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Tiananmen Square Document 1: Cable, A Student Demonstration of Sorts in Tiananmen Square, 1985
Although the demonstration was apparently rather tepid, this document points to the possibility that "someone wanted to stir up trouble and embarrass the authorities." (November 21, 1985) ...
Tiananmen Square Document 14: Cable, SITREP No. 32: The Morning of June 4, 1989
morning June 4, as this cable reports, the PLA was in control Tiananmen ... and "a column of about 50 APC, tanks, and trucks entered Tiananmen from ... troops in Tiananmen opened a barrage of rifle and machine gun fire." ...
Tiananmen Square Document 15: Cable, SITREP No. 33, 1989
compound, moving west toward Tiananmen Square, reporting these movements back ... is a report, attributed to a Chinese-American who witnessed the Tiananmen Square ... was in the first APC to enter Tiananmen Square, in full view of the other waiting PLA ...
Tiananmen Square Document 5: IPAC Daily Intelligence Summary 1-87, China: Student Demonstrations, 1987
January 2, 1987 Demonstrations continued into January 1987 when 3,000 students defied a government ban and staged a protest in the vicinity of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. This intelligence summary from U.S. ...
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, "Hearing: Stability in China: Lessons from Tiananmen and Implications for the Untied States (Webcast)," May 15, 2014
3,000 people occupied Tiananmen Square on a hunger strike, surrounded ... to Tiananmen Square but was stopped by a human roadblock composed of thousands ... ten to twelve Army divisions closed on Tiananmen Square firing rifles, ...
Tiananmen Square Document 11: Cable, SITREP No. 28: Ten to Fifteen Thousand Armed Troops Stopped at City Perimeter by Human and Bus Barricades, 1989
of Tiananmen Square from several different directions, noting that, "The ...
Tiananmen Square Document 27: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 14, 1989, China: Back to Business, But Crackdown Continues, 1989
as instigators of the Tiananmen demonstrations. This document describes the sudden ...
Tom Malinowski, 25 Years Later, Tiananmen Square Still Colors U.S.-China Relations, June 3, 2014
in Tiananmen Square, ending hopes that China would join the changes sweeping ... continued. Looking back on the Tiananmen movement, it is striking how modest ... of its people. Yet many who stood on Tiananmen Square that day, asking ...
Tiananmen Square Document 8: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 2, 1989, China: Stalemate Continues, 1989
June 2, 1989 On the day before the crackdown began, the Beijing city government tightened restrictions on the foreign media reporting on the Tiananmen Square demonstration, and the Chinese leadership was becoming ...
Tiananmen Square Document 10: Cable, SITREP No. 27: Martial Law with Chinese Characteristics, 1989
June 3, 1989 This cable provides fascinating eyewitness accounts of the disorganized and confused retreat of PLA soldiers from the center of Beijing after their advance on Tiananmen Square was halted by crowds ...