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Tiananmen Square massacre (view source)
Revision as of 12:23, August 11, 2021
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==U.S. response==
==U.S. response==
[[File:Qian Qichen and Brent Scowcroft, Dec. 9, 1989 Beijing.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Brent Scowcroft toasting Qian Qichen after the Tiananmen massacre, hoping to preserve the U.S.-CCP relationship.]]
[[File:Qian Qichen and Brent Scowcroft, Dec. 9, 1989 Beijing.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Brent Scowcroft toasting Qian Qichen after the Tiananmen massacre, hoping to preserve the U.S.-CCP relationship.]]
Four weeks after the slaughter, President [[George H.W. Bush]] sent [[National Security Advisor]] [[Brent Scowcroft]] and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger on a secret mission to Beijing to engage CCP Paramount Leader [[Deng Xiaoping]] directly,<ref>https://apnews.com/article/e91d5cfaf764de1750eb1a66b5e191d0</ref> after Bush’s attempts to reach Deng via telephone hotline were rebuffed. Bush personally wanted to “preserve” the U.S.-China relationship at all costs and get the relationship “back on track.” Bush and other senior officials praised and encouraged the collapse of communism as the regimes of [[Eastern Europe]] were being toppled in the second half of 1989 by their citizens one after another, but no praise and encouragement for the people of China.<ref>https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/other-tiananmen-papers</ref>
Four weeks after the slaughter, President [[George H.W. Bush]] sent [[National Security Advisor]] [[Brent Scowcroft]] and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger on a secret mission to Beijing to engage CCP Paramount Leader [[Deng Xiaoping]] directly,<ref>https://apnews.com/article/e91d5cfaf764de1750eb1a66b5e191d0</ref> after Bush’s attempts to reach Deng via telephone hotline were rebuffed. Bush personally wanted to “preserve” the U.S.-China relationship at all costs and get the relationship “back on track.” Bush and other senior officials praised and encouraged the collapse of communism as the regimes of [[Eastern Europe]] were being toppled in the second half of 1989 by their citizens one after another, but no praise and encouragement for the people of China.<ref>https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/other-tiananmen-papers</ref>