union had collapsed. they had wanted to have political freedoms before they had true economic growth in the institutions that developed before. so china clearly was worried about that situation, and china was going through high inflation at the time. china policymakers really needed to get a handle on changing a country that was completely communist economy. this was a major transition. a lot of these leaders come from the cultural institution where they know that chaos would be destruction for the country. the narrative that they have told the chinese, and lots of the chinese have bought into it is that largely, hey, if we just had too many changes at once, we couldn't have implemented the reforms that we've had, and that allowed you to enjoy all the freedoms that you have now economically like going abroad. >> the f

they were marking the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. some worry that fewer and fewer people know what happened. nhk world's tomoki matsuda met a man who is raising awareness, using his skill as a filmmaker. >> reporter: a small band of protesters marched in tokyo. they called for democracy in china. there was no violence. the police were not troubled. only about 50 people took part. one of its organizers was a film director from the mainland. he marched in 1989 too. on that day, 25 years ago, several thousand people protested in tokyo, including chinese students. han was studying at the time at a university in tokyo. >> translator: we had more than 100 times the people here today. there was excitement in the air. it was as if crowds of chinese people had just fallen from the sky. so today's turnout is a bit sad. >> reporter: after the incident, he decided to remain in tokyo. he works to keep alive the memory of what happened that day. he makes films and writes. >> translator: people in china are not even allowed to hold memorial ceremon

chinese forces on display in tiananmen square 25 years after the crushing of the pro democracy movement. >>> this is the scene live in west minister where the queen prepares to outline the british government's next legislative program amid it the traditional pomp and ceremony. hello. thanks for joining us on "bbc world news." president obama has met is the president elect of ukraine petro poroshenko on the second day of his trip to poland. he said they discussed a plan for reducing ukraine's energy dependence on russia and how the u.s. can help train the ukrainian security forces. this all comes ahead of a major speech that mr. obama is due to make in the next few minutes, in fact, as part of a ceremony to mark 25 years since the end of communism in poland. this is the stage setting. come rove ski, poland's president speaking now, cataloging poland's move, transition from the communist ear rat which ended precisely 25 years ago to today when it can count itself among the market democracies showing huge signs of stability over the course of the last 25 years. it is a timely moment for pr

they gave me the assignment to document what was going on at tiananmen square.e interesting until it started heating up on the 3rd of june. crowds were getting pretty rowdy. there was a lot of pushing and shoving going on. i was very scared, the whole time. on the 5th, i came into the ap office with the diplomatic compound and there was a message from new york photos. and it said, we don't want anyone to take any unnecessary risk, but if someone could please photograph the occupied tiananmen square, we would appreciate it. this is not what i wanted to hear. we drew straws. i drew the short straw. i got to the beijing hotel. the sixth floor had a balcony. when you walked outside, you had a pretty good view down the avenue towards tiananmen square. right on the wall by me was a bullet hole. it was a reminder that these guys could very easily pick me off. i put the load of film in. set the automatic setting. a few minutes later, i hear the familiar sound of tanks coming down the street from tiananmen square. i jumped up, went to the balcony, looked over, i saw it l

. >> tiananmen square became the focal point of the protests.quare is right in front of the great hall of the people, where the seat of chinese government is. it was mind-boggling. i was in the middle of that march. i'm 6'2". i weigh 200 pounds. i was literally swept off my feet by those demonstrators. >> photojournalist jeff widner covered it for the "associated press." >> there was this amazing, uplifting feeling in the air. >> a few weeks later in mid-may, the situation intensified when soviet premier mikhail gorbachev heads to china. >> remains a world turned upsidedown tonight. >> he was an advocate in his home country. his visit gave them an opportunity to go to the streets and express themselves in a way they had not before. >> they knew they had the world watching them. >> and this also enraged the chinese authorities who are used to stage managing every photo op. and suddenly they had no control. >> after gorbachev leaves and the protests continue, chinese authorities change their tactics. >> the chinese communist party cracked down, an

the events on tiananmen square 25 years ago. business correspondent linda yu joining us from singapore. but the calculation very clearly made there by the chinese authorities to put economic progress ahead of any sort of political reform. >>. >> yes, very much so. back in 1989, that was in the first decade when china started to open. and i think in that first decade, there was some belief that reform and opening as it was put forward would the include not just economic reform but also other types of reform, namely political but i think the massacre there on that day, those coup col of days in that square showed that the chinese government didn't intend for reform and opening to extend to all parts of society. they really meant just in terms of the economics. and i think that's a lesson that was pretty hard learned by the chinese students that day. >> but the economy now 25 years later having raged ahead is slowing down. the big question is this going to be a hard or soft landing? >> yeah, the economy is slowing down and i think

