chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/12/89)
| +---------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) -- Dec. 12 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News .................................................. 21 1) Bush Seeking "Common Grounds" With Deng Xiaoping ........... 17 2) HK-China Committee Meets For The 1st Time Since The Crackdow.. 8 3) Dalai Lama Accepted Nobel Peace Prize ....................... 12 4) Three Sentenced For Murdering A Policeman During The Crackdo.. 11 5) Anti-Vice Campaign Against "Six Evils" In Beijing ........... 26 6) China's Third Protest Against Bush's Protection To Chinese S.. 43 7) Book Review ................................................. 21 8) << In China, Enemies Everwhere >> Part I ................... 58 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Six young people staged a demonstration in Beijing, in front of the Ministry of Radio and TV. This happened despite the martial law which is still in effect in Beijing. The young people were identified as students. They held two banners, one read "Why is China so poor", another one read "TV should make people happy". There were 200 - 300 stunned onlookers. The demonstrators were taken away by police. From: lin@cs.wmich.edu (Lite Lin) Source: National Public Radio News 12/10 (2) Liu Binyan and his wife arrived in Taiwan today to start their 2-week visit of Taiwan. Liu, the famous journalist, will attend two workshops and make a speech during his visit. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/11/89 (3) A movement of 'Learning from Comrade Lei Fung' is being again carried out within Chinese military. 'People's Daily' reported that over 300,000 'Dairy of Lei Fung' had been delivered to the army. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: AP, 12/10/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Bush Seeking "Common Grounds" With Deng Xiaoping --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mr. yawei" <YAWEI@IUBACS> WASHINGTON - President Bush Monday defended his decision to send two top aides to Beijing over the weekend. He said he would ''keep looking for ways to find common ground'' with Chinese leaders despite continuing unhappiness with their crackdown last spring against pro-democracy forces. Bush stressed that the mission didn't signal normalization of relations between the U.S. and China. He said relations wouldn't be normalized until China honored basic human rights. Sanctions imposed by Bush after the crackdown remain in effect. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. HK-China Committee Meets For The 1st Time Since The Crackdown --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mr. yawei" <YAWEI@IUBACS> HONG KONG - Representatives from Hong Kong and China met Monday for the first time since Beijing crushed internal dissent in June. The committee agreed the British colony shouldn't serve as a base for subversion against China after 1997, press reports said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Dalai Lama Accepted Nobel Peace Prize --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mr. yawei" <YAWEI@IUBACS> Dalai Lama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday. He said he remains committed to non-violence in seeking an end to China's 40-year occupation of his Himalayan homeland, Tibet, despite Chinese rebuffs. "I accept the prize with profound graditude on behalf of the oppressed everywhere," he said at a ceremony attended by King Olav V. Meanwhile in Stockholm, King Carl XVI Gustaf awarded gold Nobel medallions to nine laureates who won the prizes for literature, chemistry, physics, medicine and economic sciences. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Three Sentenced For Murdering A Policeman During The Crackdown --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) December 08, 1989 A Beijing court today sentenced two men to death and another to life in prison for the murder of a policeman during the June military crackdown on Beijing. The official Beijing Evening News said the court's verdict reflected the government's bid to "severely attack the counter-revolutionary element's criminal activities and safeguard the state's safety." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Anti-Vice Campaign Against "Six Evils" In Beijing --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) December 08, 1989 Authorities have "punished" nearly 11,000 people in Beijing since October in an anti-vice campaign against the "six evils," a newspaper reported Friday. The Legal Daily quoted the a municipal group as saying 10,964 people had been punished and it had seized 50,000 pornographic books, 1,630 videotapes, 1,203 gambling implements and the equivalent of $73,000 in gambling money. The campaign is part of the conservative leadership's drive against Western tendencies, and has targeted the "six evils" prostitution, gambling, drugs, pornography, superstition and the selling of women and children. The report did not say how many of those "punished" were arrested, but noted that 40 percent were under the age of 25 "which means the health of the youth is being seriously corroded." It said prostitution, gambling and pornography were the three most common vices in Beijing and that some managers, factory directors and leaders "are shielding, conniving at and sometimes even organizing" illegal activities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. China's Third Protest Against Bush's Protection To Chinese Students In US --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) December 08, 1989 China filed a third protest Friday expressing its "utmost indignation" over Washington's actions to allow Chinese students fearing persecution at home to extend their stays in the United States. The protest, delivered by Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu to U.S. Embassy Charge D'Affaires Lyn Pascoe, was the third given to the United States in the past three weeks. "The U.S. action undermines the educational exchanges between the two countries and Sino-U.S. relations as a whole, and I am ordered to express our utmost indignation and lodge a strong protest with the U.S. government," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Liu as saying. Allegations that Chinese students might be persecuted upon their return home was "utterly groundless," Liu said. Also on Friday, the State Education Commission said Bush's actions violated a 1987 bilateral agreement requiring Chinese students to return home for at least two years following the completion of their studies in the United States. "Due to U.S. violation of the Sino-U.S. agreement on educational exchanges and its obstruction of normal student exchanges, the State Education Commission of the People's Republic