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Chinese secret police hunt down potential troublemakers (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Gareth Furby drives around an area of China where the secret police are seeking to identify potential troublemakers. Includes an interview with British businessman, Ian Northcote.
George Bush on sanctions against China (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
US President George Bush has said he will not be increasing pressure on the Chinese leadership beyond the package of limited sanctions he announced earlier in the week, which involve a suspension of...
Gareth Furby on Chinese Government crackdown (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Gareth Furby reports on the government crackdown in China, in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Timothy Raison on Hong Kong’s British passport holders (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
A former Home Office minister is urging the Government not to make any concessions to allow British passport holders in Hong Kong to settle in Britain. Timothy Raison, who was the minister responsible...
Sir David Wilson on Hong Kong’s British passport holders (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
The Governor of Hong Kong, Sir David Wilson, says that all three-and-a-quarter million British passport holders in the territory need reassurance that they could take refuge in Britain if they needed to....
Gareth Furby on Beijing situation (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Gareth Furby reports from Beijing on the operations of the Chinese secret police, who are rounding up pro-democracy suspects. The police have already caught many students.
Gareth Furby on Chinese clampdown (1989)
- Genre
- News report
The veteran Chinese leader who smashed the students’ revolt last weekend in Tiananmen Square have now turned on the young people whose calls for freedom sparked off the protest. Troops and army vehicles...
Gareth Furby on Chinese clampdown (1989)
- Genre
- News report
51 tanks and troops are tonight moving out of the centre of Beijing for the first time since the Tiananmen Square massacre, but there are fears that the secret police will stay on in the crackdown...
Gareth Furby on Chinese clampdown (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Chinese authorities have begun an across-the-board crackdown on Westerners, expelling a journalist and ordering diplomats to stay indoors. They are also continuing to hunt down student leaders, with over...
Geoffrey Howe on Beijing (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe has said that Britain is considering sending back to China the British diplomats withdrawn at the height of the crisis in Beijing. He has told the House of Commons...