Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, June 16, 1990

From: Bo Xiong <yawei>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 90 02:22:10 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP) =====================
                                 June 16, 1990
 
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1. Two Letters from Europe on Chinese Students' Visa Issue..............25

2. Report from Australia: The Government Withdrawing from Its
   Early Announcement on Chinese Students Immigration Issue.............15

3. Chinese Students in Japan Warned on Democracy Movement:
   Conversation between Official and Student............................70

4. Taiwan's Dollar Offensive Gaining Ground in China....................60

5. Further Info about Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 1990...........27
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1. Two Letters from Europe on Chinese Students' Visa Issue
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Note from the editor:
     We welcome the contributions from CND readers on this issue, CND-US
and CND-Canada have been providing useful information to North America area 
on this issue mainly based on the contributions from readers.

1) Letter from France
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>From: (CND Reporter in Europe) [email-masked] Sat Jun 9 13:34:57 1990

     I have read the news from Australia. It makes me think that the Chinese
students in France did not do as much as they can - especially to do some 
concrete affairs. Now chinese student should have a valid passport to renew 
their (French) permit (to stay).
					Haiyan YE

2) Letter from Norway
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>From: ***@*****.uio.NO     Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 12:10:04 EDT

Dear editor:
     The issues about Austrilia make me think if it is possible to have a 
periodical series of issue about visa-information for whole the Europe and the
Pacific. That would double your readership. Do you agree?
Yours
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2. Report from Australia: The Government Withdrawing from Its
   Early Announcement on Chinese Students Immigration Issue
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>From: [email-masked] (Zhuo-peng Feng STMA)  Source: soc.culture.china
Date: 13 Jun 90 03:12:37 GMT

	The 20,000 Chinese Students Will Not Be Given P.R.
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   The 20,000 Chinese students will not be given Permanent Residency. 
   The Australian Primary Minister Bob Hawke announced at a new conference
yesterday, backing from his position of last week, when he promised that the
government would allowed the Chinese students to stay in Australia permanently.
   Instead, the Government will permit the students to stay for a period of 
time somewhere between six months and ten years, according to last week 
Mr. Hawke said.
   The 20,000 Chinese students concerned are those who came to Australia before
June 20, 1989. Another 20,000 Chinese arriving after that data are expected to 
go back China when their visas expire.
   The Cabinet is expected to make the final decision at the end of this month.
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3. Chinese Students in Japan Warned on Democracy Movement:
   Conversation between Official and Student
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>From: Young Chul KIM (CND Reporter) <[email-masked]>
Source:  KYODO News Service, Nagoya, 6/3/90

     China has warned Chinese students in Japan if they refuse to quit their
pro-democracy movement they would be "penalized," according to a cassette 
tape recording made by one of dissident students here.
     KYODO News Service obtained the 55-minute tape recording from a Chinese
student who recorded a conversation between the student and Chinese embassy 
official in Tokyo, Second Secretary Liu Wen Xiang, who visited Nagoya 
University's dormitory in mid-March to question Chinese students about their 
political ideology.
     The conversation was tape-recorded by the student, who asked for 
anonymity, with a small sophisticated microphone and a cassette recorder 
hidden in his jacket pocket.
     The student is one of about 200 Chinese students at the state-run 
university, who are among some 63,000 Chinese students studying in various 
Japanese universities and schools.
     KYODO confirmed through a telephone interview with Chinese Embassy
official Peng Jiasheng in Tokyo that Peng had instructed Liu to go to the
university with another embassy official, Liu Zhong Huai.
     Peng, head of the embassy's education section, said embassy officials
have been sent to universities throughout Japan for similar purposes.
     .....
     The following are excerpts of KYODO's English-language translation of 
the original tape recording.

Official:	When the Tiananmen Square incident took place, Chinese students
          studying abroad also participated in radical movements. What do
          you think of these movements?
Student:	I cannot believe in the justifiability of the method used by
          the Chinese Government to suppress the Tiananmen Square
          incident.
Official:	Students have various ideas. Taking actions is a different
          problem. If they are disgruntled with the political situation,
          they have only to alleviate their disaffection by consulting
          with senior officials of the Chinese authorities...The
          situation in China is improving.
Student:	The situation has become only severer and tougher.
Official:	We will not bring charges against most students. But we will
          penalize only some minority students.
Student:	What do you mean by "some minority students"?
Official:	For example, members of the Front for a Democratic China 
          headed by Wu'er Kaixi.(lifting up his voice suddenly) We 
          absolutely cannot forgive a Japanese branch of the federation. 
          Don't participate in the pro-democracy movement. If you vow to
          refrain from joining it, embassy officials can feel relieved.
          Are you not planning to come back to your home country in the
          future, are you? East European countries will not be able to
          reform themselves.
Student:	You cannot say such a thing without observing developments of
          the situation in those countries over the next several years.
Official:	Socialism excels capitalism, of course, Socialism requires 
          many years before accomplishing its maturity and perfection. It may
          take 100 years, or say, several thousand years.
Student:	How are you going to treat students who engaged in pro-
          democracy movements especially actively?
Official:	We will not harm those who quit the movement. If students
          continue, we will not forgive them. We will not forgive some
          unmanageable students absolutely. The Chinese Government, but
          not the embassy, will decide how to penalize the unmanageable
          students.

