Home Explainer Tiananmen: Remembering 4th June 1989Tiananmen: Remembering 4th June 1989By Team StratNews - June 4, 2023 Select Preferred on Google News June 4, 1989, when the People’s Liberation Army cracked down on unarmed students, shooting them with rifles and machine guns who were protesting against Deng Xiaoping’s modernisation policies in China.