Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Newsgroups: ut.chinese Subject: Nov. 24 (I), News Digest Message-ID: <8911241623.AA27063@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Date: 24 Nov 89 11:23:25 GMT Sender: Distribution: ut Lines: 170 Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu | +---------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. 24 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ........................................................... 58 1) When Will My Wife Join Me in Canada .................................. 76 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. According to Radio Beijing Nov 22, president Bush refused to approve the bill of economical sanction against China in the next two years. It is said the reason that Bush turned the bill down is because it contains "irrelevant items". The bill was passed by the congress and Chinese government was very upset about it in the last a few weeks. II. China will continue as one of the world's biggest wheat importers at least through the coming decade, according to an Agriculture Department report. source: BEIJING (AP) November 22, 1989 From: "J. Ding" III. Chinese banks have decided to lend $27 billion to state-run enterprises strapped for cash, although the government's overall tight credit policy remains in effect, a central bank official said Wednesday. The loans are to be extended in this year's last quarter, said Hong Yuncheng, spokesman for People's Bank of China. source: BEIJING (AP) November 22, 1989 From: "J. Ding" VI. Beijing's main art museum has opened an exhibit called "Baptism of Blood and Fire," an array of artwork glorifying the military assault that crushed the pro-democracy movement. The China Art Galley show of 113 paintings, photographs, sketches, cartoons and works of calligraphy is the government's latest effort to justify June's quelling of what it calls a "counterrevolutionary rebellion." The exhibit includes several paintings of wounded soldiers, one of whom shouts "I'm for the people, the people are for me" as he is helped through the smoke and fire of the June turmoil by a sympathetic citizen. Another with a similar depiction of a soldier dripping blood has the inscription "the blood of this soldier awakened the people." source: BEIJING (AP) November 22, 1989 From: "J. Ding" V. Chinese university students must "adhere to socialist collectivism and love labor," according to a ne code from the State Education Commission. The code will help students "grow up to be socialist successors more rapidly," said Education Commission official Zhang Renxian. The official Xinhua News Agency, which carried the remarks by Zhang, did not provide details of the code, but said it demands that students "defend the interests of the motherland, abide by the constitution, adhere to socialist collectivism and love labor." source: BEIJING (AP) November 22, 1989 From: "J. Ding" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. When Will My Wife Join Me in Canada -- A letter to a Canadian Officer by a student in U. of Waterloo .............. Editor's note: For obvious reasons, the name and personal details of the letter have been deleted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a Ph.D student at the University of Waterloo. I came to Canada in August, 1988. Since it was not allowed by ``law'' of my work unit, my wife could not get a paper to apply for a passport within one year to join me. A year later, one day in the end of September this year, bringing the passport, my wife first went to apply for a visitor visa from the Canadian embassy in Beijing and then was arranged to have the interview three months later. However, after three months waiting, my wife was simply rejected by the embassy officer who also told her that she could not apply again within 6 months. The only reason for rejection is that our marriage is too short, consequently visiting the spouse in Canada has the tendency of immigration. My god, what else could be more unbelievble? Her miserable tearing with the desperate voice just broke my heart through the phone when she told me this news. As a known fact, since last June, I, as well as many other Chinese students, has taken part in significant rallys on campus and huge demonstrations in front of Chinese consulate in Toronto to support the democracy in China led by Beijing students and condemn Chinese government imposing ``Martial Law'' and their brutal killing. Later, facing the danger to go back to China and owing to the Canadian government, I, with no exception as other students did, applied the Permanent Resident status on H & C. I pray this is the new beginning of life and the end of nightmare of the past. Oh, no, this dream seems to break so suddenly to me. I can hardly accept this fact. As a normal human being, I am so eager to enjoy the normal life with my wife as everyone who is married. However, my wife is again left in China and unable to see me in an unexpected period of time. As being sensed by my wife after the interview, it has been totally unclear if next time the application gets rejected too. What else can be more tragic to me and my wife if the Canadian embassy never grants her visa? Or finally does but 10 years later in a slow way that my wife's application gets rejected twice per year, up to 20. In addition, another serious situation is that if Chinese government knows what I have done and views it politically, they will never permit my wife to join me regardless of the fact I can be granted as a permanent resident of Canada (if it is possibly true later). As the time goes, they will know. The tragic result may be estimated as either I can no longer meet my wife in my whole life or I return to China to face the danger. Seemingly, either way is counter concordant with the Canadian government's humanitarian and compassionate policy. Here, I earnestly ask you for help. Only your help can prevent the tragedy to my family. The Christmas is coming. All the family enjoy getting together, but, my wife and I still wait for joining together and don't know how long the dream can possibly become true. Sincerely, ....... (signature) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Nov 24 11:21:26 EST 1989