chi@VLSI.WATERLOO.EDU (03/01/90)
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CND Help Recommend: China History TV Program ........................ 42 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- News Brief ----------------------------------------------------------------- (i) From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> BY: WILHELM, KATHY ; Associated Press Writer Source: BEIJING (AP) February 27, 1990 Chinese, American and Soviet mountaineers plan to scale Mount Everest and clean up some of the 2 tons of discarded tents, oxygen bottles and other garbage left by generations of climbers on the world's highst peak. (ii) From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> BY: HARTMAN, CARL ; Associated Press Writer Source: WASHINGTON (AP) February 27, 1990 The Word Bank's board, including the United States, unani- mously approved a $60 million loan to China on Tuesday, the first of seven loans that bank president Barber B. Conable held back after the crackdown on the pro-democracy move- ment last June. .... (iii) From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> Source: BEIJING (UPI) February 27, 1990 The ruling Communist Party called for stronger party con- trol of the military in a document saying the selection of officers should hinge on "political integrity" as well as abil- ity, the state-run press said Tuesday. (iv) From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: Reuters, HK, 2/28/90 International Human Right Organization said on Feb. 28 that Chinese government may execute a Tibet student to warn those who support the independency of Tibet The student killed a policeman two years ago and is considered as symbolic lead er by Tibet students. The Tibet New Year is in this week and people in India will applaud to Dalai La ma. (v) From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: Central Agency, HK, 2/27/90 Xin Bao in Hong Kong quoted source in Beijing as releasing that it is very like ly Yang Shangqun will be elected as the Chairman of the State CMC in the up- coming People's Congress. CMC, then, will be co-chaired by two people. Jiang Zemin is the Chairman of CCP CMC. The rumor of CMC double chairmen is circulating among high rank- ing officials in Beijing, the report says. It reported that the changes of the high ranking offi cers of the Armed Police will also be controled by Yang brothers. (vi) From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: Agence France Presse, Beijing, 2/27/90 Source in Beijing says Beijing government made the sixteenth pro- test against Frency government. French embassador refused to dis- close the content of the protest. The fifteenth protest was made on Oct. 31, 1989 when FDC carried on a campaign of sending demo- cracy information to China through fax machines. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Beijing Promotes 'To Walk in Tiananmen Square' ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, Tokyo, 2/27/90 By Chen, Zejen According to a flyer from China, a group of Beijing residences and students are calling for an activity of 'To Walk in Tiananmen Square' between April 1st and 5th. This flyer, which was sent out on Feb. 10th and was circulating among Chinese students in Japan, pointed out the great changes in East Europe and called on people to gather in Tiananmen Square again and let the spring of a democratic China comes early. They stressed, however, people would not go to Tiananmen Square to demonstrate, in stead, people only to take a walk, with did not need permission and could not be banned; no flags, no banners, but walk. People could talk to each other , could be happy, could be sad, or only be silent. Feelings could be exchanged by only smiling at each other; great power could be shown by being calm. They think it can become the focus of the world so long as thousands people stand in the square, and everybody will be able to feel the meaning and con- tent from the calm people in the square. Meanwhile, they predict that those who are afraid of people will also be afraid of this activity, and will threaten this activity. The flyer, there- fore, wants people to ignore it, no arguments, no explanations, because on body can deal with the silent under- standings among people. Finally, the group of people urge people to constrain themselves and not to turn this calm power show into a open demonstration. When hundreds of thou- sand people are organized and can control themselves, they will never be com- peted, the flyer says. ---------------------------------------- News Contributor's Note to CND Editors: I am moved by the above report and hope our readers can share it. It is very smart and could be very great! The IFCSS should know it and check it out, and coordinate. It could become a great, great event to show people's power. They are right, the calm from hundreds of thousands people can scare dictators to death! Jack ------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. French Reporters Ordered to Leave China ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> Source: BEIJING (AP) February 27, 1990 A French television reporter and her translator were ordered to leave China after conducting interviews without permission in a sensitive minority region, an official report said Tuesda. Daniele Loustallot of the French television network Antenne 2 is the first foreign correspondent ordered to leave China under a new press law that took effect last month. It requires visiting reporters to obtain temporary accreditation from the government and limits them to approved interviews. Ms. Loustallot and her translator, Fabienne Goldberg, were working for the network's human rights program, "Resis- tances," according to program spokesman Noel Mamere in Paris. He did not give details of their planned report. The People's Daily newspaper said the two arrived Feb. 13 in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a vast, mostly Moslem area in China's far northwest. They traveled on tourist visas. "They conducted a series of illegal interviews and other activities not compatible with their tourist status," the paper said, without giving details. It said they "ignored a warning by the Public Security Bureau and had a rude and unrea- sonable attitude." It did not say what deadline was set for the women to leave China. The French Embassy said they were still in the country Tuesday, but refused to give other details. Xinjiang is sparsely populated by various minority groups, including the Uygurs, who have clashed from time to time with Chinese security forces over religious and cultural differences. Local authorities generally have treated foreign reporters with suspicion, and last year police beat up two Beijing-based foreign correspondents who believed they had permission to visit. Foreign journalists in Beijing have come under tighter sur- veillance in recent weeks. However, Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, in Geneva for a disarmament conference, said journal- ists "have great freedom, I think that perhaps the freedom has been too extensive." ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Foreign Journalists Seek Meeting With China Gov't ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fangzhen Lin <lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Source: AP news 28 Feb 90 BEIJING (AP) - An organization representing more than 100 foreign journalists today requested a meeting with government officials to discuss a recent increase in police surveillance. ''We strongly object to this interference in the journalistic work of accredited foreign correspondents,'' the Foreign Correspondents Club of Beijing said in a letter to the Foreign Ministry. It requested a meeting with the ministry's director of infor- mation, Li Zhaoxing, and ''representatives of relevant security organizations at the earliest possible date.'' The letter was delivered to the ministry today, and there was no immediate response. More than 130 foreign correspondents from more than two dozen countries belong to the organization. Police have sharply increased surveillance of foreign jour- nalists since martial law was lifted in Beijing last month. Correspondents from nearly a dozen news organizations, including Americans, Europeans and Soviets, said they have been tailed at least once by plainclothes police in the past few weeks. One reporter said his Chinese friends had been warned by their employers to stop seeing him. Three Chinese who visited another reporter's home last week were taken away by security agents as they left. Foreign journalists have faced reduced access to officials and tighter controls since June, when the army was called in to crush massive popular protests for democracy. Some have been fol- lowed from time to time, but surveillance has become markedly more intense since Jan. 11, when martial law was lifted. Under martial law, foreign journalists were required to get military approval for all interviews. Police surveillance appears to be a substitute measure. Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, in Geneva to attend a disarma- ment conference, said the reports of stepped up surveillance were inaccurate and warned that any ''secret activities'' by foreign journaists would prompt official response. As during past upsurges of conservative ideology, longstand- ing official suspicion and resentment of all foreigners also has come to the fore. A Western diplomat in Shanghai said security guards recently accused his driver of being a foreign lackey and beat him up. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. China Gov't Convicts Five of Spying for Taiwan ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fangzhen Lin <lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Source: (AP) News 27/2/90 BEIJING (AP) - A Shanghai court Wednesday convicted five men of spying for the rival Nationalist government on Taiwan and sen- tenced them to prison terms of five years to life. They were among more than a dozen mainland Chinese accused of acting as agents of Taiwan during last year's massive pro- democracy protests. Zhou Yan, 23, and Qiu Lin, 30, were recruited by Taiwan's secret service while abroad in 1988, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It did not say why the two men were abroad. Zhou allegedly recruited three other men when he returned, and they all gave Taiwan information about the democracy move- ment, Xinhua said. Zhou was sentenced to life in prison, Feng to 15 years, and the others to terms ranging from 13 years to five years. Taiwan, an island province off China's east coast, has been ruled since 1949 by the Nationalists, who fled there after being defeated by the Communists on the mainland. The Nationalists still claim to be the rightful rulers of all China. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5. North Korea Recalls and Sends Students to Re-education Camps ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: (Yagui Wei) yawei@ucs.indiana.edu Source: (AP) News Date: 1 Mar 90 SEOUL - Communist North Korea has summoned about 2,000 of its students and engineers from Eastern Europe and sent them to iso- lated rural areas to halt the spread of ''ideological taint,'' a newspaper reported Thursday. The Kookmin Ilbo newspaper quoted South Korean government sources as saying the students and engineers were held in a re-education camp outside the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The sources said the students and engineers were held for up to two months before being sent to remote education facilities or factories. The North Koreans were ordered to return from East Germany, Romania, Hun- gary and three other Eastern European countries undergoing democratic upheaval, the Seoul newspaper said. Popular uprisings toppled hard-line Communist rulers in Bul- garia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania last year. The newspaper said North Korea also wants about 500 students studying in the Soviet Union to return this year because pro- democracy protests are now occuring there but authorities took no action for fear of stirring a diplomatic conflict. North Korea has stated that it has no intention of changing its current political course and that its society wouldn't be affected by changes in Eastern Europe. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6. CND Help Recommend: China History TV Program ----------------------------------------------------------------- Are you a China expert? Or can you say with confidence that you know something about China's history because you are a Chinese? If not, have your VCR ready. PBS (Channel 9 in Vancouver) will air an interesting four-part TV series starting March 13: "The Genius That Was China." It tells the story of China's rise and fall in history and asks: "Will she be rising again?" Hundreds of years ago when beginning to trade with the Europeans, China brought on an internal detate over how to acquire the fruits of Western technology and currency while still excluding Western values. The debate continues today. "The problem is that the science and technology that can make you richer is destabilizing", explained Tom Levenson, the film producer, "it adds elements of change and is unpredictable. You have to have a political culture that at least can tolerate that kind of built-in instability. And this is somethingthe Chinese in their imperial system never had and still don't have. ... People thought Deng Xiao- ping had taken China too far down the road to return, but they were wrong." In "The Genius That Was China," Harvard professor Roderick MacFarquhar states that at least politically, change is inevit- able. "In the end, only a military solution was possible for Deng Xiaoping and his generation of leaders. After them, no one will have the authority, and the system will not have the viability. There will be ridical change, I believe, in a more democratic direction." Airing times: (read your TV Times for any changes) NOVA:The Genius That Was China Rise of the Dragon, 7:00 pm Tuesday, March 13. Empires in Collision, 7:00 pm Tuesday, March 20. The Threat From Japan, 7:00 pm Tuesday, March 27. Will the Dragon Rise Again? 7:00 Tuesday, April 3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription: (Xinmeng Liao) xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thu Mar 1 12:40:11 EST 1990