chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (02/27/90)
| +---------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. 27 (I), 1990 Table of Contents # of Lines 1. Trip Of Yang Shangkun to Latin American .............................. 78 2. China Government Steps up Surveillance of Western Journalists ........ 84 3. Wu'erkaixi and Other Young Broadcast from Ship to China .............. 42 4. A Letter to China News Digest: We Should Not Keep Silent ............. 88 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Trip Of Yang Shangkun to Latin American ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: kwchan@hkucs.UUCP (Chan Ki Wa) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: China & HK News Date: 26 Feb 90 20:41:48 GMT Source : South China Morning Post By Cheung Po-ling in Beijing Chinese State President Yang Shangkun's planned visit to three Latin American countries in June has scotched speculation that he might be ousted in a reshuffle at the National People's Congress (NPC) next month. Diplomatic sources in Beijing said preparations were already underway for the goodwill visit to Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. It will be Mr Yang's second overseas trip since Beijing's bloody crackdown last June. His first was to the Middle East. Announcement of the trip is being seen as a signal that the octo- genarian hardliner will remain in power after the NPC session, even if the there is some sort of reshuffle at top government level. The fact Mr Yang is intending to be away in June is also con- sidered by analysts as significant. "I think he wants to avoid any possible outbreak of disturbances in Beijing that may occur to commemorate those killed in the June 4 incident," one analyst said. Mr Yang and Premier Li Peng have been at the centre of specula- tion over a reshuffle at the NPC. Reports said both men were to lose their positions and "new faces with a neutral image" were to be appointed to join the upper ranks of leadership. According to the reports, the two hardliners - believed to have ordered the military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement - were to be removed to avert a domestic crisis and to convince foreign countries that China's reformist policies were continu- ing. It was believed that Mr Li Peng would resign from the State Coun- cil and succeed Mr Wan Li, as chairman of the NPC. And, Mr Yang would in turn be replaced by reformist Mr Wan. Mr Li also recently appeared to have scotched these rumours when the foreign ministry announced that he would be visiting the Soviet Union some time in April. Analysts said theis confirmation of the visit indicated Mr Li had managed to save his job. Mr Yang's June visit bore the same implication - that, at least in the near future, his power would not be challenged by the moderate or reform-minded forces in the party, they said. Mr Yang has indicated an intention to retire no later than next year, and it is now believed he will be unlikely to lose any of his posts - including member of the Communist Party's Politburo and first vice-Chairman of the party's Central Military Commis- sion (CMC) - at the NPC session. Press reports have also tipped Mr Yang to take over as chairman of the State CMC. China's paramount leader, Mr Deng Xiaoping, resigned as chairman of the party's CMC in the fifth plenary session of the 13th Cen- tral Committee last November. And, accodrding to Chinese law, his resignation as chairman of the State CMC must be approved by the NPC. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. China Government Steps up Surveillance of Western Journalists ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> BY: LUBMAN, SARAH Source: BEIJING (UPI) February 25, 1990 China has conspicuously stepped up surveillance of Western journalists and diplomats in recent weeks in an apparent intimi- dation campaign aimed at reducing contacts with Chinese, Western and Chinese sources said Sunday. A number of Western reporters said they have been followed recently by Chinese undercover police, often working in pairs. The reporters said they have been conspicuously followed on their way to and from meetings with Chinese friends in restau- rants, hotels and private residences. Police have followed reporters in cars, on motorcy- cles, and on bicycles, sometimes staying aggressively close and at other times switching vehicles in an attempt to remain undetected, the journalists said. Western diplomats said they have also been subjected to more aggressive security recently. They attributed the overt police presence to heightened fearfulness among China's leadership after Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's violent fall, combined with heavy-handed intimidation tactics used in the past. "It comes in waves. It's meant to intimidate," said a Western diplomat when asked about the increasingly visible street monitoring. The diplomat said he had recently found spikes placed in the center of his car tires. One Western journalist was harassed by undercover police two nights in a row after meetings with Chinese acquaintances. On both occasions, the police were already waiting when the reporter arrived for a previously arranged rendezvous. The reporter said he tried to shake his followers but was chased by several motorcyclists at high speeds through a residential area in central Beijing. Other journalists have been asked over the telephone to change money or buy documents in what appeared to be attempts at entrapment. "The atmosphere is tense right now," said a Chinese source. He linked the recent harassment of Western reporters in par- ticular to