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Subject: China News Digest (Global), Fri, 10/9/1992
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:47:19 GMT
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                        Friday, October 9, 1992


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1. News Brief (4 Items) .................................................34
2. 90% of Chinese People Polled Demand Japanese Emperor's Apology .......44
3. China Will Not Buy Ukraine Aircraft Carrier ..........................54
4. Beijing Disturbed by Plan for More Democracy in Hong Kong ............26
5. Bank of China Becomes a Member of Singapore Monetary Exchange ........40
6. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #80 (cm9210b) .................... 23
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1. News Brief (4 Items) .................................................34
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[DJ, 10/8/92] BEIJING -- A chartered plane crashed Thursday in northwest
China, killing 13 people and injuring four, the state-run Xinhua News
Agency reported. European, Taiwanese and Chinese tourists were aboard the
plane. Xinhua said the Wuhan Airline plane, carrying 28 passengers and a
crew of seven, crashed at Huajia in northwest China's Gansu province. The
plane was en route from the Gansu capital of Lanzhou to the neighboring
province of Shaanxi. The brief report didn't give information on
survivors, type of plane or cause of the crash, which Xinhua said was
under investigation. It said the passengers included 11 people from
Taiwan, 14 from Western Europe and three Chinese. The report didn't give
the nationalities of the dead and injured. (From: Liu Jian)

[Japan Economic Newswire, 10/8/92] BEIJING -- North Korean Ambassador to
China Chu Chang Jun said Thursday he has heard nothing about a reported
visit by President Kim Il Sung to Beijing late this month. (From: Liu Jian)

[Japan Economic Newswire, 10/8/9]  JAKARTA -- Indonesian armed forces chief
Gen. Try Sutrisno left for Beijing on Thursday for a five-day visit to
China. This will be the first visit by Indonesia's top military officer
since Indonesia and China normalized diplomatic ties in August 1990, 23
years after relations were severed. The Indonesian delegation will meet
with leaders of China's Defense Ministry and People's Liberation Army as
well as visit military sites. (From: Liu Jian)

[Japan Economic Newswire, 10/6/92] ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Prime Minister
Mohammad Nawaz Sharif left Tuesday for Beijing for a five-day official
visit at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Peng. A recent official
announcement about his visit to China noted that China was supplying a 300
megawatt nuclear power plant to Pakistan and has helped the country in
establishing various defense and industrial projects which have greatly
contributed toward the self-reliance in defense production in Pakistan.
The two countries will sign a consular convention and another agreement
twinning Beijing and Islamabad as sister cities. (From: Liu Jian)

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2. 90% of Chinese People Polled Demand Japanese Emperor's Apology .......44
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From: Liu Jian
Source: Japan Economic Newswire, 10/8/92

BEIJING -- More than 90% of Chinese people surveyed want Japanese Emperor
Akihito to apologize for Japan's wartime aggression and to compensate
Chinese citizens, according to an undisclosed survey obtained by Kyodo News
Service on Thursday.

However, 73% of the survey respondents said they welcome the emperor's
planned arrival in China later this month, the report shows.

The survey conducted by the Beijing Review weekly magazine in September
covers about 1,100 Chinese citizens in Beijing and Tianjin, as well as in
such provinces as Shangdong, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang and Hunan.

Asked if the Japanese emperor should apologize for Japan's wartime
atrocities, 94% of respondents said he should do so.  Of them, 53% hoped he
would make a public apology during his October 23-28 trip to China.

A 50-year-old female engineer in Shangdong Province said an expression of
the emperor's intentions, in whatever form, would be a prerequisite for
moving bilateral relations a step further.

On the imperial trip to China, 54% of respondents said the visit will
promote friendly bilateral ties only in a general perspective, and 14%
said it will contribute little to enhancing friendship.

Seventy-six percent of the respondents said the emperor should agree on war
reparations for Chinese citizens during his stay in China, while 21% said
he should but not necessarily while in the country.

The survey also found that 93% support Chinese individuals who are seeking
compensation from Tokyo.

While 62% said the Japan-China relations have favorably expanded since the
two countries normalized diplomatic relations 20 years ago, the survey
shows that many Chinese people are concerned about Japan's hard-line
stance in political, diplomatic and military fields as it has developed
into an economic superpower.

Officials of the Beijing Review, a magazine for overseas readers, said
their reporters conducted the survey on their own and that the editorial
department had nothing to do with it, indicating the magazine is unlikely
to carry the survey results.

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3. China Will Not Buy Ukraine Aircraft Carrier ..........................54
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From: Liu Jian
Source: Japan Economic Newswire, 10/8/92

BEIJING -- Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen told a senior Japanese
politician Thursday that China will not buy an aircraft carrier from
Ukraine.

Qian gave the assurance during a meeting with Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, a former
transport minister and currently a faction leader in the governing Liberal
Democratic Party, Japanese officials said.

Mitsuzuka suggested that the purchase of the carrier would heighten
tensions in the Asian region.

