chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (01/10/90)
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The Video showed Li Peng anouncing it, but his voice was not heard. Time 8:00 am, Jan. 10, 1990. (2) From: yuan@mimsy.umd.edu, kwchan@hkucs.UUCP and ls2r+zhiyong@andrew.cmu.edu Source: Washington Post, South China Morning Post and NHK, 1/4-8/90 Washington Post -- Around 500,000 workers are applying for protest in about 30 cities of China. The slogans include "We do not want democracy and free- dom, but we want food," "We want the leadership of Communist Party, but we want jobs too," etc. The protest attempt results from the austerity policy of the CCP government which tries to control the high inflation. The government threatened to do anything to stop the protest. (3) SCMP -- The Minister of the State Education Commission, Mr Li Tieying said, despite the present economic retrenchment programme, the Government would continue to increase expenditure on education, which has grown by about 15 per cent a year for the past decade. Teachers' salaries would be raised to catch up with average national wages. (4) NHK (Japan Broadcast Service) -- The Republic of China (Taiwan) has esta- blished official trade ties with Hungary amid strong protest from the Com- munist government of China. This is the first official mission of ROC in Eastern Europe. Similar ties with Poland and Czechoslovakia are expected to be established soon. (5) ND correspondent in U of Sask. (Hong Kong) Cheng Ming No.147, Jan. 1990 reported that the former Romanian dictator Ceausescu asked the Chinese government to send an airplane to rescue him. But the plane had to return to China in the midway since Ceausescu was arrested shortly afterward. Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong said there happened a "counter- revolutionary riot". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Newest Talks of Lifting Martial Law in Beijing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU Source: Associated Press, 1/9/90 By Kathy Wilhelm, Associated Press Writer Beijing -- Chinese leaders were preparing today to end martial law in Tiananmen Square, the cradle of the crushed pro-democracy movement, and pos- sibly lift the restrictions elsewhere in the capital, sources said. The end of the 7-month-old emergency would be mainly symbolic because troops already have been withdrawn from city streets. It would not mean greater freedom of dissent, because most activities banned under martial law, such as anti-government demonstrations and speeches, are illegal under other laws. However, communist authorities hope it will reassure foreign governments and the World Bank that stability has been restored and that soft loans should be restored. The loans were frozen in June after troops cleared the city center of pro-democracy protesters, killing hundreds of unarmed civili- ans. Authorities also hope that an end to martial law will reassure foreign tourists, few of whom have come since martial law was imposed. It may be directed in particular at the United States, where it would enable President Bush to tell critics that his softening of sanctions against China had a positive effect. Several well-placed Chinese sources said they read government notices that martial law would be lifted at midnight Tuesday (11 a.m. EST Tuesday) -- at least in the square and possibly in all affected city districts. Several Chinese work units told their employees to watch the evening TV news for the announcement, and Chinese reporters also said they were await- ing word Tuesday night. [However, nothing happened.] There was no immediate explanation for the delay. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Tighter Control of College Enrollment Is Told ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kwchan@hkucs.UUCP (Chan Ki Wa) Source: South China Morning Post, 1/4/90 By John Kohut Beijing -- The Minister of the State Education Commission, Mr Li Tieying, in an outline of government policy delivered at a National People's Congress Standing Committee meeting and published in Chinese newspapers yesterday, said more stress would be placed on correct political thought in determining who should be accepted into universities. His remarks about the importance of ideology in selecting students indi- cated at least a partial return to the Cultural Revolution practice of evaluating university and college applicants on the basis of political thought, knowledge and physical fitness. In the past decade, academic ability has been the major criterion for selection. "Ideological and moral criteria should gradually be reflected in enrolment, assignment, promotion, and salary, and (opportunities for) study- ing abroad," Mr Li said. "We should take into account not only talent, but also morality." More university places should be granted to students who have already worked for several years, Mr Li said. Presumably, mature students will be more politically reliable because they have already been screened by their work units. Mr Li defended the decision to cut enrolment in universities and col- leges by 30,000 to 610,000 and said the annual intake of new students would remain frozen for the next few years. "In the past few years, enrolment ex- ceeded plans," he said. "Not only did that affect teaching quality, it was also an important cause of instability in the schools," he said. In future, student enrolment should strictly follow the state plan, he added. School textbooks for philosophy and social science classes should adhere to Marxist doctrines, and students should be sent more frequently to fac- tories and villages to gain more "practical experience", he said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Hong Kong Governor Visits Beijing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU Source: United Press International, 1/8/90 Hong Kong -- The governor of Hong Kong, Sir David Wilson, flies to Beijing this week in a bid to smooth troubled relations with China, which shattered the colony's confidence when it waged its brutal crackdown on protesters at Tiananmen Square. "What I'd like to do is to get across to Beijing the concerns that we have in Hong Kong ... and to try and re-establish some degree of confidence between ourselves and the people in Beijing who are involved with Hong Kong affairs," Wilson said of his three-day trip. