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January 28

Xigaze, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tenth Bainqen Erdini Qoigyi Qyaincain, outstanding leader of Tibetan Buddhism, vice-chairman of Standing Committee of Seventh National People's Congress and honorary chairman of Chinese Buddhist Association, dies of sudden heart attack at 51.

March 5-8

Lhasa, 11 people killed, more than 100 injured, in riot instigated by handful of Tibetan separatists. Riot follows illegal demonstrations by paraders flying banners and shouting ``Independence for Tibet.'' Windows are smashed, restaurants, hotels, shops and government offices looted, goods and furniture set ablaze; policemen fired on by separatists. March 7, State Council declares martial law in Lhasa effective from midnight. Next day, city is calm.

March 20-April 4 ,

Second Session of Seventh National People's Congress adopts. Report on Work of Government, delivered .by Li Peng, report affirms many achievements of 1988, analyses government's errors and shortcomings, proposes various measures for improving economic environment and introducing further in-depth reforms.

``Administrative Litigation Law of People's Republic of China'' and ``Rules of Procedure of National People's Congress of People's Republic of China'' adopted at session.

April 14

Beijing. As population on China's mainland hits 1.1 billion, a meeting is held to declare the ``1.1 Billion People Day''; vice-premier Tianyiyun, on behalf of Party and government, calls for paying more attention to problem of over-population (a 15-million annual increase since 1986), and for persistence in family planning to cut down growth rate.

April 15

Hu Yaobang, member of Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee and former general secretary of Communist Party of China dies of cardiac infarction. Obituary issued by CPC Central Committee same day eulogizes Hu as ``a long-tested loyal fighter for communism, a great proletarian revolutionary and a great statesman.'' In the afternoon of April 22, grand memorial meeting is held at Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

April 16-25

Hu Yaobang's death prompted an early outbreak of the long-brewing student unrest and turmoil. Bigand small-character posters and leaflets appear On campuses of Beijing University, Qinghua University and other schools attacking socialism, the Communist Party and its leaders.

In Beijing, illegal student demonstrations take place. Their demands include complete negation of the struggle against bourgeois liberalization and abolition of the Beijing 10-point regulation on demonstrations. The demonstrators occupy Tiananmen Square on several occasions.

April 18-19

Xinhuamen, headquarters of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, is assaulted, some agitators shouting ``Down With the Communist Party.'' Turmoil organizers and plotters fabricate a spate of rumors to incite people against Li Peng and the present government. Student unrest and turmoil quickly spread from Beijing to Nanjing, Wuhan, Shanghai and other cities. Violent crime breaks out in Changsha and Xian with rampant beating, smashing, looting and burning.

Political forces outside the Chinese mainland and in foreign countries have a finger in the turmoil at the very start; these include. the China Democratic League (a reactionary organization in the US groomed by the Kuomintang), Taiwan spies and a number of Chinese residing abroad who stand for setting up a Western-style capitalist system in China. Western, Hong Kong and Taiwan media display conspicuous zeal; the Voice of America, in particular, airs a spate of bewildering rumors, inflating the facts and fanning up the turmoil.

April 26

Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) publishes important editorial ``Stand Firmly Against Turmoil.'' It points out. ``A handful of people are not engaged in memorial observances for Comrade Hu Yaobang.... Waving the banner of democracy, they trample on both democracy and law. Their purpose is to poison people's minds. create nationwide turmoil and undermine the country's political stability and unity. This is a planned conspiracy, a turmoil, which in essence aims at negating the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the socialist system. This is a grave political struggle facing the whole Party and the people of all nationalities.'' The editorial embodies the decision of the Political Bureau Standing Committee and the spirit of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's speech on April 25, and clarifies the nature of the turmoil.

April 27

The April 26 editorial's clear-cut stand forces organizers and plotters of the turmoil to make an about-face in their strategy. On April 27 the slogans in a huge student demonstration in Beijing are changed into ``Support the Communist Party,'' ``Support Socialism'' and ``Safeguard the Constitution.'' At the suggestion of Fang Lizhi, such subversive slogans as ``Down With the Bureaucratic Government,'' ``Down With the Corrupt Government,'' ``Down With Dictatorial Rule,'' etc. are also changed into ``Oppose Bureaucracy,'' ``Oppose Corruption'' and ``Oppose Privilege,'' and other like slogans designed to win support from people of various circles.

