chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (02/28/90)
| +---------I __L__ ___- i \ ------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | _/ * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Feb. 28 (I), 1990 Table of Contents # of Lines 1. Introduction of New Vancouver Eduction Consul: Hu Hong-Liang ......... 46 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction of New Vancouver Eduction Consul ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hu Hong-Liang --- the New Acting Education Consul in Vancouver Chinese students and scholars in BC may expect either benefit or troubles from the Education Section of Chinese Consulate General. Mr. Hu Hong-Liang, who came from The Chinese University of Science and Technology in An-Hui province, has taken Consul Li's (Education Section) place since Li left Vancouver for an official trip. Mr. Hu, a visiting scholar at UBC, is now working as a part-time act- ing education consul for the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver. He and his wife now are living in the luxury town-house of Consul Li's home for free. This is at least the second time that Mr. Hu takes this place as the deputy consul. He did once when the famous consul Liu Zaixiang temporarily went back to China several months ago. During the last a few years, Mr. Hu has been well known as an active informer to Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver area. Referring to his close personal relationship with the consulate officers, Hu once said "they were our comrades, friends and leaders, why don't we tell them everything we know". Many Chinese students who used to work or live together with Hu are not that surprised of Hu's promotion. They think this as a penny-pincher, and certainly will not bring the Communist Party any better reputation. Being an acting consul, Mr. Hu may be able to review all the highly confidential files about Chinese students and scholars at the three univer- sities in BC. This may be a bad news to most pro-democracy Chinese students in BC. But on the other hand it may also bring somthing good. For example, because Mr. Hu is looking after everything for consul Li, including his private home as well as his routine work, it may be a good opportunity now for those who need to renew their passports. Mr. Hu has been working in the Department of Chemistry in the University of British Columbia as a visiting scholar for almost five years. He has been supposed to go back since three years ago to `serve our motherland' as he always teaches and encourages his fellows. By following his example, people may expect to get their study periods or passports easily extended from the new Acting Educa- tion Consul --- Mr. Hu. If his can be extended, why can't others. People are encouraged to take this advantage while Consul Li is absent. For appointments, please contact with Mr. Hu at Consul Li's office 2281 McBain Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., or phone (604)732-6723 (in evenings). +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Source: CND correspondents in Vancouver Revised and Edited: Rupert Zhu, rzhu@violet.uwaterloo.ca News Transmission: Bo Chi, chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription: (Xinmeng Liao) xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wed Feb 28 11:39:51 EST 1990
chi@VLSI.WATERLOO.EDU (02/28/90)
| +---------I __L__ ___- i \ ------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | _/ * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (News General) -- Feb. 28 (II), 1990 Table of Contents # of Lines News Brief ............................................................ 24 1. Deng Xiaoping Unhappy With Li Peng ................................. 99 2. First Class Secretary of PRC Embassy at U. of Florida ............... 75 3. Police Tailing Foreign Journalists More Since Martial Law Lifted .... 81 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- News Brief ----------------------------------------------------------------- (i) From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang) Source: French News Agency, Tokyo, 2/27/90 The Japanese government had refused Zhang Zhenghai's political asylum applica- tion, Japan's former Justice Minister said. Zhang hijacked an CAAC airplane at the end of last year to Japan. He will ei- ther being sent back to China or goes to court in Tokyo, and Tokyo Suprem Court expected to make a decision within two months. (ii) From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, Paris, 2/27/90 After the campaign of sending democracy information to China thrught fax mach- nes, pro-democracy activists in abroad will initiate the second wave -- 24 hr. broadcasting toward China from 'The Boat of The Godness of Democracy', which will leave Paris for South China Sea in March and arrive there on April 25th, and then start broadcasting immediately. