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Tiananmen Square Document 18: Cable, SITREP No. 35: June 6, 0500 Hours, 1989
June 5, 1989
This report from the U.S. Embassy stated that a western military attaché had told the U.S. military representative that one PLA unit, the 27th Army, "was responsible for most of the death and destruction at Tiananmen Square on June 3." (June 5, 1989)
Tiananmen Square Document 9: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 3, 1989, China: Police Use Tear Gas on Crowds, 1989
June 3, 1989
This document describes two incidents that in retrospect may have convinced Chinese authorities that the use of force was necessary.
Selection from American Military History-The U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1989
January 1, 1989
Chapter 28, The U.S. Army in Vietnam by Vincent H. Demma
Taiwan Relations Act, 1979
April 10, 1979
To help maintain peace, security, and stability in the Western Pacific and to promote the foreign policy of the United States by authorizing the continuation of commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan, and for other purposes.
Peter Tarnoff Memo to Zbigniew Brzezinski on Arms Sales to Taiwan, February 8, 1978
February 8, 1978
This memo was published in the History of the Foreign Relations of the United States. Tarnoff was Executive Secretary of the US Department of State to the National Security Advisor.
Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, February 27, 1972 (Shanghai Communiqué)
February 27, 1972
President Richard Nixon of the United States of America visited the People's Republic of China at the invitation of Premier Zhou Enlai of the People's Republic of China from February 21 to February 28, 1972. The Shanghai Communiqué was the first US-China joint statement outlining the basis of the relationship between the great powers.
The Atomic Bomb, Statement of the Government of the People's Republic of China, October 16, 1964
October 16, 1964
Remarks from the People's Republic of China after a successful atomic bomb test.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution, August 7, 1964
January 7, 1964
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty." This included involving armed forces.
United States - Chinese Joint Statement December 1, 1954
December 1, 1954
A 1954 security pact between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the United States
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We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
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