chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (01/18/90)
| +---------I __L__ ___/ \ -------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | J * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Jan. 18 (I), 1990 Table of Contents No. of Lines Brief News: China restricts contacts with foreigners, etc............ 40 1. Chronology of an American Betrayal................................ 100 2. East Block News: Mongolians in democracy rally.................... 39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brief News ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [South China Morning Post/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP] A new Communist Party document has instructed all Chinese that meetings between Chinese and foreigners must be reported to the authorities and a full, written account of the conversation submitted. New regulations are also being prepared to restrict the activities of foreign journalists. Foreign journalists are expected to face the same restraints that existed under martial law. The new rules have turned the trumpeted lifting of martial law into a farce. [South China Morning Post/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP] Mr. Yan Mingfu, the liberal official who lost his party secretariat job after the June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown, appears to have been relieved of all his party functions. Mr. Yan, director of the party's United Front Works Department, was absent from a nationwide conference organised by the department, judging from New China News Agency reports. Mr. Ding Guan'gen, reputedly a bridge partner of Mr. Deng Xiaoping, is likely to replace Mr. Yan. [South China Morning Post 1.1.90/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP] The General Secretary, Mr. Jiang Zemin is planning a trip to North Korea in the spring, possibly in late March. Diplomatic sources say Mr. Jiang will hold extensive talks with the North Korean leader, Mr. Kim Il-sung, over the rapid changes in Eastern Europe, especially the fall of the Ceaucescu regime. The Chinese leadership is also anxious to meet Mr. Kim because of his rapidly declining health. Last month, North Korean officials said the "Great Leader" had given up smoking because of health reasons. [Fortune magazine/ccoleman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu] Governments and investors in Asia privately lauded the initiative [of Bush's sending Scowcroft to China]. Bush's overture has already prompted others to ease pressure on China. Japan will invite Chinese officials to visit Tokyo soon. The World Bank said it hopes to resume lending to the PRC. And France has signaled its willingness to help finance a joint venture. [South China Morning Post/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP] More than 100 managers in China's southern province of Hunan have resigned recently because of economic difficulties, Beijing's anti-corruption drive or problems with the communist Party. Among the main reasons cited for the resignations were a lack of capital and a fall in rpoduction and profits, it said. Since an austerity programme was instituted in September 1988, many factories in China have found themselves short of raw materials, spare parts and electricity, and some have been unable to honour contracts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Chronology of an American Betrayal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [New York Times 1.14.90 A.M.Rosenthal/antolovi@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu] This is the chronology of the American betrayal of the struggle for freedom in China. It is worth studying. There is still a chance to recover some of America's honor. June 4., 1989: The Communist rulers of China order military troops to shoot down students and workers peacefully demonstrating for a taste of freedom. Hundreds, possibly thousands, die. In the weeks that follow thousands are arrested; most are still in jail. June 20: President Bush orders some mild sanctions against China. He says any high-level contacts with the murderers of Beijing are suspended until they acknowledge the validity of the demonstrators' aspirations. Early July: Exact date still secret. Mr. Bush sends a high-level mission to China but keeps that fact hidden. July-November: More executions. New waves of arrests, closing in tighter on student leaders who had escaped; purging of officials who had shown any sympathy with them. November 30: Mr. Bush vetoes an act of Congress, passed without opposition in the House and Senate, to guarantee that Chinese students now in this country would not be forced to return to China as long as they were in danger. December 9: A top-level mission is sent publicly to Beijing. Warm exchanges of toasts with the men who ordered the murders. Administration refuses to say whether other secret missions were sent to China. December 10-24: Mr. Bush says some sanctions will be lifted. Brushes aside protests from Republican and Democratic members of Congress. Administration makes it plain that it expects gestures from Chinese Communists before Congress reconvenes to try to override the President's veto. January 2-8, 1990: American organizations like the International League for Human Rights provide information detailing arrests and executions, which have continued since the June murders. Chinese students say at least 10,000 demonstrators are still in jail, beg Mr. Bush to demand their release. Chinese Communists denounce Eastern European revolutions, show even stronger determination not to loosen their own control. January 10: Chinese Communists, as predicted, announce lifting of martial law in Beijing - not in any other place where it was imposed publicly or secretly. Many soldiers transferred to police force, which now numbers more than 1.5 million in addition to army about twice that size. Laws allowing arrests without explanation, secret trials, executions, indefinite detention without trial, forced