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| 1990, Jan. 2 |
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| Some 10,000 demonstrators marched in Hong Kong for democratization in China. | 1 |
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| Jan. 11 |
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| The government lifted martial law. | 2 |
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| Feb |
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| Early signs prefigured a return to the eased economic policies that had preceded June 4, 1989. | 3 |
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| March 12 |
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| U.S. president George Bush criticized China for continued political repression. | 4 |
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| April 25 |
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| China signed a ten-year agreement with the Soviet Union for economic and high-tech cooperation. | 5 |
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| May 11 |
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| Two hundred ten people arrested for roles played in the demonstrations of 1989 were released from jail. | 6 |
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| May 25 |
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| Pres. Bush renewed most-favored-nation status for China. | 7 |
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| June 26 |
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| Fang Lizhi, the Chinese astrophysicist and dissident leader, was allowed to leave China with his wife, Li Shuxian, for the U.S. They had been living in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing since June 4, 1989. | 8 |
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| Sept. 23 |
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| China convened the Asian Games, in an effort to regain international respect. | 9 |
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