Subject: CND-Global, May 30, 1993

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Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 00:33:45 -0400

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                          Sunday, May 30, 1993

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1. News Briefs (4 Items) ................................................ 40
2. China Protests MFN Decision, Issues Warning .......................... 60
3. China, Britain End 4th Round of Talks on Hong Kong ................... 34
4. Chinese Basketball Team Crushes U.S. Side ............................ 28
5. May 30, 1989: Statue of Goddess of Democracy Erected
                 on TianAnMen Square .................................... 85
6. Reader's Comment on CND TianAnMen Event Series Report ................ 39
7. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan #19 (zk9305a) .............20
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1. News Briefs (4 Items) ................................................ 40
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[JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 05/29/93] HONG KONG -- Bill Clinton's decision to
attach human rights conditions to China's MFN trading status may have
provoked predictable outrage from Beijing, but behind the indignant rhetoric
lie unmistakable signs of quiet satisfaction. On the surface at least,
Beijing protested vigorously at Clinton's announcement. In a swift riposte,
China's Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the president's executive
order as an affront to Chinese sovereignty. But saber-rattling aside,
Beijing quietly took advantage of other semiofficial channels to register
its evident satisfaction that Clinton has dropped several mooted MFN
conditions and clearly gone-soft on others.
(Forwarded By: Liu Jian)
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[AP-DJ, 05/29/93] TOKYO -- The foreign ministers of Japan and China held
talks Saturday on topics that were to have included regional security, the
just-concluded Cambodian elections and nuclear tensions in Korea. Before the
meeting of Foreign Ministers Kabun Muto of Japan and Qian Qichen of China,
reports said Muto would propose establishing a bilateral framework for
discussing security in East Asia. Japan's foreign ministry refused to
specifically confirm that proposal, but indicated security matters would be
a major topic, including urgings that China be more open about defense
matters. Qian was to meet Tuesday with Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa.
(Forwarded By: A CND Reader)
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[DJ, 05/29/93] HONG KONG -- Hong Kong political leaders on Saturday welcomed
the U.S.'s one-year extension of most favored nation trading (MFN) status
for China. The governor, Chris Patten, said the terms of U.S. President Bill
Clinton's renewal of MFN weren't exactly as he had hoped. But nevertheless,
the official said he was extremely pleased that MFN was extended again. And,
he pointed out, the terms put forward by Clinton were much better than some
observers had expected. T.H. Chau, the colony's secretary for trade and
industry, said Saturday that "renewal of China's MFN trading status is good
news for Hong Kong," noting the two countries are Hong Kong's largest
trading partners.   (Forwarded By: Liu Jian)
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[Newsgroup,soc.culture.china, 05/29/93] China soccer team lost to Yemen
by 0:1. Now she ranks in the third position in the group A. In the other
game, Iraq defeated pakistan by 8:0. (Forwarded By: Cao Tao<[email-masked]>)

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2. China Protests MFN Decision, Issues Warning .......................... 60
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader
Written By: Lena H. Sun
Source: The Washington Post, 05/29/93

BEIJING, May 28 - China expressed "strong opposition" today to President
Clinton's decision to attach human rights conditions to its trade status
next year, but Western and Chinese analysts said Beijing is probably
relieved because Washington left sufficient "wiggle room" for it to meet the
criteria.

Using stern language, the official New China News Agency said Beijing had
protested the decision to the U.S. government, calling it "an open
violation" of a standing U.S.-Sino agreement.

"If the U.S. side should insist on its way, it can only seriously impair
Sino-U.S. relations and economic and trade cooperation, which eventually
will hurt the vital interests of the United States," the news agency said.

However, though China's initial reaction was strong, analysts said Chinese
officials are expected to actually act in a different manner. "This is not
very bad news for China," said one Chinese who follows U.S.-China relations
closely.

Ultimately, analysts here and in Washington said they do not foresee a sharp
deterioration in U.S.-China relations because of the issue.

U.S. officials announced Friday that Clinton will extend China's
most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status, but will link future extensions to
human rights progress. As a gesture of goodwill, Clinton said U.S. concerns
about China's trade practices and foreign arms sales would be negotiated
separately.

But the executive order says that for China to win renewal of its MFN status
starting in June 1994, it must comply with a previous U.S.-China agreement
prohibiting exports to the United States of Chinese goods produced by prison
laborers, and allow free emigration.

The inclusion of these two conditions is not considered overly tough,
analysts said, because China is supposed to be honoring the prison labor
agreement anyway, and because free emigration is one of the existing
requirements governing the granting of MFN status to Communist countries.

U.S. businesses, whose direct investment in China totals about $6 billion,
the highest after Hong Kong and Taiwan, mounted an intensive lobbying
campaign calling for unconditional renewal of the trade status. At risk,
they said, were more than 150,000 American jobs and an estimated $7.5
billion in U.S. exports.

