In this Wednesday, May 28, 2014 photo, Chinese visitors gather underneath a shadow from a lamp post near a giant electronic screen showing Chinese government propaganda song lyrics reading "Without Communist Party, there is no new China" on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Communist leaders have spent 25 years making sure there is no opportunity to discuss the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown that crushed pro-democracy protests at a cost of hundreds of lives. Far from easing off as China went through three changes of ruling party leadership and a revolution in social media, a relentless campaign aimed at erasing public memory of the most tumultuous event of the past three decades has been steadily updated and tightened. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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