Thousands left wounded, a countless amount of citizens dead, and a country with a damaged reputation. All these were the results of an unforgettable event, the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy riot of 1989.

After a war between the communists and the Kuomingtang (KMT) party in China, leader Chiang Kai-shek and his party, the KMT, fled to Taiwan. Mao Zedong, leader of the communist party, then took control and launched several communist reforms: such as the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward. The people of The Peoples Republic of China began to slowly accept the transition to communism; however, the next chairman, Deng Xiaoping, attempted to relax the system that Mao set up. Xiaoping tried to gradually ease China into a market economy, but by the year of 1989, the economic and political changes had yielded two dissatisfied groups.

The first group encompassed students and intellectuals...