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Subject: China News Digest (Europe/Pacific), Thur, 11/19/1992
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===================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  ===================
                             November 19, 1992

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1. News Brief (3 items) ................................................ 35

2. China Said to Lift Overseas Study Ban but Cuts College Sponsorship .. 28

3. Asia Defence Forces Compared ........................................ 21

4. Shanghai Officials Propose Bring Back Dance Hall Girls .............. 35

5. Physics Symposium in Tianjin ........................................ 20
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1. News Brief (3 items) ................................................ 35
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[WSJ, 11/13/92] French state-controlled chemical and pharmaceutical group
Rhone-Poulenc S.A. signed an agreement with Chinese authorities to establish
some 15 joint venture factories in China. Negotiations are already advanced
for five of the projects, according to the company. Five other projects are
reportedly under discussion. Others are under study. The projects involve
the full range of Rhone-Poulenc activities, including human and animal
health, fibers, specialty chemicals and polymers. The company expects to
spend $150 million to $200 million over the next five years on the 10 China
ventures that are already under negotiation. The goods to be produced are to
be destined for the Chinese market. (From: Huijie)

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A research organization in Carbondale, IL is dedicated to study the history
of the Japanese aggression against China.  Many of the researchers are on
the faculty of the Department of History, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale.  The name and address of this organization are: Society for
Studies of Japanese Aggression Against China (SSJAC), 110 Mark Court,
Carbondale, IL 62901, Phone: (618) 549-4993. The SSJAC publishes a quarterly
journal, The Journal of Studies of Japanese Aggression Against China, in
both English and Chinese, and Japanese if the contributor is Japanese.
Subscription is $20 per year for individuals and $60 per year for
institutions. (From: Ignatius Ding <ding@HPSMTC1.CUP.HP.COM>)
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[JENSW 11/14/92] YOKOHAMA, Nov. 15 -- A Japanese woman left in China as a
child at the end of World War II and who later returned to Japan apparently
committed suicide on Saturday by jumping from an apartment complex in
Yokohama, south of Tokyo, police said Sunday. The woman, Hideko Saito, 53,
returned from China in June 1989 with her Chinese husband and three children
as part of the government's program to help Japanese left behind in China in
the turmoil at the war's end to find relatives and settle in Japan.She had
been living only with the husband in the apartment after the children became
independent, police said. The husband told police she could not get
accustomed to Japanese customs and seemed to feel alienated since she did
not have friends or relatives. (Forwarded by: Jian)

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2. China Said to Lift Overseas Study Ban but Cuts College Sponsorship .. 28
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Forwarded by: David Shu <MTE152S@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Source: Higher Education (British), 11/16/92

The Chinese leadership in Beijing is set to liberalise its policy on
overseas study by allowing all students to study overseas, and to permit all
returning students to leave and enter the country when they wish.

China maintained strict quotas and selection procedures on overseas study,
and very few citizens had the right to leave and enter the country.  But now
Li Tieying, minister in charge of the State Education Commission has said
that China would issue passports to all students accepted by foreign
universities.  And government would "respect their freedom of travel" on
their return to Chine after graduation.

But China intends phasing out state sponsoring of students going abroad.
The salaries of university professors are to be raised from the current
average of 400 yuan to about 1,000 yuan per month.

Chinese universities will also be permitted to set up joint programmes, new
departments and even institutions with foreign universities.

Mr Li said that while students would be encouraged to study overseas, the
authorities clearly hoped most would return on completing their courses,
emphasising again that no student would be made to stay in China.

The Chinese government wants to improve graduates' knowledge and skills in
international trading, and business and marketing.  China is also to lift
its controls on set up programmes, departments or institutions jointly run
with foreign universities.  Also proposed is the idea of permitting the
creation of wholly foreign funded institutions of higher education,
including branches of foreign universities.

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3. Asia Defence Forces Compared ........................................ 21
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Forwarded by: David Shu (MTE152S@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au)
Source: AsiaWeek, 11/13/92

Top Guns and Men at Arms in 1991 in Asia
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Country Defence         Change        % of GDP      Total Forces    Pop
        Spending        from 1990                   (000 persons)   million
        (US$ million)
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Japan   $32,680         +2.5%         1.0%          246             123.8
China   $11,850         +13.3%        3.2%          3,030           1152.5
SKorea  $10,770         -4.2%         3.8%          633             43.2
Taiwan  $9,290          +3.2%         5.4%          300,000         20.6
India   $8,070          -6.1%         2.9%          1,265           845.7
N.Korea $5,450          -2.0%         26.7%         1,132
S'pore  $3,681          +15.6%        5.4%                          2.6
Pakist  $3,230          +7.6%         7.0%          580             115.6
Thailnd $2,400          N/A           2.5%          283             56.3
Vietnam $2,320          +10.0%        16.6%         857             69.0
Malasia $1,720          +7.3%         3.7%                          18.1
Indonsa $1,550          -2.1%         1.3%          283             182.0
Burma   $1,060          -11.0%        4.2%          286             42.6
Phillpn $987            -4.0%         2.2%                          63
Bangldsh$303            -6.8%         1.3%                          115.6

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4. Shanghai Officials Propose Bring Back Dance Hall Girls .............. 35
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Forwarded by: Chongyu Hua <cyuhua@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Source: UPI, 11/16/92

BEIJING -- Seeking to lure foreigners' entertainment spending under China's
market-oriented reforms, cultural officials in Shanghai have proposed
reviving once-banned taxi dancing and escort services, an official newspaper
says.

But the suggestion has generated opposition from other officials who fear it
could revive prostitution and Shanghai's pre-communist reputation for sin,
the Canton-based Nanfang Daily reported over the weekend.

The newspaper said officials of Shanghai's foreign cultural exchange
association held a conference last week on reform at which proposals were
heard to offer a service in which young women would serve as escorts for
dancing, drinking and shopping.

"Very few foreigners are patronizing dance halls," the newspaper said. "The
managers of the dance halls believe the main reason is that full-time or
part-time dancing girl partners are not available."

The Nanfang Daily noted that taxi dancing and escort services, despite their
reputation, should be looked on as professional services with the same
respect as that of singers and musicians.

However, it added, other officials "fiercely opposed this and said the
dancing girl profession was a sign of corruption, degeneration and social
ugliness in the old days and is totally against today's socialist spiritual
civilization."

Proponents said the problems could be avoided by setting up officially
sanctioned services at designated sites for foreigners to be paired with
young women for entertainment purposes.

This, they claimed, would "enhance foreigners' interest in investment, doing
business and opening enterprises from the angle of the living environment,"
the Nanfang Daily noted.

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5. Physics Symposium in Tianjin ........................................ 20
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Forwarded by: Da Hsuan Feng <FENG@DUVM.bitnet>

The Third International Summer School on Advanced Topics in Physics will be
held in Tianjin on Sept. 1 to Sept. 10, 1993. The symposium is sponsored by
the Departments of Physics at Nankai University and Drexel University in
Philadelphia. The invited lecturers are all leading experts in these
exciting fields of physics.

The International Summer School on Advanced Topics in Physics was first held
in June of 1991 at the Institute of Mathematics of Nankai University while a
second one was held in the next summer.

Young physics researchers (advanced graduate students and postdocs)
globally, and especially from the Asia Pacific regions, are encouraged to
participate. Registration fee for the school is $80 US. Food and lodging
will not exceed $25/day.

For more information please contact Professor Da Hsuan Feng, Department of
Physics and Atmospheric Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
19104-9984, <feng@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu>.

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