Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon Date: Wed, 7 Feb 90 16:19:26 EST Sender: From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Message-ID: <9002080219.AA00038@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu Subject: Feb. 7 (II), News Digest Newsgroups: ut.chinese Distribution: ut Sender: list-admin@csri.toronto.edu Approved: nobody@csri.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 * (News General + NDCanada) -- Feb. 7 (II), 1990 Table of Contents # of Lines 0 A Reader's Letter -- A Successful Case in Family Reunion Process .... 22 1. Punishment in China Report .......................................... 44 2. Li Peng Makes Conciliatory Remarks On U.S. .......................... 18 3. Gorbachev Hit From Left, Right ...................................... 20 4. A Reader's Comment (Re: Feb. 6 (I), News Digest) .................... 11 5. China's Communist Party Urges Cooperation With Other Parties ........ 39 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 A Reader's Letter -- A Successful Case in Family Reunion Process --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: __@McMaster.CA Wed Feb 7 13:39 EST 1990 Hello, Bo Chi! (Current CND Editor): There is a piece of good news about family reunion. I'd like you make it known to everyone concerning family reunion. Based on the phone call from my husband in Beijing, He has got his visa on Feb. 6. He began his application two weeks ago. But at that time he was given an application form for visitor visa, and made an appointment for interview on Feb. 6. During the interview, things happened according the way our e-mail suggested previ- ously. He got his visa when the interview finished. Seems quite easy and quite a surprise. I'd like to thank all of those who have made great effort for fam- ily reunion. Good luck to everyone! -- A Reader at McMaster University --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Punishment in China Report --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Asia Watch From: (FangZhen Lin) EDU%"lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU" Despite the lifting of martial law, there has been a deepening of repression in China in the last several months according to Asia Watch. In a new report, the human rights organ- ization charges that arrests of peaceful dissenters are continu- ing; that most of the thousands detained have neither been charged nor brought to trial; that some students have been tried in secret in proceedings wholly lacking in due process and in which guilt was presumed; that new death sentences have been imposed and executions carried out; that the Chinese authorities are engaged in the widespread use of torture; that prison guards beat detainees; that new regulations impose further restrictions on news reporting; and that martial law continues in Tibet, as well as arrests of peaceful protestors, summary trials and tor- tue. ... Asia Watch's report includes a list of more than 500 per- sons, with identifying information on them, known by the organi- zation to have been detained in China since June 4, 1989. The true figure is, however, far higher. Most of the detainees, of whom it is estimated that there are from 10,000 to 30,000, have not been identified. Asia Watch called on the Chinese government to publish the names of the 573 detainees it seay it has released and to give Asia Watch permission to go to China to interview them. Asia Watch's report was written by Robin Munro, its staff specialist on China. Mr. Munro was in Beijing throughtout the weeks leading up to the June 3-4 attack; he was in Tiananmen Square throughout the night of the assault; and he remained in Beijing for more than two weeks thereafter. Copies of "Punishment Season" are available from Asia Watch, 485 Fifth Avenue, New YOrk, N.Y. 10017 at $8.00. For more infomation: Sidney Jones, Executive Director of Asia Watch [w] (212) 972-8400 [h] (718) 398-4186 Robin Munro, Research Director [w] (212) 972-8400 [h] (212) 222-6461 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Li Peng Makes Conciliatory Remarks On U.S. ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: (Li, Qiang Charlie) Source: The China World at Florida Atlantic University BEIJING (FEB. 5) REUTER - China's hardline Premier Li Peng sent unusually conciliatory signals to the United States on Monday, saying Beijing attached importance to friendship with the Ameri- can people and to Sino-U.S. relations. Li, a leading force behind the crackdown on democracy demons- trators in Tiananmen Square last June, made the remarks to a visiting delegation of former U.S. congressmen. ... Western diplomats said it was hard to interpret this apparent policy shift without knowing if China had struck a secret deal with the United States over Fang and the sanctions issue. Li's message could be seen as one of support for U.S ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Gorbachev Hit From Left, Right ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: (Li, Qiang Charlie) Source: The China World at Florida Atlantic University MOSCOW (AP) -- Communist Party leaders added an unexpected third day to their pivotal meeting Tuesday and sent Mikhail S. Gorbachev back to the drawing board to fill in holes in his blue- print for ending the party's monopoly on power. The extension of the party session, which was supposed to end Tuesday, was a clear sign of the controversy generated by Gorbachev's proposals to revamp the country's political struc- ture. It sharply contrasted with previous sessions, when the Central Committee automatically approved policies that had been worked out at higher levels. Central Committee sources said most speakers agreed with Gorbachev's proposal that the party's monopoly on power, enshrined in the Soviet Constitution, must end. ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. A Reader's Comment (Re: Feb. 6 (I), News Digest) ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Young Chul KIM, IBRD" Mr./Ms. Tang, (One CND Editor) It is always a pleasure to contribute to CND. Even though I am a Korean, my heart is with your people and the students in the US. I am often impressed by the efforts of the CND group to share news with those far- far- away from home. Rest assured that changes are made through time, effort and patience, and accept my deepest compassion for your movement! ------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. China's Communist Party Urges Cooperation With Other Parties ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chenh@ucs.indiana.edu Wed Feb 7 Source: (AP) News BEIJING - The Communist Party Wednesday released a document urging increased cooperation with China's eight tiny non- Communist parties. But it asserted that China will always be under Communist rule. The release of the Dec. 30 document came as Communist parties in Eastern Europe are abandoning their hold on power, according to a Central Committee delegate. The Soviet Communist Party leaders Tuesday agreed to surrender their constitutionally guaranteed ''leading role'' in society. China hasn't commented on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's proposals to abolish the party's 70-year monopoly on political power. Communist parties in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Eastern European countries already have eliminated their ''leading role'' status. The Chinese document, however, stressed ''that China's mul- tiparty cooperation must uphold the leadership by the CPC,'' or Communist Party of China, according to a paraphrase by the offi- cial Xinhua News Agency. China's state constitution refers to the Chinese people as being ''under the leadership of the Communist Party.'' The document said China ''differs from the one-party system practiced in some socialist countries.'' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription: (Xinmeng Liao) xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Executive Editor: (Bo Chi) chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wed Feb 7 21:17:55 EST 1990