labor, press control, brutal student "re-education" camps - all still on the books and recently made even harsher. Denunciation of "lifting" of martial law as meaningless cosmetic trick comes from all over the world. In Washington, the President orders steps to permit World Bank loans to Chinese Communists. January 11: Mr. Bush hails the Chinese Communists for taking a "very sound step". Washington reports possible repeals of other sanctions. That is the chronology so far. In the last days of the 1980's the Bush Administration deserted the struggle for freedom in China. Whatever the reasons - outdated, stale geopolitics and Mr. Bush's misplaced confidence that he really "knows" China best - the Administration picked the wrong China, the China of the oppressors over the China of the oppressed. In the first days of 1990's it did something almost as bad - it made a fool of itself. It said that a contemptuous piece of cynical playacting by the murderers of Beijing was a step toward freedom. Now here is a date for the future: On January 24., the day after it reconvenes, Congress will try to override Mr. Bush's veto of the bill to protect Chinese students in the United States. This was always important, to help the students. Now it has taken on profound political significance. An override would signal to the entire world that at least the legislative branch of the United States Government remains on the side of the freedom fighters of China. It would be an act of hope and loyalty for the Chinese and the freedom movements still struggling in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Override of a veto requires a two-thirds majority. The White House is working hard to persuade Republicans who voted for the bill to vote against an override. Between today and the date of that vote, every American can get in touch with his or her representative and senator and urge them to vote against the veto and for the people of China. This will give us all a chance to take part in the chronology of Chinese- American history and wipe away part of the stain. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. East Block News: Mongolians in democracy rally ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [South China Morning Post 1.16.90/Agence France Presse/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP] About 5,000 demonstrators braved temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator to demand democracy and the trial of a former Communist Party chief, witnesses said yesterday. The protest on Sunday was the third since mid-December in Mongolia, the second- oldest socialist repblic after the Soviet Union. Like the previous demonstrations, it was organised by the Mongolian Democratic Union (MDU), created last month by intellectuals and young people. Witnesses reached by telephone from Beijing said the protest was larger and more daring than the others, and although demonstrators challenged the Government there was no intervention by the authorities. Banners reading "Down with bureaucracy" and "Speed up democratisation" were unfurled, diplomats in Beijing said, adding that such slogans were unprecedented in Mongolia. Some speakers publicly questioned the political system "inherited from Stalin", criticised the dominant role of the communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. The denunciation came despite the party's secretary-general, Mr Jambyn Bathmounkh, being seen as an advocate of "il tod" - the local version of the Soviet policy of glasnost. The protesters demanded removal of a bronze statue of a very Napoleonic- looking Stalin that has gazed over the heart of the capital since the People's Republic of Mongolia was formed in 1921. Another demand was the formation of a multi-party system as well as the trial of Yumjagin Tsedenbal, who has been living in Moscow since being removed from office in 1984. He has been held responsible for the country's 32-year stagnation, earning the sobriquet of "Mongol Brezhnev". The MDU has demanded free elections, greater respect for human rights, an end to privileges and the holding of a referendum on the introduction of market reforms in the economy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Executive Editor: yawei@rose.bacs.indiana.edu or yawei@iubacs.bitnet | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Jan 18 10:14:03 EST 1990
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (01/18/90)
| +---------I __L__ ___/ \ -------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | J * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Jan. 18 (II), 1990 Table of Contents No. of Lines 1. New Issue about FR .............................................. 26 2. A Letter from Beida ............................................. 74 3. CNN received ACE Award for China Coverage ....................... 15 4. Chinese Government Illegally Confiscated My Letter To My Family . 50 5. Another Post about Letter to China .............................. 36 6. Interview with Hou Dejian ....................................... 144 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. New Issue about FR -------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Ti Wang, From: wangt@math.toronto.edu Dear netter: The enclosed is the reply from the director of ISC, Mrs.E.Paterson regarding to a recent issue of China News Digest. (Jan. 17 (II), News Digest) Please attend this meeting if you can. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Letter from E. Paterson Jan. 18, 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know where the Federation gets its information but it is wrong! There is no general meeting in Ottawa. There is a meeting here for U of T students! (3 pm at ISC) I had logged on to rem- ind you in fact. I am pleased to report that representatives of External Affairs and Immigration will be coming from Ottawa. Also someone from Ont Region Immigration and a local official. They will be able to discuss policy in China as well as here. Also I think students will be pleased with the procedures that have been worked out locally for managing applications. Please remind all interested students to attend. