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> A hand held out to Beijing: US policy after Tiananmen Square
>
> By James Conachy
> 15 July 1999
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> Censored US State Department documents from 1985-1989, obtained
> under Freedom of Information legislation and now published on the
> Internet, provide a damning indictment of the conduct of the
> Republican administration of President George Bush in the
> aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
>
> The documents prove that the US government was not concerned with
> the suppression of the Chinese working class, but the possibility
> that it may cause disruptions to the political, military and
> economic relations developed with the Beijing regime since 1971.
>
> In the days immediately following the military assault on the
> capital, with virtually every urban centre of China convulsed
> with protests and demonstrations, US officials were preoccupied
> with trying to assess whether Deng Xiaoping would get away with
> the military crackdown or whether it had aggravated the social
> and political tensions in China to the point of civil war.
>
> Cables and summaries on June 6 itself are dominated by reports,
> later to be downplayed, that fighting was breaking out between
> the 27th Army deployed by Deng Xiaoping into Beijing and other
> military units sympathetic to the students and workers. A summary
> prepared for the US Secretary of State refers to the Chinese
> government and military heads as feeling like “they are fighting
> for their lives” and surrounding their residences with armoured
> vehicles and troops.
>
> From June 9, following the first public appearance and a speech
> by Deng Xiaoping, the US officials became convinced that the
> regime would survive and Washington responded accordingly.
>
> On June 30, Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and
> national security advisor Brent Scowcroft made a secret visit to
> Beijing for discussions with Deng Xiaoping. The day before, the
> State Department prepared a document entitled “Themes”, to
> provide the Chinese government with an outline of the US attitude
> toward what it described only as “the recent developments”.
>
> It makes little mention, and no condemnation, of the murder of
> thousands of Chinese workers and students. The document openly
> states that “how the GPRC (Government of the Peoples Republic of
> China) decides to deal with those of its citizens involved in
> recent events in China, is, of course, an internal affair” and
> refers to the personal friendship that president Bush had with
> “so many of China's leaders”.
>
> It details the mutual foreign policy interests shared by the US
> and China, such as blocking Soviet influence in North Korea and
> Asia generally, assisting China in dealing with what are
> described as “Vietnamese threats to China's interests” and
> facilitating better relations with Japan.
>
> In reference to the limited diplomatic sanctions imposed by the
> US following the massacre, it states that president Bush “wants
> to manage the short-term events in a way that will ensure a
> healthy relationship over time”. It warns China, however, of the
> pressure on the president by both public opinion and elements in
> the US Congress, and the “demands for legislation to end many
> aspects of our economic, military and political relationship”.
>
> It assures Beijing that president Bush will “resist these
> pressures” and concludes by stating that the “degree to which the
> President is able to maintain his current prudent course will
> depend, in large measure, on how events develop over the coming
> weeks in the PRC. Further arrests and executions will inevitably
> lead to greater demands in the US to respond. Efforts at national
> reconciliation, on the other hand, will find a cooperative US
> response.”
>
> The cooperative US response was forthcoming regardless of the
> fact that arrests and executions did not halt in the slightest.
> By 1990 investment was entering China at an unprecedented rate to
> exploit a subdued working class, facilitated by the open US
> market.
>
> This is the actual historical record that should be considered
> whenever official concerns are expressed in Washington regarding
> human rights in China.
>
>
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