Path: utzoo!lsuc!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Newsgroups: ut.chinese Subject: Nov. 9 (I), News Digest Message-ID: <8911091612.AA25585@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Date: 9 Nov 89 11:12:54 GMT Sender: Distribution: ut Lines: 226 Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu | +---------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. 9 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ........................................................... 75 1. Moderates May Fill Vacancies In Politburo ........................... 81 2. Pentagon Will Analyze Chinese Policy after Tiananmen Incident ....... 14 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Two Chinese diplomats were reported missing yesterday by their embassy in Pakistan. the missing diplomats, both Chinese Moslems, were identified as second secretary Mr Abdul Karim amd cultural attache Mr Rehman Anwar. The pair's disappearance comes almost a week before the official visit on November 14 of Chinese Premier Li Peng [From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net (Chan Ki Wa)] [Source: Hongkong Standard, 11/06/89] (2) About 50 Chinese, students and people of local communicty, in Minnesoda say that the foundation of FDC Minnesoda division will be declaired in Dec. 10. Also, The Bay Area division and south California divisions will make their announcements in this month, respectively. The Minnesoda division will be the first FDC division in the U. S. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Journal, 11/06/89] (3) Several Students at Iowa State University have discovered that their mails have been checked and cut. The mails was deliberately opened and some sections were cut off, such as the part following "Our unit is conducting a political study....." and similar sentences describing the conditions in China. It seems that government is trying to block the news on the current situation of China from leaking to West. Most of reports in the past about mail inspection discussed mostly on the mail sent from U.S to China but not otherwise. [Tang@alisuvax.bitnet (D. Tang)] (4) The People's Daily reminds people not to pass national documents to those democracy movement people. The newspaper announced the names of 14 working units and 24 individuals for keeping national secrets. It stated that these people see national secrets as more important than their life. A week ago, The Beijing Daily reported how a driver of Beijing Radio Station kept CCP's documents from being taken away by the people stopped his car in the second day of martial law. The matial law army also awarded flags to 88 working units for their supports. The Beijing people have to submit 3 millions dolars (RMB) and 5.8 millions food (kg) to the martial law army. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Journal, 11/06/89] (5) According to source from Hong Kong, there have been so far about 40 pro-democray movement poeple, who tried to flee to aboard, but failed and being arrested in the City of Shen Zheng. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Journal, 11/06/89] (6) Following news was told by a visiting scholar just arrived the US: 1>. According to the president of his university, the CCP regime will cut the university freshmen population further by 70,000 next year. Reason is that many working units are not willing to accept new college graduates. 2> Very few undergraduates want to take on grduate studies in China. 3> Because of the economic difficulties, many factories are only operating at half of their production capacities. Managers are more than happy if someone volunteers to quit his/her job. [From: yshet%SDPH2@ucsd.edu] (7) The Hungarian parliament has approved a measure for holding a referendum on November 26, to let the people decide whether the new Republic's President will be elected by the people directly or to be elected by the Paliament. If the people favor a popularly elected President, the Presidential election will be held on January 7 of next year, before the scheduled multi-party parliamentary election. [From: YAWEI%AQUA.DECnet@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Mr. Yawei)] [Source: Radio Free Europe -- Radio Liberty Daily Reports, 11/02/89] (8) BERLIN - East Germany's Communist government Monday published the draft of a new law allowing citizens 30 days a year of free travel in the West. But 19,000 East Germans joined the westward stampede over the weekend. A Cabinet minister urged the Communist Party's ruling Politburo to resign, and activists planned to stage another pro- democracy rally in Leipzig Monday night. Freedom of travel has been a major demand of East Germans who have taken to the streets over the past month to protest decades of authoritarian rule. About 1 million rallied in East Berlin Saturday in the largest protest in the nation's 40-year history. [From: yawei@rose.bacs.indiana.edu (Mr. Yawei)] [Source: Associated Press, 11/06/89] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Moderates May Fill Vacancies In Politburo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net (Chan Ki Wa) [SOurce: SCMP, 11/06/89] By Willy Wo-Lap Lam Chinese sources say that if, as is likely, the Central Committee plenum decides to fill the three Politburo seats left vacant since the spring, Mr Zhu Rongji, mayor and party boss of Shanghai, and Mr Zou Jiahua, Minister of Machinery and Electronics Industry, have excellent chances of being promoted. The original 18-member Politburo, which was voted into office during the 13th party congress in late 1987, has lost three members. Former pary General-Secretary Hu Yaobang died on April 15. Mr Zhao Ziyang, another party chief, and Mr Hu Qili, a liberal ideologue, were dismissed from their positions in the fourth plenum in late June. Both Mr Zou and Mr Zhu have reputations as moderate technocrats. While ideologically conservative, they are deemed by Western analysts as committed to the reform and open door policy. An engineering graduate from the elite Qinghua University, Mr Zhu, 60, has been mayor of Shanghai since 1987 and party boss since last June, when his predessor Jiang Zemin was promoted to General-Secretary. Since tradionally, the party bosses of China's three directly administered cities - Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin - are entitled to places on the Politburo, Mr Zhu's promotion is widely expected. In recent speeches, he has called on Beijing "not to roll back existing reform policies" unless they have been proven through exhaustive experiments to be detrimental to the economy. A popular politician in his home base, Mr Zhu has won international acclaim for simplifying procedures for foreign companies that want to set up business in China. Mr Zhu's rising star is attested to by the fact that he was the lowest- ranking leader that former Rresident Richard Nixon met last week. Head of the "super-ministry" of machinery and electronics since early 1988, Mr Zou Jiahua, a Soviet-trained engineer, is considered a shade more conservative than Mr Zhu. A former head of the defence industrial establishment, Mr Zou favours central planning and more emphasis on heavy industry. However, Western businessmen who have worked with Mr Zou say that if only because Chinese industry needs Western technology to survive, Mr Zou will insist on continued economic links with the capitalistic world. Son-in-law of Marshal Ye Jianying, Mr Zou is also tipped to be promoted to vice-premier should a vacancy fall open, most likely early next year. Mr Zou's growing influence is evident fromt the fact that he is the most senior official to have been invited to visit the West since the June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The 63-year-old minister is due to visit Japan next January. Western diplomats say that hard-liners within the party are pushing the candidature of police chief Wang Fang and Beijing mayor Chen Xitong. Both Mr wang and Mr Chen played key roles in suppressing the "counter-revolutionary rebellion" in June. A protege of patriarch Chen Yun and of Qiao Shi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, Mr Wang has won the respect of the party for the efficient way in which the security establishment has rounded up dissidents and other disaffected members of society since June 4. In addition, sources say, President Yang shangkun, who is also executive vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, is grooming his brother Yang Baibing to be an alternate member of the Politburo. Who will be inducted says a lot about the remaining influence of senior leader Deng Xiaoping. Analysts say that if the patriarch still wants his reform program to continue, he will have to use his formidable influence to promote officials such as Mr Zhu Rongji. The elevation of hard-liners such as Mr Wang Fang and Mr Yang Baibing into the party's highest council, however, could confirm the decline of the Communist Party's liberal faction and spell a virtual end to reform. Political souces in Beijing say it is unlikely that the plenum will vote on the retirement of Mr Deng from his only remaining post of Central Military Commission (CMC) chairman. While Mr Deng had hoped to anoint Mr Jiang Zemin as his CMC successor within this year, the fact that Mr Jiang lacks military credentials means that the changing of the guard is likely to be postponed to the next party plenum in 1990. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Pentagon Will Analyze Chinese Policy after Tiananmen Incident ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chan@joe.CSS.GOV (Winston Chan) [Source: Commerce Business Daily] The Defense Supply Service-Washington, Pentagon intends to negotiate a follow-on effort with Systems Planning Corporation to provide an analysis of Chinese policy in the aftermath of the Sino-Soviet summit and the Tiananmen incident. This analysis will explore and assess possible changes in Chinese foreign policies and perception in the aftermath of: (1) the May Sino_Soviet summit, (2) the June 4 Tiananmen Incident and subsequent political repression, (3) the leadership reshuffle in Beijing, and (4) the deterioration in China's relations with Western countries, including the U.S. The project will also examine any implications of any changes in Chinese policies and perceptions for American defense policy and the future management fof the U.S. military relationship with China. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Deming Tang E_mail: Tang@ALISUVAX.bitnet | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu .