Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, Sept. 27, 1990

From: Bo Xiong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 23:03:46 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
                               September 27, 1990
 
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1. Exile Students Criticize FDC -- Two Pieces of News from Paris........40

2. A Letter from CND-EP Reader:
   Comments on "What Can Overseas Chinese Do for Democracy in China"....15

3. The Few Tricks the Chinese Communist Dictators Have to Sell..........60
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1. Exile Students Criticize FDC -- Two Pieces of News from Paris
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>From: CND Europe Correspondent Haiyan Ye <[email-masked]> 27 Sep 90 12:03

		     ----- Three Exile Students' Hope -----

     Three exile students in Paris express their hope to Front for Democracy
in China.  These three students are Wang Wen, Wang Longmon and Liu Wuo.  Their
points of view and wishs are as follows (extracted from Europe Journal):

1) Hoping that FDC would not be the rice bowl of somebody.
   The secretaiat of FCD has dozens secretaries, each earns about 7000 French
   frances per month.  Beside these secretaries, there are other provisory
   persons having salary.  Every month FCD pays hundred thousands frances as
   salary .... as a government in exile.
   On the other side, for example, The house of democracy in Paris has only
   three and half secretaries and has organized also a lot of activities.
   FDC can use more voluntaries than salaries.

2) Hoping that FDC do what can be done - even it is very "small".
   FCD people always think "big" things, there are lot of "small" things we
   can do and these "small" things will be more efficient than those "big"
   things.
   FCD people should not always give speechs, they should learn democracy also.
   When they were in China, they said that they would go to Western to learn
   democracy, but once they ARE in Western, they don't like to leran what is
   demoracy.  For example,  The house of democracy in Paris organized a Summer
   course for democracy, a lot of famous French professors are invited to give
   a seris of lecture on democracy, but FDC people don't like to come.
   Do real things, even they are "small".
   Avoid to think you are a STAR.
	
3) Be carefull about CCP "sweet gun"
   Now oversea chinese democracy mouvment is in a hard time.  CCP began to
   use "sweet fun" to FCD. Our goal is to terminate one party dictatship, to
   build a democracy system in China. This cannot be changed.

     Now these three exile students should go to wash dishs.  This is their
sincere hopes for 2nd conference of FDC hold in States.

		----- Professor Fang Lizhi Spoke in Paris -----

     In the begining of this month, Fan Lizhi said in Paris that communism
will dispear -- it is just a question of time.	But he is very prudent about
the future of China.  He said that he dare not predict when China could have
a real democratic system, maybe in ten years maybe later.  Fan Lihi emphasized
that oversea Chinese organizations should get more united to make changes
inside China together, that is very important.
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2. A Letter from CND-EP Reader:
   Comments on "What Can Overseas Chinese Do for Democracy in China"
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>From: *** *** <***@***.****.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 11:19:45 BST

Dear Editor,
     After reading "What can oversea Chinese do for democracy in China", I
would like to share my opinion about problems in China as listed in part 
two of Dr. Gau Chang Fan's speech.  I think in the article one very important
issue was not mentioned, i.e.,	"population issue".  Whether China changes
sooner or later, I guess at least in 50 yeras China cannot afford to leave the
decision how many children to have in a family to individuals.	Therefore, if
China changes, what kind of population policy should be employed.  We have got
to think about this.  Otherwise, it would be a disaster.
    
    Yours sincerely
	 CND Reader
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3. The Few Tricks the Chinese Communist Dictators Have to Sell
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>From: [email-masked] (Bo Xiong)	 Source: soc.culture.china

The following is an article published on <<Forum on Democracy>> 
No.11, English Edition, July 1990, by J.S. Leigh

     Recently, the Chinese government dictators have frequently used the
phrase "traitors to the country" to label overseas Chinese students and
scholars who have spoken out in condemination of the human rights abuses in
China and the brutal suppression of the 1989 democracy movement.  To many
westerners it may a puzzle just by what ill logic these dictators call
somebody "traitor to the country".  However, to the Chinese people, the logic
is only too familiar.  The logic goes like this: the dictators represent the
country, the people and the truth; anyone who opposes them is opposing his
country and his people.  So, naturally he is a traitor.  Ironically, several
decades ago, some of the current dictators in China, such as Deng Xiaoping,
were among the overseas Chinese students who were inolved in overthrowing the
then Chinese government.  Applying the same logic, Deng was a vertran traitor
to China.  Why then are the Communist dictators still trying to sell such an
absurd logic?  The answer is unfortunately sad for the dictators:  they have
nothing else to sell.

     When the Chinese Communist Party first took power forty-one years ago,
they sold promises: a rich and strong China.  The Chinese people believed
them, and they indeed felt pround as Chairman Mao announced "the Chinese
people have stood up!"  What the Chinese people could not tell then was that
it was Communist dictators only who have stood up.  But of course, the
Communist dictators are the China and the people.  So promises kept their
unchallenged for a while.  Not for not though.	When promises were not
realized, the dictators sold mirage and deceit - a nationwide make-believe
show "the great leap forward".	That was 1958 when they supposedly led the
country marching into the communistic society (where there is more than plenty
to satisfy anybody's any need).  In the meantime, they sent millions of
politically awakening dissidents to prisons and concentration camps.  Two
years after the make-believe campaign, the China worst man-made famine killed
millions of people.  So people came back to reality.  But then, the Communist
dictators still had a few tricks left to sell: class struggle, proletarian
dictatorship, cultural revolution, four modernization, well-to-do family, etc.
However, each time few people believed them and more  were awakened to see
through their true color.  In 1989, the dictators sold their most expensive and
devastating trick -- a state run terrorism on the nationwide popular demand for
basic human right and freedom of speeech.  But that can only keep the people
inside China silent for a while, it has little effect on the people outside
China.	To the international community they sell lies and the so-called
"internal affairs" cliche, claiming there was no massacre, not a shot being
fired; and besides, it's Chinese own business.  As to the overseas Chinese
students and scholars, the most effective trick is to sell patriotism.	If you
love China, you will love the Communist dictators.  The logic behind this is
that they are China.  It is hard for the dictators to accept the fact that
just because the overseas Chinese students and scholars love China that they
have stood up against Chinese Communist rulers who have been proven a disaster
to the Chinese people.	It is hard for the dictators to accept that fact that
their tricks do not work anymore.  Or maybe they don't care, as long as they
believe the army and police are in their hands, as long as they believe their
tricks are working when dealing with the international community.

     I must confess that there is one thing I cannot help admiring about the
dictators.  It is their courage when they ordered the june 4th Massacre and
later flatly denied that it ever took place.  They knew people would not
believe their lies, and they did not even bother to say, "read our lips".
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