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Deng Xiaoping Unhappy With Li Peng ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> BY: SCHWEISBERG, DAVID R. Source: BEIJING (UPI) February 26, 1990 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is deeply unhappy with the per- formance of hard-line Premier Li Peng, but has agreed with other leaders to retain him through this year to preserve political stability, informed Chinese sources say. Deng, however, plans to call a major Communist Party meet- ing in 1991 during which he hopes to engineer the removal of Li and the true retirement of the conservative party elders supporting the unpopular premier, the sources said. Rumors of a power struggle and a possible shakeup in the Chinese leadership's upper echelons have been circulating for weeks in advance of the annual session of China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, which opens March 20. The meeting will be the first full Congress session since last year's pro-democracy movement and the crackdown that followed. Government personnel changes are announced each year during the session, which generally ratifies decisions already made by party leaders. Interviewed in recent days, the sources, including Chinese with connections to senior officials and a party member with access to internal documents, said Li would stay on, although one or two vice premiers and about four government min- isters may lose their posts. "Deng is not satisified with Li Peng," one source said. "But the party is stressing stability, and they don't want to make any major changes." The leaders believe that dumping the premier, who was publicly instrumental in last year's violent suppression of the protests, might be seen as a partial reversal of their stance that the crackdown was justified, the sources said. "The old leaders realize that getting rid of Li Peng would please Western nations, but fear it might start domestic turmoil," a party member explained. "It would be like admitting they were wrong." As for much of the past decade, the current divisions in the leadership pit Deng and moderates supporting his free-market economic reforms against elderly hard-liners who favor cen- tral planning and are wary of the "open-door" policy toward the West. The godfather of the hard-line camp is Chen Yun, 85, one of Li Peng's mentors and the chairman of the party's Central Advisory Commission, a powerful club of conservative elders who launched a broad political tightening after last spring's unrest. Ironically, Deng persuaded the hard-liners to relinquish most of their official posts at the party's 1987 national congress, but was forced to turn to them for support last June in the crackdown on the protests. They have since strongly reasserted their influence. The Chinese sources said Li, backed by Chen and another prominent hard-liner, Vice President Wang Zhen, are leading an internal movement to roll back many of Deng's reforms, despite public support for the Deng-inspired party line of continuing the program. "Deng wants to resume the reform and opening," said a well-connected party member. "The others have been giving lip service to reform, especially to foreigners, but inter- nally they have been rolling it back." Inspired by the conservatives, the leadership has since late 1988 employed a broad retrenchment program that has cooled the overheated economy and reined in inflation. But the price has been an industrial slowdown and an alarming rise in unemployment. Li, 62, a colorless and uninspiring leader, seems universally disliked, even by officials. The sources said Deng and other leaders are unhappy with Li's economic work and he is the prime candidate to serve as a scapegoat should the economic down- turn worsen. However, the sources said Deng has indicated to associ- ates he will wait. But he has plans to convene a national party congress next year, a year earlier than the five-year interval that has generally prevailed. At that meeting he hopes to retire the conservative elders and abolish the Central Advisory Commission, which he sees as a bastion of obstruction to his economic goals. The plan is tenuous and oddly depends on which of the eld- erly leaders survives. Deng's health has clearly weakened dur- ing the past year, while Chen Yun has been reportedly near death for months. Several other leaders are also ailing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. First Class Secretary of PRC Embassy at U. of Florida ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Xiantu Peng <peng@omicron.cs.fsu.edu> Source: a Florida local newspaper newsgroup: china-net@gauss.stanford.edu A speech at Florida State University turned into a heated exchange between Chinese students and a representative of the Chinese government Friday (Feb. 23) when Wuwei Zhang, first secretary of the embassy of the PRC, suggested government troops didn't fire on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square last summer. Amid sneers and snickering, Wuwei Zhang told an obviously skeptical audience of approximately 100 people (30 of them were Chinese students) they could not rely on foreign press reports of the Tiananmen Square massacre. In a question-and-answer session following his speech, Wuwei cited statements made to the government-run People's Daily shortly after the incident be De-Jian Ho, a popular Chinese folk singer. Ho told the paper that government troops left the square without shooting anyone. "If you only rely on newspapers and other Western reports then you get a dark picture," said Wuwei. "If you leran about what people there you will get another picture." But several Chinese members of the audience quickly yelled out that the same De-Jian Ho recently told a different story to a Canadian newspaper. "You're