Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, October 4, 1990

From: Bo Xiong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 21:34:14 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
                                October 4, 1990
 
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1. Mail Inspector Inserts Extra Stuff into Student's Letter to Home.....15

2. Mainland Embassy Staff Lied to Chinese Students in An US School......30

3. Australia Accepts First Chinese National in the New Policy...........10

4. Taiwan to Slow Down Mainland Trade...................................20
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1. Mail Inspector Inserts Extra Stuff into Student's Letter to Home
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>From: [email-masked] (Anthony Lee)
Source: aus.culture.china    Date: 2 Oct 90 13:25:15 GMT

A friend of mine told me this story.

As you know the Mainland government checks all incoming letters to our
families in China.  This is so that we don't post anything naughty back
to China.  But this story adds a new twist to checking letters.  Not only
are they checking our letters they are also putting extra material inside !
One day my friend got a letter from his mother.  In this letter his mother
ask him, "Why did you put a copy of `Nanjing Lu Sheng Hao Ba Lian' in your
latest letter ?"  The interesting thing is, my friend only remember 
reading the title from his days in primary school.  It was obviously being
inserted by customs.  Who knows they might be inserting pictures of Li
Peng into people's mail next.  All I can say is, couldn't they find someone
better looking B-).

(Editor's note: Nanjing Lu Sheng Hao Ba Lian is a story about a Chinese
		army unit loyal to CCP)
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2. Mainland Embassy Staff Lied to Chinese Students in An US School
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>From: J Wang <[email-masked]>  Tue, 02 Oct 90 03:00:05 EDT

                      "A Big Lie"

  "Your school  should  follow the  'GW Mode' if you want to get
money from the Embassy",  an official  from  Embassy's Education
Division said when he  visited our  university from  Sept. 23 to
26.  He explained to our   ACSS's  committee  members  and  some
concerned students about the so called "GW Mode" as follow:

  The head of ASSC at George Washington University announced ,at
a meeting  of their  Chinese students,  the ASSC of GWU is not a
member of IFCSS,  and  the persons who attended the 2nd Congress
of IFCSS were not  representatives of  their school.  After this
announcement,  the Embassy  resumed financial support to ASSC at
GWU.

(IFCSS = Independent Federation of Chinese Students & Scholars in
 the US)

  After his visit, we made contact with a committee member of GWU
who is also a member of SVC of IFCSS. He sent a message to us. It
is a "big lie", said GWU's chairman Zhou, regarding the "GW Mode".
Attached is the message received from ASSC of GWU.

  "I contacted Zhou after our talk.  He  said  that was a big lie
coined by the Ambassy people. He never said and never intended to
say those things. GW is a member of IFCSS, and Li and Jia attened
IFCSS as representatives of GW ASSC.  We should do somthing about
it. I suggest that we write to a newspaper to clear the rumer.
Look forward to hearing from you."

  In this message, "Zhou" is the president of GW's Chinese student
organization, "Li" and "Jia" are Li3 Ping2, Jia3 Hao4 respectively.
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3. Australia Accepts First Chinese National in the New Policy
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>From: CND Editor Young Chul KIM <[email-masked]>
Source:  Int'l Herald Tribune (AFP), Canberra, 9/13/90

A table tennis star on Sept. 12 became the first person to gain the
four-year residency permit created for Chinese students after last
year's crackdown in Beijing.

Gordon Benjamin of Australian Immigration said the fact that Gina Hui
won last month's Australian women's table tennis championship was
"coincidental," adding, "She came up first in the pile."

She will represent Australia at the World Championship in April.
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4. Taiwan to Slow Down Mainland Trade
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>From: CND Editor Young Chul KIM <[email-masked]>
Source:  CNA, Taipei, 9/17/90

The Economics Ministry (of ROC) has decided to slow down the economic
exchange with Mainland China by not increasing the number of mainland
products eligible for indirect sales to Taiwan, Vice Economics Minister
Chiang Pin-kung said Saturday.

For the time being, the ministry will not make any new move to encourage
indirect economic and trade exchange between the two sides of the Taiwan
straits in order to cool down "the mainland fever," Chiang said.

At present the government allows the indirect imports of 152 mainland
products. Direct trade is still banned.

Besides freezing the items of importable mainland products, Chiang said
his ministry will also tighten the control on trade promotion tours to
and participation in trade shows on the mainland.

The government will also be "more cautious" than before in screening
applications for making indirect investment in or technical cooperation
with the mainland, he added.
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