Subject: CBS Evening News!

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 21 May 94 21:12:57 CDT

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Date:      Thu, 19 May 1994 19:41:58 EDT
>From:      HFENG@SUVM
To:        CSSFU@SUVM

Hello, everyone,

I wonder if you have seen today's (May 19, 1994, Thursday)
CBS evening news with Dan Rather and Connie Chung. I saw it.
Connie Chung reported the situation of Chinese espionage in
the United States. To me, it is extremely upseting.

Basically what she said was, of all the ORIDINARY people
from China, EVERYBODY can be a spy. The person may look
like a oridinary neibour, living a quiet life. That
Chinese may not do anything for many years. But when the
Chinese government summons him, he will be a spy. This
is called a "Chen(2) Di(3) Yu(1)". The government may
send him over as a spy, or may force him to become a
spy after he enters USA. They steal information. They
steal the secrets of the government and companies. She
said while many countries are spying on US, no other
country is doing on such a scale. However, she only shaw
two persons as spies from China. One is accused, one is
just confessing. I was not even sure if the second person
was caught for something or he just turned himself in.
She did not gave any specific number of how many spies
from China who look like oridinary student and scholars and
any Chinese are actually caught as spies in the US. It also
shaw Connie Chung standing in a place which is apparently
in Beijing, telling how easy it is for the Chinese government
to force any oridinary Chinese to become a spy, and how
the government is indeed doing it.

I am not exagerating. The message from her report is INDEED
every Chinese is a potential spy, no matter how oridinary
or quiet he looks.

It remains me of an article I read some time ago about how
the Chinese were treated in the fourties and fifties.
The slogan in the newspapers was: Every Chinese Is a
Potential Spy! Every little store in Chinatown would
have to hang a KouMingTang flag. Otherwise people would
go into the stores and loot and destroy things. That
deprived many Chinese of their livelihood.

But that was fourty, fifty years ago! Nowadays, which
ethnic or national group is subject to this kind of
defamation? It is against the law! CBS evening news is
one of the most popular news programs in the country.
Probably a third of the US population watch it. It has
great general credibility. Think about this: if you are
a Chinese job seeker, and your potential employer watched
this lovely Connie Chung's report, is this employer
more likely to hire you? Who is going to hire a potential
spy?! If you are an ORIDINARY engineering student from
China, and your professor has a project and he has watched
this lovely Connie Chung's report, is your professor
more likely to let you involved in the project? Who would
want a potential spy to he his student and research
assistant?! Let me tell you, this report will affect
hundreds of thousands ORIDINARY Chinese's lives.

Connie Chung has a long history of alienating the Asian
community. She is a Chinese herself, and she is ashamed
of that fact. That is known to everyone. But tonight's
blatant defamation is the most appalling. The message
is: Every Oridinary Chinse Is a Potential Spy. (She
used the word ORIDINARY many times.) I believe she has
violated the law. Or CBS has violated the law.

We Chinese students and scholars as a group can be
seriously damaged in many ways. I can quickly think
of one promblem that may have great financial significance:
The Lost Employment and Business Opportunities. It is
simple - no one wants to be associated with a potential
spy! Think about how much the Chinese people have suffered
throughout the past century. Think about how much the
Chinses in this country had suffered from blatant
discrimination. Now we are getting a little bit better,
the lovely Connie Chung stirs up this kind of garbage
again. CAN WE AFFORD TO IGNORE IT?

I think we should take some collective actions. CBS and
Connie Chung should compensate for our potential employment
and business loss of us, as a group. They should also
be punished for violating the non-discrimination law.
I am willing to coordinate the effort if nobody else wants
to do it. The first thing we should do, I think, is to
contact IFCSS national office so that the we can the
strength on a national scale. I think CSSFU should also
do something as an organization.

Let us discuss, and take actions.

Cheers
Feng Hui
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From: Jinsong Xiao <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 94 22:23:03 CDT

I am very glad that you have posted a message like that.  Just like you, I
am an ordinary Chinese students who are angered by the CBS news.  I
totally agree with you that we need to act together to fight the injustice
we are experiencing.  I donot know why "lovely Connie" and CBS news
singled out Chinese as their defamation target, maybe because China is
still a communist country.  But that will not justify their acusation of
every Chinese being a potential spy.  As you mentioned, they do not show
solid evidence to back up their accusation, which makes me very upset and
angry.  We do not deserve this kind of treatment.  Let us united and fight
back.  WE CANNOT AFFORD TO IGNORE IT!

Jinsong

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From: Zhuanxin Ding <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 May 94 12:29:28 CDT

Hi, Everybody,

I watched that CBS evening news by Connie Chung because the day before the
CBS evening news told people that there will be a Chinese spy report the 
next day. I was, as Feng Hui, very angry with that report. I think the
Chinese community should, as suggested by Feng Hui, unite together and
protest this. That news is totally in every ORDINNARY Chinese people's
disadvantage.

I think, every ORDINARY Chinese people should realize that there are some
Americans (not all!) who want to do everything against China and Chinese 
people. Many of them do it under the name of human right. I think they 
are unwilling to see that China is becoming economically stronger and
stronger. The MFN is one best example. The continuation of MFN is certainly
good in every aspect to China and Chinese people. It makes China have
more connections with outside world and change  the current human right
situation gradually. It is impractical and impossible, in my view, to
change everything in China as in American over night. The most important
thing is that the Chinese government should do their best under China's
current condition. 
 
I am happy to see that Feng Hui is willing to be a coordinate for this. 
I can also do something if you need help.

Thank you.

Ding, Zhuanxin

UC, San Diego,  Economics Department