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              * * *  C H I N A   N E W S   D I G E S T  * * *

                          (CND-Canada Service)

                             Nov. 5, 1992

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1. Wang Ruowang Optimistic on China's Democracy ........................68
2. Three Hong Kong Student Leaders Charged for Demonstrating
   in Front of Xinhua Building .........................................31
3. Group of Stranded Chinese Begin Hunger Strike, Hope to Go to U.S. .. 29
4. Ming Pao's Interview with Prof. Wu Da-You
   on His Mainland Visit (Part 2) .....................................123
5. UBC CSSA Is Arranging China Tours ...................................11
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1. Wang Ruowang optimistic on China's democracy ........................68
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From:    YUAN LIU
Source: The Gazette (MTL), Mon., Nov. 2, 1992
By: Alexander Norris

China's hard-line Communist leadership is on its last legs and a single,
dramatic event could spark its downfall at any moment, a leading Chinese
dissident says.

Wang Ruo-wang, 74, a writer and former longtime member of the Chinese
Communist Party expelled twice from the party for his liberal views, said
many key segments of modern Chinese society deeply oppose the rigid social
control imposed by the Beijing regime.

One single, major incident -- perhaps the death of Deng Xiaoping, 88,
China's paramount leader -- could easily galvanize those groups into
bringing down the government, Wang said.

"Any incident in China could ignite the fire just like a spark ignite
a fire in the prairie," he said in a Montreal interview Friday.

"It could come at any moment."

The day Deng "goes to see Marx will probably be the day of the explosion,"
Wang added, speaking through a translator.

Wang, who was imprisoned in 1989 for 14 months for his role in the pro-
democracy movement, was allowed to leave China for the first time in
August.

He said four key forces in Chinese society oppose the regime:

* Owners of businesses that have sprung up in southern and coastal China
as a result of market-orientated economic reforms.
* An additional one million entrepreneurs who now run small businesses
in rural China.
* Open-minded party members and leaders who are unsatisfied with communism
and who sympathize with the people.
* The vast majority of Chinese intellectuals.

Many of these groups are growing, he said, because of Deng's attempts to
build a socialist China with a Communist dictatorship and a capitalist
economy.  Such attempts are bound to fail because of their irrevocable
contradictions, Wang said.

In the meantime, he added, overseas pro-democracy activists and the
Taiwanese government, which he said has begun democratic reforms,
provide support for the internal opposition.

He describe changes in party leadership at last month's party congress
as superficial.

All the same, he said, "there has been some loosening up" in censorship
by authorities since they crushed the pro-reform demonstrations in
Tiananmen Square in 1989 -- even though at least 300 participants remain
in jail.

He cited the permission granted by authorities to students who circulated
a petition demanding reparations for World War II abuses during a recent
visit by the Japanese emperor, and the publication of a book this year by
a Beijing university in which leading dissidents harshly criticized
party hard-linders.

Wang, now a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York, said
he was visiting pro-democracy activists in Montreal "so I can compensate
for what I lost while I was isolated in China."

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2. Three Hong Kong Student Leaders Charged for Demonstrating
   in Front of Xinhua Building .......................................... 31
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From: Hong Kong Federation of Students <H8811377@hkucc.hku.hk>
Source: China-Net, 10/29/92

Three former student leaders charged with unlawful assembly outside the New
China News Agency (NCNA) in June pleaded not guilty at Eastern Magistracy at
28 October 1992.

To Kwan-hang, a Wong Tai Sin District Board member, Tsoi Yiu-cheong, an
assistant to Legislative Councillor Mr Lau Chin-shek, and Wong Ching-man, a
final year comparative literature student at HKU - were jointly charged
under Section 18(1) & (3) of the Public Order Ordinance about unlawful
assembly on 5 June outside the NCNA. They are also former secretary-generals
of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS). The offense allegedly
happened following a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the
June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing.

In a packed courtroom, Magistrate Mr Michael Hill agreed that on March 1,
the defense will argue that the three defendants have the right of peaceful
assembly under Article 17 of the Bill of Rights in HK. The trial would
proceed immediately if the defense lost the argument.

Meanwhile, about 100 supporters from more than 10 political and pro-
democracy groups, student organizations and the three accused, To, Tsoi and
Wong chanted slogans and pledged support outside the court. They demanded
that the police drop the charge against the accused. They also demanded that
the Government review the Public Order Ordinance and abolish the "sterile
area" outside NCNA that is off-limits to demonstrators.

