chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (02/04/90)
* C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t *
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>From ND special correspondent in Vancouver
Sponsored by Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement
(VSSDM), Mr. Wu'er Kaixi will be visiting Vancouver on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8.
Here is his schedule:
1. Speech on Chinese Democracy.
7:30 pm, Feb.7, 1990 (Wednesday),
St.John's (Shaughnessy) Church,
1490 Nanton (Granville and 27th Ave.), Vancouver
Free Admission
2. Fund Raising Dinner with Wu'er Kaixi
6 -- 9pm, Feb.8, 1990 (Thursday),
Pink Pearl Restaurant, 1132 East Hastings,
Charge: members of the VSSDM: $40; others: $50;
To purchase tickets, please call VSSDM office
669-6938 (202-427 Dunley st.)
VSSDM, Feb.3, 1990
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China Political Salesmen Woo, the Nation Unwilling to Buy ......... 110 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Breif News -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) >From ND special correspondent in Vancouver Sponsored by Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement (VSSDM), Mr. Wu'er Kaixi will be visiting Vancouver on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8. Two activities are planed: a. Speech on Chinese Democracy. b. Fund Raising Dinner with Wu'er Kaixi (2) From: (Fangzhen Lin) EDU%"lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU" 3-FEB-1990 BEIJING (AP) - China added another 15.77 million people last year to bring its population to 1.112 billion, according to the State Statistical Bureau. ... ''From the viewpoint of age structure, our country will continue to see a rising birth rate trend for the next few years,'' the report said. ''Family planning work cannot be relaxed by even an iota.'' -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Yugoslovak Communist Party Splits -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: (Yagui Wei) yawei@ucs.indiana.edu source: (AP) LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia - Slovenia's liberal Communists Sunday broke away from the national Communist Party. Slovenia declared that it no longer recognizes the institu- tion that has ruled Yugoslavia since World War II. The move followed disputes over the pace of democratic reform and a virtual trade war between the affluent republic of Slovenia and archrival Serbia, the largest of Yugoslavia's six republics. ... The break from the national party by the Slovenian party was the first formal party schism since the Communists took power in 1945. ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Ethnic Albanians Seek Probe Of Yugoslavian Police Action -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: (Yagui Wei) yawei@ucs.indiana.edu source: (AP) News PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - Five ethnic Albanian groups Saturday asked the government to investigate reports that police fired without warning on protesters in Kosovo province. Unrest in the troubled province has left 25 people dead and 120 injured. ... In an English-language statement, the five ethnic Albanian groups said they supported the government's attempt to resolve the unrest and asked for talks. ... It said authorities used ''classic forms of state terrorism'' to put down ethnic Albanian calls for greater autonomy from Ser- bia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 100,000 March in Moscow for Multiparty System -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: (Yagui Wei) yawei@ucs.indiana.edu source: (AP) NEWS 2/4/90 MOSCOW - Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets of the capital Sunday to demand the Communists surrender their stranglehold on power. It was perhaps the biggest protest here since the Bolshevik Revolution. The rally came on the eve of a party Central Committee meet- ing during which President Mikhail Gorbachev is expected to pro- pose that other parties be allowed to compete for power. Gorbachev's proposal is likely to spur an intense struggle between hard-liners and reformers. The crowd waved huge white-red-and-blue flags of pre- revolutionary Russia and held signs warning party officials to ''Remember Romania,'' where a bloody revolt last year toppled the Stalinist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. The masses stopped next to Red Square for a rally that was meant to influence the pivotal Communist Party plenary meeting that opens Monday. ''This plenum is the party's last chance,'' declared Boris Yeltsin, a populist Communist leader who promised to place the crowd's demands before the 251-member Central Committee. Others, harkening to the revolution that overthrew the czar in February 1917 before being swept away by Lenin 8 months later, said a new revolution was under way. ... Some demonstrators at the head of the rally chanted ''Polit- buro resign!'' Others whistled in derision when they passed the Moscow city council headquarters on Gorky Street. Trucks blocked Moscow's Garden Ring Road for the marchers who linked arms next to Gorky Park and completely filled eight lanes of traffic, stretching back more than half a mile. Cordons of uniformed police blocked cars elsewhere, turning the center of Moscow into a virtual pedestrian mall. According to reports, party leader Gorbachev will propose to the Central Committee that the party give up the guarantee of power that was written into the Soviet Constitution in 1977. The Radio Moscow news service Interfax also said Gorbachev was planning structural reforms that would reduce the size of the Central Committee and possibly eliminate the ruling Politburo. He also was expected to give tacit approval to the concept of private property. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. China Political Salesmen Woo, the Nation Unwilling to Buy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kwchan@hkucs.UUCP (Chan Ki Wa) source: soc.culture.china by Terry Cheng, South China Morning Post During the Spring Festival Chinese leaders travelled across the country meeting people from all walks of life. With the Year of the Horse symbolising energy, the leaders in Beijing seemed to be attempting to display that same spirit them- selves. Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin described the pur- pose of this new effort to meet the people, stating that "If all cadres keep close flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, we will be invincible, our party will be more powerful and our country will be more prosperous." In a word, the leadership seemed to be trying to improve rela- tions with the people by paying visits to them during the Lunar New Year, when according to Chinese tradition people visit their relatives and associates to exchange seasonal greetings and bury old grievances. It is a tradition for the Chinese leadership to visit the pro- vinces during the Spring Festival. In the past it has been suggested that the reason for doing this was for them, especially the elderly leaders, to escape the cold northerly winds blowing through Beijing. The more prosperous southern cities, like Shanghai and Guangzhou, are much warmer. This year, "retired" paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and President Yang Shangkun visited Shanghai. Using the festive occasion to promote his sagging image, hardline Premier Li Peng wore a smile and held a boy in his arms on the first day of the festival during a tour of Tiananmen Square where only eigth months ago thousands of students demonstrated in pro- test against his government. Qiao Shi and Li Ruihuan, two members of the Standing Committee of the party politburo, travelled to Guangzhou. The busiest of all the leaders was Mr Jiang. The new party chief had the task of leading the country into the new year and new decade. He arrived back in Beijing on New Year's Eve just in time to join Mr Li for the gala festival broadcast to the nation. Mr Jiang had been to a coal mine, an earthquake disaster zone and factories and army units in Shanxi province. To put the round of visits into more modern terms, Chinese authorities launched a public relations campaign aimed at winning the hearts and minds of a nation disillusioned with economic hardships and continued suppression of dissident voices. Undoubtedly, the campaign was prompted by drastic changes taking place in Eastern Europe - where the socialist bloc has crumbled to a shadow of its former self. China's leaders have been deeply concerned by events in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Europe's other former communist nations. Premier Li spelt out the leadership's position when trying to reassure his listeners in Jiangsu province shortly before the Lunar New Year. He said that regardless of the great instability and dramatic changes on the international scene, China would proceed firmly along the socialist road. For any public relations exercise to be really successful there have to be some solid selling points. The selling points reiterated by Mr Li in his Lunar New Year speech were hardly new. His five major points had all been proposed before the June 4, 1989, crackdown on the democracy movement and in fact were demands made by the protesting students: -resolutely implement the party's decisions on rectifying the economic order and furthering reform; -All levels of leading organs and cadres must closely liaise with the people and change the work style in order to solve the prob- lems which the people are widely concerned with and in order to improve relations between the party and the people; -Continue to build a clean government; -Continue to enforce the socialist democratic and legal system and further promote political restructuring; -Continue to strengthen the socialist civilisation and the overall progress of the society and maintain the development of education and science and technology as a top priority of the government. ... 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