Subject: CND-Global, May 29, 1993

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Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 01:01:59 -0400

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                          Saturday, May 29, 1993

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1. News Briefs (3 Items) ................................................ 36
2. Clinton Signs Executive Order Renewing China's MFN with Conditions ... 64
3. China Seeks Foreign Partners to Explore Tarim Oil Basin .............. 22
4. China Vows to Curtail Smuggling of Illegal Immigrants ................ 33
5. May 29, 1989: TianAnMen Protesters Dwindle as Food and Cash Run Low;
                 Government Tightens Curbs on Official Media  ........... 84
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1. News Briefs (3 Items) ................................................ 36
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[UPI, 05/28/93] BEIJING -- China and Britain discussed a range of issues on
the future of Hong Kong, but neither side would elaborate on the content of
those negotiations as the fourth round of Sino-British talks opened
Friday. British negotiator Robin McLaren admitted that the two-day talks
would produce no agreement and that at least one further round would be
necessary. The two sides have been locked in a series of closed-door talks
for the last two months over 1994-95 elections in the British colony, one of
a number of friction-increasing issues that has led to recriminations
and name-calling. The talks are an attempt by the two sides to restore
relations after Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten incensed Beijing with a
proposal last October to broaden democracy in the territory.
(Forwarded By: A CND Reader)
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[AP-DJ, 05/27/93] CAPETOWN -- Volkswagen South Africa, a 100% owned
subsidiary of Germany's Volkswagen AG, said Friday it will export 17,000
Jetas to China. The 500-million-rand deal will see the cars exported over
the next 12 to 15 months, Volkswagen said, and will put on hold the
company's announcement last month that it would have to lay-off some 700
employees. China's car market is estimated at some 400,000 vehicles a year
compared to South Africa's estimated 179,000 cars for 1993. "The
consequences of the foreign exchange earnings for both Volkswagen and
the country are substantial," said Peter Searle, director of Volkswagen
South Africa.   (Forwarded By: Liu Jian)
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[JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 05/28/93] FUKUOKA -- Yi Guosun of China downed
Ying Kan of Hong Kong in a final eighth-round match for his seventh win
against one loss Friday to win his first world crown in the 15th JAL Cup
World Amateur Go Championships. The 23-year-old Yi became the first Chinese
in three years and the 10th overall to win the annual tournament, held this
year at the NHK Fukuoka Broadcasting Center. Yi edged Soon Joo Seo of South
Korea, who also finished with a 7-1 record, on points under the Swiss
system. Forty players representing 40 nations participated in the four-day
tournament. The 16th meet will be held next May in Kyoto.
(Forwarded By: Liu Jian)

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2. Clinton Signs Executive Order Renewing China's MFN with Conditions ... 64
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Forwarded by: Deming and Liu Jian
Source: AP-DJ, 05/28/93

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton Friday extended for another year China's
trade privileges with the United States, but attached provisions requiring
China to meet new terms, including improvement of human rights standards.

Clinton called the new terms "a new chapter in United States policy to
China."

Clinton announced an one-year extension of China's most favored nation --
or MFN -- trade status. The treatment allows countries to sell to the United
States at reduced tariffs.

"If the Chinese don't a make serious effort and meet these conditions, the
president will certainly ... be prepared to revoke MFN. That's very clear,"
said Winston Lord, onetime ambassador to Beijing and now assistant secretary
of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.

Although there are no strings attached the current extension, in order to
continue its MFN status next year, China would have to make progress on
human rights, fair trade and nuclear non-proliferation issues.

"This is an attempt to begin to move the most-favored debate from the
center of our policy and construct a broader China policy," Lord said.

Clinton signed the executive order after meeting with congressional leaders.

Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, asserted that it was the first
time a president had sought to put human-rights conditions on a MFN renewal.

However, the language containing the conditions is not binding on either
the president or Congress, only asserting that the secretary of state not
recommend another MFN extension unless progress has been demonstrated by
China on the human rights and other fronts.

Friday's order was a middle ground.  It calls on China to:
    - Free political prisoners, but doesn't insist it release them all.
    - Recognize Tibet's "religious and cultural heritage."
    - Permit international radio and TV broadcasts into China.
    - Follow humane practices in the use of prison labor.

"I don't want to isolate China," Clinton said but he added that he also
wants to stand up for American values in China. He also voiced concern
about China's trade policies, saying Beijing blocks American goods.

The U.S. ran a trade deficit of $18.26 billion with China last year,
second only to the gap with Japan.

China is adept at dismantling foreign-bought weapons and incorporating their
sophisticated technology into home-grown weapons systems.

China thus can sell these weapons at a far cheaper cost to other
countries, which cannot afford Soviet, European or American weapons.

The order calls on China to free political prisoners -- but does not
insist it release them all.

It also calls for China to recognize "Tibet's distinctive religious and
cultural heritage," to permit international radio and television broadcasts
into China and to stop using prison labor to help produce exports.

The president in his statement voiced concern about China's trade
policies, saying it blocks American goods.

The United States ran a trade deficit of $18.26 billion with China last
year, second only to the shortfall with Japan.

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3. China Seeks Foreign Partners to Explore Tarim Oil Basin .............. 22
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: DJ, 05/28/93

BEIJING -- The vice president of China's sole petroleum producer will visit
Belgium, Italy and Oman to seek partners in exploring the Tarim basin,
believed to have rich oil deposits, an official report said Friday.