of China has to make necessary responses, and the U.S. will be held responsible for all the consequences arising therefrom." The statement did not say whether "necessary responses" might include a halt in sending students to the United States. Nearly half of the estimated 80,000 Chinese studying abroad are in the United States. Relations between the two countries are at their lowest point since the normalization of diplomatic ties in 1979. Both sides have expressed hopes that problems can be overcome, while at the same time insisting that the other side act first in remedying the conflict. Australia said Friday it will allow Chinese nationals in the country illegally, including students who have finished their studies, to stay until at least Jan. 31, 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Book Review --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/11/89 A book named "Jin1 Xin1 Dung4 Pou4 De4 Wu3 Shi2 Liu4 Tian4" published internally in China discloses some 'uncompleted statistics' about the pro- democracy movement last spring in China. According to this book, which focuses on the 56 days of last spring, there were 2.8 million (persons/times) college students from 600 colleges and/or universities in 84 cities of 29 provinces participated in the demonstrations ( there are 2.03 millions college students in China). From 4/17-5/19/89, 1.53 millions students from 500 colleges and/or universities in 80 cities went to the streets. >From 5/15 to 5/19/89, there were about 700 units in Beijing area involved in the demonstrations, among which, there were 60 universities and/or colleges, 30 middle professional schools, 120 vacational high, high and primary schools, over 50 news, party, government, and research units, 40 cultural units, 20 municipal units, all democratic parties (9), over 160 factories, businesses, stores, and hotels, and 13 hospitals. There were also 80 universities and/or colleges from 15 cities out of Beijing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. << In China, Enemies Everwhere >> Part I --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: Boston Sunday Globe [By Colin Nicherson, Globe Staff] BEIJING - The doctor, a prudent man, shuts and bolts the door to his third- story flat before tuning in the small Japanese shortwave. Listening to foreign news broadcasts is a counter-revolutionary crime these days. And the next-door neighbor - anyone's next-door neighbor - might be an informer. so the 56-year-old surgeon keeps the volume low. Voice of America. The BBC.Bursts of static from the forbidden radio bands. Monotone voices describing extraordinary political changes sweeping Poland, East Germany, the Soviet Union. The accounts of freedom rising might as well be fairy tales so remote do they seem from the reality of China, where a decade of social reform has given way to a new season of oppression. 'Everywhere the world is changing for the better - everywhere but here,' said the 57-year-old doctor. He shakes his head, bewildered, angry. He pours another glass of the fiery rice liquor called MAO TAI, ignites another Blue Swallow cigarette. ' Here we listen to the empty rhetoric, recite the slogans, pretend to be grateful for living under a system whose survival depends on guns and scapegoats.' He is no dissident, this doctor. He is a Communist Party member in good standing, albeit of shattered faith. It was not the murderous suppression of the fledgling democracy movement that destroyed his belief. No, he says, so many millions have lost their lives since the party came to power four decades ago that he was not especially shocked by the slaying of a few hundred more. 'During the Cultural Revolution I was sent to the countryside to shovel pig manure while my patients died,' he said.'Since then I have felt China is like the mad dog who sinks fangs into his own tail.' As head of his hospital's work unit he is obliged to hold weekly 'political study' sessions for the staff. 'I read the party propaganda as I am supposed to, but I do not tell people to believe it. No one believes the lies anymore, no one thinks China has a good future,' he said. 'At night, I drink MAO TAI and listen to the radio.' On this night, there was only a brief report from China: six young men executed in Chengdu for participating in anti-government protests six months ago. Their offenses might have been anything from hurling bricks to 'rumor-mongering ,' and Orwellian category of crime that covers any utterance contrary to the official Communist party line. So, add six more to the scores already executed for their role in the short -lived Freedom Spring. Sentence is usually carried out immediately with a pistol shot to the back of the head. The government is said to make a point of billing the dead prisoner's family for the cost of the bullet. Guns and scapegoats. Hundreds of civilians massacred in the streets of the capital last June, and since then the hard-lin leadership has conducted a nonstop rant against 'wrong-roaders,' 'foreign conspirators' and other supposed enemies of the people. (TO BE CONTINUED) +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Dec 12 10:18:17 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/12/89)
| +---------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) -- Dec. 12 (II), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ........................................................... 30 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Mr. Guohua Chen has sent a condolence letter to the The fami- lies of the victims of the killing incident happened in U. of Montreal on behalf of FCSSC. From ND correspondent at U. of Manitoba. Dec.11, 1989 2. Mr. Xiaohua Qu, President of FCSSC, sent out a congradulation letter today on behalf of FCSSC to Rt. Honourable Audrew MacLaughlin, she was recently elected as the new leader of NDP. From ND correspondent at U. of Manitoba. Dec.11, 1989 3. The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Polytechnical Univer- sity of Catalonia) is offering two grants to Chinese students of science or technology who have had to leave the PRC and cannot return. These students must be able to speak Spanish. Although these two grants are available, there are no Chinese student can- didates on hand here to receive them. If anyone knows of a Chinese student in exile who speaks Spanish and is studying sci- ence or technology at the postgraduate level, please let me know and I will try to establish contact between him or her and the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). Sean Golden, Director Chinese Studies Centre Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona iuts0@ccuab1.uab.es From IUTS0@ccuab1.uab.es Tue Dec 12 08:34 EST 1989 ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Dec 12 15:27:17 EST 1989