chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (11/22/89)
| +---------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. 22 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News .................................................... 65 1 China will restrict political activities in Hong Kong ......... 23 2 Earthquakes Rock China, Iran .................................. 11 3 Chinese Government Protests U.S. Sanctions ..................... 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Canadian Embassy in Beijing changed the visa application procedures at the end of Oct.. All applicants must wait for half an year to have an interview. What time to get the visa after the interview is not known. My wife handed in the visa application at the beginning of this November and was arranged to have an interview on April 4th next year. She is applying for a visitor visa. Those who apply for a student visa also meet the same problem. -- ND special correspondent from Vancouver. Editor's note: There has been quite a few cases where spouses of students had been refused to give the visa. The reason is the tendency of immigration. After the refusal, the next possible interview is arranged half an year later. It is unclear that there would be guarantee for visa approval next time. This situation seems abnormal. Related people who have spouses in China and they are applying for a visitor visa may pay a closer attention to this matter now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Congress of US has passed HR-2712. The significance of this is that upon approval by US president Bush, any Chinese who holds J-1 visa in US can stay in US as long as s/he wishes. In other words, they will not be forced to go back if they face any danger in China. From: xgu@kentev.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the establishments of FDC's divisions in Minnesoda and the Bay Area, Chinese students in Hawaii is planning to set up FDC Hawaii division in December. It then will be the third FDC division in the US. From:simone@nyspi.bitnet (J.Yang) Source: World Journal, 11/20/89 Representatives of democracy organizations from New York, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Michigan areas has held a meeting yesterday in New York city. All attendents agreed that it is now necessary for Chinese American to establish an all-American democracy organization to cooperate its activities with IFCSS, FDC, CDA (Chinese Democracy Alliance). From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang Source: World Journal, 11/20/89 The ceremony of naming the intersection in front of Chinsee council in New York into 'Tiananmen Square' will be held tommorow. Meanwhile, New York city council is going to host a hearing for ecnomic sanction against CCP government. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang Source: World Journal, 11/20/89 As people in Beijing refuse to buy the 'patriotic vegetables', there are 80,000 (kg) big white vegetables' in the city can not be sold out, and 200,000 (kg) in the farm ground have decayed. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 11/20/89 Reports say China's former leader retired earlier this month because he feared he would "say crazy things" as he aged. A pro-beijing Hong Kong newspaper quotes Deng Xiaoping (Dung Shah-oh Ping) as saying a man tends to "become stubborn" as he grows older. He reportedly told senior officials his last function is to end the lifetime tenure among top government officials. From: GREENMAN@MAINE Source: AP Wire at 0957 E.S.T. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. (AP) China will restrict political activities in Hong Kong ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mr. yawei" <YAWEI@IUBACS> BEIJING - Beijing accused US Congress Monday of a ''disgusting performance of power politics'' in approving economic sanctions against China. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Li Hou, a top Chinese official in Hong Kong affairs, was quoted as saying China is considering measures to restrict political activity in Hong Kong after 1997. The territory reverts to Chinese sovereignty in that year. China said the U.S. bill, drawn up to protest China's bloody quelling of the pro-democracy movement last spring, ''maliciously vilifies and attacks the Chinese government.'' The bill has been sent to President Bush, who could veto it. It calls for 2 years of trade sanctions including a freeze on exports of satellites, helicopters and certain nuclear material, and a halt to risk insurance for American firms in China. Chinese leaders called the bill an interference in China's affairs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. (AP) Earthquakes Rock China, Iran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mr. yawei" <YAWEI@IUBACS> Strong earthquakes rocked portions of China and Iran Monday, killing a total of six people and injuring dozens of others. In China, two powerful earthquakes struck the southwestern province of Sichuan, killing three people, injuring five and destroying several homes. The quakes measured 5.2 and 5.4 on the Richter scale of ground motion, said the official Xinhua News Agency. The worst-hit area was in Jiangbei County near Chongqing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. (AP) Chinese Government Protests U.S. Sanctions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: <CHENH@IUBACS> BEIJING - China expressed ''utmost indignation'' Sunday over pending U.S. sanctions against it for its crackdown on pro-democracy protest last spring. Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu lodged a strongly worded protest with U.S. Ambassador James Lilley over the bill containing the sanctions, a U.S. diplomat who sought anonymity said. Congress has sent the measure to President Bush for signing. Liu told Lilley China regards the bill as interference in its internal affairs ''and hopes the U.S. government will take action to stop it,'' the diplomat said. The bill protests the Chinese army's violent attack on unarmed protesters June 3-4. The attack crushed a movement demanding democratic, educational and other social reforms. The Chinese government called the demonstrations ''counterrevolutionary turmoil'' instigated with help from overseas. The bill, which Bush could veto, imposes 2 years of trade sanctions including suspension of trade assistance, halts risk insurance for American firms doing business in China, and freezes exports of satellites, controlled munitions such as helicopters and certain nuclear material and components. In Bangladesh, Chinese Premier Li Peng said Western trade sanctions against China because of its crackdown on dissent would backfire and hurt the countries imposing the restrictions. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- send out time: Wed Nov 22 11:35:37 EST 1989 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- .