送交者: 田牛 于 2006-4-06, 00:14:19:
U.S. Embassy Beijing Cable, China and the U.S. – A Protracted Engagement, July 11, 1989, SECRET, 9 pp.
In this unusually critical cable, U.S. Ambassador James Lilley, who arrived at the Beijing post just weeks before the crackdown, takes the Bush administration to task for its bungled approach to the U.S.-China relationship before, during and after the crisis. Lilley characterizes a May 19 visit by U.S. naval ships to Shanghai – a port call intended to distract attention away from the visit of Soviet President Gorbachev – as a serious miscalculation: “The Chinese declared martial law against their own people in Beijing the day we were cozying up to their military in Shanghai . . . Our attitude was a throwback to the early days of our relationship when common Soviet bashing was in vogue. We were not coping with or anticipating current realities.” Lilley refers to Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi, who had sought and found refuge at the U.S. embassy compound shortly after the massacre, as the “man who came to dinner. . . A living symbol of our conflict with China over human rights.” Lilley also suggests that the president’s decision to suspend most of the U.S.-China military relationship, including especially the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, was “particularly galling to the Chinese after all the hype that went into glorifying the relationship.”
While the ambassador supports certain economic sanctions, he does not wish to interrupt the regular flow of U.S. business ventures in China, particularly in the case of commercial aircraft sales and satellite launch services. Despite congressional concerns, he notes, “we are not rewarding the murderers of Tiananmen by selling Boeing aircraft for hard cash. Let a thousand points of business decisions work in China based on our own businesses’ realistic assessments of economic and political prospects for China.” Lilley also suggests that the administration, “Consider formats for quiet, high-level dialogue” with the Chinese, like the planned visit of former President Nixon, despite the formal ban on such meetings.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB47/