chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/05/89)
| +---------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. 5 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) Deng Ordered To "SOLVE" Taiwan Problem In Five Years ........ 16 2) Chinese Artists' Painting Exhibition Shut Down .............. 70 3) Muti-Party Election Held Peacefully In Taiwan ............... 73 4) Krenz, Politburo, And Entire E. Germany's Central Committee .. 47 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Deng Ordered To "SOLVE" Taiwan Problem In Five Years --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: yjj@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu [Excerpt from World Journal news, Dec. 2, 1989, Sat.] According to Hong Kong Outcry (Zheng Ming) magazine News From the North column, which has been a respectable and reliable column, Deng Xiaoping gave a "important talk" to the Politburo members, Taiwan Policy Office and chief officers of the Department United Front in early November before he retired from military committee. He said: China could never retreat on Hong Kong issue; otherwise things will get out of control. Taiwan problem should not be delayed all from time to time; otehr wise the burden gets heavier and heavier. Mainland should prepare peaceful talk on one hand and military solution on the other hand. "How about get rid of the burden in five years," Deng ask Jiang Zhimin and Li Peng. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Chinese Artists' Painting Exhibition Shut Down --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) December 02, 1989 [BY: ABRAMS, JIM ; Associated Press Writer] Police Saturday shut down an exhibition of paintings by young Chinese artists sponsored by foreign journalists, saying the exhibitors failed to obtain permission from the government. Police also said the one-day show was "activity incompatible with your status as journalists," said Jaime Florcruz, president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Beijing. Florcruz, a reporter for Time magazine, said three uniformed police officers and a plainclothes officer gave the artists 40 minutes to remove their oil paintings from a room at the Great Wall Sheraton, a U.S.-China joint venture hotel. The Correspondents Club was allowed to hold a show in 1988 at the hotel as a way for journalists to meet young artists. However, freedom of expression for artists, writers and others has been strictly limited since the June crackdown on the pro-democracy movement here. "Everyone is just flexing their muscles during martial law," said Meg Maggio, also a Time staffer and the organizer of Saturday's exhibition of 40 works by six artists. She said police "never looked at the paintings." Many were avant-garde or abstract but did not appear to carry political messages. Ms. Maggio said she was aware that under martial law, in effect in Beijing since May, the club needed authorization for the exhibit. But, she said, "there is no procedure. We didn't know how to get permission." Florcruz said he called the Beijing Cultural Bureau on Friday but was not told how to obtain the needed authorization. He said he told police the paintings were not for sale and there would be no commercial activity at the exhibit. The police responded, "There's no room for discussion," he said. In November, the Ministry of Culture forced the French Embassy to cancel a nine-day exhibit of the works of a 28-year-old Chinese artist. "We were told that foreign embassies are not allowed to sponsor exhibitions by artists whether singers, painters, whatever," a French Embassy official said on condition of anonymity. Culture Ministry officials told French diplomats at the time that the ministry planned to distribute a circular informing embassies of the policy. Several embassies said they had not received such a notice. Since the military marched on Beijing June 3-4 and crushed the student-led pro-democracy movement, writers have been told they must discard "bourgeois liberal tendencies" and produce works in support of socialist ideas. Film directors who had done works about the darker aspects of life in China have stopped directing or have returned to government-sanctioned films. Most of the young artists who a year ago astonished the nation with the first public shows of nude and avant-garde works have gone underground. Artists can earn little or no money for their works domestically and those who once sought foreign buyers have been censured. The official China Daily on Saturday criticized some art stores and individuals who "manage artwork sales without licenses, doing illicit trade in black markets or profiteering through underground channels." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Muti-Party Election Held Peacefully In Taiwan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: TAIPEI, Taiwan (UPI) December 02, 1989 [BY: ANDERSON, PAUL] The first multi-party elections in 40 years were held peacefully Saturday and sunny skies brought a large turnout of voters in a key test of sentiment on the once-forbidden issue of Taiwan independence. Polls were open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and counting began two hours after they closed on the island about 100 miles off mainland China. Election officials said full results should be known by 11 a.m. EST. There were no major incidents of violence or voting irregularities reported, election officials said. There were scattered but unofficial reports of vote-buying and voter intimidation in scattered areas around the nation of 20 million people, however. Election officials said warm weather and sunny skies resulted in a large turnout that could surpass the 65 percent of eligible voters who participated in national and local elections in 1986. About 12 million people were eligible to vote in the contest for 293 posts, including seats in the national and provincial assemblies and important races for mayor and county commissioner offices. Due to special electoral provisions, the long-established