It is the first official acknowledgement by a senior Chinese official that
China has abandoned its purchase of the carrier since a Russian government
source hinted in mid-August that China had virtually given up on the
purchase because of difficulties over supplying needed equipment for the
carrier from Russia.

A military intelligence source in Hong Kong said in mid-August that China
had planned to deploy the carrier by 1994 in an attempt to boost its
territorial claim over the Spratly Islands chain in the South China Sea.

China reportedly planned to buy the 67,500-ton Kuznetsov-class "Varyag"
aircraft carrier currently under construction at the Nikolayev South
shipyard on the Black Sea.

Construction came to a standstill, however, as a dispute over dividing the
former Soviet Black Sea fleet intensified between Russia and Ukraine in the
wake of the demise of the Soviet Union.

Mitsuzuka also met Thursday with Vice Premier Wu Xueqian.  Wu told
Mitsuzuka that China is devoting "scrupulous attention" to preparations
for the October 23-28 visit to China by Japanese Emperor Akihito and
Empress Michiko.

It will be the first imperial visit to China in the lengthy history of
Sino-Japanese relations.

Mitsuzuka urged China to release those jailed after the 1989 military
crackdown on the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the
officials said.

Mitsuzuka told Qian he would like to see China "take appropriate measures"
on the prisoners so that China can assume a leading position in the
international community.

Qian answered that no one was in prison just for participating in the
Tiananmen Square demonstrations and that there was fair treatment for those
who committed crimes, Japanese officials said.

Mitsuzuka also gained an assurance from Qian that China would cooperate in
the establishment of a shorter direct air route between Beijing and Tokyo
over Seoul following the normalization of relations between China and
South Korea.

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4. Beijing Disturbed by Plan for More Democracy in Hong Kong ............26
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From: Liu Jian
Source: Dow Jones International News, 10/8/92

BEIJING -- The Chinese government said Thursday it is deeply disturbed by
Hong Kong Gov. Chris Patten"s proposal to make the British colony more
democratic before handing it back to China in 1997.

Patten proposed lowering the voting age, increasing the public role in
electing legislators and other changes in order to give Hong Kong residents
more say in their government before coming under Communist rule.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin said the proposed changes
were obviously "inconsistent with the provisions and spirit of the
Sino-British Joint Declaration," under which Britain agreed to return the
tiny enclave it seized 150 years ago from the crumbling Chinese empire.

"They will surely present obstacles to Hong Kong's smooth transition and
transfer of government," Wu told a news conference.

The first direct elections in the colony's history were held only in 1991,
for 18 of the legislature's 60 seats. The rest of the seats are filled by
government appointees or special interest groups.

Wu said China hoped the disagreement could be settled through consultation.
The British Embassy said China did not lodge any protest with them over
Patten's proposals, which were made in a speech Wednesday.

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5. Bank of China Becomes a Member of Singapore Monetary Exchange ........40
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From: Liu Jian
Source: Japan Economic Newswire, 10/7/92

SINGAPORE -- The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) said
Wednesday it has granted in-principle approval to the Bank of China to
become a corporate nonclearing member, marking the Chinese bank's first
membership of a financial futures exchange.

SIMEX said the bank's entry will help the exchange tap the vast and fast
growing Chinese market, while the bank sees its membership of the exchange
as an opportunity to gain more experience in futures trading.

The bank is the first financial institution from China to become a SIMEX
corporate member.  As a nonclearing corporate member, the bank will be
allowed full trading rights but without the authority to clear trades.

The bank's admission "marks an important step in the development of
business relations between SIMEX and China," SIMEX said.

It "will facilitate the exchange's plans to tap the potentially large pool
of business arising from the rapid expansion of the economic and financial
market activities in China," it added.

Yang Huiqiu, the bank's deputy chairman and executive vice president, said
the bank chose SIMEX because of its importance in the global financial
network and the close ties between China and Singapore.

"Through SIMEX we hope to broaden our expertise in futures trading and
prepare ourselves for increased activities in the derivatives market," he
said.

On the benefits for the exchange, SIMEX President Ang Swee Tian said that
the bank's admission "not only diversifies even further our international
membership but also allows us a wider perspective in the development of our
futures business."

SIMEX has 32 corporate nonclearing members, including the new entrant.

The exchange is one of the world's most dynamic, and its trading volumes
have been surging since its formation in 1984.

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6. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #80 (cm9210b) .................... 23
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From: CND Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board < cnd-cm@sdsc.edu >

                           Hua Xia Wen Zhai
                        (CND Chinese Magazine)
                              Issue #80
                            October 9, 1992

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1. Inside China: Children and "Diseases".......................Wang Bing
2. Around the World: VOA in China................................Xiao Du
3. Poem: Losing Control..................................Jacques Prevent
4. Travel: Impression of Taiwan.............................Wu Fangcheng
5. Essay: I Love Mountain Tai................................Wang Zengqi
6. Humor: Turtles and Rider........................................Yu Fu
7. "We" (Wo Men): Loneliness....................................Zhao Tai
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