Because it would be left up to the executive branch to determine whether
China is making "overall significant progress," analysts said Beijing could
meet the conditions by continuing with its present strategy - releasing a
number of high-profile political prisoners at critical times - and by
adopting a few other symbolic gestures.

For months, Chinese officials have been given the same message by visiting
members of Congress and other administration officials: expect some
conditions on MFN.  Outright revocation would have raised duties on Chinese
goods from 8 percent to 40 percent on average.

Senior Chinese leaders were also aware of the domestic political pressures
on Clinton to live up to his campaign promises to be tougher on China than
president Bush.

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3. China, Britain End 4th Round of Talks on Hong Kong ................... 34
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 05/29/93

BEIJING -- China and Britain ended a fourth round of talks on Hong Kong's
future administration on Saturday, a British envoy said.

Robin McLaren, British Ambassador to China, refused to comment, however, on
the substance of the two-day talks between the two countries in his briefing
with reporters.

He reiterated that the British government has a continued desire to see that
China maintains Hong Kong's democratic political mechanism following the
return of the British colonial enclave to China in July 1997.

McLaren said, "The 'through train' remains a very important requirement for
the British side."

The "through train" refers to Hong Kong government officials and government
mechanisms that will carry over after 1997, he said.

The ambassador said that for technical reasons, the dates of the fifth round
of talks, to be held in Hong Kong, had not been set.

The ambassador said the fourth round of talks were held in a "normal"
atmosphere, with both sides discussing a range of topics.

Late last April, China and Britain began the talks to focus on arrangements
for the 1994-1995 elections in Hong Kong.

A row over Hong Kong began last October when Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten
proposed political reforms that would allow the public to elect a majority
of their legislators in 1995 for the first time since Britain annexed the
colony in 1842.

China has furiously reacted to what it calls a violation of the 1984
agreement between the two countries, which laid the ground for the return of
Hong Kong to China in 1997.

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4. Chinese Basketball Team Crushes U.S. Side ............................ 28
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 05/29/93

BEIJING -- A taller and quicker Chinese national basketball team dominated
an upstart group of ex-NBA players in every aspect of the game last night at
Beijing's Capital Gymnasium for a resounding 114-94 victory.

The well-prepared Chinese team, performing before a national television
audience, came out shooting to take a 24-11 lead in the early going with
marksman Liu Yudong hitting four quick jumpers from different parts of the
court.

Team America, not to be confused with the "Dream Team" that won basketball
gold in Barcelona, were outpaced all night by a fast Chinese team that took
an 88-66 lead at halftime.

During the second half, the U.S. team, led by former Houston Rocket Lewis
Lloyd, could get no closer than 17 points and trailed by as much as 28, much
to the disappointment of the crowd, which was hoping to see an Olympic-style
performance.

China's 2.2-meter center, Song Tao, dominated inside play both offensively
and defensively throughout the second half, as the much smaller American
players continued to pound the ball inside to little avail and failed to hit
much of anything from outside three meters.

China, Asia's best national team, has always been rich in talent, but
previously seemed to lack confidence when playing European and U.S. teams.

Two more games between the two teams are scheduled to be played in Shanghai
and Guangzhou.

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5. May 30, 1989: Statue of Goddess of Democracy Erected
                 on TianAnMen Square .................................... 85
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Source: Compiled by Zuofeng Li from The Boston Globe, The Christian Science
        Monitor, and The New York Times, May 30, 1989

BEIJING - In a demonstration that seemed momentarily to breathe new life
into China's faltering democracy movement, protesters started at midnight to
assemble a gleaming white replica of the Statue of Liberty in Tiananmen
Square. More than 100,000 demonstrators and sympathetic onlookers cheered.

It seemed like a misplaced Fourth of July celebration as students from the
Beijing Art Institute carried the statue in three pieces into the huge
plaza.

The procession weaved its way to a point midway between the Monument to the
Heroes of the Revolution and the gigantic portrait of Chairman Mao hanging
from the Gate of Heavenly Peace.

Fireworks streaked through the air, exploding in bright flashes above the
emotional throngs. A few Chinese wept openly; others chanted exuberant
slogans calling for free speech and other political rights.

Some of the Chinese demonstrators seemed a bit unclear about the identity of
the statue.  "I don't know who she is, but she is very beautiful," said Ming
Liang, 23, a volunteer nurse at one of the first aid stations scattered on
the square.

Last night, plainclothes police could be seen observing the activities in
the square from the rooftops of surrounding government buildings. Rumors
swept among the demonstrators that a military crackdown was imminent.

If and when the soldiers come, they will have difficulty removing the Lady
Liberty statue. The students are affixing its base to the pavement with
concrete and bolts. The image appeared to be constructed of plaster of Paris
on a wire frame.

"There is no way the government can come out of this one looking good," one
observer said this morning. "Can you imagine the TV pictures and news photos
of People's Army soldiers smashing down the Statue of Liberty?"