     Meanwhile, several students at Nagoya University told KYODO that two
embassy officials who came to Nagoya demanded the students hand over the
donations they have collected from sympathetic Japanese students in order
to send the money to the bereaved families of the victims of the
Tiananmen Square incident.
     One student said: "We rejected the demand as the money is precious
donations of compassion from Japanese citizens who sympathized with the
plight of the Chinese people."
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4. Taiwan's Dollar Offensive Gaining Ground in China
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>From: (Zhiyong Shen) [email-masked] Fri Jun  8 18:01:11 1990
Source: by Dinah Lee (Business Week, June 11, 1990)

     Although they are enemies in principle, Taiwan has been more conciliatory
than any other country toward China since last June's Tiananmen massacre.  On 
May 20, President Lee Teng-hui offered reunification talks as well as direct 
trade and other exchanges with the Chinese, provided that leaders in Beijing
begin steps toward democracy and other reforms.
     Predictably, Lee's overture earned only a rebuff from Beijing's 
hardliners.  In fact, reunification, which most Taiwanese oppose, is not Lee's
goal.  Instead, his gesture reflects growing confidence that Taiwan's booming 
business links with the mainland are strengthening Taiwan's hand in its 
political rivalry with Beijing.  Taiwanese investors were the first to return 
to the mainland after Tiananmen, and first-quarter investment this year
leaped to $130 million, up 113% over the same period in 1989. Total fixed 
investment, now more than $1 billion, will rise at least 25% this year.
     Tiananmen had little impact on attitudes toward Beijing in Taiwan, partly
because Taiwanese never harbored illusions about the prospects for swift 
change in the repressive Communist system.  Their strategy has been, and still
is, to put commercial incursions into China ahead of politics.  That is why 
Taipei recently refused to allow installation of transmitters on a radio ship,
Goddess of Democracy, and thus blocked Chinese exiles' plan to broadcast to 
the mainland from offshore.
     Familiar Target.  Far more important for Taiwan's policymakers than such 
political gestures is the economic influence they are building on the mainland
in Fujian, the coastal province across the Taiwan Strait.  After fleeing to 
Taiwan in 1949, Chinese Nationalists for years clung to the fantasy of 
establishing a beachhead in Fujian to retake the mainland militarily. Instead,
Taiwan dollars are now winning the ground that bullets could not. 
     In Taiwan's new drive to invest its $75 billion foreign-exchange surplus 
overseas, Fujian is the nearest and culturally most familiar target.  Since 
1987, more than 1 million Taiwanese have traveled to China, most of them to 
Fujian, many to explore business deals.  Since then, Taiwan has been 
transferring low-wage, low-tech industries such as shoes and plastics across
the strait.  For Taiwan, Fujian, with its 29 million people, has become almost
an industrial park, analogous to the Shenzhen economic zone on Hong Kong's 
border.  Now, the original operations of the mid-1980s are moving inland - to 
factories in Guangdong, Tianjin, and even Chengdu in western China - as 
skilled workers along the coast shift to more sophisticated jobs making 
products such as videocassette recorders.  Last month, a Taiwanese business 
delegation visited Shanghai to discuss setting up an all-Taiwanese industrial
zone there.
    In Fujian, Taiwan's confidence is reflected in plans for large investments,
including a $2.1 billion chemical complex to be built this year by Formosa 
Plastics Corp., the island's biggest conglomerate, and a proposed Taiwanese
-Indonesian cement plant costing $2 billion.  These ventures, unthinkable a 
year or two ago, will make Taiwan China's biggest foreign investor except for
Hong Kong, which will rejoin the mainland in 1997.
     What is happening is a de facto colonization of Fujian by the Taiwanese. 
The flow of money, knowhow, and training kept Fujian's industrial output 
growing at a 21% annual clip last year, cushioning the province against the 
austerity imposed on most of China by the Beijing government.  The influx of 
hard currency and badly needed technology also gives the provincial government
some ability to fend off government efforts to reassert tight, centralized 
political and financial controls.  If China continues to stagnate under 
weakened and discredited rulers, an economic version of the traditional 
"warlordism," or pattern of regional autonomy, could reappear.  That could only
strengthen Taiwan's influence in its provincial beachhead across the strait.
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5. Further Info about Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 1990
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>From: "Charles P. Mok" (CND Reporter)  <[email-masked]>

    The Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for Democracy and Human 
Rights (AOHKCDHR) of the Greater Boston area have entered in the networks 
the entire text of the booklet printed and distributed by the Hong Kong 
Government for the Hong Kong public and will make it available to all.
    The first section of the document consists of a commentary on the draft 
Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 1990, including a background and a summary
for the Ordinance (519 lines long).  This has been posted in public in the 
appropriate USENET newsgroups and other mailing lists.  
    The second section of the document consists of the full text of the Bill
(842 lines long).  
    The third section of the documents consists of the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and International Covenant on Civil 
and Political Rights, including text describing the application to Hong Kong
(1665 lines long).  The typing for this has been just completed.
    For any interested party please send a message to [email-masked]  
and the entire text will be sent to you.  If you have previously requested 
sections one and two and have received them, you do not have to request the
third section as it will be sent to you automatically.  
    (This has been made possible by the cooperation of the following AOHKCDHR
members: Chu Ming-Chung, Ma Wai-Yan, Lui Yee-Hong, Chen Hung-Yut, Anna Men, 
Siu Man-Hung and Arthur Tao)

Charles Mok
National Organization Subcommittee/AOHKCDHR

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