. >> now we move to the 25th anniversary of the massacre in tiananmen square. we are joined by jonathan ferro and asia society, jamie mansell. this is a long time in the memory of many chinese people. no commemoration, no recognition. >> it is more than that, the chinese government is actively trying to squash the memory of tiananmen square. they are scouring the social media, there is all kinds of presence of the military and plainclothes police presence. they are doing everything they can to try to actively force the forgetting. >> it is like going into all of the libraries and picking out all of the books and it is like one of those science fiction novels. if you remove traces of it, it didn't happen. >> this is not just tiananmen square. up to 45 million people were killed in the great leap forward. 50 million people were killed as a result of the behavior of the party. obviously, the parties trying to squash that and replace this with the other narrative of victimization and the commonest party as the champion of nationalism. >> there is an investment impl

the taketh anniversary of tiananmen square comes around. it is something that the u.s. has appealed to china to release them before the anniversary is over. >> a lone man facing down a tank. this iconic representation of the tiananmen square crackdown is sensitive on mainland china. but in hong kong it is a symbol of the 25-year anniversary of the massacre. this year many mainland chinese have crossed the border for a chance to experience political protests. >> here it is written let's rehabilitate tiananmen events. this is the marching slogan. >> on mainland china these events don't exist. that is why i came here. >> most chinese people know little of the events of 1989. but a recently opened museum is trying to he had indicate some of the thousands of mainland terrorists who come to hong kong every week. most are reluctant to be filmed. >> we didn't know about this thing. it seems like it doesn't exist. so we never mentioned it, and i dare not to mention it to my parents. if i tried to, they will just say stop talking about it. >> but even here, such a museum encounte

it, itremove traces of didn't happen. >> this is not just tiananmen square.p to 45 million people were killed in the great leap forward. killed as people were a result of the behavior of the party. obviously, the parties trying to squash that and replace this with the other narrative of victimization and the commonest party as the champion of nationalism. is an investment implication. you always wait for those overnight reports. sismondi purchasing managers index, it seems to move markets. >> what is good news, no one believes it, when it is bad news, they really believe it. the other side is what has changed. economically, a lot, but politically, not much. when we look at these gdp targets coming out of china, we talk about a slowdown. it is us that excesses of that number. what they are trying to generate his jobs. you have a number that generates 10 million jobs a year, you keep the unemployed rate at four percent. richer, guys don't get what happens? this is happening on the internet. what did the chinese authorities try to do, clamp down on google, twitt

the last hour in tiananmen square. i remember looking into the tanks and troops. it was amazing. didn't now how much hatred and resentment. it was a flood of love and hope. i was hoping the chinese leaders, and the soldiers would know what a better world we hope for them. and for the next generation, even though they may never know or remember us, we hope for a greater china. i call the chinese leader to go ahead, expand the political reform and the spiritual reform. only then, when we have three reforms, can it have lasting peace and prosperity. >> we are pleased you have the freedom to talk to us about this tonight. >> thank you very much. >> tank you, god bless you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, traps gender model geena rosaro talks about her life, message and mission. [ ♪ music ] >>> my conversation with kurt ellie. the performance review. that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at y

remember that replica of the statue of liberty paraded in tiananmen square. they were tumultuous times. no one ever expected that the people's liberation arm would fire on the people using live rounds. some images remained seared in my memory. i recall two bodies fluted by tanks, the treadmill marks still visible. i remember the anger of people after the crackdown, hurling abuse at the soldiers. they couldn't believe that the army would turn on the people. they believe the army was there to protect them. for a time, it seemed back then that perhaps the communist party itself, its future was in doubt. >> adrien, what's the mood in china today? >> well, as you can imagine, around tiananmen square, the security measures have truly been draconian. there are police trucks there, firetrucks, tourists have been able to enter the square but only if they show their i.d. to filter out journalists in the square. it remains off limit to us. that is a measure, a reflection of just how nervous the government has been about this most sensitive of anniversaries. they will be

