Read the following excerpt on the tiananmen square protests. then answer the question that follows. june 4, 2014, marked the 25th anniversary of the tiananmen square protests. on this day in 1989, a large number of students were gunned down by the people’s liberation army for demanding their rights. years after the massacre, china still refuses to speak about the incident. it has banned any discussions about tiananmen square. chinese school textbooks do not mention anything about this event that changed china’s future. recently, when a journalist showed the image of the tank man to students in beijing, china, very few recognized the image. based on the excerpt, what can you infer about china’s memories of tiananmen square?

The Tiananmen Square protests are still a political taboo in China, and talking about it is considered inappropriate or risky. The only opinion of the media is from the point of view of the Communist Party: that it was an appropriate action to ensure stability. Every year there are demonstrations in Hong Kong against the party's decision in 1989. Tiananmen Square is patrolled frequently every 4th of June to prevent any kind of commemoration.  

After the change in the central government of 2004, many members of the Government have mentioned the Tiananmen events. In October 2004, during President Hu Jintao's visit to France, he reiterated that "the Government undertook a determined action to calm the political storm in 1989, which allowed China to enjoy stable development." He also insisted that the Government's point of view regarding the incident would not change.

In March 2004, Premier Wen Jiabao told a press conference that during the 1990s there was a serious political storm in the People's Republic of China, due to the fall of the Soviet Union and the radical changes in Eastern Europe. He declared that the Central Committee of the Communist Party successfully established an open-door policy and protected the "course of socialism with Chinese characteristics."  

In January 2006, a deal with Google confirmed that the matter is still very sensitive for the Chinese government, as Google's Chinese website (Google.cn), applies local restrictions to searches for information about the Tiananmen massacre, as well as with other issues such as the Tibetan independence movement, the banning of the Falun Gong religious group, considered a sect by the Chinese government, or relations with Taiwan. On March 22, 2010, Google officially announced that it would divert its website in China (google.cn) to its servers in Hong Kong, a fact that occurred the following day, forcing its expulsion by the Chinese authorities.

On June 4, 2012, the Chinese authorities took all kinds of measures to avoid commemoration, but in Hong Kong thousands of people managed to join a night vigil in memory of the victims. The Chinese government continues to regard these protests as a "counterrevolutionary rebellion" and still fails to recognize their mistakes and compensate the families of the victims. The Chinese Government, despite repeated requests from various countries such as the United States and various human rights organizations, also refuses to make public the list of all those who died, were arrested or are still missing.

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