Subject: Liu Cheng's report on MFN survey result (re-post as requested)

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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 13:11:26 -0500 (CDT)

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 19:00:43 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Cheng Liu)
Subject: Survey result (fwd)
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Dear fellow council members:
	I am here forwarding the survey data that collected by a joint
effort between council and newcomer committee. In this data a clear message is
being sent about the opinion of students community towards the issue of MFN.
	We all know that the MFN issue is a very important issue that will
affect the fate of US-China relationship for many years to come, and
the fate of China as a nation and Chinese as a collection of different
related races, the fate of China for her cultural and economical revival
under this historical moment. We should be extremely cautious in making
any decisions, if we think we still have interest and responsibility.
	Earlier on, the HQ of this organization had a testmony on capital
hill restated  the support of this organization in attaching condition
to MFN. No discussion and study had been done before that. Since the
global political and economical climate had been changed greatly, the
council, majerity of its members and many activists that involved felt that
there was need for us to have a opinion survey base on which a IFCSS
policy can be established. At the same time we are extremely disappointed by
the HQ in its way of handling important issue. 
	Now, the survey data showed us that the opinion of students toward
the MFN are not only devided, and majerity students do not think attaching
condition is a effective way that can solve the human right problem. In a
question about should the MFN be unlinked from human right the answer of
yes/no/no comment is 300/57/44. This indicated after one year of
condition attachment, people tends to realized that this is not a very
effective way to press China government to change its human right
condition. Almost all participant agree that unconditional will stimulate
the economic growth. Although only less than 10% people think
unconditional MFN will lead to a relaxed political environment in China.
32% people think this will give China a chance to focus on economy, and 40%
participants think this will eventually lead to political changes.
"Eventually political changes can not be ignored when economical development
prevailed".
	Based on these statistics, I think it is a time that IFCSS need to
reassesing its position on the issue of MFN if we still claim that this
organization is representing the student community. As much as we all hope 
the human right condition will be changed in china, we need to think more
about what way to take that will bring about changes most effectively. 
Having thes data at hand, I think we should make it known that the members
of IFCSS have a devided opinion towards MFN, which is much more incline to
favoring unlink the MFN from human right issue rather then attaching
conditions. Towords this end, I propose a joint announcement of IFCSS
council members to clarify this issue to the public. 