just in tiananmen square that the chinese, that this problem exists. it's in otherhai, places, but they brought the troops in from outside because the beijing troops apparently demonstrated a great sensitivity to the cause of the young people. and we're disciplined though opted on theey side of democracy and change and people.g i certainly don't want to speculate on something that i don't have, i can't reach that conclusion. unitse of the soldiers burned their own trucks, and received the same type of intelligence? >> i just saw a speculation, i i don't believe the intelligence said that. but there are reports that it is for some of these military who are much more sympathetic to the openness, to demonstrators. and i again go back to the that tomquestion here asked. the change that's taken place so far, we're beyond a cultural revolution response. of the that the depth feeling towards democracy is so great that you can't put the genie back in the bottle and return to total repression. athink what we're seeing is manifestation of that in the p.l.a.ns wi

and contrast that with the massive national museum that's on the edge of tiananmen square.t has more floor space than any mum museum in the world. you see the cowboy hat that he had from the u.s., but you won't see any reference at all to the crackdown that the leader ordered killing all those people, andrea. >> so, it's just really fascinating in -- you spent so much time in china, spent some time over the years in china. even as we talk about china's extraordinary economy, and all of the other changes in china, there's almost still complete political censureship in hong kong. >>> communities across omaha, nebraska, are cleaning up after a tornado, hailened heavy flooding called by severe storms. they helped the residents navigate chest-deep water in the city. some of the worst flooding cut off access to the omaha airport. new gain flings! are like music to your nose. ♪ your love keeps lifting me ♪ ♪ ♪ higher and higher [ male announcer ] more gain scent plus oxi boost and febreze for three big things in one gain fling! it's our best gain ever. for three big things in one

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so students marched on tiananmen square and soon joined by intellectuals demanding freedom of speech.r that night, the liberation army opened up fire on the unarmed students, and then later in the day, the soldiers used tanks to clear the square and 10,000 people were arrested and when the people crowded the barriers, the soldiers opened up fire again. china puts the death toll at 246, but other estimates have been a as high as 2,000. and then this grabbed international attention. the lone unarmed protester whose identity has never been confirmed began known as and ta man, staging this singular act of defiance. and now 25 years later, china has banned all references to the crackdown and blocked off the square. the square is the only overt reason that it is remembered 25 years later. and joining me is lisa lim, and thank you for joining us to talk the about your book "the people's republic of tiananmen." 2,500 students were correctly able to identify the tank man, and were you surprised by that? i was stunned? >> i was actually quite prize sprooed by that. i went to four different univ

china has changed in many way since the tiananmen square protests. excellent well written guide to china today and to rising expectations among every day chinese. it talks about the chinese dream in business and even in religion. if you want to understand modern china, read this book. now for the last look. wednesday was the 25th anniversary of the 1989 tiananmen square crackdown. despite massive protests, it wasn't news in china. june 4th, the anniversary of the prote protest, is called internet maintenance day in china because of all of the temporary censorship the government imposes. if you were behind the great firewall on wednesday, you couldn't search for terms like june 4th or tiananmen according to "the wall street journal." things like campus upheaval, may 35th, which is of course june 4th, between spring and summer, the roman numerals for 1989, student movement, 8 squared which is 64. three days after june 1st, march 96, the list goes on and on. the correct answer to the "gps" challenge question is c. it wasn't until 1993, 46 years after is

at dawn the chinese flag was raised over tiananmen square. some machine guns were stationed around.ian side. 25 years ago tanks rolled into ten men's square to suppress a week-long student uprising. the crackdown turned bloody. it's still not known how many died. estimates rose from 200 to a thousand. >> have you learned anything about it in the history books? >> not mentioned at all. >> these college students who we won't name because they took a risk talking to us they say it's difficult to talk about. they call it the june 4th incident. >> we still don't know what happened. that's not cool. >> that's not cool. >> that's not cool. everyone has a right to know. after so many years we still don't know what happened. >> try searching tiananmen square on china's heavily monitored internet or key words like june 4 or even 6-4-89 and the results are sensored. >> and these red dots are where people died. >> it's so difficult to talk openly about tiananmen square in china that we traveled to hong kong. there in a small 800-square. foot ten meant museum owner lee chok chiang talked about i