ruling party, the Kuomintang, or Nationalists, will easily retain the power it has held since the Nationalists were forced to retreat to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese civil war. The presence in the 256-seat Legislative Yuan of 162 aging Nationalist lawmakers, who were elected on the mainland before 1949 and hold office for life, guarantees the Kuomintang a majority. A total of 16 parties fielded 722 candidates in the election in which the ruling Kuomintang was expected to win about 65 percent of the popular vote. But the main opposition group, the Democratic Progressive Party, was expected to capture about 18 of the 101 contested seats in the national legislature and have even greater success in provincial and local contests. The DPP only achieved official status earlier this year, although independents aligned with the opposition group have been elected to national and local posts in the past. DPP officials said the party was concentrating its efforts on local and regional posts where it could exercise real power and enact progressive legislation, bypassing the Kuomintang's veto power in the national legislature. The issue of Taiwan independence has emerged as an electoral issue for the first time in the current polls with 32 pro-independence candidates running in the election. Advocacy of independence is banned in Taiwan, with proponents often jailed for sedition. The government, however, has tolerated the latest challenge, possibly fearing a crackdown would have a negative impact at the polls. The DPP itself does not advocate independence for Taiwan, but a number of candidates running under its banner seek nationhood for the island, a move strongly opposed by mainland China as well as the authorities in Taipei. Both Taiwan and Beijing claim to be the sole legal government of China. The polling Saturday is part of a liberalization program begun under the late President Chiang Ching-kuo, which has resulted in the lifting of martial law in 1987 after 38 years and the opening of the electoral system to opposition groups and independents. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Krenz, Politburo, And Entire E. Germany's Central Committee Resigned --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: edu%"yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu" Source: AP News EAST BERLIN - East German Communist leader Egon Krenz and his ruling party Politburo resigned Sunday along with the Central Committee. They were hounded from office by increasing demands from East Germany's emboldened pro-democracy movement. Former hard-line party leader Erich Honecker was expelled from the party he led for 18 years until he was ousted and replaced by Krenz Oct. 18. Three recently fired Politburo members were arrested on corruption charges, and a senior trade official fled East Germany. Politburo member Guenter Schabowski, generally considered a reformer, announced the resignations of the 10-man Politburo and the 163-member Central Committee on state radio. They came as the Communist Party's policy-making Central Committee met in an emergency session following demands that Krenz resign. He was jeered by party members Saturday. The resignations were the latest in a historic series of political changes that have transformed East Germany from a hard-line Communist nation to one at the forefront of Eastern Europe's reform movement. The Communist Party also expelled much of its former leadership, including Honecker, former Premier Willi Stoph and former Parliament speaker Horst Sindermann Sunday, the state-run news agency ADN said. One of those arrested was the senior economic adviser to Honecker. Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, a state secretary in the foreign trade ministry, fled East Germany after authorities opened an investigation against him for suspected illegal weapons sales, ADN said Sunday. Schalck-Golodkowski was East Germany's chief trade negotiator and had headed a department responsible for making hard-currency sales. Government spokesman Wolfgang Meyer said Schalck-Golodkowski was stripped of his functions following his escape. Wolfgang Vogel, the country's most prominent lawyer, told authorities early Sunday that Schalck-Golodkowski was ''at an unknown location outside East Germany'' and he had asked Vogel to represent him, according to ADN. A probe was opened after officials Saturday discovered a secret operation to ship weapons to the Middle East, Africa and South America, ADN said. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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 5 10:51:48 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/06/89)
| +---------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. 5 (II), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ................................................... 24 1) "Public Ownership Has Become 'An Irreversible Trend' In Chin.. 54 2) 200 Pedal In Support Of The HK Alliance .................... 33 3) April 5th Protesters Stage Vigil At NCNA .................... 37 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Several thousands Czechoslovakia students demonstrated in Prague on December 2, to protest Chinese government's crackdown on student-led prodemocracy movement in Beijing this spring. Students in Prague said they were shocked when they learnt the tragedy in Tiananmen Square but could not help at that time. We knew it was late, but we stood up and spoke out at the first opportunity, students said. Students in Prague planned to march to Chinese embassy but it was cancelled as Chinese embassy made a protest to Czchoslovakia government From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J.Yang) Source: New York Times, 12/3/89 The Nobel Peace Award winner Dalai Lama said he would use the money to help solving the hunger problems in the world and support studies on peace. Dalai arrived in Peris yesterday to receive another human right award and will fly to Norway next week to receive the Nobel Award. Dalai said he have not made any official contact with Chinese Communist government since May. