Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, Jan. 18, 1991

From: CND-EP <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 91 12:36:11 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
				January 18, 1991
 
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1. Female Professor Detain in Sichuan since June 4th, 1989..............15

2. Europeans Doing Business in China....................................20

3. Australia:  Chinese Students Challanging Immigration Dept. ...........7

4. PRC Education Delegation Meeting with Students in Canada............105
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1. Female Professor Detain in Sichuan since June 4th, 1989
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>From: ***@***.anu.edu.au  Mon Jan 14 20:34:32 1991

     Xiao Xuehui, 39, associated professor of the Southwest China Minority
Nationaly University, Chengdu. Professor Xiao is famous for her ethnic study.
She was arrrested not long after Beijing Massacre. She is now imprisoned in
Xingjin and deliberately lock up with other criminals. She suffered great
mental and physical mistreatement and even torture. Her health is seriously
deteriorated and since her husband died a few years ago, no direct relatives
can take care of her. Because she refused to admit her "mistake", she is now
considered by the authorities as the "most dangerous person" in Sichuan and
is facing serious charge. Together with Professor Xiao, two young academics
from the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Mr Li Jing and Mr Wang
Chengzhong, who were also arrested after June 4 1989, are still detained in
Xingjin and facing same serious charge.Please urge the authorities: 1). to
separate these political dissidents from other criminals; 2). to ensure that
they are safeguarded against any torture and mental and physical mistreatment
in custody; 3.to grant them access to lawyers and relatives.
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2. Europeans Doing Business in China
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>From: CND Correspondent in Europe [email-masked] Fri Jan 18 04:28:32 1991
Source: extracted from French revue Cadre

	Three monthes after supression of the sanction against China,
observators note a return to normal in the relationship sino-european.

	Recently, Primar minister of EC Francisco Fernandez has visited China.
Spain filial of Alcatel NV (a French compagy) has obtained a contract of 24.5
million dollars for equipement of 142 000 lines of digital telephon in Yunnan
and in Zhejing.

	Nertherlandish chemical campagy DSM Resines, a filial of DSM group,
has signed with Peking Red Lion Corporation for a construction of a joint-
advanture.

	Electricity Of France (EDF, Electricite De la France) is constructing
phase 1 and 2 of nuclear power plante in Daya Bay. EDF hopes to help China to
depurate chinese thermal power plante. Bruxelles (EC) finances 200 000 Dollars
EDF to study the construction possibility of a thermal power plante of 125
megawatts in Neijing (Sichuan).
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3. Australia:  Chinese Students Challanging Immigration Dept.
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>From: CND Correspondent in Australia ***@**.anu.edu.au Tue Jan 15, 1991

     Chinese students in Australia National University went to a court to
challange the immigration department to process their applications for perment
residence. Most of Chinese who came to Australia before June 4th were applying
PR on humanitarian grounds.  Many of them have withdrawn their application
since Australian government issued special visa for 4 years with some
benefits.  There are still thouands of them are keeping their applications for
PR.  Those people's visa will be expired on 31st January 1991.
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4. PRC Education Delegation Meeting with Students in Canada
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Provided by CND-Canada Editor Run-Ping Qi <[email-masked]>

		 	-- Special Report from CSSA --

			The Visit by the Delegate From
			    PRC Education Commission

		     Chinese Student and Schloar Association
			      University of Waterloo

         On  January 9, 1991, a group of delegates from the Education Com-
         mission,  People's  of  Republic  of China, visited University of
         Waterloo.  The  group included Mr. He, the director of the Bureau
         for  Overseas  Student Affairs, the PRC Education Commission, and
         Mr. Li, formal director of Office for Foreign Affairs in the Com-
         mission.  Two main officials responsible for education affairs in
         the  PRC General Consulate  in Toronto, Mr. Liu and Mr. Chen, ac-
         companied the group to visit Waterloo.