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. A Letter from Beida ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LXL4@PSUVM.BITNET Newsgroups: soc.culture.china A Letter from Beida The following is the text of a letter recently received from a Beijing student: Jan. 1, 1990 Dear ...: (.....) With this letter, I hope to give some good news to you. Perhaps it is not good news at all. But anyway I think it is. On the day the news of the pitiful downfall of Romanian dictator reached China, Yuan Mu [the government spokesman], the professional liar, went to Beida to "have a dialog" with Beida students. Yuan first delivered a speech which was full of platitudes, and was hissed to a stop by the students present. Then, an interesting dialog followed, in the process of which the students brought many embarrassing questions to Yuan, such as, "why we sent a delegation to Romania to flatter the dictator shortly before his downfall? Do you think this would contribute to the prestige of our country?"; "would you please give some comments on the dictator of North Korea? What do you think of him?"; "Is our state again the only state that carries the banners of Marxism and Leninism in the whole world? Shall we again wage battles against imperialism and revisionism?"; "you say Zhao Ziyang [the ousted party chief] monopolized the floor when he was in power. But then we could at least hear some different voices, and now there is only one voice in our media. What do you think of that?"; "why you simply keep Wang --- [referring to Wang Dan] and others in jail without bringing them to trial? Don't you think it's against law?"; "Will you try them openly?"; "Is Wang still in jail? Is he well? As friends of his, can we visit him and send something to him?" Barraged with such questions, Yuan Mu and Yuan Liben had a very difficult time indeed. I have listened to the recording of the meeting, and I am deeply moved by the brave students who dared to show their sympathy with Wang and others at this time. And I feel a bit relieved that at least now the champions for democracy haven't been forgotten. Another piece of good news is that recently somebody has got a reliable message that Liu --- [referring to Liu Gang, another jailed student leader] is all right inside, and that he has been kept with some other political offenders instead criminal offenders. It is said that he is writing a short story inside. Those who are imprisoned with criminal offenders are having a much harder time. It is said there is one arrested in June who was brutally beaten inside and had one of his legs broken by his ward-mates. Well, still we should remember that they are in danger. I hope that it will be proved that they haven't done anything detrimental to our nation. Our nation! It is very difficult to find it. (......) It is still winter here, both in terms of whether and metaphor. We have got very little snowfall. And it is unusually warm. This year we may have a drought. Next time when you write to me, try to use some round-about expressions in reporting your activities. You know why, so I will not give any explanations herewith. Well try to use as many abbreviations as I can understand. You know, brevity is the soul of wisdom. (......) Sincerely ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. CNN received ACE Award for China Coverage ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Q0W3898@TAMVENUS.BITNET Newsgroups: soc.culture.china CNN received ACE Award for China Coverage It's reported CNN won top two ACE awards about the coverage of Tianmen Democrati c movement and subsequent bloody massacre. CNN anchor Bernard Shaw also won the ACE award for his lively report on TAM square. What deeply moved me is Bernard Shaw's reception speech. In his conclusion he said in Chinese:"Ren Min Yong Yuan Bu Hui Wang Ji Ni Men" (People will never forget you). Hopefully we Chinese students can still remember. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Chinese Government Illegally Confiscated My Letter To My Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: duan@caen.engin.umich.edu (Jiwen Duan) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Chinese Government Illegally Confiscated My Letter To My Family (University of Michigan, Duan Jiwen) June 8, 1989. I sent a letter to my mother and brothers, which had contents about the "June 4" massacre. My family received it at the end of June. My family is in Xi'an township, Taoyuan County, Hunan Province. July 13. In the Morning, two public security agents went into my villiage to investigate. In the afternoon, my 3rd brother (who had highest education in my family except me: elementary school graduate) was ordered to go to the township government to submit my letter. My brother refused. Four officials interrogated him from afternoon to the night. At about 1:30am after midnight, my brother gave in. October 6. I knew part of the facts. I wrote a letter to the Hunan Public Security Bureau and the PRC Embassy in Washington. I asked the government to return my letter and apoligize to my family, because they violated Article 40 of the "PRC Constitution", which protect the freedom and privacy of citizens' correspondence. I also cited words from Chinese government, which repeatedly promised that overseas Chinese students will not be punished for their participation in democracy movement. I said I will publish this story two months later if they do not respond. A copy of this letter was sent to the PRC Consulate in Chicago. October 26. I received a letter from the Chicago Consulate. They said they knew nothing about this case before receiving my letter. They had written to the Hunan Public Security Bureau and the Embassy in Washington and asked the governemnt to deal with this case seriously. November 16. I knew more facts and wrote to the government in my