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China defends crackdown on students in Tiananmen Square as 'fully correct'

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with some of the survivors of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Washington ahead of the 31st anniversary

Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong
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China last month passed a new security law under which it could open its security agencies offices in Hong Kong

Press Trust of India Beijing

China on Thursday put up its customary defence of the ruling Communist Party's massive crackdown on students' protests in Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Square in 1989 in which hundreds were killed as "fully correct" and said the socialist political model it pursued is the right choice.

Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters are believed to have been killed on June 4, 1989 in and around Tiananmen Square in the Chinese military's brutal crackdown to quell the demonstrations against the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).

The massive square where the foreign journalists were turned away on Thursday became famous all over the world with an