May 4

Zhao Ziyang, at an audience with representatives attending the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank, expresses a whole set of views diametrically opposed to the decision of the Political Bureau's Standing Committee and to Deng Xiaoping's speech which Zhao has expressed ``full agreement'' with. ``There will be no big turmoil in China,'' he stated, ``l'm very confident about this.''

Zhao's speech creates serious ideological confusion among cadres and masses while inflating the arrogance of the organizers and plotters of the turmoil. A new surge of demonstrations ensues in Beijing and other places.

May 13

The ``Autonomous Students Federation of Beijing Universities and Colleges," an illegal organization, makes public its ``hunger-strike declaration,'' and launches a seven-day fast involving more than 3,000 people and a long occupation of Tiananmen Square. Misled by some of the prevailing erroneous opinions, the number of people who take to the streets to support the students increases day by day. The demonstrations disrupt social order in Beijing and seriously undermine the Sino-Soviet summit which is being closely followed worldwide, forcing changes on the agenda, and even cancellation of some activities.

May 16

Zhao Ziyang takes advantage of his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev to deliberately direct the fire of attack at Deng Xiaoping. ``Comrade Deng Xiaoping's helmsmanship is still needed for the most important issues,'' he avers, ``since the 13th National Party Congress, we have always reported to Comrade Deng Xiaoping and sought his advice in dealing with issues of paramount importance.'' This, he adds, is ``the first'' public disclosure of such an ``important decision'' by the Communist Party of China.

The following day, slogans smearing Deng Xiaoping appear all around. Plotter of the turmoil attempt to use the mounting chaos as their chance to seize power.

May 18

Premier Li Peng meets student representatives, proposes an all-out effort to rescue fasting students and affirms the students' patriotic enthusiasm. But developments no longer depend on the students' good wishes, Li says. Representatives of the striking students hold that a prerequisite for ending the hunger strike is . that the student movement should be regarded as a patriotic, democratic movement, not turmoil, a dialogue should be held as early as possible, and broadcast live.

May 19

Beijing. A meeting called by the Party Central Committee and the State Council and attended by cadres from the Party, government and military institutions is held according to a decision of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee. Li Peng, on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, calls on all to act promptly. He says we must adopt decisive measures, take a clear-cut stand against the turmoil, restore normal social order and maintain stability and unity, in order to ensure the smooth progress of reforms, the open policy and socialist modernization.

Yang Shangkun, president of the People's Republic of China and vice-chairman of the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, also speaks. He declares that moving PLA contingents from other parts of the country to Beijing is aimed at maintaining the capital's security and social order in conjunction with the Beijing armed police and public security personnel, the action is by no means directed against students.

May 20

The State Council declares martial law in parts of Beijing as empowered by Clause 16 of Article 89 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. The Beijing Municipal Government is authorized to organize and enforce martial law.

Plotters of the turmoil organize people and incite those who are not aware of what is at stake to set up roadblocks at major crossroads to stop the advance of the troops. The contingents called in to enforce martial law exercise great restraint, stay where they are and wait for orders.

Late May-June 2

The turmoil plotters and organizers conspire to mount a rebellion. They collude with local ruffians, fugitives from outside Beijing, hooligans, unreformed ex-convicts and persons who hate the Party and socialism, knock together so-called ``dare-to-die corps,'' ``flying-tiger teams,'' ``volunteer army'' and other terrorist organizations in a threat to subvert the current government. They use funds and materials provided by overseas hostile elements to the tune of over US$1 million plus tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars donated by those in the United States, Britain and Hong Kong. Some of the money was allocated to obstruct the movements of the martial law enforcement troops by employing thugs at a high price to burn military vehicles and beat up the soldiers.

June 3-4

The turmoil eventually develops into a horrifying counter-revolutionary rebellion. In the small hours of June. 3, along the east and west Changan Boulevard, when the martial law enforcement troops are en route to the security area according to a set plan, they are besieged at some of the main crossroads by thugs and others who have little idea of what it is all about. They put up roadblocks, intercept military vehicles and cars, beat up soldiers and seize military supplies. Similar incidents are perpetrated at other crossroads through which the martial law troops pass.

