2026-11-09
A netizen reported that entering Tiananmen Square now requires swiping an ID card three times. The screen displayed 'Please undergo security check' instead of 'Please proceed.' A police officer approached to ask about the netizen's occupation, major, and school, and warned them not to bring prohibited items and to 'follow the rules.'
2026-11-05
Recently, netizens posted a video showing Xinjiang students being organized to go to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to attend a flag-raising ceremony. The students had national flags painted on their faces, waved flags, and were filled with tears. The video's comment section was restricted, and netizens used bullet comments to mock the event.
2026-10-24
On October 24, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a group of Xinjiang students gathered in front of the camera. One female student cried while delivering a patriotic speech, and the video was met with ridicule from netizens after it circulated.
2026-10-14
On October 14, 2026, Beijing time, the X account @clashreport released a secret interview recording allegedly from a survivor of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. In the recording, the interviewee describes scenes of the military firing on civilians, including the deaths of children, and states that people viewed the government as "barbaric" and "inhumane." The tweet received 16 likes and 4 retweets.
2026-10-11
Andrew Higgins, a senior reporter for The New York Times and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, published a long report on October 11 recounting what he saw and heard after returning to China for the first time in decades. Higgins studied abroad at Shandong University in his early years, served as a Beijing correspondent and witnessed the 1989 Tiananmen incident firsthand, after which he moved on to cover Russia and Eastern Europe. The report records his observations and reflections after setting foot in China again after many years, drawing outside attention.
2026-10-08
During the National Day holiday, Taiwanese artist Nicky Wu recorded a greeting video at Tiananmen Square holding a five-star red flag and referred to Taiwan as "Taiwan Province" on Weibo, sparking criticism from Taiwanese public opinion. His scheduled appearance as a ceremonial first-pitch guest for a professional baseball team was subsequently cancelled. Nicky Wu responded on Douyin, stating, "This is my stance even if I don't make money."
2026-10-07
On October 7, a parent in Shandong posted a video claiming that when their two young children heard the national anthem being played at Tiananmen Square on TV, they immediately stood up, threw down their chopsticks and saluted the television.
2026-10-05
Recently, multiple netizens discovered that when using a photo of Tiananmen with Douyin's "one-click video" feature, the system blocked it, prompting "The selected image does not meet the requirements, try another one."
2026-10-03
After a Hong Kong media outlet interviewed the painter who sprayed the national emblem at Tiananmen, some netizens questioned the related “Great Nation Craftsmen” propaganda, and controversy broke out in the comments section.
2026-10-03
At Beijing time October 3, 2026, the account China Digital Times (@CDT) published its "404 Deleted Content Archive" roundup for August 2026. The report reviewed and archived representative topics and articles that were censored and deleted on the Chinese internet that month, covering cross-talk comedian Guo Degang, sexual assault at a dinner party, Huawei and "Bamboo Cicada," security checks around Tiananmen, the box-office dark-horse phenomenon of the film "Niu Lai," and the Jilong floods, along with related public opinion and reports.
2026-10-03
On October 3, Xiaoxiang Morning Herald published an interview video with the painter of the national emblem at Tiananmen. The painter said the spray-painting pressure is high and not a single flaw is allowed, and he hopes the national emblem will hang on more government buildings. Netizens in the comments section mocked it heavily, and the video subsequently became unavailable.
2026-10-01
Taiwanese entertainer Wu Qilong filmed and posted a video at Tiananmen Square, holding high the five-star red flag and congratulating the Chinese Communist Party on its National Day.
2026-10-01
Before the National Day flag-raising ceremony, large crowds lined up outside Tiananmen Square waiting to enter; on-site video shows some people running to grab viewing spots.
2026-10
On the eve of National Day, TF Family trainee Yang Bowen posted a video of cycling to Tiananmen to see the red flag, and the video was subsequently deleted.
2026-10-01
On October 1, a flag-raising ceremony was held at Tiananmen Square. Some members of the public queued a day in advance to secure good spots and waited through the night to watch.
2026-10-01
During the National Day holiday on October 1, TF Family trainee Yang Bowen posted a video of night-riding to Tiananmen in Beijing. It was deleted shortly after a fan member account reposted it; netizens speculated that the scene of cycling to Tiananmen evoked the famous footage of young people cycling to Tiananmen during the 1989 June Fourth student movement.
2026-10-01
On October 1, a netizen from Hainan posted a video on Douyin, successfully uploading it by pairing the prelude of "Flower of Freedom" with a Tiananmen National Day filter.
2026-09-30
Xi Jinping led officials from the State Council, the National People's Congress, the CPPCC and other bodies to the Monument to the People's Heroes in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to hold a flower-basket laying ceremony.
2026-09-30
Xi Jinping appeared at Tiananmen Square on the morning of September 30, taking part in the flower-laying ceremony at the Monument to the People's Heroes together with Politburo Standing Committee members Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning and others.
2026-09-27
On September 27, a clash broke out among the crowd waiting to watch the flag-lowering ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, during which a woman was grabbed by the throat by someone amid the shoving.
2026-09-20
In the early morning of September 20, about 1,000 representatives of primary, middle, and university flag-raising teams from Hong Kong and Macao who came to Beijing to participate in the "Salute to the National Flag" event watched the flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square and sang "Ode to the Motherland" together as they left.
