US Lawmakers Propose to Change Chinese Embassy Address to Honor Tiananmen Massacre Victims

The CCP has ’shown no remorse for this horrific event’ and ‘continues to commit severe human rights violations to this day,’ said Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).

A student displays a banner with one of the slogans chanted by the crowd of some 200,000 pouring into Tiananmen Square in Beijing on April 22, 1989. Catherine Henriette /AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers are introducing legislation to rename the street next to the Chinese Embassy in Washington in memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, a bloody chapter in modern Chinese history that the communist regime has tried to erase.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is introducing the legislation on June 4, the 37th anniversary of the 1989 massacre. A companion bill will be introduced in the House by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.).