FOREIGN journalists were barred from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square yesterday as police fanned out across the vast plaza ahead of today’s 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Fifteen years after the bloodshed, the exiled student leaders of China’s 1989 pro-democracy protests are settled abroad as academics and entrepreneurs. But they nurture one wish above all – to come home to a new system.