         Ten students attended the meeting with officials. In the meeting,
         the  students raised various concerns about our country and prob-
         lems  they  are facing themselves. The officials promised to take
         all  the  points  the students had raised back to China. And they
         also introduced the view of points from the Commission's side. It
         can  be  summerized  in  the  following points ( in the following
         list, "we" stands for the delegates from the Education Commission
         ):

         1.  Now there are about 190,000 Chinese students studying abroad.
         The Bureau for Overseas Student Affairs is a recently established
         agency.  The Education Commission have sent several groups to USA
         and  Japan  before.  This is the first group visiting Canada. The
         aim of our trip is to collect the concerns of the students study-
         ing here and bring the concerns backs to set up a regulation that
         fits the situation here.

         2.  For  the  special situation  in Canada, nobody predicted this
         before.  For both students and the government, there are many new
         problems that need to be solved.

         3.  No  formal regulation for this kind of situation has been set
         up yet. But it has been very concerned by the government.

         4.  For the situation in Canada, we could understand the way that
         the students handled the things. And we are with a positive atti-
         tude on this matter.

         5.  We  will not treat the people who have applied PR differently
         from  those  who  have  not applied. Even for those students  who
         have  already  received  the  final  apporval of the PR, they are
         still  PRC  citizens.  We believe that on different positions the
         students  can  still  make contributions to our country. Even for
         those  who  will  later become Canadian citizens, we believe they
         will not forget the country they had been living for 20-30 years.
         We sincerely wish the students a bright future.

         6.  For  the  current  situation,  it  is understandable from the
         student's  point  of  view.  But,  from  the relation between two
         governments,  the  way  that the Canadian government handles this
         matter can hardly  be accepted.

         7.  For  the  solution  of specific problems, especially the pro-
         cedures for handling PR problem, is not a conceptual problem, but
         a concrete problem. We will try our best to coordinate the relat-
         ed departments and agencies and find a proper solution as soon as
         possible.

         8. For the problem of freely entering and exiting the country, we
         understand  the student's concern. We are working hard with other
         departments  to make a specific regulation on this matter, and we
         would  like  to  provide  as much convenience as possible to both
         students  and  their families. For some specific problem, if stu-
         dents  find  it  hard  to get through from their original working
         unit,  they  can tell us directly. We are trying our best to help
         the students.

         9.  For  the  the problem of changing passports ( from " passport
         for  public  affairs " to " passport for personal affairs " ), we
         will consider the difficulties the student may have; we also will
         consider the feelings of the people who are still working in Chi-
         na.  We  will  try to find a solution that is acceptable for most
         people.

         10. The government will try to legislate the affairs related with
         the overseas students.

         11. The Bureau for Overseas Student Affairs has been working hard
         to do some real things for the overseas students. One thing which
         was  just got through is that the two-year/one-entrance passport,
         which  was  blamed  by many students and scholars, has been abol-
         ished  for  infinite period of time. All the holders of this kind
         of  passports  can  go  to  PRC Embassy/Consulate to change their
         passports  to   normal ones. (Note: Mr. Liu in the Education Sec-
         tion  of Toronto Consulate will come to Waterloo again around the
         Spring  Festival  time  to  give the details on how to change the
         passports. )

         12.  The  situation  we are facing is a complicated one, and this
         needs  time.  We  will  try our best to make this through, but we
         hope  the  students will understand our situation. We will timely
         feedback   information  on  the progress back to students via the
         PRC Embassy or Consulate.

         13.  The  Education Section in PRC Toronto Consulate will welcome
         any  suggestions  and  critics on the matters like legislation of
         studying  overseas  and  schemes  to  repay Chinese government or
         domestic working unit in order to get a private passport.

         A  written  document,  which contains a list of problems the stu-
         dents  are  concerning,  was handed over to the delegates. Anyone
         wants to see this document should contact CSSA.

         The  meeting  lasted about two and a half hour. And the delegates
         returned to Toronto right after the meeting.
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