chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (02/05/90)
| +---------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. 5 (I), 1990 Table of Contents # of Lines 1. China Government Against US Sanction Bill .......................... 59 2. China Government Formally Protests Czech ........................... 33 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. China Government Against US Sanction Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BY: ANDERSON, PAUL Source: BEIJING, China (UPI) February 03, 1990 From: "Jian Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> The National People's Congress Saturday lashed out against a bill authorizing U.S. trade sanctions against China for its crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, calling the proposal a "vile act." The measure, passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate Jan. 30 and approved in November by the House of Representatives, has been sent to the White House for President Bush's signature. A Chinese Foreign Ministry official called in the U.S. ambassador Friday to protest the bill authorizing limited economic sanctions against Beijing. The official Xinhua news agency Saturday carried a lengthy statement from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament, strongly condemning the sanctions on strategic trade with China. "We hereby express, once again, our utmost indignation and lodge a strong protest against this vile act of certain members of the U.S. Congress who are bent on setting themselves against the Chinese people and willfully trampling on the basic norms governing international relations," the statement said. The sanctions bill blocks activities with China by the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp., suspends licenses for the export of military and crime control equipment, forbids nuclear energy cooperation and suspends various trade programs. The measure was designed to show American anger at China's brutal June suppression of the student-led pro-democracy movement around Beijing's Tiananmen Square, which claimed hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. "We would like to advise these members of the U.S. Congress to sober down and look ahead so as to free themselves from indulgence in arrogance, prejudice and lack of reason and, taking into account of the overall and long-term interest of Sino-U.S. relations, to change over to a new way and stop their wanton interference in the internal affairs of the other countries," the NPC statement said. Bush vetoed a nearly identical sanctions bill in November because of objections to an unrelated legislative restriction resulting from the Iran-Contra scandal. He was expected to sign the latest bill because it allows the president to suspend the sanctions if he finds it is in the U.S. national interest or decides China has made progress on political reforms. Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu on Friday told U.S. Ambassador James Lilley that current problems in Sino-U.S. relations "are entirely caused by the U.S. side" and warned that "to lift the sanctions ... is a necessary condition for the return of normal bilateral relations." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. China Government Formally Protests Czech --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jian. Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> Source: BEIJING (UPI) February 03, 1990 China formally protested Saturday a visit to Czechoslovakia by the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, saying it "constitutes gross interference in China's internal affairs." The Czechoslovak ambassador to China was called to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing to receive the protest against the visit, which was at the invitation of Czech President Vaclav Havel, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The exiled Dalai Lama, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize who lives in exile in India, arrived in Prague Friday for a five-day "private" visit despite an earlier protest by China. The Beijing government views Tibet as a province of China and placed the capital, Lhasa, under martial law March 8 following pro-independence demonstrations. "The official pointed out that the Czechoslovak president's insistence on inviting the Dalai Lama to Czechoslovakia in disregard of the solemn position made clear to him in advance by the Chinese side constitutes a gross interference in China's internal affairs," Xinhua reported. Both Havel and the Dalai Lama are advocates of non-violence and peaceful co-existence. Havel, a playwright, led the peaceful revolution that toppled the communists from power in Czechoslovakia in November. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription: (Xinmeng Liao) xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Mon Feb 5 11:08:47 EST 1990