From around 10 pm on June 3 to the small hours of June 4, a frightful melee of beating, smashing, looting, burning and killing rages along the main crossroads of the city. According to information so far gathered, more than 6,000 martial law soldiers are injured and the death toll reaches several dozens. More than 1,280 military vehicles, public buses and trolley buses are wrecked while a large quantity of ammunition is seized by rioters. At length, with no alternative, the martial law enforcement troops, out of absolute necessity, are forced to shoot, to stave off some reckless hooligans. As a result, innocent onlookers are injured by stray bullets. It is estimated that more than 3,000 civilians are hurt and over 200, including 36 university students, die during the rioting.

In the early morning of June 4, the martial law enforcement troops enter Tiananmen Square and complete their task of clearing the square. The several thousand students holding a sit-in at the square volunteer to withdraw in an orderly way. None of the sit-in students, including those who insist on remaining but are finally compelled to leave the square, die.

The arrival of the martial law enforcement troops at their designated positions and the re-appearance at Tiananmen Square of its former peace and grandeur signify the collapse of the counter-revolutionary rebellion, while the situation in other cities begins to return to normal.

June 9

Deng Xiaoping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, at an interview with commanders at and above army level of the martial law enforcement troops, delivers an important speech in which he profoundly analyses the roots and nature of the recent unrest and counter-revolutionary rebellion, highly eyaluates the contributions made by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, armed police and public security personnel in suppressing it, and emphasizes that the Party's line, principles and policies and strategy adopted since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee will remain unchanged.

June 23-24

Beijing. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee is convened; it examines and approves a report delivered by Li Peng on behalf of the Political Bureau concerning Zhao Ziyang's mistakes during the anti-Party, anti-socialism turmoil, dismisses him from all posts inside the Party and decides to look further into his case.

The session elects Jiang Zemin general secretary of the Party Central Committee. Jiang Zemin, Song Ping, Li Ruihuan are elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Li Ruihuan and Ding Guangen are elected additional members of the Secretariat. Hu Qili is removed from the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, from the Political Bureau and from the Secretariat of the Central Committee. Rui Xingwen and Yan Minghi are removed from the Secretariat of the Central Committee.

The session highly evaluates the significant role played in the struggle by veteran proletarian revolutionaries with Comrade Deng Xiaoping as their representative, and the great contributions made by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the armed police and the public security police in quelling the rebellion, regards Deng Xiaoping's June 9 speech as a programmatic document to review the past, look forward to the future and unify the whole Party's thinking and understanding.

June 30

The 8th session of the Standing Committee of the 7th National People's Congress (NPC) is held, a decision made to dismiss Zhao Ziyang from his post as vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, and a report given by State Councillor Chen Xitong, who is also mayor of Beijing, on curbing the recent turmoil and quelling the counter-revolutionary rebellion.

At the closing session a relevant resolution is passed in which the members express satisfaction with the report and the series of resolute measures taken by the State Council to put down the rebellion. The meeting emphasizes the need to carry on the struggle of curbing the turmoil and quelling the rebellion through to the end in order to achieve a decisive victory.

¡¡ Foreign Relations

January 4-6

Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen visits Yugoslavia.

January 7

Chinese Foreign Ministry replies in note to Political Department of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) stating the Chinese government agrees to its renaming. As of December 31, 1988, the Office of the PLO in Beijing will become the Embassy of the State of Palestine in the People's Republic of China.

On the same day President Yang Shangkun and Premier Li Peng respectively send messages of condolences to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, extending their condolences on the demise of his Majesty Emperor Hirohito.

January 7-11

Foreign Minister Qian Qichen attends Paris international Conference on the Banning of Chemical Weapons. Qian states on January & that China docs not possess or produce chemical weapons. As signatory to the Geneva protocol banning chemical weapons, Qian reiterates China's stand China opposes the production, proliferation and use of such weaponry. China is also opposed to attempts by any country to threaten the security of another under pretext of one kind or another.

He calls upon all countries of the world to work together for an early conclusion of an international convention banning chemical weapons.

January 12-27

Foreign Minister Qian Qichen visits France and Romania.

January 19

Beijing. Foreign Minister Qian Qichen meets with Vietnam's Deputy Foreign Minister Dinh Nho Lien.

