Silence, high security in China on 30th anniversary of Tiananmen

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China marked 30 years since the deadly Tiananmen crackdown on Tuesday with a wall of silence and extra security, as it traded barbs with the United States over its human rights record.

In China the Communist Party made sure the anniversary remained in the distant past, detaining several activists in the run-up to June 4 while popular livestreaming sites conspicuously shut down for "Technical" maintenance.

Searches by AFP for the term "Tiananmen" on the Twitter-like Weibo platform on Tuesday displayed the official logo of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sharply disagreed on how China has evolved as he hailed the "Heroic protest movement" in a statement for the anniversary.

China called the US statement an "Affront to the Chinese people" issued "Out of prejudice and arrogance".

"There is no reason to be optimistic for China now if you look at what's happening," another Tiananmen protest leader, Zhou Fengsuo, told AFP in New York.

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