The US House of Representatives urged China on Tuesday to end its wall of silence over the crushed Tiananmen Square movement, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowing on the 30th anniversary to keep the memory alive. The House approved a resolution that urged China to provide a "full, transparent and independent accounting" of the Tiananmen crackdown, in which hundreds if not more than 1,000 pro-democracy protesters were killed on June 4, 1989 as the communist rulers sent in tanks and troops. It also urged China to "cease the censoring of information and discussion about the Tiananmen Square massacre" including at Confucius Institutes, the centers for Chinese studies that Beijing has supported at universities around the world.
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