us authorities described its journey through the strait as routine, but china accused the us of deliberately provoking risk in the region the leader of hong kong s opposition party has been detained by police in hong kong on the 34th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. she was holding a candle and two flowers in the causeway bay shopping district, when authorities surrounded her and forced her into a police van. shopping district authorities surrounded a number of other arrests were also made, including surrounded including the prominent democracy activist alexandra wong known as grandma wong . rana mitter, professor of the history and politics of modern china at oxford university, explains the parallels between present day and the time of tiananmen square on 4june1989. today, china has been in a crackdown situation certainly for the last five to six years or so in terms of civil society, free speech and so forth. it is worth noting that during the 90s,
pacific and i believe globally. john: his committee is marking the 34th anniversary of the massacre yesterday. 34 years ago in 1989 when troops opened fire on demonstrators demanding democracy in the country killing hundreds, if not thousands. the committee will hold an event with chinese activists including veterans of the protest saying the crackdowns on freedom have only in the past decades gotten worse. the chinese officials turned down a meeting with lloyd austin. we re told c.i.a. director bird made a secret trip to beijing last month to try to lower tensions. it seems judging by china s recent actions bird s visit may failed to achieve that goal. john: increasingly provocative. thank you. republican congresswoman kat cammack of florida member of the
jet buzzed a u.s. surveillance plane. white house spokesman john kirby says the administration is prepared to face beijing s growing aggressiveness. it won t be long before somebody gets hurt. they can lead to misunderstandings and miscalculations. i sure would like to hear pay jing justify what they are doing. but the chinese defense minister has been blunt. to put it in our way, mind your own business and take care of your own people. the chair of the house select committee on the chinese communist party, wisconsin republican congressman mike gallagher is calling on president biden to do more to stand up to china. they are not interested in being friends. they are not interested in peace and stability across the taiwan strait. they are increasingly aggressive. revisionist power bent on displassing us as the dominant power in the pacific. the committee is marking the 34th anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre in 1939 when chinese troops killed students demonstrating
to undermine our forces in the pacific and says the white house needs to increase our military presence, increase arms sales to taiwan including antiship missiles and cut some economic ties with beijing. not interested in being friends, not interested in peace and stability, they are increasingly aggressive, revisionist power bent on displacing us as the dominant power in the pacific and i believe globally. gallagher s committee is marking the 34th anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre half an hour from now on washington with some of the dissidents and activists who were actually there. you may recall that 19 v9 regime troops opened fire on student demonstrators, demanding democracy. the result, hundreds if not thousands of those students were killed in this iconic image of the tank man facing off that line of chinese tanks. despite the anniversary, john kirby pushed back against criticism that u.s. officials were meeting today in beijing.