The Vietnamese deputy foreign minister is in Beijing for a few days for private consultation with Chinese Foreign Minister Liu Shuqing towards a political settlement of the Kampuchean question.

January 21

Beijing. Premier Li Peng, while at a meeting with Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs lsidoro Malmierca, says his visit to China, first by a Cuban foreign minister, signifies the ``improvement and development'' of Sino-Cuban relations.

January 26

During talks with Malian President and Chairman of the African Organization of Unity Moussa Traore, Premier Li Peng speaks on the debt problem. He points out that the debt problem is a serious political one; China maintains that the problem should be solved through consultations between the debtor and creditor nations.

China feels that creditors should ``shoulder more responsibility and take more flexible measures'' to solve the problem, says Li. This process is favorable to both the debtor and creditor countries. Some creditor nations take advantage of the debt issue and this should not be allowed, Li adds.

General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Zhao Ziyang and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Deng Xiaoping respectively meet with President Traore.

February 1

While meeting with Norodom Sihanouk and his wife, Premier Li Peng reiterates China's stand on settlement of the Kampuchean issue. He says that though Vietnam promised to withdraw its troops from Kampuchea by the end of September, it should really withdraw its troops from there without any preconditions. Such a withdrawal should be conducted under United Nations supervision. Vietnamese troops cannot remain in Kampuchea by changing their uniforms and posing as Phnom Pcnh forces.

February 1-4

Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze delivers formal letter from Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachey to Chairman Deng Xiaoping when he arrives in Beijing on February l. This is the first visit by a Soviet foreign minister in many years.

Chinese and Soviet foreign ministers hold two rounds of talks, following the Moscow talks between the two foreign ministers. They focus on discussion of the Kampuchean issue.

Both sides discuss bilateral relations including border disputes, expansion of mutual trade and explain their respective stand on some international issues.

During Shevardnadze's stay in China, Chairman Deng Xiaoping and Premier Li Peng meet with him.

At a press conference on February 4, Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Tian Zenpei points out that for normalization of Sino-Soviet relations it is necessary to overcome three major obstacles, i.e. the completion of Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the reduction of military confrontation along the Sino-Soviet border, including Soviet troop withdrawal from the People's Republic of Mongolia, and promotion of Vietnamese troop withdrawal from Kampuchea by the Soviet Union.

UP to now substantial progress has been made in removing the three obstacles. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachey will visit China on May 15.

On May 5 the Chinese and Soviet foreign ministers issue a joint statement on the Kampuchean issue.

February 11-13

Pakistan's Prime Minister Banazir Bhutto pays a visit to China. Premier Li Peng has talks with her. General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Zhao Ziyang, Chairman of the National People's Political Consultative Congress Li Xiannian, widow of late Premier Zhou Enlai Deng Yingchao, President Yang Shangkun and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Deng Xiaoping meet with her.

While meeting with her in Shanghai, Deng highly speaks of the statement in her speech at the swearing in ceremony that she will not engage in revanchist politics. He also praises her for promising to give consideration to various parties when handling state affairs. ``Various political parties in Pakistan and the Pakistan people are all our friends. I hope they can unite to develop Pakistan instead of haggling over past resentment,'' Deng says.

On Sino-Pakistani relations, he says that SinoPakistani relations are not ordinary, they really embody the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, mutual respect for each other and equal treatment. There isn't any estrangement in their relations and even though there are differing views, they can understand each other.

During Bhutto's visit, two agreements are signed: One on the reciprocal encouragement and protection of investment, and the other on the extension Of a trade protocol to 1990through a memorandum of understanding.

February 16

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman says that the tremendous sufferings of the Chinese people and other Asian peoples and the responsibility for World War II ``are historical facts which cannot be changed by anyone.''

On February 20, member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress and historian Liu Danian at the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress criticizes Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takcshita and the director of the Japanese Legislative Bureau for statements on the nature of the Japanese war of aggression against China and the emperor's responsibility for Japan's role in the war.

On February 24 when he meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Takeshita reiterates that the relations between Japan and China should be further developed in the spirit of the Japan-China Joint Communique and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship.

On February 27 when answering a session of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives, Takeshita says there is no denying the fact of Japan's invasion of neighboring countries in the past. On March 6 when he answers a question at a session of the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, Takeshita says that he agrees with Foreign Minister Sousuke Uno's description of the Pacific war as war of Japanese aggression.

