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Security was increased in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Friday morning, with police checking pedestrians’ IDs and tour buses shuttling Chinese tourists as on any other day.

For the Tiananmen Square massacre’s victims, and for those whom an increasingly aggressive, totalitarian Beijing would victimize in the future, we must remember June 4, 1989.

BEIJING — China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of ...

Tiananmen Square was described as “a bloodbath in the center of a world capital." The massacre shocked the international community, while highlighting humanity’s innate desire for liberty.

This is the “Goddess of Democracy.” And 30 years ago, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the original was toppled and destroyed by the Chinese military in shocking scenes broadcast around the world.

An anti–government protester stands in front of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. (Jeff Widener / Associated Press) By The Times Editorial Board .

On Tuesday, CBS News attempted to access Tiananmen Square at about 5 p.m. local time. We waited for an hour in a line along with about 150 other people, but were eventually turned away.

Zhou Duo helped evacuate Tiananmen Square in 1989. These days he defends the movement, but sees democracy in retreat in the West and far off in China.

A wiser, stronger strategy would be to reserve a presidential visit to China for when Beijing demonstrates genuine reform.

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