For the first time in years, propaganda loudspeakers boomed out today over
the low-slung houses and orange-tiled imperial monuments of Beijing, all but
submerging with the sheer power of sonic amplification the lesser
loudspeaker belonging to pro-democracy protesters.

The Government's high-decibel message urges the demonstrators to withdraw
from the square. It repeats in thunderously syrupy tones what the newspapers
have been saying lately - that the student protesters are motivated by
laudable patriotic sentiments.

The students camped out in Tiananmen Square were trying their best to keep
up their end of the loudspeaker competition, broadcasting their own
messages.

But for the most part, the superior amplitude of the Government's
loudspeakers seemed a not-very-subtle emblem of the balance of forces
emerging in the confrontation between student protesters and the Communist
authorities of China. Two weeks ago, when a million people took to the
streets to prevent the army from entering Beijing to enforce martial law, it
seemed as if "people power" was winning.

But now, like a giant kicked in the stomach, the vast and powerful Chinese
state, with its total control of the propaganda apparatus, has regained its
breath, showing that, if it cannot persuade the students to give up their
pro-democracy demonstrations, it can at least shout them down.

Conservative leaders in the past week have launched a broad effort to snuff
out support for the student movement and its liberal aims through stricter
press controls, intimidation, and an effort to renew a "united front."

In a clear reversal by a chief supporter of the student movement, National
People's Congress leader Wan Li said Sunday that conspirators have taken
"advantage of the student movement to create turmoil deliberately in an
attempt to overthrow the leadership of the Communist Party and to change the
socialist system.

Several intellectuals and journalists who support the movement say they fear
the measures may lead to a crackdown against China's potent pro-democracy
movement.

Although harsh, a campaign against the liberal movement is unlikely to be as
severe as similar party efforts against dissent since 1949, according to
Chinese intellectuals and journalists.

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6. Reader's Comment on CND Tiananmen Event Series Report ................ 39
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>From: A CND Reader <[email-masked]>
[Name and address consealed at reader's request - editor]

Dear Mr. Editor:

Please do not send the so-called Tiananmen Events  memories to me. I feel
sick for reading that. I disgust at using Tiananmen  Event as an ace for
individual political benefit.

That is over for a long time. I think we shall learn to forget something
and start a new progress. Please leave that to the following, whether it was
right or not, the following will make their judgement.

As a militant attender in this movement and an absolute patriotic chinese, I
found that I WAS cheated and my emotion was manipulated by somebody. This
feeling became strong and strong especially after I came the States. Those
persons I paid great respect during the Movement are using this as a step
or means to seek their own political greediness. In order to get their
personal dirty goal, they sacrifice the benefit of 1 billion Chinese to
beg the limited right to stay in the States. What they want is not a strong
china in this world. They dress in the democracy and undermine the
development of home land. What they have done? Did they help to build up a
university to get education to our brothers and sisters? Did they introduce
our country to the American and help them to understand our chinese? Did
they unite to seek a trade benefit from the developed countries in order to
promote our country development?.... No. They did NOTHING. They became a
political BEGGAR!

Four years washed my naive feelings. I think we shall rethink what we have
done to our own country during that movement, not what the country had done
for us. To rethink a deed sometimes is helpful for us to become more wise.

More important is that we shall unite and seek how to help our people in
homeland to build our country. A strong china I think is good for you as
well as me, don't you think so?

I appreciate your effort to maintain this CND editing. Here I should say
from the bottom of my heart, thank you all!  I hope that in future we shall
use this facilities to enlarge our Chinese communication, and discuss how
to serve for our homeland, even though many of us will stay here in future.

Thank you for your patience of reading this.

Yours sincerely,

[Editor's Reply: As was presented in the "Editor's Note" in May 28's issue
of CND-Global, the CND June 4 Special Series of reports are dedicated to the
victims of the Beijing Massacre of 1989, rather than to the service of any
particular political interest. While we agree with the reader on the need
for looking forward, we also feel that the historical facts of June 4 should
never be forgotten.]

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7. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan #19 (zk9305a) .............20
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Source: CND Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board <[email-masked]>

                        Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan
                   (Supplement to CND Chinese Magazine)
                            Special Issue #19

                         "June 4th Memorial (I)"

                               May 30, 1993

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                       Table of Contents (zk9305a)
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 1. Poems from the Green Island Jail (three pieces) ................ Bo Yang
 2. A Bill of Indictment .......................................... Liu Gang
 3. My Emergent Appeal ............................................ Liu Gang
 4. The Present Condition of Liu Gang ............................. Liu Ming
 5. A Statement on Hunger Strike ............................... Wang Juntao
 6. Medical Certificates of WANG Juntao .................... (two hospitals)
 7. A Request for Proper Medical Treatment for Wang Juntao..... Hou Xiaotian
 8. The Arrest of Six Poets in Sichuan ............................. Li Ming
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