chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (11/27/89)
| +---------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) -- Nov. 27 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News .................................................. 21 1) China Excecutes Pair For Selling Women ...................... 36 2) China's Threat .............................................. 45 3) Yang set for Middle East visit ............................. 25 4) Plan To Ask 40 Countries To Back `Safe Exit' Scheme ......... 63 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Communist Party chief Milos Jakes, the Politburo and the rest of the Communist leadership resigned Friday, the state-run media said. The resignations follow a week of massive pro-democracy protests. Alexander Dubcek returned to Prague Friday, urging 250,000 chanting Czechs to unite to improve the nation. From: yawei@rose.bacs.indiana.edu Source: AP News (2) Radio Beijing News 7pm PDT (in manderine) Nov 25 1989 - Chinese vice miniter of foreign affairs Mr Liu Huaqiu met with US deputy ambassodor in Beijing and strongly protest that US congress passed the bill to loose the 2 years home residence requirement to Chinese students who hold J-1 visa. Chinese government requests president Bush to refuse this bill. Otherwise, Chinese government will have to take strong reaction and US government must be responsible for all the consequences. From: rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu Rupert Zhu Source: Radio Beijing, 7pm PDT, 11/25/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. China Excecutes Pair For Selling Women --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> From: ASUCPS::YAOM "M. H. Yao" 25-NOV-1989 Source: BEIJING (AP) November 24, 1989 Two brothers were executed and a third was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and selling 51 women, it was reported Friday. Wang Zhong and Wang Hong were executed Nov. 10 after being convicted in the northern province of Shanxi of abducting women in other provinces, the newspaper Legal Daily said. Two men in southwest China's Sichuan province were put to death in September for heading a ring that kidnapped and sold 24 women, including 22 who suffered mental disorders. The government, in its latest anti-crime campaign, has listed the kidnapping of women and children as one of the "six evils" to be combatted. The others are prostitution, pornography, drugs, gambling and swindling people through superstition. The Legal Daily said kidnap gangs of up to 100 members are operating in every Chinese province, with 90 percent of their victims being peasant girls. The measures used to entice women include offers of jobs, marriage and free travel. "They use sweet words and talk of love to seduce young women, and then kidnap and sell them. They kidnap women who are dull-witted and suffer from nervous disorders. They use violence to kidnap and sell women," the newspaper said. Many women are resold several times and raped, it said. In some places, mostly remote rural regions, where women are bought, "the evil phenomenon of the taking of concubines and polygamy occurs." An earlier report said that in coastal Shandong, China's third-most populous province, more than 3,000 people have been imprisoned in recent years for abducting and selling 30,000 women and 1,000 children. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. China's Threat --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Source: The Washington Post, November 25, 1989, CHINA'S government is now threatening the United States with retaliation for a bill that Congress has passed. But the greater outrage is President Bush's apparent intention to give in to that threat. Administration officials have suggested that Mr. Bush will accommodate China by vetoing the bill. More than 40,000 Chinese students are in this country, most of them on visas that require them to return home when they have finished their studies. Many of these students vigorously supported the movement toward democracy earlier this year, taking part in demonstrations and other political action here, which brought them to the notice of the Chinese authorities. Some of these students have good reason to be apprehensive about returning to the jurisdiction of the government for whose overthrow they were calling. Congress has sent to Mr. Bush legislation that would suspend the American requirement forcing them to go back. Under normal circumstances, that kind of requirement is reasonable enough. It slows down the brain drain. It says that students trained here have an obligation to go home to their native countries. But after the massacre in Beijing last June, circumstances are not normal. The Chinese government has said that it will deal leniently with those students who demonstrated against it in this country last spring. But there is a re-education campaign in progress in the Chinese universities, and those who return are not likely to find that their past activities have been forgotten. Mr. Bush's inclination to accommodate the Chinese government is incomprehensible. To defend it, people in his administration explain that otherwise China may cut off the exchanges of students and teachers between the two countries. Too bad. If, in other words, the United States doesn't send these students home for political correction, China will refuse to send any more of its young people here to study computer science, medicine, electrical engineering and molecular biology. It will refuse to allow American professors to go to teach in Chinese universities. That's some threat. China needs to understand that, with its crackdown on democracy and dissent, it has done enormous damage to the spirit of cooperation that was growing between it and the United States. As long as that regime is in its present vindictive state of mind, Mr. Bush needs to think very carefully before forcing anyone to return there. To veto this bill would be an astounding acquiescence in Chinese repression. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Yang set for Middle East visit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET> [by David Chen] President Yang Shangkun, who played a key role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in June, is to visit Egypt, Kuwait and Oman next month, according to reliable sources. This will be his first overseas trip for 2 and a half years as president. He visited Canada and the United States in May 1987 - shortly after the anti-bourgeois liberalisation campaign. The trip is in response to the visit to China by President Hosni Mubarak, as well as those by senior officials of the two other countries. It is intended to show China's interest in and concern for the situation in the Middle East, particularly the relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, as well as developments in Lebanon. Chinese sources said that in the next two months, and before the coming annual session of the Seventh National People's Congress expected in late March, more overseas visits by senior Government officials are being planned, both to project China's image and to seek further economic co- operation, particularly with Third World nations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Plan To Ask 40 Countries To Back `Safe Exit' Scheme --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net Source : South China Morning Post, November 24, 1989 [By Jacqueline Lee] A civil servants' group has called on the international community to grant Hongkong people passports which would become valid in an emergency. The plan is to ask about 