From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: China News Digest (Global), Tue, 9/29/1992
Summary: CND
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Date: 29 Sep 92 06:31:54 GMT

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                              (News Global)

                       Tuesday, September 29, 1992

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1. News Brief (6 Items) .................................................39
2. South Korean President Holds Summit with Chinese Leaders .............53 
3. Another Hard-Liner, Hu Qiaomu, Dies at 81 Monday .....................43
4. Bush Vetoes Bill Imposing Conditions on China's MFN Trade Status .....40
5. Chinese Securities Reportedly Increased Surveillance .................31
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1. News Brief (6 Items) .................................................39
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[KYODO, 9/28/92] A typhoon that swept across Zhejiang Province in China has 
left at least 65 people dead and 60 others missing, a local disaster relief
official said. (From: Jian Liu)
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[AP-DJ, 9/28/92] BEIJING -- Construction and equipment installation at 
China's Daya Bay Nuclear Plant near Hong Kong have been completed and 
technicians are conducting tests, an official news report said Tuesday. 
The Xinhua News Service did not say what the plant's start-up plans are. At 
least one of Daya Bay's two 900-megawatt reactors was to have been operating 
this year, but work was delayed by a mistake in building the foundation. 
Daya Bay will be China's second nuclear power plant. A 300-megawatt plant
farther north in Zhejiang province started trial operation nine months ago. 
(From: Jian Liu)
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[KYODO, 9/28/92] In talks with Makoto Tanabe, chairman of Japan's social 
Democratic Party, Chinese Vice Premier Wu Xueqian said he wants to see 
improved relations between Beijing and Washington, adding it would have a 
major influence on the development of peace on the Korean Peninsula and 
throughout Asia. (From: Jian Liu)
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[KYODO, 9/28/92] Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk said he has been 
notified by the Khmer Rouge faction that it will not agree to next spring's 
general elections, dimming hopes that the hardline guerrilla faction would 
return to the peace process. (From: Jian Liu)
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[Business Wire, 9/28/92] RICHMOND, B.C., Canada -- MTC Electronic 
Technologies Co.  Ltd. announced today that the company has received an 
order from China's Ministry of Railways for 60,000 of MTC plain paper FAX 
machines.  Miko Leung, president of MTC said, "This order will generate in 
excess of $47,000,000 of revenues, with delivery to commence in late 1993.
The Ministry of Railways will be embarking upon an aggressive multi-year 
program in early 1994 to modernize China's vast rail system. Improving the 
railroad's internal communications will be an integral part of the overall 
plan that is being implemented." According to management, these FAX machines 
will be manufactured in the company's new facility in China, which is 
currently nearing completion. (From: Jian Liu)
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[KYODO, 9/28/92] Astronomers from Japan, China, South Korea, and Taiwan will 
work together to set up an international observatory in Asia, a Chinese
professor said. (From: Jian Liu)
     
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2. South Korean President Holds Summit with Chinese Leaders .............53 
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From: Jian Liu
Source: AP-DJ, 9/28/92

BEIJING -- South Korean President Roh Tae-woo and Chinese President Yang 
Shangkun met Monday for an historic summit focused on ending Cold War
animosity in the region and enhancing their burgeoning trade. 
  
The two presidents sat down for their first official talks after a formal 
welcoming ceremony featuring a 21-gun salute for Roh, who arrived Sunday 
night in Beijing for the first summit between the two countries since they
established diplomatic relations on Aug. 24. 

Roh and Chinese President Yang Shangkun met for nearly 2 hours.
    
One of main topic during the talk is nulclear checks in North Korea, according 
to a South Korea's news agency. Roh asked China's president to encourage 
North Korea to allow nuclear inspections, saying Pyongyang's atomic program 
is a security threat to all of Asia.

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that Yang said using international 
pressure to try to force the Communist North to agree to mutual inspections 
of nuclear sites "is undesirable."
    
A Chinese government spokesman refused to give details of the talks on 
nuclear issues between Roh and Yang.
    
Although the North insists it has no nuclear weapons program, the South 
wants to inspect the North's atomic facilities.
    
Roh's press secretary, Lee Jung-ha, said the "suspected nuclear development" 
is the largest stumbling block between North and South.  Lee said Roh 
stressed the importance of mutual nuclear inspections by the two sides and 
said he "expected a positive role for China in this respect."
    
But a news report Monday said North Korea had indirectly denounced China for 
speedily improving relations with its capitalist rival, South Korea.
    
South Korea's Naewoe news agency, which monitors North Korean media, said 
China was the unnamed target of a commentary Sunday by North Korea's central 
broadcasting station.
    
"Due to a vicious imperialists' plot to destroy socialism and unfaithful 
actions of some traitors of the revolution who succumbed to it, socialism 
was rejected and capitalism restored in some countries," Naewoe quoted the 
commentary as saying.
    
Roh is to meet Tuesday with Chinese Premier Li Peng and Communist Party 
General-Secretary Jiang Zemin during his four-day visit, which includes a 
stop in the industrialized port of Shanghai.

Chinese Trade Minister Li Lanqing and his counterpart from Seoul, Hann Bong
Soo, were scheduled to sign several trade agreements later Monday, reflecting
the importance both countries place on romoting their rapidly developing
economic cooperation.
 
Bilateral trade is expected to reach 10 billion dlrs this year, up from 5.8
billion dlrs last year. 