Qiu Zhongjian of China National Petroleum Corp. is to leave Monday on the
18-day trip, the China Daily said.

Early this year, China announced that it was opening the Tarim basin, in
far west China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, to foreign exploration. More
than 60 foreign firms have applied and a round of bidding is expected this
year, the paper said.

Qiu's visit to Oman is expected to include technical exchanges and visits
to oilfields. Oman's Petroleum Development Co. is expected to share its
experience in working with Western firms and exploring for oil in the
desert.

The paper said the Tarim basin is expected to become the core of China's
oil production. Initial findings show promising oil reserves in the 73,000
square-kilometer (29,200 square-mile) basin, but the figures have been kept
secret.

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4. China Vows to Curtail Smuggling of Illegal Immigrants ................ 33
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 05/28/93

HONG KONG -- China has vowed to step up border checks and intensify
antismuggling activities in an effort to stem the flow of illegal Chinese
immigrants flooding overseas, a pro-Beijing newspaper reported Friday.

Public security forces have decided to take tough action in response to
growing numbers of Chinese citizens who procure fake passports and travel
abroad, the Wen Wei Po newspaper said, quoting sources in Beijing.

Since 1992, Beijing's Capital Airport alone has reported more than 140
incidents of false passports being used, involving 338 people, Wen Wei Po
said.

Almost all of the culprits came from coastal provinces in east China,
including Fujian and Zhejiang, it said.  More than 90% of them were either
poor people or private entrepreneurs.

The desire of many Chinese citizens to escape overseas at virtually any
cost has spawned a huge smuggling racket which drew headlines in the United
States earlier this week when a ship containing 184 illegal immigrants
sailed brazenly into San Francisco Harbor and unloaded its human cargo.

Prices for such dubious passage to the West range from about 50,000 yuan
(8,780 dollars) to 20,000 dollars, Wen Wei Po said.

China's Public Security Bureau has now ordered regional forces to
coordinate their efforts in the fight against illegal migrants, the paper
said.

Countermeasures include moves to strengthen collection of used exit
permits to prevent them being resold and a publicity campaign directed at
citizens warning them that they risk being cheated by smuggling gangs.

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5. May 29, 1989: TianAnMen Protesters Dwindle as Food and Cash Run Low;
                 Government Tightens Curbs on Official Media  ........... 84
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Source: Compiled By Zuofeng Li from Reuters, the Boston Globe, the Chicago
        Tribune, May 29, 1989

BEIJING - A dwindling band of tired and hungry students kept up their sit-in
in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Monday, demoralised and confused about how
to continue their campaign for democracy.

About 300 representatives from Beijing campuses and provincial schools voted
on Sunday night with a show of hands to stay in the cluttered square until
June 20. The 300 delegates had been gathered at Beijing's Normal University
since Saturday night to decide if the 10,000 students still camped in
TianAnMen Square should abandon their sit-in after a mass rally Tuesday.

"It was a battle between the moderates who wanted to go home and the
hard-liners who felt that by vacating the square we would lose our last
pillar of power," one student leader said after the vote.

The delegates also voted to replace the leadership of their movement.  They
said the old leaders were tired and needed rest.

The number of students in the square fell to 2,000 by early morning on
Monday, probably the lowest since the occupation began on May 13.

Students had hoped to revive their movement with a million-strong march in
Beijing on Sunday, but only 50,000 students took to the streets in defiance
of martial law regulations declared by hardline Premier Li Peng on May 20.

The turnout was smaller than organizers had hoped for, apparently because
workers and public employees who had thronged by the hundreds of thousands
to earlier marches failed to appear in significant numbers.

"We were sternly warned not to attend," a schoolteacher said last night at
his home in a neighborhood in eastern Beijing.

"Everyone supports the students, no one likes the government," said a
39-year-old woman employed at a ceramics plant. "But there is strong fear of
punishment if we show solidarity with the students. "

Student leader Chai Ling told a midnight meeting that she was too weak to
carry on and wanted to step down.  The crowd apparently persuaded her to
stay on as a leader but her words dampened morale further, students said.

Meanwhile, the Chinese leadership, quietly mustering its forces for a
showdown with the liberals in its midst, has reportedly sent investigators
into ministries and public institutions to find out which public officials
joined the pro-democracy marches and under what slogans.

The government has put the state-run media under tight curbs. Journalists
said on Monday that soldiers from the People's Liberation Army had been
reinforced at the news agency's headquarters, though they were guarding the
offices rather than enforcing censorship.

A five-man media supervisory group, headed by Yuan Mu, spokesman of the
State Council -- the top government body -- has been formed to direct news
reporting, journalists said.

Internal supervision at each news organisation has also been tightened.  "We
now have five separate reviews before we decide on whether we can broadcast
a news item," said a television reporter.

Authorities also stepped up pressure on the students to end their occupation
of the symbolic heart of Chinese communism, saying they would not be
punished.

Television, radio and official newspapers said people from all over China
had written letters to the government expressing hope that students end
their protests.

Food and money were running low and students made impassioned speeches
through the night calling for strict regulations on spending and for an
effort to clean up rotting rubbish piled up next to ragtag tents in many
parts of the square.

"We are really low on cash," said a student in charge of finances. He said a
large amount of money promised from Hong Kong had not arrived and protesters
were rationed to one small package of bread a day.

"Our strength now is not enough. We need the workers to help us, without
them we will never overthrow Deng Xiaoping and Li Peng," said one man from
Daqing Oil University who was about to return to campus.

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