From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: CND-Global, Wed, August 26, 1992
Summary: CND
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Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 27 Aug 92 08:11:51 GMT

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                              (News Global)

                        Wednesday, August 26, 1992

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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................ 40
2. Russia, China Discuss Possible Military Cooperation ................. 30
3. S. Korea Seeks to Maintain Strong Links With Taiwan ................. 36
4. Sino-Indian Relations Improve Despite Military Growth ............... 64
5. China's Fighter Planes Sold to 11 Foreign Countries ................. 46
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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................ 40
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[AP-DJ 8/25/92] TOKYO -- Japan's Canon Inc. will manufacture laser printers
in China starting in 1994, a spokesman for the company said Wednesday.
Canon said it plans to produce "tens of thousands" of the printers each
year. The Japanese company will share a new factory with Canon Zhuhai Inc.,
a wholly-owned subsidiary which manufactures compact cameras, the spokesman
said. The facility is slated for completion sometime in 1994. Canon markets
laser printers in both Japan and Europe. It expects to sell 3.12 million
units during the current fiscal year. (From: Huijie)
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[AP 8/25/92] BERKELEY, Calif. - Police Tuesday shot and killed a woman
armed with knives after she broke into the campus mansion of the chancellor
of the University of California at Berkeley.  Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien and
his wife, Di-Hwa Tien, were warned by police that an intruder was in their
home and were unhurt, authorities said.  The woman was identified as
20-year-old Rosebud Abigail Denovo.  Denovo entered the home through a
window about 6 a.m. and tripped a silent alarm.  Denovo was a local
activist in a series of violent protests last year to the construction of
volleyball courts at the university's People's Park. (From: Huijie)
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[AP-DJ 8/25/92] WASHINGTON -- The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)
ordered Tuesday a ban on acid-washed denim garment imports from Taiwan and
Hong Kong on grounds of patent infringement.  The order to the U.S. Customs
Service stems from an investigation by the ITC of a patent infringement
complaint brought by Greater Texas Finishing Corp. of El Paso and Golden
Trade S.R.L., an Italian firm that holds the patent ruled to have been
infringed upon.  The companies claimed that imported denim products from
Taiwan and Hong Kong infringed on Golden Trade's patent for a "random
faded" effect. (From: Jian Liu)
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[AP-DJ8/25/92] TAIPEI -- Taiwan's indirect trade with China via Hong Kong
gained 34% to 3.4 billion U.S. dlrs in the first six months of 1992 from a
year ago, local evening news reported Tuesday. In the same period, Taiwan's
exports to China jumped 39% to 2.85 billion U.S. dlrs; while Taiwan's
imports from China advanced 13.4% to 557 million U.S. dlrs.  In June,
Taiwan's indirect trade with China was 638 million U.S. dlrs, up 37.6% from
a year earlier. (From: Jian Liu)

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2. Russia, China Discuss Possible Military Cooperation ................. 30
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~From: Jian Liu
Source: AP-DJ 8/25/92

MOSCOW -- Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev met Tuesday with Chinese
Defense Minister Qin Jiwei to discuss possible military cooperation and
arms trade between the two countries, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

The two defense ministers also discussed problems related to the deployment
of troops along the Russian-Chinese border and mutual reduction of troops
in the far eastern regions of both countries, the agency said.

After more than two decades of hostility following border clashes in the
early 1960s, China's relations with the former Soviet Union began to
improve with Mikhail S. Gorbachev's visit to Beijing in June, 1989.

The meeting of the two defense ministers was their first since the Soviet
Union was dissolved in December. The agency said both men described their
talks as "quite successful and productive."

An important item of discussion was arms sales. China began shopping in the
Soviet Union about two years ago because of embargoes imposed by the U.S.
and Britain after the bloody 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.

The Chinese have purchased an unspecified number of Su-27 fighter jets.
Russia has become the most promising supplier of arms within the former
Soviet Union following the breakup of the country.

Despite the possibilities for cooperation in trading arms, the border
dispute remains to be resolved. Grachev said the problem could be solved
at the next round of Russian-Chinese talks in September.

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3. S. Korea Seeks to Maintain Strong Links With Taiwan ................. 36
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~From: Huijie
Source: KYODO 8/25/92

BEIJING -- South Korea wants to maintain strong "nongovernmental" links
with Taiwan, Foreign Minister Lee Sang Ock was reported by South Korean
journalists as saying.

Lee made the remarks at a Monday briefing restricted to South Korean
reporters.

"I hope nongovernmental relations between South Korea and Taiwan can be
sustained at the highest level," reporters quoted him as saying.

Diplomatic links between Seoul and Taipei were broken off Monday after Lee
and Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen signed a six-point communique the
same day normalizing relations between China and South Korea.

Lee said his ministry had summoned Charles Shu-chi King, Taiwan's
ambassador to South Korea, on August 18 to inform him of the decision.
The following day, Taiwanese media reports carried the unofficial news.

