Chen Guangcheng: Commemorating Tiananmen and Considering the End of CCP Rule

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On June 4, 1989, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent tanks and machine guns into the streets of Beijing to massacre students and citizens who had gathered peacefully to call for an end to official corruption and profiteering. They demanded constitutional government, democracy, and freedom. Thirty-six years have passed since that horrific crackdown on the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement.

And yet, the people living under CCP rule still seem to be caught in a kind of curse—struggling beneath the weight of tyranny, unable to break free from the chains of authoritarianism.

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