township. A copy of this letter was sent to Hunan Public Security Bureau, PRC Ambassy, and Chicago Consulate. December 4. I received a message. The government has not yet returned my letter but instead on November 16 investigated my brothers and sisters and my previous letters to them. The officials asked my brother to transfer a message to me: Do not make hard time to the government. If the government do not return my letter to my family, I will publish the story in news media in a few months. The title will be: "In Mainland China, son does not have freedom to write to his mother". In order for China to have democracy, we need to fight within the system. If more Chinese fight for their own rights, China has hope. Protecting individuls' rights could be more important than protesting or demonstration in some instances. From November I only need two weeks to receive letter from my family, which is in a remoted mountain area (before it took four weeks). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Another Post about Letter to China ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Anonymous Sender Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Re: My private letter was confiscated by the Chinese government Yes, I can tell you this is not an incident situation. My brother who is working in one of Beijing colleges on Xue(2) Yuan(4) Lu(4) didn't get two letters I wrote him after 6.4 even though I avoided talking any sensitive topics. Another brother of mine is an army officer. At least two letters from me and another friend in US were lost somewhere -- I believe -- in his local public security office regardless the fact that we talked nothing political. He knows what is happening. In every letters I got from him recently, he never forgot to put in this sentence: "Hey brother, you know how much I want to get letters from you. But you should only write letters which I can RECEIVE". I know the implication was the farthest he can go in THE LIMIT. I adore your courage, my friend. But I do not understand why you brought your family in such a trouble, if not dangerous. People leant something from their parents. After they grew up, friends can always recognize some of their behaviors as inherited. One day, I sit there wondering what I got from my father. I found that among other things, one habit I leant is to completely burn every unnecessary documents, personal letters, and whatever you suspect can be used to against you when another "culture revolution" comes. I have been here for a long time but I still feel uneasy to simply tear a letter before I throw it away. To some people, China is concerned as a big market, a cheap labor source, a strategic card, a place to find a mystery culture, a place he/she was so lucky of getting out and is doing hard to try to forget it, etc. But to how many people, it means a quarter of human being that must be cared of ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Interview with Hou Dejian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From the New York Times, January 16, 1990 By Nicholas D. Kristof, Special to the New York Times Stilled by the Unthinkable, a Singer Tries His Voice BEIJING, Jan. 15 - Like a thick carpet of snow, silence has settled over China. In muffled voices, among friends, some people still mock their leaders and dream of change, but despite the lifting of martial law last week they are quiet in public, or they are in jail. Everyone except Hou Dejian. Seven months after violence erupted around him on Tiananmen Square, five months after he came out of hiding in the Australian Embassy in Beijing, Mr. Hou has decided that it is time to shatter the silence. "I hate violence," Mr. Hou, one of China's best known pop-singers and songwriters, said in an interview in his apartment here. "I don't think it's good to take a gun and shoot Deng Xiaoping, or to use violence to overthrow the Li Peng Government. But I can't keep quiet. I want peaceful changes in China, and I want to help that process." The Rumanian Factor "There has to be change," Mr. Hou added somberly. "Otherwise we will face what happened in Rumania. "If nobody speaks out, and the economy deteriorates, and the Li Peng Government goes on treating the people as if they're enemies, then the people will be turned into the enemies of the Government. In Chinese, we have a saying: 'You force us to overthrow you.' So now I'm telling the Li Peng Government, 'Don't force the people to overthrow you.'" In private, many young Chinese are bitterly critical of Mr. Deng, China's senior leader, and especially of Mr. Li, the Prime Minister. But what makes Mr. Hou unusual is that in the last few days he has de- cided that he is willing to voice criticism publicly, even to foreign journalists. 'I'm Prepared for This' When a reporter asked him if it was really possible to quote him saying such things, he scarcely paused. "I'm afraid to die, and I would hate to be imprisoned," he said. "But I'm prepared for this. I've made up my mind to make noise." A lean 33-year-old with an easy laugh, Mr. Hou has always been an icon- oclast. A native of Taiwan, he defected to the Chinese mainland seven years ago, and his songs were banned on Taiwan. His independent way of thinking wore out his hero's welcome from the Communist authorities, and these days his works are banned here - although they are again al- lowed on Taiwan. In a song written during the democracy movement last spring, Mr. Hou re- ferred to the oppressive political atmosphere and asked: What is the weather today? The sky drops lower and lower. Why is it still not raining? What is the weather today? Tell us, how can we breathe? On the night of June 3 and June 4, Mr. Hou was in the center of Tianan- men Square, in a hunger strike with three other intellectuals to gal- vanize opposition to martial law. When tens of thousands of army troops battled their way to Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds and wounding thousands of protestors along the way, Mr. Hou