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Tiananmen Square Document 29: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 21, 1989, China: Swift Justice, 1989
The document also anticipates a Communist Party Central Committee plenum that will ratify the removal of party secretary Zhao Ziyang, and name a new leader.
Tiananmen Square Document 28: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 15, 1989, China: Accusation over Fang Lizhi, 1989
Policy makers in Washington were clearly concerned as the Fang Lizhi episode threatened to further disrupt Sino-American relationship beyond its current strains.
Tiananmen Square Document 27: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 14, 1989, China: Back to Business, But Crackdown Continues, 1989
This document describes the sudden public emergence of many top Chinese officials—including some associated with ousted party chief Zhao Ziyang—in an apparent show of support for the military crackdown.
Tiananmen Square Document 26: Cable, SITREP No. 49, June 12, 0500 Local, 1989
The Chinese government, in the words of this cable, "stepped up its anti-US rhetoric." (June 11, 1989)
Tiananmen Square Document 24: Department of State Intelligence Brief, "Current Situation in China: Background and Prospects," Ca., 1989
This brief explains the current situation within the context of the Chinese leadership crisis that had been broiling for two years. (June 10, 1989)
Tiananmen Square Document 25: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 10, 1989, China: Mixed Signals on Purge, 1989
This document explores the meaning of Xiaoping's speech, and also reports that Chinese authorities continue to round up suspected "counterrevolutionaries." (June 10, 1989)
Tiananmen Square Document 23: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 9, 1989, China: Uneasy Calm, 1989
The document suggests that Chinese leaders have initiated a defensive campaign combining mass arrests and detentions with vehement denials that there were heavy civilian casualties during the military crackdown.
George H.W. Bush, Press Conference, June 8, 1989
President Bush spoke to reporters at the White House. He discussed the sanctions he imposed on June 5 and what it would take to restore pre-Tiananmen Square crackdown relations between the U.S. and China. He also noted that he would not discuss asylum requests by Fang Lizhi or others.
Tiananmen Square Document 22: Cable, TFCH01--SITREP No. 38: June 7, 1900 Hours, 1989
This intriguing cable describes a sequence of events that occurred as a large convoy of troops from the 27th Army passed near the Jianguomenwai diplomatic compound and U.S. embassy residences on their way out of the city as part of a major troop rotation. (June 7, 1989)
Tiananmen Square Document 21: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 7, 1989, China: Tense Standoff Continues, 1989
By the time the State Department had put together this intelligence summary for the Secretary on the morning of June 7, many of the rumors generated in the past two days we refuted.
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