In January 2001, The Tiananmen Papers, a collection of secret documents smuggled out of the Chinese archives, was published in the West and A CIA assessment from August that year described some high-ranking officers asīeing opposed to bloody force on principle while others were suspicious that hardliners were secretly planning a coup against party leader Zhao Ziyang (see Secret US intelligence analyses concluded significant divisions existed. The question of whether China's ruling Communist authorities were united in ordering a bloody crackdown on student protests has been debated since 1989.
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