February 20-March 13

China and Soviet Union hold first round of talks on boundary delimitation in western part of their common border.

February 21

Speaking at regular session of 40-nation UN conference on disarmament. Chinese UN Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs Fan Guoxiang stresses the importance and urgency of conventional disarmament.

February 22

While meeting with Chairman of Burundi's Military Committee for National Salvation and President of the Republic of Burundi Pierre Buyoya, Chairman of the Central Military Commission Deng Xiaoping says` ``The direction which China has been following for the last decade is correct and will be firmly adhered to, and its strategy of four modernizations cannot be changed.''

February 23

Tokya Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen holds talks with Indonesian President Suharto and his Minister of State Moerdiono. After talks, Qian and Moerdiono meet with journalists and announce unanimous agreement on three views concerning normalization of relations between their countries.

1. Both sides agree that they should make further efforts towards the normalization of bilateral relations;

2. Sino-Indonesian relations should be set up on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the Ten Principles of Bandung;

3. The two sides also agree on future regular contacts through their respective envoys to the United Nations, and that meetings between the foreign ministers of the two countries will be arranged when necessary.

These are the first formal talks since diplomatic relations between the two countries were suspended on October 30, 1967. On March 6 Chinese and Indonesian permanent representatives to the United Nations, Li Luyc and Nana Sutresna, hold their first preliminary exchange of views in New York over technical aspects concerning the normalization of diplomatic relations between their countries.

February 25

Beijing. US President George Bush and his wife arrive. This is his fifth visit to China since 1975. At the banquet given by President Yang Shangkun and Premier Li Peng in his honor the host and guests stressed the development of bilateral relations in accordance with the three Sino-US communiques.

On February 26Premier Li Peng holds a frank exchange of views with Bush on Sino-US relations and international issues.

While meeting with Bush, Deng Xiaoping says that the development of Sino-US relations for a decade has been stable, though there have been some problems. Deng says he hopes that bilateral relations will develop further during Bush's term. He also points out that as for China, it is necessary to have a stable environment and says he hopes that foreign friends understand this.

General Secretary Zhao Ziyang meets and exchanges views with Bush on issues of mutual concern and introduces China's domestic situation to him. He says the matters of all the countries can be dealt with according to their own actual conditions. China will not export its own system and won't copy other countries' systems either.

On February 27 Bush leaves Beijing for Seoul. On the same day when answering questions pertaining to the absence of astrophysicist Fang Lizhi from the banquet hosted in Beijing by the visiting US president, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman says that all arrangements concerning Bush's stay in China were agreed upon by both sides beforehand. The spokesman says that the US side, without consulting the Chinese side, invited Fang to attend the dinner, which was planned in honor of the Chinese leaders. ``Therefore, the Chinese side resents this,'' the spokesman says. China expresses regret that some people have made an issue of the absence of Fang.

March 3-19

Vice-Premier Tian Jiyun visits Iran, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

March 6

China's permanent representative to the United Nations Li Luye meets with Ambassador Johanan Bein, acting permanent representative of lsrael to the United Nations.

The meeting in the Israeli mission to the UN is held in accordance with the agreement reached in Paris last January by the foreign ministers of China and Israel.

In London on the same day, head of the Chinese delegation, Liu Mingpu, in his speech at the international conference of protecting the ozone layer, says that the Chinese government supports the proposals and principles of the Vienna Convention for Protecting the Ozone Layer and Montreal Protocol to Drain Materials of Ozone Layer, is ready to join the Vienna convention and seeks a fair and acceptable form to join the protocol within its range.

March 7

Chinese deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Yu Mengria protests against the US government's travel restrictions on Chinese employees in the UN and asks the UN secretary-general to urge the US government to immediately cancel these discriminatory regulations.

March 9

At a news briefing, on the topic of the Dalai Lama's writings to foreign leaders to ask their help in checking the so-called "infringement upon human rights" in Tibet, Li ZhaoXing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman comments` Recently a tiny minority of separatists went in for beating, smashing, looting and burning in Tibet, deliberately creating turmoil there. Their actions, in serious violation of the law, were designed to split the motherland and have nothing to do with human rights, religion or ethnic problems. The Dalai group's attempt to use foreign forces to split the motherland and break up the solidarity between China's nationalities will never succeed. He reiterates that. Tibet is an inseparable part of China's territory, the Chinese government does not allow any foreign government, organization or individual to intervene in Tibetan affairs.