2026-09-15
On September 15, a video circulating from Beijing at night showed multiple barricades set up around Tiananmen Square, with plainclothes and uniformed guards, police cars, armed police, and fire trucks on the scene. Online reports indicated that Chang'an Avenue was temporarily under traffic control, with restricted access for personnel in some areas. While relevant footage and information about the controls spread online, there has been no further official explanation regarding the specific cause, duration, or handling of the situation.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, the Douyin platform cleaned the comment section of the Tianjin University of Technology military training performance “Tank Formation” video. After the video was posted, the comment section saw multiple netizens use “June Fourth” to allude to the 1989 Tiananmen incident, sparking heated discussion. Douyin subsequently deleted all related comments, resulting in the comment section being emptied, without providing an official explanation. This action was seen as online censorship of sensitive political topics.
2026-08-12
Former State Council Premier Zhu Rongji has died, and his remains were cremated in Beijing, with the flag at Tiananmen lowered to half-mast in mourning. The official obituary and related reports credited Zhu Rongji's achievements during his tenure to the core of Jiang Zemin, drawing widespread public attention.
2026-08-09
On August 9, unidentified black smoke appeared behind and to the left of the Mao Mausoleum at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, drawing crowds of residents and tourists and sparking all kinds of political speculation.
2026-08
The video notes that security at Tiananmen Square has recently been stepped up and the scale of Xi Jinping's guard detail has also grown substantially, indicating a rise in the level of danger he personally faces.
2026-06
A capture incident occurred at Beijing Pinggu Airport, after which commercial flights were prohibited within a 300‑kilometre radius of Beijing Tiananmen, and the parachuting base was dissolved.
2026-06-01
On June 1, 2026, the Beijing Public Security Bureau formally notified the June Fourth victims' family group, the Tiananmen Mothers, that they are strictly forbidden from visiting Wan'an Cemetery on June 4 to mourn their killed relatives, changing a convention of many years and marking the first time in over 30 years that the victims' families have been completely banned from holding a public memorial.
2026-06-01
On June 1, 2026, Tiananmen Mothers, a group of families of those killed in the June Fourth crackdown, issued their annual memorial statement marking the 37th anniversary. More than 100 bereaved family members jointly signed it, once again putting forward three core demands to the Chinese government: disclose the truth about June Fourth, provide reasonable compensation to the victims' families, and pursue those responsible in accordance with the law.
2026-04-12
A tourist was found carrying gasoline in a water bottle during a security check at Tiananmen and was restrained on the spot, triggering a high alert among the authorities and leading to a significant escalation of security at Tiananmen and its surroundings thereafter.
2025-09-03
On the morning of September 3, 2025, a military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan was held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, with the troops on parade formed up along Chang'an Avenue to be reviewed by Xi Jinping.
2025-01
In early 2025, after Chinese AI DeepSeek became popular overseas, tests by multiple research institutions found that it systematically filters sensitive topics such as Tiananmen and Xinjiang Uyghur human rights, and that strict ideological alignment remains even when running offline.
2021-09-05
A wild black Swan rarely landed on the central axis of Tiananmen Square in Beijing and strolled about leisurely for two hours before being taken away by a professional agency, sparking outside associations with the economic and political situation.
2019-10-01
Zhang Yimou served as chief director of the gala celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, directing thousands of amateur performers to present a scene of a prosperous era through light-and-shadow screens and fireworks.
2019
During the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, the CCP massed a large number of troops and military vehicles around the Lo Wu Bridge area. President Trump warned on Twitter that the CCP must be prevented from a bloody crackdown on Hong Kong and a repeat of the Tiananmen incident, and the U.S. side issued a stern warning.
1989-10
According to Yu Maochun, declassified archives show that the East German secret police Stasi were deeply afraid of the spirit of the Tiananmen Movement spreading to East Germany, and once tried to prevent the protest movement from spreading, but it was too late.
1989-06-04
Kim Myeong-il said that on the morning of June 4, 1989, when he was coming down Mount Tai after watching the sunrise, he learned of the shooting in Beijing through a Voice of America broadcast relayed by Mount Tai's loudspeakers.
1989-06-03
Chinese students and citizens gathered in Beijing Tiananmen Square to demand reforms, anti-corruption measures, and freedom, and were met with a military crackdown by troops and tanks.
1989-06-03
As a power crisis loomed, Deng Xiaoping used tanks and machine guns to suppress the student movement, blocking China's path to freedom and democracy.
1989-05-19
In the early hours of May 19, 1989, Wen Jiabao accompanied Zhao Ziyang to Tiananmen Square to visit the students on a hunger strike.
1989-05
In May 1989, during the 1989 student movement in Beijing, university students staging a sit-in protest in Tiananmen Square spontaneously organized a clean-up of the entire square, clearing rubbish and attempting to implement self-managed sanitation of the public space.
1989-04-27
Over 200,000 students and 1 million citizens took to the streets, holding the famous "April 27th Grand Parade" in support of the student movement.
1949-10-01
On October 1, 1949, the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China held its founding ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and the CCP regime was established.