+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ===================== Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP) ===================== April 14, 1990 ---------------------------- Table of Contents --------------------------- No. Subject # of Lines 1. Long Live June 3.....................................................20 2. (KYODO) Japan Poised To Unfreeze Loan To China.......................40 3. Call Attention: China's Problems In Education And Environment --- A Note to CND Editors and Concerned People.....................48 4. News Abstracts Of This Week (Ten Pieces) (Mainland China: 6; Taiwan: 1; HK: 1; Europe: 1; Asia: 1)............90 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** To contact CND-EP, see the table at the end of this news package **** Editor/Sender's Note: Due to so-far-unknown problem of network and/or our From: mailing center computer, some of you received two Bo Xiong even three copies of last CND-EP package, I am trying For CND-EP to find/fix the problem, sorry for the inconvenience. 1. Long Live June 3 ==================================================================(20 lines) A Student in Canada, April 13, 90 Source: condensed from TIME, April, 1990 Provided by CND-Canada These days no detail of resistance is too small for China's hard- line leadership to crush, despite the lifting of martial law. The campaign of repression that followed the Tiananmen massacre con- tinues unabated, as authorities attempt to roll back all vestiges of "bourgeois liberalization." But the picture is not entirely bleak. Try as they may, the authorities have not managed to tri- umph completely. A government survey of university students late last year found that only 20% endorsed the views of the Communist Party. "The students are defiantly cynical," says an instructor. "When they heard they were not supposed to smile during Qingming, they laughed uproariously." And miles away from Tiananmen Square, beneath Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge, anonymous protesters managed to pay tribute to the brief freedom of last summer. On the dry riverbed they arranged hundreds of pebbles to spell out LONG LIVE JUNE 3. The slogan honored citizens who gathered on that night last year in a courageous attempt to stop the tanks from rolling into the great square. CND-Canada editor: Chi Bo ============================================================================ 2. (KYODO) Japan Poised To Unfree Loan To China ===================================================================(40 lines) >From: CHENH%ROSE.DECNET@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Source: soc.culture.china Date: 11 Apr 90 18:42:17 GMT TOKYO, April 11 Kyodo - Japan may soon release part of an 830 billion yen loan package to China which has been withheld since the military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing last June, several government officials indicated. Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu told the Diet he hopes that conditions will soon be right for resuming ''humanitarian'' aid to Beijing. ''China must not be isolated. I intend to work hard to realize a positive environment in which untied humanitarian aid can be resumed,'' Kaifu told a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee. Chief Cabinet Secretary Misoji Sakamoto suggested at a regularly scheduled news conference that Japan would decide on the move after consulting with other major donor nations at the July economic summit in Houston, Texas. Talks on the new five-year loan package were suspended last year after major Western aid donors agreed to freeze high-level contacts and economic assistance to China to protest the military action in Tiananmen Square. Senior government officials from the seven summit nations are already meeting behind the scenes, a high-level government source said. The summit countries are Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and West Germany. The source said ''earlier is better'' for implementing the loan package, due to take effect this year, ''but we will observe moves by each country.'' In 1988, then Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita pledged a third yen loan package planned for implementation from 1990 to 1995. The two governments recently entered preliminary talks on the credit package. Foreign Ministry spokesman Taizo Watanabe said Japan's fundamental position on resuming economic aid remains unchanged. Japan will ''proceed with caution'' on the third yen loan, weighing China's domestic situation and international conditions, he said. Japan is China's largest source of aid, accounting for some 56% of its total foreign assistance. =============================================================================== 3. Call Attention: China's Problems In Education And Environment --- A Note to CND Editors and Concerned People =================================================================(48 lines) A Student in Canada, April 13, 1990 Source: CND-Canada We Chinese students and scholars have both witnessed and experi- enced a number of fundamental mistakes such as the misleading policy of population at the early 50's and the Culture Revolution made by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). No attempt is here to review these disastrous mistakes. Rather, this note attempts to call your attention to the two calamities the CCP is bringing to our country and our people: EDUCATION and ENVIRONMENT. One des- troys our nation and another ruins our motherland. Because students were in the vanguard of the democracy movement, campuses have been the special targets of the orthodox jugger- naut. Beijing has ordered that the 564,000 students graduating this year be assigned jobs at the "grass-roots level"--in small cities and the countryside. In the meantime, the nation's 597,000 university freshmen have spent the past school year in virtual isolation from upperclassmen and faculty members considered pol- itically suspect. All 800 first-year students at Beijing Univer- sity were dispatched to an army camp for intensive military training and ideological studies. If the brainwashing continues, says a professor in Beijing, "we