Thirty-three years after the events in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, it is 1,700 km further on, in Taipei, that around 2,000 people gathered to commemorate the victims of this massacre committed by the Chinese army.
On June 4, 1989, Beijing mobilized the army to put an end to a peaceful student movement demanding the democratization of China.
It is estimated that around 1000 people were killed.
On the other side of the strait, in Taiwan, we also talked about democracy.
The new president, Lee Teng-hui, would breathe new life into the “rebel island” and distance it from its authoritarian past.
It is therefore with attention that, 40 years after the split between nationalist and communist China, the Taiwanese followed the student movement of Tiananmen.
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