Every year on June 4, the Chinese government arrests people for lighting a candle.

Now two Republican lawmakers want to make sure Beijing has to say the words every single time they answer their mail in Washington.

You are not going to believe how they plan to do it.

Rick Scott Just Put Tiananmen Square on the Front Door of the Chinese Embassy

The Chinese Communist Party murdered thousands of its own people in Tiananmen Square and spent 37 years erasing it from history.

Now Senator Rick Scott has introduced a bill that would force the Chinese Embassy in Washington to mail every letter, every visa application, and every diplomatic cable from one address: 1 Tiananmen Square Memorial Boulevard.

Beijing can't ignore it, censor it, or pretend it away.

What the Bill Would Do to China's Front Door

The "Tiananmen Square Memorial Act of 2026," introduced by Scott and Representative Andy Ogles on the 37th anniversary of the massacre, targets the stretch of International Place Northwest running directly in front of the Chinese Embassy Compound and renames it "Tiananmen Square Memorial Boulevard."

Under the bill, every piece of official correspondence leaving that building gets stamped with the name of the massacre the CCP has spent four decades lying about.

The bill also directs the General Services Administration to install street signs modeled after D.C. Metro station markers at federal property and key intersections surrounding the embassy – permanent and impossible to miss.

Scott said the CCP has shown "no remorse for this horrific event, has never taken accountability, and continues to commit severe human rights violations to this day."

He added that the bill honors the memory of the "courageous victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre" and condemns the "heinous human rights abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party."

Ogles put it more bluntly: China is still "ruled by the immoral, genocidal Communist regime."

"The CCP may try to erase history," he said. "But we will not forget."

This Playbook Has Worked Before

Congress has used this exact tactic against hostile regimes since the Cold War – and it works because authoritarian governments can't stand the humiliation.

In 1984, the block of 16th Street NW in front of the then-Soviet Embassy was renamed "Andrei Sakharov Plaza" after the nuclear physicist the Kremlin had tried to silence. Moscow fumed. The name stuck.

In 2014, Congress moved to rename the same stretch in front of the Chinese Embassy "Liu Xiaobo Plaza" after the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Beijing imprisoned for promoting human rights. China called it a "sheer farce." Congress called it accountability.

Senator Marco Rubio – before becoming Secretary of State – pushed legislation to rename the street in front of the Russian Embassy "Boris Nemtsov Plaza," after the anti-Putin reformer shot multiple times near the Kremlin in 2015.

The pattern is consistent: America forces dictatorships to mail their correspondence from addresses named after the people they killed.

This bill would give the Chinese Embassy the most powerful name of all.

Why June 4 Is the Date That Haunts Beijing

Thirty-seven years ago, Chinese tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square and opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators who had filled the square by the hundreds of thousands.

Western diplomats estimated hundreds to thousands were killed. Rights groups put the number as high as 10,000. The CCP has never released a death toll – because releasing one would mean admitting what happened.

The protesters were students calling for free speech, an end to government corruption, and basic political reform. They held signs. They marched. They were killed.

The Chinese government still classifies the massacre as a "counter-revolutionary riot." Mentions of June 4 are scrubbed from Chinese social media. Dissidents who mark the anniversary are arrested or disappeared.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio commemorated the anniversary this week, honoring the bravery of the Chinese people killed while trying to exercise their fundamental freedoms. Beijing responded by filing a formal complaint, claiming Rubio had distorted historical facts.

That's what Communist China calls accountability – a distortion.

The CCP Would Have to Explain This Address Forever

Every trade delegation visiting the Chinese Embassy drives past the sign. Every foreign journalist filing from the compound reports the address. Every diplomat who signs a letter from that building types the name of the massacre their government committed – on every piece of mail they send.

The road in front of the embassy is federally owned, which gives Congress the authority to name it. China can't lobby the D.C. city council to reverse it. Can't pressure a local mayor. Can't make it go away.

The CCP built its domestic legitimacy on the lie that Tiananmen Square didn't happen the way the world saw it happen. This bill plants that truth in the concrete of Washington, D.C. – one street sign at a time.

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• "China Criticises Rubio Remarks on 1989 Tiananmen Protests," Reuters, June 4, 2026.
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