chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (12/01/89)
| +---------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 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) Some Clarifications on Family Reunion Issue ......................... 55 2) CBS and ABC Reported the Veto News .................................. 38 3) China's Boarders Further Control .................................... 66 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Some Clarifications on Family Reunion Issue by Zhengfang Lu ............................................................................ Editor's Note: The following message clarifies a few important points on the family-reunion issue. This message is from Mr. Lu Zheng- fang, the chairman of CSSA at University of Manitoba. Mr. Lu himself is facing the same difficulties in this respect. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, Editor. I just read the message which was posted in the latest ND. I really worry about the BY-PRODUCTS of this issue, which will, I think, damage the image of the Chinese among Cana- dians and other foreign friends and will possibly hurt our common interests. Therefore I would like to put some comments on that issue. To avoid possible misunderstanding, I should declare first that I am the ONE WHO IS FACING THE SAME DIFFICULTIES. 1. Presently the Canadian Embassy in PRC dealing with the visa application from the spouses of Chinese Students in Canada means that the SPECIAL POLICY which has been carried on for three monthes ended. It DOES NOT MEAN CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ARE MAKING TROUBLE TO THE CHINESE STUDENTS NOW. 2. Everyone who applied PR might sign a statement agreeing that the family left in China will be treated SEPARATELY after the principle applicant get PR status. Therefore the way they refuse VISITOR's visa application is REASONABLE based on NORMAL CASE though not be favorable to the Chinese students. 3. Canadian government is in favor to protect Chinese students in Canada is well known as the best one in the world. We shouldn't hurt their feeling. The immigration is a complicated issue. At the time they offer you an OPTION to stay in Canada to avoid getting trouble if going back to China, the Canadian government DOES NOT HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY to get all of your family members to Canada. Namely WE have no reason to complain, leave alone to "push" them. Could we complain someone due to the HELP IS NOT ENOUGH? If this is going to the news media, how will the Canadian people think of the Chinese students? 4. Therefore what we want is to get a SPECIAL treatment. It could be possibly given only if the immigration officer UNDERSTANDS YOUR DIFFICULTIES AND LIKES TO OFFER YOUR HELP. This is why I suggested the members in our association JUST DESCRIBE THEIR OWN DIFFICULTIES AND ASK FOR HELP if they want to write appeal letters. I also suggest that FCSSC be careful in considering to take any action. We should be reasonable ENOUGH when we try to ask for something. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. CBS and ABC Reported the Veto News by Wu, Fang (INT3FWU@OAC.UCLA.EDU) From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBS and ABC national networks reported the presidential veto of the HR2712 bill this evening at 6:30 and 7:00 respectively. It will be very interesting to hear how they reported this. CBS reported that the Chinese students went to the White House and Liu Yongchuan read the letter to Bush. It also played some scenes in Tian-an-men Square. Nancy Pelosi said:"the presidential veto is the one that was signed by President Bush. But his hand was got by Deng Xiaoping." The reporter stressed that the bill passed the house "with unanimously 403 to nothing", and passed the Sanate by voice vote. He also said that the Chinese governemt strongly protested by saying "to have the bill passed will worse the relationship between Beijing and Washing- ton". Although the Spokesperson of the White House said "under the current law" the President has given the students necessary protection, the reporter said "the Chinese students prefer the security of a law and said to veto the bill will quiet down their voice of democracy in the United States". ABC reporter reported the fact that the bill was vetoed by the President, however "it is unlikely to be the last words on the subject". A student was interviewed with his faced shadowed and voice changed saying that he got threatening phone call at school. It was also stressed that the congress agreed unani- mously and the Chinese government threatened to cut off the exchange programs. The reporter said:" Refusing to change the law, the President change the regulation instead, allowing the students untill 1994 to return to China. It's not likely that will keep the congress from passing the legislation again and overriding his veto." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) China's Boarders Further Control source: (UIP) BY SCHWEISBERG, DAVID R. From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The national police have urged stepped-up controls at China's borders to keep activists from last spring's democracy movement from fleeing the country, the official press reported Wednesday. The People's Public Security News, a state-run newspaper, said the call came at a conference of immigration officials from around the country sponsored by the Public Security Ministry, the Chinese national police agency, which oversees border control. The conference took place in Beijing and ended last Saturday, the newspaper said. It did not say how many security officials attended. Chinese security agencies are known to have been embarrassed by the escape abroad of prominent dissident intellectuals and student leaders after the brutal suppression in June of the pro-democracy protests that swept the nation last spring. "The meeting emphasized the important function of border entry and exit work in cracking down on the counterrevolutionary rebellion," the government's official term for the demonstrations, the newspaper said. National police officials agreed controls needed to be "better" and "carried out strictly," the report said, "to prevent those who want to participate in rebellion from entry" and "to prevent those who took part in the rebellion from fleeing abroad." At least a dozen of the dissidents who fled China were on public or secret most-wanted lists for arrest, including the student leader Wuer Kaixi and the leading political scientist Yan Jiaqi. Many escaped using forged travel documents or through an "underground railroad" from southern China to Hong Kong. At least one managed to elude police for three months before escaping. Several of the escapees have since formed an overseas dissident organization and have repeatedly spoken out against the Chinese leadership, drawing harsh condemnation from Beijing. One student leader, Chai Ling, 23, formerly of Beijing Normal University, is believed to still be in hiding in China with her husband. Both are on wanted lists. The People's Public Security News gave no details of possible strengthened border controls, but said meeting participants also called for intensified political indoctrination for border officers. The official Xinhua news agency last week quoted a Public Security Ministry official as warning its agencies "will make great efforts to crack down" on forged or altered travel documents. Also Wednesday, another state-run newspaper, the Legal Daily, reporting on prison recidivism in Beijing, gave figures appearing to contradict government claims that large numbers of those who took part in the demonstrations were criminals and ex-convicts. The newspaper, quoting a conference of city judicial officials, said only 7.3 percent of those arrested in five districts for offenses linked to the disturbances had records of previously having served sentences in prisons or labor reform camps. ============================================================================= Editor's Note: Dear Friend Thank you for your concern and reading News Digest. To keep more of our Chinese friends informed, you are kindly asked to help introduce the News Digest to more of your close friends. As you know, your great help would benefit many Chinese now and the future of China. You will be certainly remembered then. Have a very good weekend! Best regards -- Bo Chi, on behalf of NDCanada ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Dec 1 12:54:40 EST 1989