From: JUENKUNG@RAMOTH.USC.EDU
Subject:      A forwarded reference from USC
Reply-To: JUENKUNG@RAMOTH.USC.EDU
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:25:00 GMT
Comments: To: china-nt%uga.cc.uga.edu@USC.EDU, ifcss%wam.umd.edu@USC.EDU

From:	IN%"lic@PHYSICS.USC.EDU" 14-OCT-1992 01:26:51.69
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Subj:	suggestions on donation to IFCSS

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From: lic@PHYSICS.USC.EDU (Li Chen)
Subject: suggestions on donation to IFCSS
To: cssa@POLLUX.USC.EDU
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To those who is going to get your Green Card, congradulations!

Apparently, the Chinese Protection Bill wouldn't have passed without IFCSS.
So if you benefit from it, you should pay for it.

However, I would like to remind you that while IFCSS was actively lobbying and
seeking support among CSS for lobbying the Chinese Protection Bill, which is a
very popular bill among CSS, they also semi-secretely lobbied for the
Conditional MFN bill, which is not so popular among CSS. In fact, the poll
conduct by Li, Leping on USC campus last year showed that rhere are more
people against the CMFN bill than those who pro it.

Based on this situation, I would like to suggest on the following things:

1) If you are not sure whether you wanted to donate before, then you should
wait. Because the Chinese Protection Bill has just passed, any new money
will fuel the CMFN bill lobbying. You should wait till ~ June of next year
to decide whether you want to donate.

2) If you have already decide to donate, then you should have the check
payable to: IFCSS CSS-protection account. IFCSS has different accounts for
different purposes. In this way, you have obliged (but not necessary ensure)
them to use the money for CSS protection bill.

Finally, I would like to make another comment on CMFN bill.

1) The CMFN bill was the idea of Democratic Federation which also have a
strong hand in IFCSS. They have adopted an idea to have western country to
give China economic sanction and to cause economic caos in China so people
will uprise to overthrow the Chinese government.(See Fang, Lizhi's speech)

2) The CMFN bill starts by holding Chinese worker as hostage. Thus it is
inconsiderate and immoral. CMFN make the bussiness enviroment in China
unpredictable, causing foreign capitals to leave China and people, who just
need career opportunities like us, to lose their opportunity.

3) The CMFN campaign unnecessarily creates conflicts between US and China
which no body benefits from it. IFCSS has created numerous excuse for US to
"punish" Chinese government and lot of excuses actually have nothing to
do with himan right issue. (See Zhao, Haiqing's speech at Democratic hearing)
The CMFN bill also hurts the feeling between peopleof both country. The
IFCSS's constant asking of a foreign country to interfere Chinese affair
also hurts the image of Chinese national as a whole.

4) The CMFN policy has been out-of-dated. In fact, two out of three
presidential candidate (Bush and Perot) favors a strong tie with China
(if you followed their debate). Clinton, who had previously attackeed Bush's
China policy, also started with the statement that he will not cut tie with
China. It signals that he will also follow the pragmatism rather than
idealism in the congress.

As a summary, IFCSS is losing political fortune for their standing on
the CMFN issue. Recently, the drastic reduction of financial support from
American and Taiwanese source is one of such signal (See the IFCSS request
for CSS financial support). I wish you all adjust to
the ever changing world based on a pragmatic approach and speak for youself.

Thank you for your attention.
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