a liar," yelled both Chinese and American audiences at Zhang. "What's the difference? You killed innocent people." Before and during Zhang's speech, members of the FSU Chinese Students and Scholars Association staged a slide show in halfway of the auditorium depicting the dead bodies resulting from the Chinese goverment's crackdown on mainly-student protes- ters. The group also mounted posters in the halfway reading "Never forget the deaths for democracy," "We have a dream, free- dom and democracy in China" and "What happened in Eastern Europe can happen in China." The representative of CSSA told the reporter that his group had no intension of disturbing the speech. "Everybody has the right to free speech in this country," he said. "But nobody has the right to tell lies." Wuwei Zhang, the keynote speaker of the FSU World Affairs Program's simulated UN conference, was heavily guarded by secu- rity from FSU police and the Florida Department of Law Enforce- ment. During the Question-and-answer session, Wuwei justified the government's Tiananmen crackdown by saying China can't continue on its path toward economic reform if peace is disrupted. The representative of Chinese student said he expected Wuwei Zhang, a career politician, to argue only the government's side of the Tiananmen issue. "That's their purpose," he said. "The Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party is interested only in staying power. That' their highest priority. They don't care much about people's lives." The question-and-answer session was shortened because of the angers of the Chinese students. Wuwei Zhang left the audito- rium by taking police car. The sponsor refused to release the place for Zhang to stay to Chinese students. Zhemin ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Police Tailing Foreign Journalists More Since Martial Law Lifted ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fangzhen Lin <lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Source: AP news 27 Feb 90 By KATHY WILHELM Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - Foreign journalists say plainclothes police have been tailing them more often - even while they jog or shop - in the month since the government lifted martial law in the Chinese capital. Reporters said Monday that as a result they have been more cautious about talking to Chinese, not wanting to get them in trouble with authorities. ''Several (Chinese) contacts have been hauled before the leaders in their (work) units and told, 'We know you had contact with a foreign journalist and this must stop,''' said a British reporter. Like the other journalists, he spoke on condition of anonym- ity for fear of provoking official retaliation against his Chinese friends. Correspondents from nearly a dozen news organizations, including those from the United States, Soviet Union and Europe, said they have been tailed at least once by plainclothes police in recent weeks. Since June, when the government crushed student-led protests for democracy, official access has been more limited, and even many ordinary factories and offices are afraid to let reporters visit for interviews. Under martial law imposed in Beijing during the protests, foreign reporters were required to get military approval for all interviews. The requirement lapsed with the Jan. 11 lifting of martial law, but the police surveillance appeared to be a substi- tute measure. The British reporter said he had been tailed each of the past three days, and that on one occasion plainclothes police tried to photograph him meeting a Chinese friend in a park. The next day, police followed him to a hotel where he met a Chinese acquaintance, and three motorcycles and a van followed his car from the hotel, keeping pace when he accelerated and drove in circles. After he dropped off the Chinese man, police pursued the man on foot, the reporter said. An American reporter who noticed she was being tailed by a man on a bicycle said it made her decide not to visit Chinese friends, ''so I guess it's working.'' She and several other reporters believe the surveillance, which in many cases has been obvious, is intended to discourage them from normal contacts with Chinese friends or news sources. ''What we're all terribly concerned about is getting a Chinese in trouble,'' said another American reporter who said he and his wife were followed even when they went jogging. In the past, Chinese have been accused of giving state secrets to foreigners with whom they were friendly, and in some instances have been jailed. Others have been denied promotions or the chance to study abroad because of friendship with a foreigner. Without Chinese friends, foreigners find themselves cut off entirely from Chinese society, isolated in their separate apart- ment compounds and with little access to officials. China does not censor the writings of foreign reporters. How- ever, it censors foreign news entering the country. Authorities tear out articles they consider objectionable before allowing newspapers and magazines to go on sale in hotels. Chinese-language broadcasts of the U.S.-run radio station, the Voice of America, have been jammed since June. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription: (Xinmeng Liao) xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wed Feb 28 12:23:08 EST 1990