retaliation over the U.S. State Department's cri- ticism of China in its latest human rights report. Before the human rights report came out last week, the Western press had been a frequent target of official invective in the aftermath of last spring's massive pro-democracy pro- tests. China has dismissed widespread foreign news reports of hundreds, possibly thousands killed during the army's violent crackdown last June as "groundless rumor." A similar wave of tightened surveillance over journalists and diplomats occurred in 1987, after a political shakeup that removed reformist Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang from his post. At that time, journalists reported increased street monitor- ing in what appeared to be a deliberate intimidation campaign. Two foreign reporters were expelled on charges they had received national intelligence from Chinese sources. Reports linked the 1987 security crackdown to the ouster of then Public Security Minister Ruan Chongwu, a Hu crony. Ruan was replaced by political and legal enforcer Wang Fang. In addition to its Public Security bureau, or police force, China created a State Security agency in 1984 charged with countering internal espionage by foreign agents. Beijing-based foreign correspondents said the current campaign is affecting their work, causing them to reduce con- tacts with Chinese friends for fear of endangering them. "It's a major crimp on my activities," said a Western jour- nalist, who asked not to be identified. The reporter said she is regularly followed by undercover police on motorcycles. "I don't want to get people into trouble," she said. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Wu'erkaixi and Other Young Broadcast from Ship to China ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: kwchan@hkucs.UUCP (Chan Ki Wa) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Source : South China Morning Post Date : 24th Feb., 90 Agence France Presse -- A radio station calling itself the "Voice of Democracy in China" will begin broadcasting from April 20 from a ship in interna- tional waters off China, the Federation for Democracy in China said yesterday. Wu'erkaixi, a leader of the pro-democracy student movement who now lives in the United States, will head a team of young radio amateurs who plan to give a round-the-clock service that will reach all of Chinese territory. The radio will broadcast on medium-wave from a 1,140 tonne ship formerly used by Britain for geo-physical research. It will be officially baptised the Goddess of Democracy when it is launched from the French port of La Rochelle on March 9. The ship is being named after the version of the Statue of Liberty which students erected in Beijing's Tiananmen Square beo- fore the tanks moved in last June. The launch will be broadcast by satellite. International record- ing artists are cutting a disc for the occassion and a world wide, 24-hour concert is planned to mark the first anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, the FDC said. The FDC and the magazine Actuel sponsored the operation "Fax peace in China" four months ago, whereby the democratic movement telefaxed documents to machines capable of receiving them in China. Beijing reacted furiously to the initiative. Some 15 European magazines are sponsoring the Goddess of Demo- cracy. The FDC was founded near Paris last November by dissidents from Beijing in exile in France, the United States and elsewhere. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. A Letter to China News Digest: We Should Not Keep Silent ----------------------------------------------------------------- by: Wu, Fang <INT3FWU@OAC.UCLA.EDU> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 22:34 PST Dear CND editors, After reading the news about the New regulation in China on studying abroad, I wrote the following appeal to the IFCSS' action. WE MUST SPEAK OUT FOR OUR FELLOW STUDENTS IN CHINA --Sign open letter for our fellow students! Recently the State Education Commission of China has recently issued a new regulation regarding studying abroad. According to this new regulation, it is required for all the stu- dents to work 6 years (including one year of practical training period) before they could be allowed to leave the country for studying abroad. For those students who do not have relatives in a foreign country, they are not even given a chance to pay for their leaving? If some one is allowed to leave, he/she will have to pay the government 10,000 to 20,000 RMB (2,500 RMB per year for the higher education) to "buy" a passport. This new regulation is no doubt a big step backward of China's open-policy. This is another fatal shock on the students after the June 4th massacre. Apparently, with this regulation, the door is totally shut right in front of the faces of those who are hoping to study abroad. Living in the dark shadow of a bru- tal government, the students in Beijing and other cities of China now feel very much depressed and hopeless. Just think about this: in last year's uprising, the students were fighting with their blood and lives for the basic rights. Now, they lost even their chances of having advanced education! That damn government said it wanted to control the "brain drain" problem which is in fact caused by its own bad policies. It is now actu- ally draining the brains of a whole generation of intellectuals by mentally torturing them and setting strict and stupid regula- tions to control them. Some one got to stop this! We overseas students have been fighting for our own rights here in the United States. We know how precious the freedom is. Lucky us, at least we can speak freely and struggle for whatever we are looking for. However, don't we feel that we have no rights, and should not ignore what is going on in China, where our beloved homeland is? Don't we feel that we have no rights, and should not forget our brothers and sisters who are struggling hardly for their survival in the hands of a government which does not believe in democracy nor respect the basic human rights? Don't we feel that we should stand up and yell for our people in China when they are shut up by the machine guns and persecutions of that "people's" government? I do feel so. The students in China are not alone. We the Chinese students in the United Stats are with them all the time. I believe we do have the responsi- bility to help, in any way we can, to get them out of the hell and continue their careers in a better environment that they deserve. We should fight on their behalf! With the fact of our fighting for our fellow students in China, we can also prove to the U.S. public that we care about our country, we concern about our brothers and sisters. We are not just a whole bunch of people who care only about themselves. We are here not just for a more "comfortable life". We will con- tinue to struggle for a free China. With the fact of our fight- ing for our fellow student in China, we can also cease the rumor/misunderstanding spread out among some people in our home- land that we sacrificed their rights for our own benefit to stay in the U.S. I am hereby urging the IFCSS to initiate some actions to show our protest to the Chinese government for the new regulation and to appeal to the Chinese National Congress for reopening the door to abroad. We should involve as many Chinese students as we can to show our strength and solidarity. I will suggest the IFCSS to draft an open letter and send it to the National Congress when it reconvenes on March in Beijing. I am also urg- ing all the Chinese students in the United States who care about our China's future and our brothers and sisters to SIGN on the open letter. By doing so, we can not only show our support to our people in China, the action itself can also encourage the students in China to continue fighting for their own rights. Thanks for your attention. Wu, Fang UCLA E-mail: Int3fwu@uclamvs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription (Xinmeng Liao): xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tue Feb 27 11:58:38 EST 1990
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (02/27/90)
| +---------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 * (NDCanada Service) -- Feb. 27 (II), 1990 Table of Contents # of Lines 1. Report of FCSSC Executive Committee Expanded Meeting ................. 57 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Report of FCSSC Executive Committee Expanded Meeting ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- by Xu Zhequn (VP of FCSSC) FS300310@YUGemini.BITNET Tue Feb 27 12:30 EST 1990 ------------------------------------------------------------ FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada == Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese) ------------------------------------------------------------ FCSSC Executive Committee Expanded Meeting was held on Feb. 24, 1990 at University of Toronto. The purpose of the meeting is to review the work of FCSSC since its establishment and target FCSSC's future working direction and plans. Twenty student representatives including four FCSSC executive members from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and its adjacent regions attended the meeting, executive member Chen Guohua was absent due to personal reasons. Each of FCSSC executive members first reported the work he has done in the past (The written report from Chen Guohua was read by Montreal representative, Ding Baoqi). FCSSC Chairman Qu Xiaohua reported his Taiwan trip. The progresses on the " Family Reunion " issue and on proposing the " International Day of Demo- cracy " were reported by FCSSC Student Affair Group and FCSSC's Committee of Human Rights respectively. The student representatives then made criticism and suggestions of improvement on FCSSC executive members and to FCSSC chairman, Qu Xiaohua, over some work insufficiency. Based on the fact that FCSSC was established in rush after June 4th Massacre and therefore not well structured in its constitu- tion and working rules, all the participants agreed that FCSSC's future work should be stressed on the self-construction of FCSSC organization, and the student affairs while promoting the demo- cracy progress in China at the same time. The participants of the meeting also suggest Qu Xiaohua be in charge of the establishment of FCSSC headquarters office. The participants then discussed the relationship of FCSSC with Min Zhen, other pro-democracy organizations and Chinese embassy and consulates. Considering different function of FCSSC and Min Zhen, on the overwhelming proposal from all the participants, FCSSC Chairman Qu Xiaohua agreed to resign from Min Zhen Cana- dian coordinator post and notify Min Zhen Paris headquarters on the day of the meeting as to concentrate himself on FCSSC's work. Qu Xiaohua will act as Min Zhen Canadian deputy coordinator before receiving the final approval of his resignation from Min Zhen headquarters FCSSC's short term goals, the headquarters construction, the elec- tion and preparation of next FCSSC, the June 4th programs were also discussed in the meeting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription (Xinmeng Liao): xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tue Feb 27 13:36:30 EST 1990