exclusive | The high price of denial: the cost to China of sweeping the Tiananmen crackdown under the carpet

• Three decades have passed since the Tiananmen Square crackdown when troops fired on student-led pro-democracy protesters. The shots were heard around the country and reverberate today despite persistent official censorship of the event
• For those 30 years the Communist Party has refused to revisit June 4, doubling down against calls to check its power