This latest Electronic Briefing Book from the National Security Archive (NSA) (last reviewed in the June 1, 1998 Scout Report for Social Sciences) highlights 35 previously classified government documents from a soon-to-be-published microfiche collection of over 15,000 pages entitled China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998. The documents featured at this site all pertain to the military assault on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989. As the NSA notes, this Briefing Book represents "the first publication in any media of these documents, which include remarkable SITREPs from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing as well as many of the Secretary of State's 'Morning Summaries' from June 1989." The site also covers student demonstrations in 1985 and 1986, the events leading up to the crackdown, and the aftermath. The documents are organized in five concisely annotated sections. This Briefing Book and the larger collection from which it was extracted will almost certainly prove invaluable to historians and analysts of recent Chinese-American relations.