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/4/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. "Public Ownership Has Become 'An Irreversible Trend' In China" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: BEIJING (AP) December 03, 1989 [BY: JONES, TERRIL ; Associated Press Writer] China's Communist Party has issued a resounding rejection of private ownership, saying public ownership has become "an irreversible trend." In a ringing endorsement of orthodox Marxist ideology, the party newspaper People's Daily lambasted the most cherished of capitalist principles. "Can 'paradise' be found in capitalist countries? Absolutely not," the paper said in a lengthy commentary Saturday. "Political regimes that are based on privatized economies breed all forms of corruption," the People's Daily said. "The innate character of the bourgeois dictatorship of capitalist private ownership is a dictatorship of the rich minority over a poor majority." In 1848 Karl Marx summarized the theory of communism in a single phrase: "eradicating private ownership," the People's Daily said. "For half a century, many countries under the leadership of communist parties have established the great struggle of public ownership to wipe out privatization, and this has become an irreversible historical trend," it said. China's Communist Party stepped up its calls to adhere to strict Marxist doctrine and reject "bourgeois liberalism," or Western ideas, following the short-lived pro-democracy movement this spring. The student-led movement sought political reforms but widened to call for increased freedoms including better education, a less controlled economy and higher wages. After the movement was violently crushed by the Chinese army, leaving hundreds dead, top leaders orchestrated a return to doctrinaire slogans, ordering the mass media to follow the Communist Party line and selectively report positive news. Government leaders have also rejected political pluralism and have continued to crackdown on political dissent. The paper said those who support private ownership claim that Chinese yearn to leave the country for overseas, even agreeing to be "third-rate citizens" of other nations. "This is pure rumor," People's Daily said. "Most Chinese people studying or working abroad love their homeland." Thousands of Chinese overseas, however, do seek ways to remain abroad rather than return to China, where they face low-paying jobs which they may not be able to choose, and drab living conditions. U.S. diplomats in Beijing say that more than 90 percent of Chinese who go to study in the United States do not come back. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 200 Pedal In Support Of The HK Alliance --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net Source : South China Morning Post, 12/4, 1989 [By Chris Yeung] More than 200 people took part in a territory-wide rally on bicycles yesterday to demonstrate their backing for the Hongkong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China, which Beijing has accused of being subversive. The demonstrators, wearing white T-shirts, began their ride in Tsim Sha Tsui in the morning, crossed the harbour by ferries and finished their journey in Wan Chai in the afternoon. Another bicycle procession was held in Tai Po. To remind the public not to forget the June 4 Beijing massacre and the pro- democracy cause, their T-shirts were emblazoned with "Love for the country, Love for the people - the spirit of Hongkong" and "People will not forget". The protesters ended the rally with a brief demonstration outside the Queen Elizabeth Stadium, opposite the New China News agency headquarters. Singing pro-democracy songs, the demonstrators also presented about 10,000 signatures in support of the goals of the Alliance to leaders of the 210-group alliance. The signatures were collected over the week-end. The gathering was organised by 31 groups, of which about a third are members of the Alliance chaired by Mr Szeto Wah. The groups included the University of Democracy, Forum for Democracy, the April 5th Action group and some residents' concern groups. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. April 5th Protesters Stage Vigil At NCNA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net Source : South China Morning Post, 12/4, 1989 [By Tommy Lewis] The April 5th Action group last night staged a protest outside the New China News Agency in Happy Valley. The protest was to mark the six-month anniversary of the Beijing massacre and to commemorate those who died in the crackdown. A group of about 25 people gathered at 11 pm, approximately the time troops started firing on the students in Beijing on June 3. After negotiations with police, 10 protesters were allowed to stay outside the NCNA building for about five minutes while they sang the Chinese national anthem and observed a one-minute silence. The others, holding placards, had to stay across the road. The protesters complied with a police request not to stick posters on the walls of the NCNA building. Protesters then moved across the road and started a sit-in, which they said would continue throughout the night. They said at 8 am today they planned to walk to the High Court in central where seven April 5th members face charges of unlawful assembly following an incident in Causeway Bay on September 29 at a demonstration near the World Trade Centre, the venue for a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of china. On Friday, two April 5th members were fined $500 after they were found guilty of fixing anti-Chinese Government posters on the gates of the NCNA building without consent. Magistrate Ian Britton ordered them to pay court costs of $250 and said he would not allow them to be turned into martyrs over such a trivial case. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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 5 21:03:46 EST 1989