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Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/2597
China (Internal situation in China) (Part 1)
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| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Dec 30 |
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| 89 Jun 22 Th | Major | 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] |
| 89 Jun 11 Su | Major | China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Sino-British relations after 4 June repression") [argues against drastic steps] [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jun 6 Tu | Major | China: UKE Moscow to FCO ("China Internal: Statement by Congress of People's Deputies") ["the events happening in China are an internal affair of the country"] [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jul 18 Tu | Major | 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] |
| 89 Jun 7 We | Major | China: UKE Washington telegram 1566 to FCO (0015Z) ("US/China") [intelligence community has no collateral of PLA in-fighting "although there is plenty of evidence that some units … have stayed aloof from the crackdown"; "CIA see no evidence that an alternative mililtary leadership is emerging", therefore wary of press speculation China on verge of civil war] [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jun 7 We | Major | China: UKE Washington telegram 1654 to FCO (2315Z) ("US/China") [Bush response "widely supported on the Hill and in the media … has successfully pre-empted (for now) pressure to go further"] [declassified 2016] |
| 89 Jun 21 We | Major | 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] |
| 89 Jul 19 We | Major | 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] |