40 countries to back the scheme which would require them to open their doors to a fixed number of Hongkong people in the event of: - An imminent threat to their lives or liberties. - China abrogating the Joint Declaration. - The Joint Declaration not working as intended. - A radical change in the social and economic system of the territory. - China changing its policy towards Hongkong resulting in living conditions deteriorating intolerably. The Association of Government Information Officers has urged Britain to seek support from the European Community, Commonwealth nations and the United States to arrange a "safety exit" for Hongkong. Quotes for different countries would be allocated by a points system where people at the top end of the scale would more likely get passports for the country of their choice. The proposal was drawn up as a "practical alternative" to securing right of abode in the United Kingdom for all 5.6 million people in Hongkong, the association says. "The British Government should work out a scheme to encourage locals to remain in the territory and the scheme should be effective in providing a good safety exit for the people on the one hand, and the necessary confidence to stay in Hongkong and work for the territory's prosperity and stability on the other," it said. The association has also designed a "Span of Safety", of SOS, scheme that would ensure Hongkong people seeking refuge in Britain would move in a regulated stream. Under the SOS scheme, British subjects would be offered British passports valid for 6.5 years from July 1, 1997 to December 31, 2003. The holders would be divided into seven bands in the order of priority and passports for each of the groups would take effect one year after another from July 1, 1997 when Hongkong reverts to China. The first group to be allowed into the United Kingdom would be the smallest consisting of about 20,000 professionals, technicians, entrepreneurs and managers. Subsequent groups would grow progressively with the points system being used to classify people into different priority groups, the association says. "The objective of the SOS scheme is to give confidence to all British subjects here to stay on, with priority given to the backbone of Hongkong society." +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Nov 27 10:37:58 EST 1989
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (11/28/89)
| +---------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) -- Nov. 28 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ........................................................... 7 Urgent Call for family reunion .......................................... 100 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- China, a Car Exporter by 1995 An official news report in China said a US$1 billion of fresh capital will allow Panda Motor Corp., the country's largest foreign-funded investment project, to start car production by the end of next year. American Panda Motor Co., which is affiliated with South Korea's Unification Church is making the investment. The project will produce 300,000 cars a year, all for export, by 1995. source: THE FINANCIAL POST Nov 27, 1989 luxin@uwovax.uwo.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ URGENT CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO SAVE YOUR FAMILY REUNIFICATION PLAN A group of people concernd Dec. 26 at U. of Manitoba ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Recently, the Canadian Embassy in Beijing seems to have taken abnormal measures to tighten the control on issue of visa for visitors who plan to go to Canada to join their family members. The new threatening development has shown that: the many Chinese people's fear has become fact. On Dec. 24, a Chinese student studying at the University of Manitoba received a phone call from his wife who just had finished her interview with immigration officer in Canadian Embassy in Beijing. According to her, there were 15 people received interview for visa application, only one was given a visa, the rest were refused, which means almost 95% of applicants were refused. During these interviews, the immigration official asked every applicant the same question: Has your spouse apply for PR in Canada ? some people answered No, some answered Don't know. For both the immigration official's response was the same: Because most Chinese people entered Canada before June 4th have apply for PR, I guess your spouse also have, therefore you have to wait until your spouse's matter has been settled down then you should apply for PR to enter Canada instead of being a visitor. From above conversation, it is very clear that if the Canadian Embassy in Beijing handle this kind of visa application cases this way continualy, it will be a big disaster for many Chinese people who are trying or going to try to let their family members join them here. For the people with the passport of private affairs, this means at least one year and half painful waiting with large uncertainty. For the people with the passport of public affairs, this means either they have to go home facing a high risk or suffer a long separation from their family. Because in the News Release from Chinese Embassy in Ottowa in Sept., which is mailed to Graduate schools in many universities from the Chinese Embassy, it stated that all the Chinese people here sent by government are "duty bounded" and should go back to China. Obviously, it is impossible for Chinese Government to allow the family members of such people to emigrate to Canada as PR to join their "defected" spouses in Canada!!! In view of this serious situation, we call all Chinese people facing or are going to face the problem to take action immediately. We should request the Canadian government that: Based on the special program carryed in the past few monthes in helping Chinese people here, to give a special consideration to their family member's visa application and allow these Chinses people come to Canada to reunite with visitor status. The proposed actions are: 1) Contact local LYH leaders and FCSSC representatives ask them for help. FCSSC and local CSSA could set up a task force to FIRST get information, collect individual cases, and prepare a file. Then they can probably do the following STEP BY STEP, a) contact the Minister of Employment and Immigration of Fede.Gov. present the files and ask their reply. Try to solve the matter behind closed door. b) Probably(?) at the same time contact MP's, parties' leaders, powerful persons for help. c) ------- IF THE ABOVE TWO NOT WORK ------- Contact news media. 2) FCSSC is our own organization and FCSSC is for, by and of all of us. This issue will mean normal work for the current FCSSC and CSSA voluuneer officials. So dont just 'report' to FCSSC then sit and wait but do nothing. Since it concerns our own lives we should join CSSA and FCSSC by devoting our time to related work, such as collect cases, prepare letter and materials etc.. *AND* Everyone concern about this matter write a personal letter to : the Minister of Employment and Immigration of Federal Government, the Minister of External Affairs of Federal Government, Joe Clark, the local MP, the local Chinese Community leaders. Visit the international Center in your campus or city. It is estimated that at least several hundred people facing or to be facing this problem in Canada. . If everyone join his/her voice into calling, the effects will be considerable, otherwise no miracle will happen, our own will suffer from the consequences. ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Nov 28 11:29:10 EST 1989