In addition, a whole page advertisement have been post in Ming Pao at 27
October 1992. About 70 organizations and 400 individual have joined this
"Joint Signature Campaign."

Please direct any queries to Fax (852) 7873120 or by E-mail
<H8811377@HKUCC.HKU.HK>.

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3. Group of Stranded Chinese Begin Hunger Strike, Hope to Go to U.S. .... 29
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: Japan Economic Newswire, 10/26 - 10/28

YOKOHAMA -- All 142 Chinese people aboard a disabled Taiwanese fishing boat
say they hope to go to the United States, Japanese Maritime Safety Agency
officials said Monday.

The 186-ton ship developed engine trouble last Friday in the Pacific Ocean
about 570 kilometers south of Cape Nojimazaki, Chiba Prefecture, and was
escorted by a Japanese fishing boat to Yokohama Port on Sunday.

The passengers, including 17 women, said they are from China's Fujian
Province and were on their way to the U.S., the officials said.

The officials added that they suspect the group left China illegally because
only two of the people had passports.

On Oct. 28, the group have begun a hunger strike to protest against their
treatment, Maritime Safety Agency officials said.

Agency officials said the group, which includes 17 women, accepted food
packages given to them after berthing at Yokohama port on Sunday but
suddenly stopped taking meals from dinner time on Tuesday.

The group members are being confined to their boat without access to bathing
facilities while the Justice and Foreign ministries try to decide how to
deal with the case.  Since they have not illegally entered Japan, they have
not infringed immigration regulations.

Officials said they were given assistance because their boat was in trouble,
but said the case is difficult to handle because it does not come within
Japanese jurisdiction.

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4. Ming Pao's Interview with Prof. Wu Da-You
   on His Mainland Visit (Part 2) ...................................... 123
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From: Feng, Da Hsuan <FENG@DUVM.BITNET>
Source: Ming Pao via AEIC net, Oct. 18, 1992. Excerpted by CND

(Continued from Oct. 25's CND-US)

MAINLAND SURPASSES TAIWAN IN HI TECH

After Mao died, Mr. TD Lee got the support from Deng Xiaoping.  Recently,
mainland turned out highly precise products. Shanghai makes a kind of
crystal used for high energy accelerator, which has such a good quality and
has monopolized the world market.  Mainland is lagging behind Taiwan in
turning scientific achievements into commercial products that make money.
Japan is a country with no striking achievements in basic science, but it is
good in taking the advantages of scientific breakthrough made by other
countries and turning them into industrial products. Not until 1963 did
Japanese start to produce computers, however, they caught up IBM in a very
short time.  The problem of mainland does not lie in its capacity of science
and technology, but rather its economic system. Without a change of its
system, it will be hard for mainland to make a lead in the world market.

Mainland has never ignored the applied science. It has reached a very high
level in military industry. Recently, while a satellite was being launched
in Xichang, something suddenly went wrong.  Instead of blowing it up,
mainland scientists were able to stop it. The Americans were shocked by the
performance.  As soon as I took off the plane from mainland trip, reporters
kept asking me my impression about the mainland. I said that mainland is
leading ahead in high technology. In private occasion, some people expressed
their unhappiness about my judgement. But, what I said is true.  Mainland
has never stressed on theory, and neglect the applied science. What it
lacks is the business management, and it simply doesn't have that kind of
system.

PRESIDENT LEE TENGHUI SUPPORT

Why should I go to mainland this time? There is a story. Since 1990, Chinese
mainland and the United States have been discussing the possibilities of a
symposium on SSC. America and mainland, as the joint sponsors, invited south
east countries to be initiators. In spite of my unlikeliness to go to
Beijing, I still accepted the offer. Otherwise, there would be no place for
Taiwan in the conference.

This spring the invitation came. Instead of submitting the written request,
I discussed the issue with Mr. Jiang Yanshi-- secretary general of the
Presidential Office. It would be embarrassing for me if the request was
turned down. On the other hand, it would violate a long-held policy if my
request got formally approved. I just wanted the thing to go the way it was.
Mr. Jiang Yanshi met President Lee and Prime Minister Hao on one occasion.
Both of them agreed with my visit to mainland.  afterwards, the Presidential
Office sent a document to the Executive Yuan. Finally, the document reached
the Ministry of Education. Therefore, my visit to mainland was formally
ratified by the government.