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and i had before that tiananmen event earned a scholarship from the u.s. to continue my graduate studies. so i was able to get my passport after hiding in the countryside for about a week. once i received my passport, i got my ps2 in the u.s. consulate and left china the second of august to america. i remember clearly and still today when i arrived in williamsburg and stood on the campus of william mary agnes very quiet. it was an amazing and liberating feeling to be standing in a place where you realize for the first time in my life that no one was watching me and no one was going to report the things that i said. >> booktv asked, what are you reading this summer? be back before i answer your question, they could give you a background over the last 10 years of concentrated most of my reading on the early cons to teach the history of our country and early presidents of our country. i suppose i studied that status 50 years ago or more, but it's good to go back to it. thomas jefferson, john adams, most recently john quincy adams. so let me tell you my main i

a million people protesting in tiananmen square back then, before the berlin wall fell. it was an incredible moment in modern history. the beijing government has been cracking down on dissidents in the past few months, and journalists. what are they afraid of? >> they are afraid of another teenman. it's 1.2 people in the center of beijing. and protests in the city around china. the problem is most people in china do not believe a one party system is not good for a modernized society. what keeps it together is prosperity. but they have an economy that is stumbling, the same situation in 1989. then it was inflation, now deflati deflation. it's economic mismanagement. i think they know they have a real problem. >> the power behind the scenes in china decided that they needed to give lessons in obedience to people massing in tianamen. are we seeing history repeating itself, is that what they are trying to do. sending a message of intimidation, don't mess with the communist party. >> for those people alive in 1989, and, of course, they'll never forget it, they are trying to c

. >> wednesday also marked the 25th anniversary of china's tiananmen square massacre. in hong kong, more than 100,000 people held a vigil for those killed. it was the only major commemoration allowed on chinese territory. in 1989, students took to beijing's tiananmen square to protest the democratic reforms. the chinese army responded with brutal force. no one is sure how many people were killed, but figures have been estimated in the hundreds or even thousands. these images have since been .anned in china on wednesday, 25 years later, security forces blocked the square to prevent any public assemblies. >> it was supposed to be a g-8 summit in sochi. instead, leaders from only seven of the leaders -- of the world's meting industrial nations in brussels. russia was not included. the move to suspend moscow came in march when russia annexed the crimean territory. the g7 spoke of its concern over violence in eastern ukraine. slaprs threatened to moscow with further sanctions if it does not de-escalate the conflict there between ukraine's government and pro-russian separati

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talk to me about the relationship between tiananmen and policy reform in china.it is having an impact. >> indeed, it is impossible to delink the two. the main concern is social instability. when china looks back to 25 years ago, that is an object lesson in the evils that come from that. in many ways, you see the government at the moment has a vast and herculean reform job ahead of them. they have to turn the economy upside down, make it less reliant on excess investment, make it less reliant on exports and make it more reliant on domestic. growth target is all about maintaining social stability. aggressive efforts come increased analyst to get the central bank to do more. there is a lot of about letting the economy slow. intern, to rebalance the economy the way it is needed. they are very much in the room when the president and other policymakers figure out what to do because they are worried about social instability. that is something they have to risk, if you will, to rebalance the economy. the closer the growth remains at 7.5%, the more you have to say that th

god forbid we have anything that looks like tiananmen square.e are other more subtle and nuanced but deadly and effective in terms of their ability to cause dissent to be quelled. we need to send. hopefully it is always peaceful. that is what debate should be all about. the debate here in washington. this is a marketplace of ideas. host: our last calls from missouri. caller: i want about bullying. the world champions of bullying are bernanke and yellen. they have paid no interest rates to senior citizens to save the banks and wall street. what is congressmen'? -- congressman's duty? guest: i think there has been a recklessness with quantitative easing. i can understand a short burst of health -- of help. when you do it year after year and your balance of trillions that they hold, it only exacerbates the debt. be reason cbo says we would under $900 billion of interest after 2024 isear because those interest rates cannot be artificially kept low or ever. there is a degrading of the economy that happens, possibilities of other negative consequences