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PDF 88 Sep 15 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: Cradock minute for MT ("China: position of Zhao Ziyang") [rumours his position under threat, but UKE in Beijing thinks it remains strong; Cradock thinks reform likely to slow down] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) China: CIA memorandum ("China: Potential for Political Crisis") [vulnerability of Zhao Ziyang] [declassified 2000]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Intelligence telegram ("Internal friction among top political leaders in China") [Li Peng on Zhao Ziyang: "I don't see how a person who is always playing golf can know anything"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) China: CIA telegram ("China: student protests escalate") [will probably sharpen dissension within leadership, "may further weaken" Zhao Ziyang] [declassified 2001]
PDF 89 Apr 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("China: student protests") ["an escalation of student protests will most likely trigger a government crackdown"] [declassified ?2014]
Info only 89 May 15 Mo Chronology Major [Chronology] China: massive demonstrations in Tiananmen Square during Gorbachev visit
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("China - students demonstrating for democracy") ["military will likely be used to restore order"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Chinese Internal Situation") [US believes "Chinese Government has decided that there is no way to avoid bloodshed"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: State Department memcon (Secretary Baker-Chairman Wan Li) [Wan Li: "restoration of stability" necessary for reform and opening outward] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Bush Library) Cold War, China: White House memcon (Bush-Wan Li) [Bush: Wan Li visit "very constructive - and friendly - for the bilateral relationship"] [partially declassified 2009]
PDF 89 Jun 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: stalemate continues") [hard-liners still unable to resolve leadership crisis or end demonstrations] [declassified 1993]
Info only 89 Jun 3 Sa Chronology Key [Chronology] China: Tiananmen Square massacre
PDF 89 Jun 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.27") ["Martial law with Chinese characteristics"] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.28") ["10-15,000 armed troops stopped at city perimeter by human and bus barricades"; not yet permitted to use force, but armed for it] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: State telegram to USE Beijing ("Sitrep No.1, 1730 EDT, 6/3/89") ["PLA moves on Tiananmen. Casualties high"; Chinese Ambassador summoned] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: Police use tear gas on crowds") [army forced back; octogenerians summoned up by Deng active in leadership] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.33") ["June 4 afternoon and [?evening]"; tanks, APCs and trucks moving towards Tiananmen] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: troops open fire") [reports of deaths between 180 and 500] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: State telegram to USE Beijing ("China Task Force Situation Report No.3 - Situatuon as of 1700 EDT, 6/4/89") [Beijing - "The PLA is mopping up isolated resistance"] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 4 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) China: MT statement ("Statement on recent events in Peking") ["deeply shocked by the news from Peking and appalled by the indiscriminate shooting of unarmed people"]
PDF 89 Jun 4 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Archive (TNA) China: FCO statement (emergency unit set up) ["our paramount concern at the present time is for the safety and well-being of British nationals"]
PDF 89 Jun 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: William Clark memorandum to Secretary Baker ("Administration response to events in Beijing") [case for President announcing "a strong, balanced reaction as soon as possible"] [declassified 1991]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) China: White House telcon (MT-President Bush) [US & UK policy after Tiananmen Square crackdown] [declassified 2010]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: after the bloodbath") ["troops fired indiscriminately into crowds of unarmed civilians, including women and children, often with automatic weapons"] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Bush) [Tiananmen Square] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("China Internal: Possible Evacuation") [MT: "In view of our special position with H.K. I think we should get out the students and others as fast as we can"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 minute for MT ('China') [situation developing "very fast", possible UK measures; "you can probably afford to step up further your condemnation of what is happening"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (State Department) China: State Department log (events 11.13-16.18) [US Ambassador "urgently requests that evacuation be authorised, not ordered, for government dependents only from Beijing and Shanghai only"] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) China: "Thatcher tells of Britain's shock over the bloodbath" (statements by party leaders) ["Thousand feared dead as tanks crush heroic resistance"]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("Crisis in Beijing") ["Xiaoping reportedly dead; President Shangkun orchestrates military crackdown"] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Jun 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.35") ["June 6, 0500 hours", troop movements & sporadic gunfire in Beijing overnight 5/6 June] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: descent into chaos") [press report clashes between PLA armies, attempted assassination of Premier Li Peng, troops poised to enter Shanghai] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Jun 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("Martial law and public security") [police divided, unreliable, untrained; ordered off the streets when martial law declared, army preferred] [declassified ?2014]
PDF 89 Jun 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: USE Beijing telegram to State ("Sitrep No.37") ["June 7, 1900 hours", troops rotating out of Beijing fire on diplomatic compound; US Ambassador meets Vice FM Zhu] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: tense standoff continues") [few if any significant engagements between PLA units, despite press reports; stories of Deng's illness or death untrue] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Jun 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("China Internal: Evacuation") [informal evacuation of all dependants and some non-essential staff on a voluntary basis] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 89 Jun 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (US Dept of Defense) China: Defense Intelligence Agency HQ telegram ("China: relations worsening") [strains in PRC relations with US; random firing by PLA at diplomatic compound; Fang Lizhi] [declassified ?2014]
Text 89 Jun 7 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Press Conference campaigning for European elections in Shropshire (Tiananmen)
PDF 89 Jun 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: No.10 letter to FCO (possible meeting between PM & Chinese students) [seeks advice, draft; MT feels she should see them for 20 minutes] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Beijing Military Situation - am 09 Jun") ["the population are now more fearful than defiant"; arrests; "no evidence of PLA fighting PLA"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: uneasy calm") ["a surface calm returned to Beijing and other major cities yesterday"] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 9 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) China: FCO emergency unit minute ("Sitrep No.6: 1800 on 9 June") [Deng shown on tv for first time since operation started; student leaders being rounded up; evactuation arrangements] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Cradock minute for Powell ("China: Developments on 9 June") [Deng's tv appearance; authorities in Shangai showing "considerable restraint"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: Secretary of State's Morning Summary ("China: mixed signals on purge") [Deng speech] [declassified 1993]
PDF 89 Jun 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) China: State Department intelligence brief ("Current situation in China: background and prospects") [final break between Zhao and Deng] [declassified 1996]
PDF 89 Jun 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("China Internal: Deng Xiaoping's Address on 9 June") ["highly likely to mean a more minimalist definition of reform"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) China, etc: White House telcon (MT-President Bush) [Bush "trying to preserve the relationship with China while speaking out against abuses"; Poland] [partially declassified 2009]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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