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Subject: China News Digest (Global), Fri, 11/6/1992
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                                (News Global)

                           Friday, November 6, 1992


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1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................. 28
2. Beijing Belatedly Congratulates Clinton, Warns Against Dropping MFN .. 35
3. Beijing Presents New Proposal to Solve Border Dispute with India ..... 46
4. China's First Shopping-by-TV Program to Go on Air .................... 18
5. Rural China Faced with Oil, Electricity Shortage ..................... 19
6. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #84 (cm9211a)? .................... 26
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1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................. 28
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[DJ, 11/5/1992] HONG KONG - Britain has called off a planned military 
exercise in Hong Kong based on an imaginary invasion by China because it
doesn't want to antagonize Beijing, Radio Hong Kong said Thursday. The
government-owned radio said the British Defense Ministry called off the
exercise planned for next week at the advice Hong Kong Governor Chris
Patten. Patten is the commander-in-chief of British forces in the colony,
which reverts to Chinese rule in 1997. Britain and China have been bickering
recently over Patten's moves to encourage greater democracy in the territory
before the Chinese takeover. A large part of the exercise was expected to
focus on how an orderly British withdrawal could be accomplished in the
event of an invasion from China, the radio said. Maj. Paddy Hartigan, a
spokesman for British forces in Hong Kong, said the exercise has only been
rescheduled for a later date. He wouldn't speculate on why the exercise was
postponed. Hartigan said the exercise wouldn't involve combat troops.
(Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[UPI,11/5/1992] BEIJING -- The rich keep getting richer in China's booming
free-market south, an official news report said Thursday. The state-run
China News Service said a survey of urban residents in Guangdong Province
-- leader of China's free-market reforms -- found incomes rising rapidly
from bigger bonuses, more part-time jobs and increased interest on savings,
stocks and bonds from the nation's experimental financial markets. A poll of
1,555 households found that average monthly income hit $47 in the first
three quarters of 1992 -- a 13.7-percent, inflation-adjusted rise from the
same period of 1991. By contrast, most urban workers in China only earn an
average of $27 to $36 per month. Thursday's poll also noted that income of
employees at collectively owned enterprises rose 27.7 percent in the first
nine months of 1992. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian & Chongyu Hua <cyuhua@ncsa.uiuc
.edu>)

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2. Beijing Belatedly Congratulates Clinton, Warns Against Dropping MFN .. 35
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian & Chongyu Hua <cyuhua@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Source: UPI, 11/5/1992 & JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/5/1992
Written by: John Leicester, et. al.; abridged by CND.

BEIJING -- China's communist government belatedly congratulated Bill Clinton
Thursday for his landslide election victory, but called the Democrat's 
campaign threats to prod Beijing on human rights "unwise and unacceptable."

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin dismissed suggestions that Beijing 
reacted slowly to Clinton's triumph, although he admitted China's president,
vice president and premier only sent congratulatory telegrams to the 
Clinton-Gore team Thursday morning -- some 24 hours after the election's
result became known in Beijing.

Breaking what had been an unexplained official silence about the Democrats' 
victory, Wu told reporters at a weekly briefing, "We congratulate Mr.
Clinton on his election as the next U.S. president. The Chinese government
always attaches importance to Sino-U.S. relations and is ready to work with
the new U.S. administration for the improvement and development of bilateral
relations."

But in a sign of Beijing's unease over the Democrat's election, Wu warned 
Clinton against making good on campaign threats to attach human-rights
conditions to China's Most Favored Nation trading status.

"Granting MFN trade status to each other is the cornerstone of the trade
and economic relations between China and the United States," the spokesman 
said. "Attaching conditions to MFN is unwise and unacceptable to China."

During the campaign, Clinton attacked President Bush -- a former U.S. envoy 
to China -- for vetoing attempts to place conditions on renewal of Beijing's 
MFN status.

Bush, widely considered "an old friend" in Beijing, maintained China's MFN 
status and Sino-U.S. diplomatic relations even after the 1989 Tiananmen 
Square crackdown on pro-democracy activists.

But Clinton supported linking MFN to Chinese progress on human rights, 
vowing during the campaign to stand up to "tyrants from Baghdad to Beijing"
and stop "coddling Chinese tyrants".

Reflecting Beijing's concern about such remarks, China's state-run media 
rooted for Bush throughout the campaign, only appearing resigned to a
Clinton victory in the race's final days.

Thursday, official media gave wide play to U.S. election results without 
making editorial comment -- apparently waiting for direction from the 
government.

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3. Beijing Presents New Proposal to Solve Border Dispute with India ..... 46
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Forwarded by: Zhao Hua
Source: UPI, 11/3/1992
Written by:  Brahma Chellaney

NEW DELHI, India -- China has presented a new proposal to resolve its four-
decades-old Himalayan border dispute with India, the Indian Foreign Ministry
announced Tuesday.

Ministry spokesman Shiv S. Mukherjee said India has sought more details on
the Chinese offer, made at the recent Sino-Indian border negotiations in
Beijing.

The rival delegations, headed by Indian Foreign Secretary Jyotindra N. Dixit
and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xu Dunxin, held three days of talks last
week. This was the fifth round of negotiations since the world's two most
populous nations set up a joint working group in 1988 to discuss the frontier
dispute.

