From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: CND-Global, Thu, August 27, 1992
Summary: CND
Keywords: CND
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 27 Aug 92 08:13:20 GMT

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                              (News Global)

                        Thursday, August 27, 1992

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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................ 44
2. Beijing Daily Rips U.S. Media's Olympic Coverage .................... 42
3. The Last Party Aide Related to 89 Pro-Democracy Movement Convicted .. 34
4. China Obtains Technology for Aerial Refueling of Jets ............... 54
5. China - The Masses Take the Capitalist Road ......................... 66
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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................ 44
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[AP-DJ 8/26/92] HONG KONG -- Wharf (Holdings) Ltd. Wednesday signed formal
letters of intent to develop the infrastructure of Wuhan, an inland Chinese
port city 1,200 kilometers north of Hong Kong, for an estimated 100 billion
yuan. The project will be the single largest joint-venture investment in
the city's history. Wharf Chairman Peter Woo has said his aim is to develop
the capital of Hubei province into a Chicago or Dallas.  During a Hong Kong
press conference, Wuhan Mayor Zhao Bao Jiang hailed the development as
significant to both the city and Wharf. Details of the joint-venture stakes
weren't revealed. (From: Huijie)
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[AP-DJ 8/26/92] BEIJING -- Officials of Shenzhen, the city where frustrated
stock investors rioted this month, announced plans Wednesday to start up a
telephone system for buying and selling stocks. Computer software was being
installed to handle telephone sales. It wasn't clear if all future sales
would be handled by phone or only some. Several dozen stocks are listed on
the markets. Demand is keen because Chinese have few investment options and
because many mistakenly believe stocks are a sure way to make money. (From:
Huijie)
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[AP 8/25/92] China will no longer hang strings of colored pennants over
Beijing's main avenue whenever a foreign leader comes to visit, the Beijing
Evening News said Tuesday.  A decade ago, most of China's state guests were
Communist leaders who were accustomed to organized displays of mass
enthusiasm from their own people and liked to see the same thing abroad.
Many state guests now are from the West and regard the old reception
practices as quaint. Also, China has so many guests coming and going that
the pennants sometimes hang for weeks at a time and look bedraggled. (From:
<izzyhc1@mvs.oac.ucla.edu>)
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[The Boston Globe 8/26/92] Marking its debut as a personal computer maker,
Digital said yesterday that it would begin manufacturing six new PCs in
Taiwan. The machines will be assembled at seven locations worldwide.
Analysts praised the new homemade machines, noting that their carefully
considered cost structures should enable the $14 billion company to stay
competitive in the brutal computer business. To cut down on import duties
and other shipment costs, Digital will ship subassemblies, rather than
finished products, to the assembly centers. Only higher-cost components -
such as microchips, the brains of a computer - will be shipped via air.
(From: Charles P. Mok)

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2. Beijing Daily Rips U.S. Media's Olympic Coverage .................... 42
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~From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI 8/26/92

[UPI 8/26/92] BEIJING -- An official Chinese newspaper assailed the U.S.
media Wednesday for "slanderous" coverage of Chinese athletes during the
Barcelona Olympics.

The state-run Beijing Daily accused U.S. journalists of spreading "rumors"
that Chinese athletes used performance-enhancing drugs, allowing China to
win events previously dominated by Americans.

"American journalists, harboring evil intentions, spread the slanderous
rumors that Zhuang Yong used stimulants," said an article by a commentator
identified as Li Runxin.

Zhuang Yong won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle and a silver in
the 50 freestyle. She passed drug tests after both races.

The Beijing Daily story did not identify particular U.S. newspapers or
broadcast outlets, but said the "biased" coverage stemmed from the lost
supremecy of American swimmers.

"American swimmers have lost gold medals and American journalists have lost
their style," it said.

"With the inherent arrogance and bias of hegemonists they continued to
provoke gold-medal winners Zhuang Yong and Qian Hong by doing their utmost
to blacken their feat," the newspaper added.

Qian Hong's gold in the 100-meter butterfly was one of four swimming golds
for China at Barcelona.

The Beijing Daily also claimed American journalists had mocked Qian Hong's
mother. The reference was to a question in jest by a reporter, who when
told Qian's mother was in "environmental sanitation," asked whether she was
actually a garbage collector.

"This disgusted people and was an ugly piece of theater acted out by people
who lack professional morals and culture," the paper said.

"Surely this sort of extremely immoral attack on a person's honor and the
attempt to destroy the person's happiness is blasphemy against the spirit
of civilization of mankind,'' it said.

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3. The Last Party Aide Related to 89 Pro-Democracy Movement Convicted .. 34
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From: izzyhc1@mvs.oac.ucla.edu
Source: AP 8/25/92

BEIJING -- Authorities on Tuesday convicted Wu Jiaxiang, the last person
known to be awaiting trial in connection with the huge pro-democracy
protests in 1989. Wu was freed because of time served.

The hearing closed official prosecution from the democracy movement, which
ended in bloodshed when troops were sent into Tiananmen Square.

Wu, an economist and a former adviser to ousted Communist Party leader Zhao
Ziyang, was convicted of spreading anti-socialist propaganda and stirring
up opposition to the Communist Party and was sentenced to three years in
prison. He had spent more than three years in jail awaiting trial. His
family confirmed that Wu was released and returned home.

