‘We Remember Their Lives and Honor Their Legacy’: Rubio on Tiananmen Massacre’s 37th Anniversary

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te called on China to ‘face the wounds of history.’

A lone Chinese man blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace following the Tiananmen Square massacre, on June 5, 1989. Jeff Widener/AP Photo

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement to mark the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

“On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square,” Rubio said in a statement late on June 3 in the United States, which is hours behind China.