On the same day, Xinhua reports that China will reduce its oil exports by 5 percent to support OPEC's measures designed to maintain oil prices by limiting oil output in the second quarter of this year, according to General Manager of the China Chemical industry Import and Export Corporation designated by the state to deal in oil imports and exports.

March 14-17

Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan of Thailand visits China. Prime ministers of the two countries hold formal talks. Chinese President Yang Shangkun, Vice-President Wang Zhen, General Secretary Zhao Ziyang of the CPC and Chairman Deng Xiaoping of the Central Military Commission meet with him. At the banquet, Premier Li Peng praises Thailand for its splendid economic achievements and expresses sincere appreciation for its positive role, together with other Southeast Asian countries, in resolving the Kampuchean conflict.

When meeting with the premier of Thailand, Deng Xiaoping points out that the Kampuchean issue must be completely solved to avoid recurrence of a situation such as that of Afghanistan. He stresses that in dealing with the Kampuchean issue, three principles should be upheld: l . It must be settled I)olitically on the premise of the genuine evacuation of all Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea, 2. the four-party interim coalition government led by Prince Sihanouk should assume power under international guarantees, 3. factors that may lead to civil war must be eliminated. China favors reduction of troops by each side.

Vietnamese troop withdrawal, he says, means pulling out of all armed Vietnamese forces, including the several tens of thousands of Vietnamese concealed among Kampuchean troops and militia through immigration. Unless these people withdraw from Kampuchea, the seeds of a future civil war will remain Kampuchean soil.

March 16

Chinese Ambassordar to the European Community Liu Shan protests to the Speaker and Secretary General of the European Parliament respectively in regard to its resolution on human rights in Tibet. On March 18, the Foreign Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress issues a statement, saying that the European Parliament has unjustifiably attacked the reasonable measures taken by China to restore social order in Lhasa and maintain the unity of the motherland, distorted the Chinese government's correct national and religious policies in Tibet and brazenly pressured the Chinese government over the so-called Tibetan issue, this constitutes gross interference in China's internal affairs; as to talks with the Dalai Lama, negotiations must be based on maintainance of the motherland's unity , neither independence, semi-independence nor disguised independence of Tibet is allowed; the Central People's Government does not permit any foreign country, organization or individual to intervene in its negotiations with the Dalai Lama.

March 19

The Foreign Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress, in regard to the resolution on the issue of Tibet passed by the American Senate on March 16, issues a statement` This resolution distorts history and the real situation in China's Tibet Autonomous Region, slanders the Chinese government as having suppressed and infringed upon human rights in Tibet, openly supports the violent activities of a tiny minority of separatists, and demands that the US administration and international organizations become involved in Tibetan affairs. The statement expresses great indignation and strong protest against the US Senate's unwarranted intervention in China's internal affairs. On March ZI, Han Xu, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, is instructed to protest to the American government and demand that the American side take practical steps to prevent repetition of occurrences like this.

March 20

Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference issues a statement strongly condemning the US Senate and the European Parliament for their rude interference in China's internal affairs, and declaring that various democratic parties, people's organizations, democratic personages and patriotic people in all walks of life within the conference strongly demand an end to the ill-advised intervention in China's internal affairs on the part of the US Senate and the European Parliament.

March 23

Meeting with visiting Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Chairman Deng Xiaoping of the Central Military Commission, speaking on China's reform in the past ten years, says` China has developed greatly; its economy and living standards have gone up a step; the most serious error made in the last ten years is that of insufficiently developing education. A key point here is that having developed the economy and raised living standards, we neglected to warn the people to keep up the tradition of arduous struggle. It is not easy to flight against hegemonism, he continues, the Chinese people have stood up, but still some want to bully us and currently some countries are interfering in our internal affairs through their parliaments.

During Museveni's China visit, Premier Li Peng holds talks with him. Chinese President Yang Shangkun and General Secretary of the CPC Zhao Ziyang meet with and fete him.