Lee denied Taiwanese speculation that Seoul had agreed to provide some 2
billion U.S. dollars in government loans to Beijing in exchange for early
diplomatic recognition.  Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin also
denied the reports earlier Monday.

Lee, who left for Seoul Tuesday morning, also confirmed that the two sides
had discussed the Korean War when they fought on opposing sides.  "We fully
discussed this matter and decided not to hark back to the past," he said.

Lee also confirmed that Qian will make the first-ever official visit to
South Korea by a Chinese foreign minister in the "near future".

Chinese President Yang Shangkun on Monday invited South Korean President
Roh Tae WooRoh to come "in the very near future" during a meeting with Lee.
Roh is expected to travel to Beijing within the next two months.

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4. Sino-Indian Relations Improve Despite Military Growth ............... 64
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~From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI 8/24/92
By: Brahma Chellaney

NEW DELHI, India -- Indian Defense Minister Sharad Pawar, who returned this
month from a visit to Beijing with senior Indian military commanders, said
the two neighbors are working to build greater military transparency and
mutual confidence.

Pawar's tour, the first ever by an Indian defense minister, followed an
exchange of high-level visits, first by Chinese Premier Li Peng in December
and then by Indian President Ramaswamy Venkataraman in May. No Chinese
premier had visited India since the 1950s while an Indian president had
never previously been to China.

Now the two countries plan more reciprocal visits, including one to New
Delhi later this year by a Chinese military delegation headed by Army vice
chief Gen. Xu Xin.

After three decades of no formal contact, the rival militaries have agreed
to adopt confidence-building and crisis-response measures.  According to
Indian officials, these measures include crisis "hot-line" communication
links between Chinese and Indian military operations headquarters and
regular meetings between field commanders.

The two Asian giants also have agreed to prevent a recurrence of the 1987
situation when a large Indian military exercise sparked border incursions,
air space violations and exchanges of artillery fire along their disputed
Himalayan frontier.

The two neighbors currently are discussing further confidence-building
measures, including mutual border force reductions and relocating rival
border posts that currently are locked in an eyeball-to-eyeball
confrontation, according to the Indian Foreign Ministry.

India already has withdrawn three mountain divisions from its northeastern
border with China. The divisions have been moved to Kashmir to strengthen
Indian military forces along the cease-fire line with Pakistan, which New
Delhi accuses of training and arming Kashmiri militants.

Despite the recent improvement in relations, significant obstacles remain
to the full normalization of Sino-Indian ties.

The biggest obstacle is the border dispute, which brought the two countries
to a brief but bloody war in 1962. In essence, the Sino-Indian dispute --
like the Indo-Pakistan border feud -- centers on Kashmir, whose control is
divided among three countries.

That Kashmiri territory has enabled China to link its two rebellious
provinces of Xinjiang and Tibet and build the strategic Karakoram highway
to provide a permanent overland link with its close ally, Pakistan.

Despite the recent improvement in bilateral ties and significant reduction
in military tensions, China and India remain engaged in military expansion
and modernization.

India was embarrassed when China conducted a massive nuclear test while the
Indian president was in Beijing. The test, with a reported yield of 1
megaton, indicated the Chinese were developing sophisticated high-yield,
low-weight warheads.

A few days later, India responded with a test flight of its nuclear-
capable, intermediate range ballistic missile, designed as a deterrent
against China.

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5. China's Fighter Planes Sold to 11 Foreign Countries ................. 46
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~From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI 8/25/92

BEIJING -- The China Daily said Tuesday that Chinese-built F-7 fighters
have been sold to 11 foreign nations, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt
and Zimbabwe.

"Several hundred F-7 series planes have been exported over the twenty years
since 1972," the newspaper said, quoting officials at the Ministry of
Aerospace Industry. The officials refused to give precise figures on how
many planes had been sold.

The F-7, an air-defense interceptor similar to the Russian-made MiG-21, is
popular with Third World countries attracted by the fighters' "reasonable
prices," the newspaper said.

The China Daily said the communist government is currently holding a four-
day symposium in Beijing for military representatives from 10 countries who
have bought F-7 fighters.

The meeting, scheduled to end Thursday, "is aimed at promoting the
competitiveness of Chinese fighters in the international market," the
newspaper said.

Foreign buyers will discuss performance, and suggest possible improvements
for the F-7 with experts from the Chengdu Aircraft Plant, which makes the
fighter in southwest China's Sichuan province, China Daily said.

The Chinese military has been seeking new outlets for arms sales following
a plunge in export earnings from weapons during the past two years.

Both Iran and Iraq, previously major buyers of Chinese weapons, have
curtailed purchases, and other Third World nations have shifted business
from China to other weapons-producing countries.

A U.S. government report recently said China had fallen to eighth place
among arms-exporting nations last year, behind the United States, Russia
and several European countries.

The China Daily said the Chinese air force is also upgrading its own,
more-modern F-8 series fighters.  The air force is said to be looking at
ways to refuel the F-8 in mid-flight, increasing its range beyond China's
immediate borders.

Russia has also recently begun delivering advanced Su-27 fighters to
Beijing.

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