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Searched for: tiananmendoc. Document type: Declassified documents.

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PDF 89 Jun 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("Military region commanders") [possible role] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Jun 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: No.10 letter to FCO (message from Sakharov) [seeks draft reply by 3 July] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Washington telegram 1717 to FCO (2351Z) ("US/China") [additional modest US measures announced "to preempt further Congressional criticism" following Shanghai executions] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: swift 'justice'") [Shanghai death sentences upheld] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("What happened on the night of 3/4 June?") [analysis suggests "the massacre took place on Changan Avenue and other of Beijing's main thoroughfares rather than in Tiananmen Square itself"] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Eyewtiness Chinese account of June 4) ["PLA tank crushing 11 students and related early morning events in Tiananmen Square"] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Personal for Private Secretary") ["unwise political risk" for let Sir Hal Miller MP make early visit to Beijing] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) World economy/China: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("World Bank: China loans") [US seeking to delay the loans indefinitely, post-Tiananmen; do so on technical grounds] [declassified Feb 2018]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 letter to Chinese students in UK (PM unable to attend memorial meeting) [arrangements to meet group] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.65") ["June 27, 1700 local", 'measured' Chinese response to US military sanctions] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Chinese students" [explain "our very firm and forthright reaction"; address their personal concerns] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKA Beijing minute ("China/EC Relations") [Madrid European Council declaration & Chinese riposte] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) China: White House/State Department memorandum ("Themes") [paper for Scowcroft/Eagleburger secret mission to Beijing] [declassified 1998]
PDF 89 Jun 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) China: CIA memorandum ("China: Political Crackdown Still the Priority") [Jiang Zemin's first speech as General Secretary] [declassified 1999]
PDF 89 Jul 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("China Internal: Rectification and leadership") [68th anniversary of CCP used to place "renewed stress on party building"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Joint Staff telegram ("Chinese Military Attaché comments on situation in China") ["Deng Xiaoping is in firm control"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) China: CIA memorandum ("China: Trying To Calm Troubled Waters in Hong Kong") [Chinese PR campaign in HK, but local doubts will persist] [declassified 1998]
PDF 89 Jul 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Cold War, China: White House memcon (Bush-Mitterrand) [Mitterrand: "Gorbachev detested the Chinese course and felt threatened by it"] [declassified 2009]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) China, etc: White House memcon (MT-President Bush) [Poland; China; Middle East] [partially declassified 2009]
PDF 89 Jul 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: G7 statement ("Declaration on China") [condemnation of "violent repression in China in defiance of human rights"] [released July 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKHC Singapore to FCO ("Call on Lee Kuan Yew. Situation in Hong Kong/China") [recent events "a disaster for China"; sceptical collective leadership can be restored; Zhao Ziyang's miscalculations] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Washington telegram 1940 to FCO (2329Z) ("US/China/Hong Kong: Congressional proposals for further US measures") [expressing US "concern about the absence of guarantees of fair direct elections and human rights in the Joint Declaration"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Joint Staff telegram ("Apprehension about bombs on CAAC flights") ["Each day everyone seems to have a new horror story about China"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Jul 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Chinese Foreign Policy") ["Behind resolute words, hints of Chinese worry over Western sanctions and difficulty in retaliating"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: State Department intelligence brief ("China: aftermath of the crisis - IRR No.210") ["temporary victory by hardliners"] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Aug 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) China: CIA memorandum ("China-Hong Kong-UK: Negotiations To Resume") [news "will buoy local confidence temporarily at most"] [declassified 1999]
PDF 89 Aug 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Joint Staff telegram ("Chinese riot control police units") [PLA used to suppress uprising because authorities lacked riot control units; "brute force … ended in the massacre of many Chinese demonstrators"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Aug 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("Special assessment for customers of DIA NADA INTSUM") [overview of events April-June 1989] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Aug 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) China: CIA research paper ("The Road to the Tiananmen Crackdown") ["An Analytic Chronology of Chinese Leadership Decision Making"] [declassified 2000]
PDF 89 Aug 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Joint Staff telegram ("Disposition of Tiananmen Square victims") [medical staff defying government by refusing to release corpses until positive identification by next of kin] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Oct 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Joint Staff telegram ("conditions in Beijing under martial law as of 10 August 1989") ["appears very calm … the martial law forces guarding the square looked sharp"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Oct 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham briefing for press (MT speech at CHOGM) [MT "doubting whether the Chinese fully realised even now the impact on world opinion of events in Tiananmen Square"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Oct 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) China: CIA memorandum ("The Tiananmen Incident: A Preliminary Look at its Impact on S&T Modernization in China") [science & technology relationships strained] [declassified 2000]
PDF 89 Nov 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Joint Staff telegram ("PLAAF aircraft used to transfer foreign exchange to Bank of China's Shanghai branch in June 1989") [bank run following Tiananmen crackdown] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Nov 27 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Joint Staff telegram ("The new MC leadership - a postmortem analysis") [rise of Jiang Zemin] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 90 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram (anniversary of Tiananmen Square demonstrations) [square open to suggest normalcy; tension in Hong Kong] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 91 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) MT: UKE Peking telegram to FCO ("Visit to China by the Right Honourable Mrs Margaret Thatcher MP, 10-12 September") [MT requested meeting with Zhao Ziyang "not possible"; "some animated exchanges ... frank and friendly atmosphere"] ​​​​​​​[released Dec 2018]

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