March 28

An Albanian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Muhamet Kapllani arrives in Beijing for a five-day visit. This is the first delegation of a political nature Albanian government has sent to China since relations between the two countries cooled down in the late 1970s. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Kostandin Hoxha is a member of the delegation.

March 30

Mongolian Foreign Minister Tserenpiliyn Gombosuren arrives in Beijing for a visit to China. He is the first Mongolian foreign minister to come since the two countries established diplomatic relations 40 years ago. On March 3 1 , Chinese President Yang Shangtun meets with him.

April 12

Premier Li Peng pays five-day visit to Japan. During talks with Japanese Prime. Minister Noboro Takeshita, both leaders agree the general trend in Sino-Japanese relations is good. They affirm that their friendship must develop steadily and over a long term. Li Peng also meets Japan's new Emperor, Akihito, and leaders of various Japanese political parties both in and out of office.

April 1 8

Ambassadorial relations established with Babrain, bringing the total of countries that have established diplomatic relations with China to 139.

April 24

At invitation of Kim 11 Sung, general secretary of the Labor Party of Korea, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Zhao Ziyang pays an official good-will visit to Korea and returns home on April 30. ,

May 4

Beijing. 22nd annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank executive council is held. Senior officials and. bankers from 47 member nations take part. A delegation from China's Taipei, headed by Shirley Kuo, also participates.

May 9

At invitation of President Yang Shangkun, Iranian President Seyyed Ali Khameneyi pays six-day official visit to China. This is the first Iranian head of state to visit China since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979. Premier Li Peng and Chairman Deng Xiaoping meet him. Deng stresses that the third world countries should unite and hopes that the Middle East can become stable.

May 15-18

At the invitation of President Yang Shangkun, Mikhail Gorbachey, president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, visits China. Deng Xiaoping meets him in the first Sino-Soviet summit in more than three decades, thus realizing normalization of relations between the two countries and two parties. Gorbachey also meets and holds talks with General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Premier Li Peng. A Sino-Soviet joint communique confirms that the two countries will develop their relations on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence; all disputes between the two countries should be settled through peaceful negotiations; and any attempt or action by any country to impose its own will on others and seek hegemony in any form and in any place should be discarded in international relations.

May 25

In a meeting with new ambassadors from Nigeria, Mexico and Burma, Premier Li Peng speaks of the unrest which has broken out in Beijing. He assures them that the Chinese government is stable and capable of solving its problems. What is happening in China is totally China's internal affair and China hopes that foreign countries will not interfere under any pretext. Things in China are quite complicated. If foreign friends cannot understand them at the moment, they may take some time to observe and then make judgements.

June 5

US President George Bush condemns China's quelling of the counter-revolutionary rebellion and announces suspension of all governmental military sales and commercial arms sales and exchanges of visit by military leaders between United States and China. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman says that the Chinese government cannot but express its profound regret and has to point out that the US government's condemnation of what is purely China's internal affair, its unilateral damaging action in Sino-US relations, and its attempt to exert pressure on the Chinese government is absolutely unacceptable. On the same day, Zheng Tuobin, minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, expresses regret and profound indignation over European Community Council's cancelling of the holding of the first China-EC Economic and Trade Mixed Committee.

June 8

Vice-Foreign Minister Zhu Qizhen meets US Ambassador to China James Liley and expresses deep regret and lodges a serious protest over US Embassy's decision to grant Fang Lizhi and his wife Li Shuxian so-called "refuge" on June 5. Zhu says that the US embassy's move is a violation of international law as well as China's own laws and constitutes gross interference in China's internal affairs. On June 10 the Beijing Municipal Branch of the People's Procuratorate issues arrest warrant for the couple on charges of counterrevolutionary demogoguery, and the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau also issues a wanted notice for them.

June 29

In a meeting with foreign minister of Sao Tome and Principe, Premier Li Peng says that now many countries in the world adopt an attitude of understanding and support towards China's suppression of the counter-revolutionary riot. However, an anti-China trend has also emerged in the world, he adds; the Chinese government will not change its policies because of this turmoil; rather, proceeding from its correct analysis of the world situation and the fundamental interests of the Chinese people, it will set its own domestic and foreign policies.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman expresses deep regret over the European Council's June 27 statement, which wrongly criticizes China's quelling of the counter-revolutionary riot and unilaterally takes steps which jeopardize bilateral ties.