will see the ruin of a whole generation, which is probably the best- educated group in the country's history." Since the problems in environmental areas are directly related to the dark side of the superior socialist system, the officers and experts who are dealing with environmental problems have to keep their mouths shut. They know that 70% Chinese people have no access to clean water. They know that the air quality at Beijing is ten time worse than that at the heavy industrial capital Tokyo. They know that Chinese people risk a chance 17 times more than Canadian people to have a pollution- related disease. And they know that there are a number of dark cities in north China like BenXi city. China is not an industrialized country yet but suffers industrial pollution no less than those developed coun- tries. No cash is the excuse from the CCP government as the same excuse made for education. However, a Chinese environmental expert predicts that we will have no choice after a few years in dealing with the revenge from the mother nature and Chinese peo- ple will pay a big price in future just as they did for the disastrous mistakes made by CCP during 50-70's. We can do virtually nothing on these two on-going mistakes and we are once more performing the role of unfortunate witness. CND-Canada editor: Chi Bo ============================================================================= 4. News Abstracts Of This Week (Ten Pieces) ====================================================================(90 lines) 1) Chinese Dissident Wang Chaohua Flees China --------------------------------------------- >From: Young Chul KIM Source: AFP, Hong Kong, 4/12/90 Chinese dissident leader Wang Chaohua has successfully fled China while another activist, Zhou Yongjun, has been arrested by authorities, a newspaper reported here today. Wang, 38, a graduate student at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is one of two women on the list of "criminals" wanted by the Beijing authorities for their leading roles in the democracy movement crushed in June. (Editor's Note: CND has confirmed that Ms Wang is now in the US). 2) US Military Support to ROC to Continue ----------------------------------------- >From: zhiyong Voice of Freee China (4/14/90) Former US defense secretary Casper Weinberger, now publisher of Forbes, said during his visit in Taiwan this week that the US will abide by the Taiwan Relations Act and continue to support ROC militarily by providing her with advanced weapons with which the local armed forces will be able to withstand the military threat from the Chinese communists. >From: kwchan@csd.hku.hk News groups: soc.culture.china Source : South China Morning Post/Hong Kong Standard 3) Chai Ling asks Paris for asylum ---------------------------------- Paris: Chinese dissident Chai Ling, a student leader of the Beijing pro-democracy movement who arrived in France last week after nine months on the run, has asked Paris for political asylum, reliable sources said yesterday. Wu'er Kaixi, another spokesman for the Tiananmen Square protest movement crushed by Chinese tanks last June, also wants to settle in France, according to a spokesman for the Chinese pro-democracy movemtnt in Paris, Chen Lichuan. Mr Wu'er is living in the United States. 4) Troops ordered to quell ethnic riots --------------------------------------- Beijing: China has sent troops into a remote northwest border region near the Soviet Union to quell ethnic unrest among Moslem Uygurs, Chinese sources said Monday. The authorities have also closed the nearest major city to foreigners. minorities. 5) Ethnic riots hit capital of Xinjiang --------------------------------------- Muslim unrest has spread to Urumqi, capital of China's northwest Xinjiang region, following reports of ethnic rioting in other towns in which 50 to 60 people may have died, travellers said yesterday (April 11). Quoting local sources, the Western travellers said Muslims demonstrated on Tuesday in front of a local mosque to protest against reported ethnic violence last Thursday and Friday in three other Xinjiang towns. 6) Martin Lee elected to lead territory's first liberal party ------------------------------------------------------------- Outspoken legislator Martin Lee was yesterday elected the chairman of Hongkong's first liberal party, the United Democrats of Hongkong. The party will work for the faithful implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration and a high degree of autonomy for Hongkong after 1997, the declaration said. It emphasised the organisation's roots in Hongkong. 7) Unemployment on the increase ------------------------------- China's workforce declined by 1.5 million in the first two months of 1990, with smaller collective firms showing the largest loss of workers, an official daily paper said yesterday. 8) 11 writers arrested in raid on dissident poets' society ---------------------------------------------------------- Police in southwest China have raided an underground poets' society, arresting 11 writters in a crackdown on dissident publications, informed Chinese sources said yesterday. 9) Police poorly equipped to quell protests ------------------------------------------- Beijing: The heavy deployment of rifle-toting police in the capital this week indicates that the Chinese authorities still do not have proper anti-riot gear to deal with possible demonstrations. Premier Li Peng, after the army's bloody intervention in Beijing on June 4, justified the use of tanks and AK-47s against the unarmed crowd by saying police lacked proper anti-riot gear, notably teargas and rubber bullets. 10) Multi-party System In Nepal ------------------------------- >From: mr. yawei 8-APR-1990 23:19:45.14 The King of Nepal announced Sunday the establishment of a multiparty system in his Himalayan kingdom on the Western border of China. The move follows 7 weeks of pro-democracy protests and crackdowns, culminated in last Friday's crackdown over a general strike in which 200 people were reportedly killed. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Editor/Sender of this Issue: Bo Xiong in Chicago, U. S. 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