Subject: IFCSS HQ memo to council

From: IFCSS HQ <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 11:49:03 -0500

Mr. Chairman and Distinguished Members of the IFCSS Council:

At the request of Mr. Yungui Ding, Vice Chairman of the IFCSS
Council, I am writing to brief you on the hearing conducted by
Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways and Means, which took
place on Thursday, February 24th.

Enclosed please find the complete text of my testimony, of which
the central message is that based upon current situation, human
rights conditions should be continually attached to China's MFN
trade status. Here I would like to outline the rationale behind
this position.

1. IFCSS Constitution provides that IFCSS should work for
improvement in China's human rights situation.

2. To attach human rights conditions to China's MFN trade status
has been the consistent position of IFCSS ever since its founding.

3. Significant progress has NOT been made in regard to human rights
by the Chinese government since last June.

I wish to make clear that the testimony was prepared after IFCSS
President Lin Changsheng left for Taiwan. If there is anything
inappropriate in the testimony, I shall be solely responsible.

Sincerely,

Heping Shi
Vice President

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From: Hongguang Zhou <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 13:59:47 -0500 (EST)

TO:	IFCSS HQ
Cc:	IFCSS Ciouncil, SVC
From:	Zhou Hongguang, Council Member from the Southeast
Date:	2/25/94
RE:	Testimony on MFN

I am not sure the memo on MFN testimony from HQ to Council serves as a 
notice or a report. If it were a notice, it should be sent to the Council 
before Mr. Shi Heping testified before the US House subcommittee. If it 
were a report, how could Mr. Shi be so confident to say that he was 
representing "the position" of the IFCSS without informing the Council 
before he said so?

I also do not know that "the position" Mr. Shi Heping took during the 
hearing is the opinion of his own, HQ or the IFCSS. Given the Council had 
been in totally in dark--not been informed and consulted with in advance-- 
until Mr. Shi had testified and the News Release by HQ was issued, I do 
not think Mr. Shi's position is that of the IFCSS Council, let aside of 
the CSS whom the IFCSS claims to represent. Therefore, as the Standing 
Legislature/the Board of Direcotrs of the IFCSS,the IFCSS Council should 
not be responsible for the "position" Mr. Shi took on the MFN issue. And 
whatsoever position Mr. Shi took does not represents that of the IFCSS 
Council.

Thanks and regards.