A Chinese paramilitary police stands guard as visitors gather to watch the flag lowering ceremony on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on April 25, 2009. Despite demonstrations around Asia, Beijing was quiet a decade after the spiritual group Falungong was outlawed as an evil cult and made the subject of a brutal crackdown, as on April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falungong members surrounded Communist Party headquarters in central Beijing in a demonstration against what subsequently became a 10-year crackdown on the spiritual group. AFP PHOTO/GOH CHAI HIN (Photo credit should read GOH CHAI HIN/AFP/Getty Images)