Cartoon 2 - Chinese government blocked free flow of information on the internet by placing restrictions on popular websites like ‘Google’ and ‘Yahoo’. The image of tanks and an unarmed student reminds the reader of another major event in recent Chinese history. Find out about that event.
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Dear student, The cartoon refers to the massacre that took place in 1989 in Tiananmen Square in Beijing where hundreds of students were killed. The students demanded political liberalisation, economic reforms and freedom of press and media. The protest was brutally suppressed by the Chinese government.

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