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3. Another Hard-Liner, Hu Qiaomu, Dies at 81 Monday .....................43
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From: Charles Mok 
Source: UPI, 9/28/92

BEIJING -- Hu Qiaomu, a Marxist ideologue and Communist Party elder who was 
one of China's most tenacious hard-line leaders, died Monday of illness at 
age 81, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
 	
A member of the ruling Standing Committee of the party's Central Advisory 
Commission, he died two weeks before the party opens an important national 
congress, at which Deng is reportedly pushing to enshrine his reforms and 
open-door policy and eclipse other orthodox leaders who have resisted 
swifter and broader changes.  The Xinhua report said Hu died of illness at 
7:16 a.m. Beijing time.  It gave no further details.
 	
The brief dispatch quoted a statement from the party Central Committee that 
called Hu an "outstanding Marxist theorist, political commentator, social 
scientist and an outstanding leader in China's ideological, theoretical, 
cultural and propaganda fields."
 	
Hu was the fourth major conservative leader to die this year, following the 
deaths of former President Li Xiannian and party elders Deng Yingchao and 
Wang Renzhong.
 	
One of the country's most prominent theorists on Marxism, Hu served on the 
party Politburo between 1982 and 1987, when he was pushed aside along with 
many other conservatives in favor of more reform-minded officials.
 	
But he regained some prominence after Deng Xiaoping turned to his sometimes 
hard-line rivals for support following the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. 
Hu continued to author conservative-tinged commentaries on hewing to 
communism until this year.
 	
Born in Jiangsu Province, Hu was a young communist agitator and joined the 
party in 1932, playing a leading role in organizing students against the 
Japanese occupation in the 1930s.
 	
He served in a variety of party positions and became personal secretary to 
Mao Tse-tung in the early 1940s, later serving in theoretical and propaganda 
positions.
 	
After the 1949 communist revolution, he held ideological and research posts 
and emerged as one of the party's key theorists. He was named president of 
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1977 following the Cultural 
Revolution.
 	
Hu continued to wield significant conservative influence over party thinking 
into the 1980s, serving in party posts until he rose to the Politburo.

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4. Bush Vetoes Bill Imposing Conditions on China's MFN Trade Status .....40
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From: Jian Liu
Source: AP-DJ, 9/28/92

DALLAS -- In another election-year battle over his policy toward China, 
President Bush on Monday vetoed a bill that would impose restrictions
on renewal of normal trade relations with Beijing. 
  
In a statement, Bush said he shared Congress' desire to promote progress on
human rights and fair trade with China and to restrict its sales of weapons.
However, he said the measure "would not lead to faster progress in advancing
our goals." 
  
Bush rejected a similar bill earlier this year, and Congress failed to 
muster the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto. The latest 
measure was approved on a voice vote by both the House and the Senate. 
  
Bush said that China has taken limited steps on human rights but he deemed 
them inadequate. However, he said the U.S. has a dialogue with China "that
gives us an avenue to express our views directly to China's leaders." 
  
"It is easy to be discouraged by the pact of progress in this area," the 
president said in a statement issued during a campaign stop. "But it would 
be a serious mistake to let our frustration lead us to gamble with policies 
that would undermine our goals." 

"China's retaliation for the loss of (most-favored nation) would cost us 
this growing market and thousands of American jobs," Bush added.

Unlike previous versions, the bill would revoke most-favored-nation status
only for state-owned enterprises, exempting fledgling private businesses 
and joint ventures that the U.S. wants to nurture. 
  
The bill also requires that China account for and release political prisoners 
detained in the brutal suppression of a student pro-democracy demonstration 
in 1989 at Tiananmen Square. 
 
It also would bar the import of goods made with prison labor and would 
demand that China allow U.S. Customs officers to inspect suspected prison 
labor plants. 
  
The measure also would require China to cooperate in efforts to locate those
missing in the Vietnam and Korean wars, as an additional condition of 
keeping its normal trade status. 

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5. Chinese Securities Reportedly Increased Surveillance .................31
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From: Chongyu Hua, <cyuhua@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Source: UPI, 9/28/92

BEIJING -- China's security apparatus has increased its already-close watch 
on campuses and known dissidents in preparation for a series of potentially 
"destabilizing" events this month.
	
Sources say the Beijing City Public Security Bureau has issued a document 
calling for tightened security during a month-long period that began with 
Sunday's arrival of South Korean President Roh Tae Woo.

According to a source, the document -- which has been distributed to security 
and police agents throughout the capital -- outlined four events authorities 
consider potential trouble spots: Roh's four-day visit; Chinese National Day 
on Oct. 1; the Communist Party's 14th congress, which begins Oct. 12; and 
the visit by Japanese Emperor Akihito on Oct. 23.
	
The document also fingered university students as "potential destabilizing 
elements," and called on authorities to take additional measures to secure 
campuses.
	
Last week, university students from three top Beijing universities attempted 
to deliver an open letter to the Japanese emperor, calling on Tokyo to pay 
reparations to victims of Japan's World War II occupation of China.
	
Police stopped the activists from delivering the letter to the Japanese 
Embassy, but have become increasingly nervous about a continuing student 
signature-gathering campaign. Authorities reportedly took one student-
representative into custody over the weekend in a bid to slow student 
activism during the sensitive period.
	
More than 1,500 police and plainclothed security agents guarded the airport 
road during Roh's arrival Sunday, while authorities have also increased 
surveillance of well-known political dissidents.

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