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US Marks 1989 Tiananmen Anniversary With Criticism of Chinese Censorship
China on Thursday accused the United States of distorting facts and smearing its political system. The statement followed comments by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the 1989 crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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China accused the United States on Thursday of distorting facts and smearing its political system. The statement came one day after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke during a Senate subcommittee meeting in Washington on Wednesday.
Rubio said censorship could not erase the memory of Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. "No amount of censorship can erase the past," Rubio stated on June 3, 2026. On June 4, 1989, the Chinese government sent troops and tanks to crush protests calling for political reform in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
The death toll from the crackdown remains unknown. Discussion of the 1989 Tiananmen events is censored in mainland China. China's statement on Thursday directly addressed Rubio's comments from the previous day. Beijing has not released an official death toll from the events. No publicly released U.S. government evidence has documented a specific casualty figure for the crackdown.
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