Mukherjee said Beijing has offered to make "some adjustments" in the Kashmir
sector in return for reciprocal Indian concessions in the other corner of
the border near Burma.

He did not elaborate but said India would communicate its response to China
after receiving specific details on the proposal.

The two Asian giants fought a Himalayan war in 1962 which led to the Chinese
annexation of Indian Kashmir's strategic Aksai Chin region. A year later,
Pakistan ceded a slice of its own Kashmiri territory to China, its closest
ally.

The  Kashmiri areas have enabled Beijing to link its two remote and
rebellious provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang and build the strategic Karakoram
Highway to Pakistan.

China has repeatedly urged India to accept its annexation of the Kashmiri
territories in return for Beijing giving up its claim over the northeastern
Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which also borders Burma.

The latest proposal is believed to a variant of the earlier offers.
Diplomatic analysts said it probably offers small concessions in the form of
slight adjustments to the existing line of control in the Kashmir sector to
allay Indian security concerns.

The control of strategic Kashmir is divided among India, Pakistan and China.
Kashmir also borders Afghanistan and Tajikstan.

The long and rugged Sino-Indian frontier has been quiet since the 1987 
border clashes, which were triggered by a massive Indian Army exercise.
Hundreds of thousands of rival troops, however, remain deployed along the
snow-covered border.

During the recent talks, the two sides agreed to implement several
confidence-building measures, including an agreement to provide advance
notification of border troop movements and military maneuvers.

The two neighbors also have agreed to regular meetings of their Army field
commanders and to set up "hot-line" communications links between their
military headquarters.

Later this month, Indian and Chinese navies are scheduled to jointly hold a
small exercise off the eastern Indian coast in the Bay of Bengal. The
maneuver is designed  to build mutual confidence at a time when both
countries are seeking to develop blue-water navies.

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4. China's First Shopping-by-TV Program to Go on Air .................... 18
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Forwarded by: Zhao Hua
Source: UPI, 11/3/1992

BEIJING -- Yet another element of Western-style conspicuous consumption is
coming to China: shopping by television.

Beginning Thursday, two Beijing television channels will air the shopping
programs China's first, the Beijing Daily reported today.

The programs will take viewers to various department stores. Phone numbers
for the stores will be shown on the screen, and viewers can call to order
products they like.

The report said the stores would take care of delivery and installation free
of charge. It did not say how long the programs are or what kinds of
products will be shown.

Several huge multistory department stores have opened in Beijing in recent
years, and they are often crammed with shoppers.

Urban residents' disposable incomes have risen dramatically, but, unlike
individuals in the West, they have few opportunities to buy high-priced
items like cars or houses.

Other living expenses, such as rent and transportation, use up only a small
percentage of their monthly wage, leaving them with considerable amounts of
cash to spend on food, clothing, entertainment and other purchases.

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5. Rural China Faced with Oil, Electricity Shortage ..................... 19
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: AP-DJ, 11/5/1992

LONDON -- Rural areas in China are faced with a shortage of four million
metric tons of oil and 20 billion kilowatt hours (KWH), the Chinese press
agency Xinhua reported Thursday. 

In a dispatch from Beijing, monitored in London, Xinhua said the lack of
energy in rural areas is worsening because obsolete and less efficient
industrial machinery is moved from the cities to the countryside for use by
rural industrial companies. 

"As a result, the problem of power shortage in the rural areas remained
serious," Xinhua said. 

The agency quoted Ministry of Agriculture officials as saying it is
necessary to take measures to ban the shift of this "high energy-consuming
equipment."

The official said statistics indicated that industrial companies are
responsible for about 65% of the rural energy consumption. Xinhua said rural
China is also faced with a 20% shortage of rural household electricity,
adding that 200 million rural residents are living without electricity. 

Chinese oil consumption in 1991 was 117.9 million tons, up 6.9% from 1990,
while production stood at 139.6 million tons, up 0.9% from a year earlier,
according to statistics from British Petroleum Co. 

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6. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #84 (cm9211a)? .................... 26
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Source: CND Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board (cnd-cm@sdsc.edu), 11/6/1992

                              Hua Xia Wen Zhai
                           (CND Chinese Magazine)
                                  Issue #84
                              November 6, 1992

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                        Table of Contents (cm9211a)
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 1. Headline News of the Week.........................................Li Xin
 2. Inside China: The Beach under Receding Tide.....................Sima Mai
 3. A Story about the Scholar and Fruit Cans..........................Su Wei
 4. Novel Excerpt: Manhattan's China Lady (Part 4) ..................Zhou Li
 5. An Exotic Doll for Chinese -- a Canadian on Beijing Stage.........Hu Nan
 6. Living a Delighted Life........................................Sha Yexin
 7. When "Marx" and "Lenin" First Appeared in Chinese Media.......Ye Yonglie
 8. "We" (Wo Men): An Interview with Writer Han Xiu................Du Shiliu
 9. Riding Buses -- Three Poems......................................Qi Gong
10. Information Exchange -- New Regulations Regarding Dutyfree Cars and PC's
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