negotiated with the troops to allow the students in the center of the square to leave. According to Mr. Hou's account, much of which is confirmed by others who were there, he and other protest leaders first appealed to those around the monument to give up anything that might be used as a weapon. After 20 minutes, one worker was finally persuaded to give up a machine gun with which he had planned to defend the aquare from troops. Mr. Hou said Liu Xiaobo, another hunger striker who is now in prison, smashed the machine gun to make it inoperable. Refuge with Australians And so, at about 5 A.M. on June 4, the 3,000 students remaining in the center of Tiananmen Square marched out. Mr. Hou said that he was in the rear and did not see anyone remaining, but that a small number could have stayed without his necessarily seeing them. Two days later, Mr. Hou learned that his friend and fellow striker, Mr. Liu, had been arrested. So Mr. Hou sought refuge in the Australian Em- bassy, and stayed there for more than two months. He finally left after receiving a written guarantee that he would not be punished and that he would be allowed to travel freely to and from China. Immediately after he left the embassy, Mr. Hou gave interviews to the official press in which he asserted that he had seen no one killed in Tiananmen Square. The interviews were used by the Chinese Government to back up its asertion that there had been no massacre in the square. Some young Chinese felt betrayed after seeing those interviews, and there was speculation that Mr. Hou bought his freedom by backing the Government line. In his defense, Mr. Hou says that Communist officials told him he had to give interviews, and that in any case he told the truth. Shortly after June 4, there were reports of a massacre of thousands of students in the center of Tiananmen Square. Now those reports are wide- ly though not universally discounted, partly because of the testimony of Mr. Hou and others who were there. The consensus is that while troops fired on crowds in many parts of Beijing, including the Avenue of Etern- al Peace, at the north end of the square and that hundreds were slain, there was little or no killing of those students gathered in the center of the square. Mr. Hou says he has no idea whether anyone died in the center of Tianan- men Square. Asked about reports that students were killed shortly after leaving the square, he says he was told by a witness that 11 were killed several hundred yards to the west, as they tried to make their way home. What is important, he said, is not where people were killed but that they were killed at all. Cannot Give Concert These days Mr. Hou is unable to give concerts or make records, and des- pite assurances from the authorities, he has been told to "wait for a while" before leaving China. So Mr. Hou spends his time with his music, singing blues and writing songs. In one written on June 3, just before the troops attacked, he says: Everything can be changed. Nothing is too far away. Let's prick our ears like a dog, And nobody can lie to us any more. Let's pry open our eyes, Nobody can distort the truth again. "Before June 4, I wasn't a dissident or a protestor," Mr. Hou said. "Now I'm training to become one." ========================================================================= Also printed: an Associated Press picture for the New York Times of Hou holding a guitar and singing in a studio, with the caption: "I've made up my mind to make noises," said Hou Dejian, one of China's best-known pop singers and songwriters. Despite the risk, he has started to voice his criticism of the Government publicly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Editor: Yongdong Wang E-mail: ywang@postgres.berkeley.edu | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Jan 18 11:15:05 EST 1990
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by Guohua Chen
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| Report on |
| China Democracy Movement Strategy |
| Planning Forum, Canada |
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Date: January 13, 1990
Place: York University, Toronto, Canada
Organiser:
Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars Canada
Democracy China-Ottawa
Agenda:
9:00-9:15 Openning remarks
Dr. H. Ian MacDonald (Director York International,
Former President of York Univ)
Michael C. To (Chairman, Democracy China-Ottawa)
9:15-12:30 Talks from 6 speakers, each 20 minutes long. After
each talk there was 5 minutes question and answer
1) Cao Changqing (Press Freedom Herald)
A diagnosis of Chinese political problems and the
future of Chinese democracy
2) Chen Yuanshao (Queen's University, student)
Reflections on the 1989 pro-democracy movement
in China
3) Zhu Yuchao (University of Regina, student)
Cross impacts between the Eastern European and
Chinese democracy movement)
4) Liu Yongchuan (Independent Federation of Chinese
Students and Scholars in the USA)
A report on the current achievements and future
work plans of the IFCSS
5) Raymond Chan (Vancouver Society in Support of
Democratic Movement)
Practical experience and issues for oversea Chinese
pro-democracy organisations
6) Dick Chan (Toronto Association for Democracy in China)
A report on a North American-wide conference for
community based pro-democracy groups held Dec. 2nd and
3rd 1989 and its relationship to the Canadian situation
Mr. Xu Bangtai could not attend the Forum due to visa problem)
12:30-1:30 Luncheon
1:30-2:00 Xiaohua Qu (Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars
Canada)
A report on the current achievements and future work plans
of the FCSSC
2:00-4:30 separate group discussions on:
1) How to expand our base among Chinese Canadians,
Chinese students and scholars; how to unite the so
called left and right split within the Chinese
Canadian Communities; how to effectively fund raise
on a long term basis; how to effectively deal with
the Canadian media and government
2) How do we organise and network within Canada?
