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With Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un among 26 world leaders watching, China’s president Xi Jinping made a muscular address to 50,000 people in Tiananmen Square marking 80 years since the end of the second world war. China is “never intimidated by bullies” and would “stand by the…

China staged its largest-ever military parade in Beijing on Wednesday to mark 80 years since Japan’s surrender in the Second World War. President Xi Jinping stood in Tiananmen Square flanked by Russian leader Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un – a spectacle designed to show military power and political…

For most Chinese, the 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests has passed like any other weekday

Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion

COMMENT: On the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Benedict Rogers says that the question is not whether China has changed – it hasn’t – but whether the free world has the courage to wake up and act on its morals

As the anniversary of the 1989 massacre approaches, the Uyghur activist reflects on his lifelong dedication to the fight for democracy

IN FOCUS : The CIA wanted them to spy as well as perform. The Communist Party insisted that fans were not to dance to them or learn their ways. Forty years ago, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were the first Western band to tour China – Mark Beaumont revisits an…

The reason we don’t see that person is because we’re asking the wrong question

The ruling is a rare case of victory for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists