Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Newsgroups: ut.chinese Subject: Dec. 14 (I), News Digest Message-ID: <8912141636.AA07006@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Date: 14 Dec 89 11:36:44 GMT Sender: Distribution: ut Lines: 200 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) -- Dec. 14 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News ................................................... 52 1) Royal Society Limits Collaboration With China ............... 18 2) China: Official Response To Washington Post ............... 15 3) Australia Will Allow Chinese Dissidents To Visit ............ 14 4) Bush Administration Continuing To Chip Away At Sanctions .... 19 5) Nancy Pelosi Vowed To Marshal Votes For Congress To Override.. 22 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 12 Chinese who fled to Korea by a fishingboat last month arrived in Taiwan today. In a news conference, these people say they are all from Zhejiang province and attended the democracy movement in Beijing, one of them donated 10 thousands RMB to the students. They knew each other on the way back from Beijing after June 4 and arranged the escape together because they were wanted by the public security bureau. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, Taibei, 12/13/89 Source close to Beijing says that it is possible that starting from next year, China will completely stop sending state-sponsored students to the U.S. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, Taibei, 12/13/89 China: Li Peng Calls For Simultaneous Restructuring - Premier Li Peng says China's social and political restructuring should occur simultaneously with its economic restructuring, and that all restructuring should be conducive to order and tranquility rather than causing unrest. From: ONLINE@IRISHMVS.BITNET "JBH Online" Source: Radio Beijing As the two Mr. Bush's top aides' China trip has raised criticism from the congress, congress's trade subcommitee of foreign affair committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday of December 13. The congressmen want to know how Bush tried to improve U.S. government's relationship with China when CCP leaders show no sign of regret on Tiananmen Square's massacre; they also want know how the former president Nixon and his aide Kissinger played their roles. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: The New York Times, 12/12/89 Chinese UN representative who used to be the vice chairman of UN's human right commitee is intended to run for the position of chairman. Many Chinese human right organizations in New York area are taking action to persuaded UN representatives not to vote for it. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/13/89 The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong reports that premier Li Peng ordered to conduct a complete investigation on news media. According to the report, during the interview with West German reporter in November, Li Peng said the students would not be punished. However, later on in Xin Hua News Agency's report, the word of 'students' disappeared. It, therefore, became that all people who attended the democracy movement would not be punished, and Xin Hua's report was quoted by all major newspaper. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: South China Morning Post, 12/12/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Royal Society Limits Collaboration With China --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tang@alisuvax.bitnet "Tang, Deming" Source: Physics Today, November 1989 The Royal Society of London announced in August that because of China's political crackdown in June, it was terminating scientific collaboration with Chinese government bodies. A memorandum of understanding with China's Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources will not be renewed, and an agreement with the PRC's Natural Science Foundation is suspended. The Royal Society also will not send or receive high-level delegation to or from PRC. The Royal Society will continue to support visits by individual scientists, including those arranged under agreements with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Technology. But it will not make grants to scientists to attend international meetings in China "until it can be sure that such meeting are fully international, attracting high-calibre scientists from around the world, and that attendance by British scientists will not used to imply support for Chinese government policies." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. China: Official Response To Washington Post --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ONLINE@IRISHMVS.BITNET "JBH Online" Source: Radio Beijing RB reports that a Chinese Embassy official in Washington has published an article in the opinion section of the Washington Post in response to the Post's 30 November editorial regarding China's repression of the pro- democracy movement. The article challenges the Post's editorial assertion that the Chinese Government initiated a "wave of repression" on 4 June, vigorously prosecuting movement participants and threatening Chinese students studying abroad with reprisals upon their return if they were involved in the movement overseas. The embassy official's response says that only a small number of "criminals" were prosecuted in connection with the movement and that students returning from study abroad have received a "warm welcome" from the Chinese Government and people. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Australia Will Allow Chinese Dissidents To Visit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: AP, Australia, 12/13/89 An Australian official says that his government will allow three Chinese dissidents to visit Australia even Chinese government has protested. The three dissidents are FDC's Yan Jiaqi, Wuer Kaixi, and Wan Rennan. They are going to Australia for a foundation of FDC's branch office. The Australian official says they told Chinese government that rally and freedom of speech is very important for Australia's life style and its system. The three have departed yesterday from San Francisco. Their first stop is Japan Wan Rennan is also going to visit Taiwan. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Bush Administration Continuing To Chip Away At Sanctions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" Source: WASHINGTON (AP) December 12, 1989 [By: BEAMISH, RITA ; Associated Press Writer] The Bush administration s considering lifting a ban on satellite exports to China, continuing to chip away at sanctions imposed on Beijing after its violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. President Bush "did not intend to disrupt normal civilian commercial relations" when he barred military exports to China last spring, and officials are reviewing the sanctions with that in mind, White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Tuesday. The news from the White House brought condemnation from Rep. Sam Gejdenson, D-Conn., chairman of House Foreign Policy subcommittee on international economic policy and trade. He said the idea of lifting the sanction on satellites "makes no sense whatsoever." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Nancy Pelosi Vowed To Marshal Votes For Congress To Override Bush's Veto --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" Source: WASHINGTON (UPI) December 12, 1989 [BY: GORMAN, STEVEN J.] Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., vowed Tuesday to marshal the votes needed for Congress to override President Bush's veto of her bill to permit Chinese students to stay in the United States after their visas expire. Pelosi suggested Tuesday that Bush vetoed the bill as a concession to the Beijing government in paving the way for last weekend's surprise mission to China by national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. "The president wanted to create favorable conditions for the trip and did so at the expense of the students," Pelosi said in a statement issued at a Capitol Hill news conference. The California congresswoman said she learned from administration officials that Scowcroft had been the only high-ranking White House official who urged Bush to veto the bill. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Dec 14 11:33:53 EST 1989