chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (02/08/90)
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China Government's Response to USSR's Reform ....................... 20 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Brief --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) From: Qiang Li <QIANGLI%SERVAX.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU> Source: The China World at Florida Atlantic University ------------------------------------------------------ WASHINGTON (FEB. 7) REUTER - A senior U.S. official strongly defended the administration's policy toward China Wednesday and said Beijing had taken steps in the right direction since its crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators last June. ... The Senate recently sustained a presidential veto of a bill allowing Chinese students to remain in the United States after their visas expired. The administration argued strenuously that passage of the bill would close the door to future students. (2) From: Jnet%"CAFGM@IBRDVM1" "Young Chul KIM, IBRD" 7-FEB-1990 Source: World Bank/IMF Press Summary ------------------------------------ CONABLE: NO DECISION YET ON CONSIDERING LOANS TO CHINA. At a news conference yesterday, World Bank President Barber Con- able "said he hasn't yet decided on scheduling two pending loans to China, amounting to $90 million, for World Bank Exe- cutive Board action on Thursday," Associated Press-Dow Jones reports. Mr. Conable said he hopes the Bank will resume its lending program to China "in the not too distant future," the account says. ... (3) Source: Reuters News From: Jnet%"CAFGM@IBRDVM1" "Young Chul KIM, IBRD" 7-FEB-1990 ---------------------------------- CHINA'S STATE SECTOR PLUNGES FURTHER INTO DEBT. Reuters reported from Beijing that China Daily said state-run enterprises, the mainspring of the economy, plunged further into debt in 1989 as low efficiency and bad planning depressed profits. ... The agency said international lenders like the IBRD may apply additional pressure for China to ease its tight credit policy and continue with market reforms, almost abandoned in recent months. (4) From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> Source: BEIJING (AP) February 06, 1990 ---------------------------------------- The government will require rural laborers seeking work inthe cities to obtain licenses, in an effort to stem rural migra- tion and counter rising urban unemployment, a Labor Ministry official said. ... (5) From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> Source: BEIJING (AP) February 06, 1990 BY: ABRAMS, JIM ; Associated Press Writer ------------------------------------------ Inefficiency, waste and poor returns are threatening China's policy of making large state-run industries the vanguard of the nation's economic development, an official report said Tues- day. ... Per capita productivity rose only 1.6 percent in 1989, compared with 9.3 percent in 1988, while wages increased 14 percent and bonuses 23 percent, according to the report. ... The official China Daily, in a commentary, noted that if efficiency in large state-owned firms continues to erode, "no matter how the government adjusts, the economic retrenchment program would fail to achieve its purpose." ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. USSR's Significant Reform ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Qiang Li <QIANGLI%SERVAX.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU> Source: The China World at Florida Atlantic University MOSCOW (AP) -- Communist Party leaders agreed Wednesday to relinquish their constitutionally guaranteed monopoly on power and move further toward transforming the Soviet Union into a mul- tiparty democracy, officials said. The party Central Committee, which decides Communist policies, voted almost unanimously to accept the proposals of President Mikhail Gorbachev despite sharp criticism of his plan during an extended meeting this week, one participant said. ... Svyatoslav Fyodorov, a famed eye surgeon and participant in the three-day meeting in the Kremlin, said the committee agreed to support abolishing the constitution's Article 6, which guaran- tees power to the Communist Party.... Both hard-line Communists and reformers had sharply criticized Gorbachev's platform, with hard-liners complaining he was going too far and reformers saying he failed to go far enough. ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. China Government's Response to USSR's Reform ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Qiang Li <QIANGLI%SERVAX.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU> Source: The China World at Florida Atlantic University PEKING (FEB. 7) REUTER - China's leadership, increasingly iso- lated by changes sweeping the Communist world, delivered its sternest warning to opponents on Wednesday, saying a weak Commun- ist Party would mean turmoil and war. The 47-million-strong party, the world's largest, raised the age-old Chinese fear of chaos in a statement clearly intended as a reply to radical changes pushed through by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at a key Communist Party meeting in Moscow. "In China, without the strong leadership of the Chinese Com- munist Party, new turmoil and wars would surely arise, the nation would be split, and the people, not to mention state construc- tion, would suffer," the party said. Its warning was delivered in an editorial in the party newspa- per People's Daily which was released in advance by the official New China News Agency. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription (Xinmeng Liao): xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thu Feb 8 09:06:46 EST 1990
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (02/08/90)
| +---------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. 8 (II), 1990 Table of Contents # of Lines 1. A Joint Demonstration in Front of Chinese Embassy (Ottawa) .......... 16 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A Joint Demonstration in Front of Chinese Embassy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wei <WEIPC%UOTTAWA.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 11:48:13 EST The Bolshevik revolution sent the Marxism to China. (shi-yue-ge- ming-de-pao-sheng-song-lai-le-ma-li-zhu-yi). Now the first com- munism country in the world is abolishing the monopoly of commun- ist party. What about China? What will Mr. Gorbachev send to China. Demo- carcy! A demonstration will be held in front of Chinese Embassy this afternoon 4:00pm (Thursday Feb. 8, 1990). It's coorganized by LYH of University in Ottawa and Democarcy-China Ottawa. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription: (Xinmeng Liao) xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thu Feb 8 12:10:16 EST 1990