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| 1993, April 5 |
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| China and South Korea signed a series of trade accords. | 1 |
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| May 28 |
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| U.S. president Bill Clinton renewed most-favored-nation status for China. | 2 |
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| Sept. 14 |
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| Dissident Wei Jingsheng was released from prison one year early in China's effort to curry favor with the Olympic Organizing Committee. China wanted to host the 2000 Summer Games. | 3 |
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| Sept. 24 |
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| The Olympic Games for the year 2000 were awarded not to China, but to Sydney, Australia. | 4 |
| A panic in the mid-1980s about the reversion of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997 switched to considerable calm by the early 1990s, with a brief scare following the crackdown on the demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. Although some discord marked the planning of a new international airport for Hong Kong, by the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become the effective banker for the entire country and a major funnel for investment money from Taiwan into the People's Republic; even the newly rich in China frequently did their banking there. | 5 |
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