Do we need a national coordination group, and if so,
what should be its form and functions? What should
be our relationship with the international movement
and yet maintain our independence on key issues?
How do we enlist the help and cooperation from the
pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong and Taiwan?
3) A brainstorm session on future tactics, strategies,
research and education programs.
4:30-5:30 Summary from each group and Closing remarks
6:30-8:00 Dinner party
Video viewing: Chinese Democracy Movement, Canada
8:00-10:00 Exclusive meeting of FCSSC executives
Delegations:
20 Universities across Canada participated the Conference
15 associations and groups sent delegations. They are:
University of Newfoundland (St. John)
University of New Brunswick (Fredericton)
McGill University (Montreal)
Concordia University (Montreal)
University of Montreal (Montreal)
Benemax (Montreal)
Sincere real estate (Montreal)
Chinese neighbourhood Society (Montreal)
Democracy China Ottawa (Ottawa)
Carleton University (Ottawa)
University of Ottawa (Ottawa)
Queen's University (Kingston)
McMaster University (Hamilton)
University of Guelph (Guelph)
York University (Toronto)
University of Waterloo (Waterloo)
University of Western Ontario (London)
Toronto Association for Democracy
in China (Toronto)
Chinese democracy alliance
Toronto chapter (Toronto)
Chinese Democracy Party
Toronto chapter (Toronto)
University of Manitoba (Winnipeg)
University of Regina (Regina)
University of Saskatoon (Saskatoon)
Asia TV
Human Rights (Waterloo)
Xinhua News (Ottawa headquarter)
China Democracy Promotion Society (Edmonton)
University of Alberta (Edmonton)
Simon Fraser University (Burnaby)
University of Victoria (Victoria)
Vancouver Society in Support of
Democracy Movement (Vancouver)
IFCSS (Washington)
SUNY at Buffalo (Buffalo)
Channel 47 (TV)
P.F.H. (Alhambra, CA)
National Res. Coun. (Gloucester, Ont)
Comments on the speeches:
1) Cao Changqing
China had the anti-communism issue dated back to
early 80's. The Chinese government is corrupted
from head to tail. It is possible to make the PLA
against the present government. Any other group
or party is better for China than Communist.
2) Chen Yuanshao
It would have been different had the students
retrieved on 4.27 or on 5.19
3) Zhu Yuchao
It is proved that capitalist society could be
reached from feudalism society. But there is
no successful examples for the centralized
economy to changed suddenly to market economy.
Eastern European countries are working on it.
Let us wait and say. Keep fingers across.
4) Liu Yongchuan
After the success of Lobbying the US government
to protect Chinese students, they are going to
lobby for the limited sanction against Chinese
economy
5) Raymond Chan
Keep the big name democracy as simple as possible.
It is the choice of People.
Human rights issue is very effective in lobbying.
6) Dick Chan
A united oversea Chinese is supporting the democratic
movement. It is the communist government itself that
will overthrow the Chinese present government.
Comments on the separate group discussions will be
available from FCSSC later on. If you are interested, please
contact (416) 972 1422 (Phone and Fax) (FCSSC headquarter)
Yours sincerely,
Guohua Chen
Secretariat of FCSSC
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