Amuru SerikyakuProfessor Conteh-Morgan₹ 49315 April 2013The Triangular Relationship: The PRC's Internal Security Apparatus, Human Rights Organizations, and Sino-American RelationsJune 4, 1989 , the People's Republic of China shocked the world when Deng Xiaoping, then the “supreme leader” of the CCP-controlled state, ordered the massacre of thousands of protesters demonstrating for greater freedoms in Tiananmen Square. Deng Xiaoping and the premier of the State Council, Li Peng, defended the hard line, considering the protests a threat to the political order and stability of the nation. The international response to the incident was largely condemnatory; The forty-sixth session of the Human Rights Commission found the CCP's crackdown on the demonstration to be a massive violation of human rights, and many nations followed suit with punitive economic and diplomatic policies. The United States, under President George HW Bush, sought to suspend military technology exchange contracts with the PRC and used its international clout to impose sanctions on loans through the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The CCP's alleged violation of human rights has had disastrous political-economic consequences, resulting in an increase in Chinese defense spending from 8.6% to 15.5% and a half-billion dollar drop in tourism revenue . Through the example of the Tiananmen Square incident, one can see how the PRC's use of its internal security apparatus, the force behind the CCP's internal stability measures, can defy international human rights standards established by human rights organizations and influence Sino-American diplomacy and politics. economic relations accordingly. In this research paper, I will specify… halfway through the paper… people's desperation for democracy? This will most likely change the nature of human rights in China, as democratic regimes have traditionally seen greater uptake of human rights. Perhaps the entire notion of human rights will see a fundamental shift if the perspective shifts from Western to Eastern as the balance of power shifts with an emerging Chinese hegemon? This article has analyzed Sino-American relations with respect to a single variable: human rights. In many cases, especially in realism-based diplomacy, the progression of human rights does not take priority over economic interests and the geopolitical balance of power between nations. In the future, it would be useful to analyze the effect that these two additional variables would have in the context of Sino-American relations. That said, human rights play an extraordinarily important role