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd is due to arrive in Hong Kong Saturday, one day after the governor returns from Beijing, for talks on China and London's recent proposal to grant citizenship to up to 250,000 of the colony's 5.7 million residents. The move is an attempt to stem the "brain drain" of middle class Chinese who are leaving the colony because they are fearful of Beijing's intentions after 1997. Hong Kong officially estimates that almost 50,000 people, mainly middle-class professionals, emigrated last year and officials expect the number to reach nearly 60,000 this year. Unofficial estimates are much higher. Britain, which wants to maintain good political and commercial ties with Beijing, has been widely accused in Hong Kong of too readily giving in to China's demands that basic freedoms be curbed before 1997. China shocked the colony on the final day of 1989 by denouncing Britain's plan to grant citizenship to 50,000 Hong Kong families, about 225,000 people, to ensure key private and public sector personnel would not leave the territory before 1997. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Developments in EE and SU: Cuba's Stormy Foreign Relations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tang@riscc1.scripps.edu Source: Wall Street Journal, 1/5/90 By Jose Luis Llovio Menendez, ex-Chief Adviser to Cuba's Minister of Finance Last year began, for Mr Castro, under the pall of US-Soviet detente. As the year progressed he found himself increasingly on the defensive: first as a result of drug and corruption trials that shook the structure of his in- telligence network and his military, later with the arrest of leading human-rights activists, finally (and always) on account of the chaotic state of Cuba's economy. And as the 1990s begin, Mr Castro faces the task of re- building his economic relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, almost from the ground up. It is a daunting task by any measure, and one in which Mr Castro can ex- pect little help form the Soviets. Indeed, the Soviets can no longer force COMECON countries to comply with their Cuban trade agreements or to give Cuba better prices for its goods without violating its own policy of non- intervention. And without Soviet pressure, the Eastern nations will find scant incentives to continue unprofitable trade practices on their own. Then there is the matter of the Soviet Union itself. As a result of the continuing decentralization of the Soviet economy, Cuba must now deal directly with Soviet enterprises on a case-by-case basis rather than through the broad, state-to-state agreement of the past. In the absence of govern- ment pressure, Soviet enterprises will prefer to sell their goods to hard- currency purchasers or to more profitable markets. Small wonder, then, that the Cuban leader has recently turned toward China in the quest for solution to his economic difficulties. In mid- December, the Chinese minister of trade and economic relations, Zheng Tuo- bin, was warmly received in Cuba and the two countries signed new trade agreements totaling $500 million -- an 11% increase over current trade lev- els. Mr Castro also has scheduled a visit to Beijing next month, seemingly optimistic of securing substantial amounts of additional aid. Yet, despite the fact that China and Cuba find themselves confreres in a steadily shrink- ing fraternity, there is no convincing evidence that China would be willing to supplant East-bloc aid, even if it could. As the Cuba revolution enters its fourth decade, its survival is in doubt as never before. Will the USSR continue to pour its precious resources into the island in the face of Cuba's verbal assaults and insults [attacking on Soviet reform]? How will Cuba weather a negative trend int he aid it received from the COMECON countries? How will it find new sources of hard currency -- especially in light of the US intervention in Panama, which will interrupt the income from Cuba's Panamanian front companies? Most im- portant, will the Cuba people -- assured of winning instant, world-wide sym- pathy -- seize this historic opportunity to demand an open plebiscite as have the Eastern Europe and Panamanians? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Executive Editor: Sanyee Tang, tang@riscc1.scripps.edu | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jan 10 11:53:18 EST 1990
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (01/10/90)
* C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t *
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1. Open Speech of Mr. Cao Changqing and Xu Bantai at UT .............. 28
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From Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars Canada
via FS300310@YUSol
There will be an open speech of Mr. Cao Changqing, the Chief Edi-
tor of Press Freedom Herald and Mr. Xu Bantai, the director of
coordination committee of Chinese Alliance for Democracy, at MED-
ICAL SCIENCE AUDITORIUM of University of Toronto on Jan.14, Sun-
day afternoon at 1:30 pm.
The open speech is sponsored by the Federation of Chinese Stu-
dents and Scholars Canada and is one of the open speech series of
Cao and Xu in Canada.
The topic of Cao's speech is
A DIAGNOSIS OF CHINESE POLITICAL PROBLEMS AND FUTURE OF CHINESE
DEMOCRACY
The topic of Xu's speech is
THE OPERATION AND CURRENT STATUS OF OVERSEA CHINESE PRO-
DEMOCRACY ORGANIZATION
Every one is welcome to attend this open speech and discuss
with the guest speakers afterwards.
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