[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 104 (Thursday, June 4, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2724-S2725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, today marks the anniversary of the 1989 
Tiananmen Square Massacre, when students led demonstrations for greater 
accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the 
press, and freedom of speech. One million people participated in these 
historic protests.

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  Tragically, the Chinese Communist Party responded with ruthless 
force, killing demonstrators and bystanders. Troops with assault rifles 
and tanks fired at demonstrators and those trying to block the 
military's advance into Tiananmen Square. Several hundred to several 
thousand people were killed that day.
  China has been ruled by a brutal, authoritarian regime, a communist 
regime, since 1949.
  This regime has not changed its nature, and we see that today in the 
South China Sea, Hong Kong, against Taiwan, and in its response to the 
COVID-19 pandemic.

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