                                                 Cheng Liu

 > 
> ----------survey begin----------
> 
> 1.   How many years have you lived in U.S.? 
> ( )     a) less than 1 year;
> ( )     b) 1-4 years;
> ( )     c) more than 4 years.
> 
> 2.   Did you participate 1989 pro-democracy movements?
> ( )     a) yes;
> ( )        a1) in U.S.;
> ( )        a2) in China;
> ( )        a3) other than U.S. and China;
> ( )     b) no;
> ( )     c) no comments.
> 
> 3.   Is there any improvement of China's human rights records since then?
> ( )     a) yes;
> ( )        a1) Chinese people have more choice on commodities with full
>                financial resource;
> ( )        a2) Chinese people can emigrate from place to place for living;
> ( )        a3) political prisoners get fair treatment:
> ( )        a4) Chinese people can get external information through foreign
>                radio station's broadcasting;
> ( )     b) no;
> ( )        b1) wage increase be offset by inflation;
> ( )        b2) Chinese government will repatriate emigrants;
> ( )        b3) political prisoners cannot get necessary treatment;
> ( )        b4) Chinese government still try to jam the signals of foreign 
>                radio station
> ( )     c) no comments.
> 
> 4.   How do you think the strategies of the United States on China's MFN
>      status?
> ( )     a) try to solve its trade deficit problem;
> ( )     b) use it as a big leverage to press China to improve its human 
>            rights records;
> ( )     c) try to find a way to cut the linkage between MFN and human 
>            rights issue;
> ( )     d) don't know.
> 
> 5.   If the United States separate MFN with human rights issue, how do
>      you think the responses of Chinese government?
> ( )     a) focus on economic growth;
> ( )     b) relax political control while strngthen economic reform;
> ( )     c) couldn't ignore political reform when market economy prevail;
> ( )     d) no comments.
> 
> 6.   Should U.S. government separate MFN with human rights records and
>      help China's economic reform as well as its political reform?
> ( )     a) yes;
> ( )        a1) send experts to China and teach them market economy;
> ( )        a2) help China to set up a relatively independent central bank
>                to control inflation;
> ( )        a3) help China to establish a relatively independent legislative
>                system;
> ( )        a4) relax export control to China on high tech products for 
>                the purpose of scientific research;
> ( )     b) no;  
> ( )        b1) there's no such a specific budget to send experts to China;   
> ( )        b2) it's a treamendous job to overhaul China's banking system 
>                in a short period;
> ( )        b3) there's no feasible way to train a large amount of Chinese
>                government's functionaries for the operations of the proposed
>                relatively independent lagislative system;
> ( )        b4) for strategic reason, U.S. couldn't export specific 
>                scientific equipment to China;
> ( )     c) no comments.
> 
> 7.   In you opinion, which strategy is better to bring China a prosperous
>      and democratic period?
> ( )     a) solve human rights knot first;
> ( )     b) going through the self-learning process under the structure of 
>            socialist market economy [elementary period];
> ( )     c) professionalize the operation of Chinese government under the
>            conditional MFN;
> ( )     d) set up a complete market economy machanism under the unconditionl 
>            MFN;
> ( )     e) don't know.
> 
> ----------survey end----------
> 
>  * * * THE RESULT OF THE SURVEY ON MFN * * *
> 
> 
>  QUESTION 1:
> 	Total valid answers : 415
> 	a) -- 12, 2pct
> 	b) -- 243, 58pct
>         c) -- 160, 38pct
>  QUESTION 2:
> 	Total valid answers : 416
>         a) -- 309, 74pct
>         	a1) -- 83, 19pct
>                 a2) -- 210, 50pct
>                 a3) -- 7, 1pct
>         b) -- 40, 9pct
>         c) -- 67, 16pct
>  QUESTION 3:
> 	Total valid answers : 369
>         a) -- 250, 67pct
>                 a1) -- 207, 56pct
>                 a2) -- 134, 36pct
>                 a3) -- 46, 12pct
>                 a4) -- 122, 33pct
>         b) -- 69, 18pct
>                 b1) -- 28, 7pct
>                 b2) -- 12, 3pct
>                 b3) -- 47, 12pct
>                 b4) -- 42, 11pct
>         c) -- 50, 13pct
>  QUESTION 4:
> 	Total valid answers : 411
>         a) -- 175, 42pct
>         b) -- 143, 34pct
>         c) -- 81, 19pct
>         d) -- 76, 18pct
>  QUESTION 5:
> 	Total valid answers : 413
>         a) -- 168, 40pct
>         b) -- 72, 17pct
>         c) -- 201, 48pct
>         d) -- 70, 16pct
>  QUESTION 6:
> 	Total valid answers : 398
>         a) -- 300, 75pct
>                 a1) -- 110, 27pct
>                 a2) -- 137, 34pct
>                 a3) -- 129, 32pct
>                 a4) -- 216, 54pct
>         b) -- 57, 14pct
>                 b1) -- 7, 1pct
>                 b2) -- 7, 1pct
>                 b3) -- 17, 4pct
>                 b4) -- 7, 1pct
>         c) -- 44, 11pct
>  QUESTION 7:
> 	Total valid answers : 410
>         a) -- 26, 6pct
>         b) -- 137, 33pct
>         c) -- 58, 14pct
>         d) -- 196, 47pct
>         e) -- 53, 12pct
> 
>

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From: Songlin Ren <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 15:19:17 GMT

The issue of relation of US and China is very important, we should have a
discussion section of it in 6da. The MFN survey result is not an accurate
measuerment of the views of CCS. We don't how many % of CSS is on the
net. 

Songlin