Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, November 30, 1990

From: CND-EP <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 22:38:01 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
				November 30, 1990
 
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1. From Europe: Calling Global Protest against the Prosecution &
   Sentence of Pro-democracy Activitists in PRC.........................35

2. Japanese Lawyers's Group Set up to Defend Chinese Students...........40

3. Fears for Future of HK Fail to Deter Investors.......................45
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1. From Europe: Calling Global Protest against the Prosecution &
   Sentence of Pro-democracy Activitists in PRC
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From: Lin LI <[email-masked]> Date:	 Fri, 30 Nov 90 16:39:14 SET

CND editor's note:  IFCSS will organize a rally on December 1 in Washington DC
in front of the hotel where PRC foreign minister Qian Qi-Chen will hold a news
conference on his visit to the United States.  The purpose of the rally is to
protest the reported death sentence of Wang Jun-Tao, Chen Zi-Ming and etc. by
PRC government.

	    Global Protest Against Chinese Government Called

   The actions the Chinese government has taken to formaly prosecute the key
activists in last year's democratic movement has triggered strong and
immediate reactions from many Chinese and China related organizations world
wide.

   Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China, in
a letter to the leaders of oversee prodemocratic organizations, is calling for
a global protest in international Chinese community on the international human
rights day December 9th.  The Alliance, beside a series of urgent actions, is
organizing a demonstration in Hong Kong.

   The Federation for a Democratic China, an political organization promoting
democracy in China which is formed in Paris after 6.4, is calling its local
chapters to respond to the call by organizing local activities in coorperation
with other local prodemoncratic organizations on the same day. A demonstration
in Paris is been organized by the franch chapter of FDC.

   The FDC is also sponsoring an open letter to the People's Congress of the
People's Republic of China. The letter strongly protest the prosecution of the
activists. Citing the United Nations "Declaeration of Human Rights", the
letter demanded immediate stop of persecuting the political dissidents. FDC is
currently collecting signatures from all concerned individuals for this
letter.

--- Lin LI, Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik, ETH Zuerich.---
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2. Japanese Lawyers's Group Set up to Defend Chinese Students
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>From: A CND Reader in Jaoan **@***.***-u.ac.jp Tue Nov 27 11:07:50 1990

Dear editor,

I made a trip to Tokyo last week and visited Katsutoshi Fujimori, one of the
enthusiastic Japanese lawyers who are helping defend the human rights of the
Chinese students in Japan. I would like to report to CND-EP the progress they
made during the past two months.

         Japanese Lawyers's Group Set up to Defend Chinese Students

On Sept. 18, 1990, about 170 Japanese lawyers founded an association, the 
Lawyers Group for the Human Rights of Chinese Students in Japan, of which 
Fujimori is one of the coordinators. The leader of the group is Hideo Fujii, 
who served as the president of the powerful Union of Japanese Lawyers till
last year. The group made an immediate appeal to the Japanese Minister of 
Justice, and has since held several talks with the Ministry. 

There is an article in the Japanese Immigration Law that gives the Minister
the right to grant a special residence status to those poeple considered
proper. The lawyers made claims to the officials in the Ministry of Justice
that they grant this special status to the Chinese students in Japan who have
well-found fear of political persecution upon return to China under the
current Communist regime. The Ministry of Justice had originally denied that
these students belong to this category, but recently recognized that if there
is any possibility, this is the only category in the law that these students
may be treated specially. But they expressed worry that if the door is opened,
then the number of potential claimers ranges up to thousands, which can be a
great political burden on the Japanese government.

It seems that the negotiation with the Ministry of Justice will not have easy
output, said Fujimori. But there is hope, because not only the Socialists but
also a small number of Liberal Democratic Party politicians in the Congress 
became willing to help.

According the statistics available to the lawyers, up to 30 Chinese students,
most of which had been registered in language schools, are seeking help from
the lawyers to get a special visa. They are staying here with a 90-day long
visa and need apply for renewal without any guarantee of success.
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3. Fears for Future of HK Fail to Deter Investors
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>From:   Y Kim <[email-masked]>
 Source: The Times, Hong Kong, 8 Nov 90, by Lulu Yu

Overseas investment in Hong Kong's manufacturing industries rose 14 percent to
HK$29.7 billion last year, despite worries about the colony's return to China
in 1997.

In the government's latest business survey, about half of 586 companies said
Hong Kong's political future was an unfavorable factor for investment. A
quarter found it favorable, while the rest said they were neutral.

The majority of overseas-based companies gave high marks for the colony's
banking and financial facilities, citing low taxes, regional location and
productive workers as positive factors.

America, which accounts for 31 per cent of foreign investment in industry,
continued to be the largest investor last year, followed by Japan, China and
Britain. But while Japanese investments grew to HK$8.6 billion at the end of
1989, British investment declined by 7 per cent to HK$2.2 billion.

Japan, which last year invested 34 per cent more than in 1988, compared with
a 4 per cent increase by America, is expected to nudge America into second
place. The Japanese have also sunk large amounts into the retail and property
sectors, giving both a lift, while also boosting the stock market with their
active trading.

Hong Kong has been a prime target of the Japanese and American trade and
investment drive, as greater potential lies across the colony's border in
mainland China.

Far from being concerned about the prospect of eventual Chinese control of the
colony, some Japanese firms appear to relish it. Tsutomu Tanabe, a broker with
Fulton Prebon, said: "It is a very popular view that there will be more
opportunities in Hong Kong after 1997, and that this is a good time to move
in."

Many Americans are similarly sanguine. John Kamm, president of the colony's
American Chamber of Commerce, said: "In the last decade, the US has become
more foreign trade-oriented. As this is happening perhaps Hong Kong benefits
more than most."

"As an outpost of the West in Asia, it seems to me that Hong Kong still has a
very solid future. The Americans are going to see a lot of healthy competition
from other countries, and especially from Japan which has been really active
in the property market here."
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