Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) Survey Result ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This survey was initiated by IFCSS New Comers Working Committee and was endorsed by IFCSS 5th term Council Survey & Information Committee. It has been submitted to IFCSS HQ and IFCSS Council for reference. We hope that IFCSS should be cautious when deal with such a sensitive issue in the near future. The survey began from 3:00 p.m. CST, March 2nd, 1994, concluded by 0:00 a.m. CST, March 13th, 1994. There are total 460 entries during the survey period. Double entries, pure comments, wrong answer sheet and self-written answers are invalid. For question 4, 5 and 7, some responses checked more than one choice. This result will be archived in ifcss.org under directory /ifcss/ncomers/MFN_Survey_Result IFCSS New Comers Working Committee 1. How many years have you lived in U.S.? ( ) a) less than 1 year; ( ) b) 1-4 years; ( ) c) more than 4 years. Total valid answers : 415 a) -- 12, 2pct b) -- 243, 58pct c) -- 160, 38pct 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. Total valid answers : 416 a) -- 309, 74pct a1) -- 83, 19pct a2) -- 210, 50pct a3) -- 7, 1pct b) -- 40, 9pct c) -- 67, 16pct 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. 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 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. Total valid answers : 411 a) -- 175, 42pct b) -- 143, 34pct c) -- 81, 19pct d) -- 76, 18pct 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 strengthen economic reform; ( ) c) couldn't ignore political reform when market economy prevail; ( ) d) no comments. Total valid answers : 413 a) -- 168, 40pct b) -- 72, 17pct c) -- 201, 48pct d) -- 70, 16pct 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 tremendous 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 legislative system; ( ) b4) for strategic reason, U.S. couldn't export specific scientific equipment to China; ( ) c) no comments. 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 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 mechanism under the unconditional MFN; ( ) e) don't know. Total valid answers : 410 a) -- 26, 6pct b) -- 137, 33pct c) -- 58, 14pct d) -- 196, 47pct e) -- 53, 12pct