>From the very beginning, neither government nor anyone gave me any
instruction, telling me how to do and what to do.  Truly, I attended the
conference as a private physicist.  After the visit from Beijing, I wrote a
report to the Presidential Office describing my experience in mainland. No
one from the government ever gave me a response.  So, when you ask me what
is the government and the public response to my trip to mainland, I just
don't know. My visit has nothing to do with Mr. Zhao. How did he go, I
really don't know.  I have already told that I went there as a private
physicist.  People in Beijing were very polite to me, not because I am the
head of Academia Sinica. They don't recognize Academia Sinica at all.

THE "IMPEACHMENT" OF WU

Zhang: But they recognize you?

Wu: Right! They tried to avoid recognizing Academia Sinica. Taiwan
government did not give any assignment. So, when people in Beijing asked me
if I want to see anyone, I answered that to avoid any trouble, it is better
not.

I have to mention one thing, though it has nothing to do with me.  There
were sixty academicians elected in 1948 left in mainland, Nine of them are
now still alive. Four years ago, Mr.Chen Shengshen proposed that the first
group of academicians elected in 1948, including those who are now in
mainland, should have a meeting.  The proposal was passed by Academia
Sinica. In 1990, we invited them to attend the meeting in Taiwan, mainland
government did not allow them to come. This year, these academicians were
invited again to visit Taiwan under my personal invitation. Government there
still refused to let them go. Academia Sinica decided to send the
invitations by mail. If unable to come, they can vote for the candidates as
new academicians by mail, or they trust someone to vote. Mr. Xie Yun (a
researcher of physics institution of Academia Sinica who accompanied Mr. Wu
to mainland) brought the invitations to Beijing. When this became public,
some legislators in Taiwan argued that T.Y. Wu has taken the ballots to
Beijing, and threatened to freeze the budget of Academia Sinica.  These
men were crazy. They can impeach T.Y. Wu, but how can they freeze the
budget of Academia Sinica? President Lee has also been attacked, since he
said that whatsoever the budget for Academia Sinica just can't be frozen.

TAIWAN NUCLEAR BOMB EFFORT

Zhang: Do you still remember that I met you here three years ago?  At the
time, we talked about whether Taiwan owns atomic bombs and whether mainland
will attack Taiwan in case that it declares independent, or some serious
turmoils happens, or foreign countries get involved in the affairs of the
island. Mr. Wu, do you still want to talk about these issues?

Wu: Taiwan has no nuclear weapons. Some years ago, a deputy director of
Zhongshan Science Institution named "Zhang" defected to American CIA. He
revealed Taiwan's effort in producing an atomic bomb. Americans were so
harsh. Mr. Chiang Ching-Guo, who was prime minister at the time, was forced
to declare publicly that our nuclear technology could only be used for
peaceful goals, and not for the military purpose. After the defection of
Zhang, the United States became even harsher. They sent people to Zhongshan
Science Institution for inspection. When Mr. Tan Junbo worked for the
institution, he insisted that Taiwan Power Plant buy heavy water to generate
electricity. Why did Mr. Tang insist in buying heavy water? That is a
critical material for making atomic bombs. Finally, heavy water was bought
from Canada.  US knew all about these. After the defection of Zhang to CIA,
Americans were so severe that they took the heavy water out of Taiwan.

I am not in the position to guess what action mainland is likely to take if
Taiwan declares independence.  Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never given
up the use of force against Taiwan. I don't think it will tolerate the
independence of Taiwan from China.  CCP will not launch nuclear strike
against Taiwan. I wrote an article before, saying that launching nuclear
attack against Taiwan will be either impractical or unnecessary.  If CCP
really wants to use force, it can simply impose the blockade, stop any
foreign plane and ship to go to the island, then, destroy our power plants
with missiles. Taiwan will be paralysed. It is completely unnecessary to
strike heavily.  Japanese did the same thing against Hongkong in the Second
World War. We have no choice, but to surrender.

Zhang: Thank you, Mr.Wu!

(End of Article)

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5. UBC CSSA Is Arranging China Tours ..................................11
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>From: Zhiyi Zhang <zyz@geop.ubc.ca>

The UBC CSSA has contacted China Travel Service (Canada) Inc. to
bid for cheaper home visiting trip. According to Zhiyi Zhang, the
Chairman of the CSSA, a deal has been reached for group home visit.
The departure time of the tour is around the Christmas or The Spring
Festival. The interested persons should feel free to contact the
Executive Committee of UBC CSSA for the details. The correspondence
should be directed to: Zhiyi Zhang, 207-5600 Dalhousie Rd.,
Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1W4     Phone:(604)224-8096(h).


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