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. ...

This brief explains the current situation within the context of the Chinese leadership crisis that had been broiling for two years. (June 10, 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) ...

The Chinese government, in the words of this cable, "stepped up its anti-US rhetoric." (June 11, 1989) ...

Policy makers in Washington were clearly concerned as the Fang Lizhi episode threatened to further disrupt Sino-American relationship beyond its current strains. ...

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. ...

This Embassy cable sent three weeks after President Bush announced a package of sanctions against the PRC, informs that a Chinese military official had lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. defense attaché that "strongly protested recent U.S. milit ...

The document shows that the administration stressed his personal interest in the maintenance of good relations, and the interest of both countries in continuing strategic cooperation. (June 29, 1989) ...

This document provides a broad sketch of the bleak situation in China. ...

This document, an intelligence research report, asks: "How did China get to this point?" (July 27, 1989) ...