U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “brutal crackdown” of the June 4, 1989, student protests in Tiananmen Square, in a social media post ahead of the anniversary.
“We remember the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown 36 years ago in Tiananmen Square and commemorate the courage of the innocent people killed and imprisoned that day. Freedom, democracy, and self-rule are human principles the CCP cannot erase,” he wrote on X.
Rubio also issued a State Department statement commemorating the students, with a rebuke to the CCP for its censorship and human rights abuses.
It noted that the pro-democracy demonstrations had begun in the spring of 1989 and “inspired a national movement.”…