GIS, Map and Statistics: China

Provide survey data of US public opinion about US-China relations

Consists of over 35 themed collections of more than 90,000 declassified and FOIA'd documents that led to U.S. policy decisions. Includes collections on Afghanistan, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Iran, Japan, Korea, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, and the Soviet Union. UM user only.

The documents include memos, cables, and studies concerning U.S. diplomatic relations with China, records concerning the U.S.-PRC security relationship, documents related to the economic and scientific association with the PRC, and intelligence estimates and studies concerning the PRC's foreign policy objectives, military capabilities, and internal situation. UM user only.

This set covers the period from 1945 — as the end of World War II allowed U.S. intelligence to increase its focus on internal developments in China — to the present. The documents included in the set were obtained from a number of sources — the National Intelligence Council’s Tracking the Dragon collection, the CIA’s CREST collection at the National Archives at College Park, Md., the POLO, ESAU and CAESAR collections on the CIA’s website, Freedom of Information Act requests, and additional archival research. UM user only.