Wu, who is about 37, and two other Zhao advisers became political pawns in
an interfactional party deal that lets Zhao escape further punishment while
his aides are convicted.

Zhao, who was ousted in disgrace in 1989 for allegedly sympathizing with
the protesters. He has made no public appearances since, but spent at least
a year under house arrest.

Asia Watch, the human rights group headquartered in New York, has said Wu
did not take part in the 1989 marches, but was accused of drafting speeches
and materials criticizing the leadership and party.

The party used the army and tanks to quell huge protests in Tiananmen
Square in June 1989, killing hundreds and possibly thousands of people.

Bao Tong, Zhao's secretary and chief of a party think tank, was tried in
July and sentenced to seven years. Gao Shan, Bao's deputy, was tried in
August and sentenced to four years. They also have been jailed since 1989.

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4. China Obtains Technology for Aerial Refueling of Jets ............... 54
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From: Viet-Anh V Nguyen <v-nguyen@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Source: NYT 8/23/92
By: Nicholas D. Kristof

BEIJING -- The Chinese Air Force has obtained the technology to refuel its
jet fighters in midair, an ability that will allow it to extend its power
beyond China's borders and is likely to alarm neighboring countries,
diplomats and military experts say.

It will probably take several years of rigorous preparation and training
before the air force can use its new technology effectively, the experts
say. But some add that by the end of the 1990's, in-flight refueling could
significantly enhance the armed forces' clout.

China has never acknowledged obtaining the refueling technology. Asked to
confirm or deny the acquisition of the technology, the Foreign Ministry
took two days before providing this terse response, "The reports you raise
are inconsistent with reality."

But diplomats and military specialists are virtually certain that Beijing
has acquired the technology. They say China apparently intends to use
aerial refueling to enforce its claims to territories in the South China
Sea, which extends 800 miles south of the nearest populated Chinese
territory.

A senior Chinese official said in an interview that the nation's military
technology would never be used for aggression. But some countries are
nervous, noting that a few months ago China reportedly pledged its full
military force to back petroleum exploration in the disputed area.

China is also building a new generation of destroyers and frigates that
will significantly increase its navy's abilities. And military leaders are
said to be considering the purchase of an aircraft carrier from Ukraine.

Most military experts believe that China obtained the refueling technology
from Iran. Some believe that Pakistan and Israel may have also helped.

China appears to have learned how to use aerial refueling only in the last
year or so and faces enormous obstacles in fully incorporating it.

One problem is that China's F-7 fighter cannot be adapted to in-flight
refueling. And it is uncertain if the longer-range F-8-2 is adaptable.

But China is taking delivery of 24 Russian-made Su-27 fighters this year,
which can be refueled in flight. And China's H-6 bomber can apparently be
adapted for aerial refueling.

The air force is believed to have converted a Yun-8 transport plane into
an aerial fuel tanker, and it may also have similarly converted an H-6.

"With the Su-27's and a tanker, it's possible to have a normal operation
over the South China Sea or over South Korea or anywhere," a Western
diplomat said.

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5. China - The Masses Take the Capitalist Road ......................... 66
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From: XU Ming Yang
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald 8/27/92
By: Yvonne Preston

In 40 years of relentless propaganda the one slogan to strike a real chord
with the Chinese is Deng Xiaoping's "to get rich is glorious". Since the
heady early days of the Cultural Revolution, they have seldom exhibited
such frenzied enthusiasm.

The riots in Shenzhen this month over new share issues provided dramatic
evidence that the determination to make a quick speculative profit has not
been dulled in the Chinese mind, despite decades of communist preaching.

Recent figures show 20,000 of the Communist Party's 50 million members are
into making profits and have registered as private entrepreneurs. The
proportion is 0.4 per cent of the party membership, but the fact that the
party allows so many to take the so-called capitalist road is evidence of
the revolutionary economic change sweeping China.

The Communist Party secretary of the foreign languages department of
Beijing Forestry University recently began selling meat pies to students to
make some money on the side, reported Beijing's "Evening News".

Tens of thousands of Beijingers are moonlighting in second jobs. A primary
schoolteacher sells corn on the cob from a cooking pot on the street when
school is out, keeping a nervous eye open for one of her students to
appear. A woman textile worker buys 50 copies of the evening paper every
day on her way home from work and sells them on the underground train at a
five-cent profit.

Since Deng Xiaoping took his celebrated trip south to praise it for its
quasi-capitalist success and confer his blessing on the stock market,
private business of all kinds have been sprouting.

Deng called on people to "liberate their thinking". It seems as if the only
test of a good communist cadre these days is whether he's turning a profit
for his unit. The People's Liberation Army is part owner of the luxurious
Palace Hotel in Beijing, with its fountains, marble staircase and
Rolls-Royces. The Ministry of Public Security operates two stores in
Beijing selling bulletproof vests, walkie-talkies, handcuffs and electric
cattle prods.

Bo Xicheng, son of a party elder and revolutionary "immortal', Bo Yibo,
surprised residents of Beijing by voluntarily resigning his job as
president of Beijing Tourist Bureau recently. He said it was time to
exercise his spirit and make better use of his knowledge and start a new
collectively owned hotel.

The only test of whether a money spinning venture is "socialist",
"capitalist" or ideologically correct, says the secretariat of the ruling
politburo, is the "three whethers": whether it will help develop productive
forces under socialism, whether it will enhance the overall national
strength of the socialist state and whether it will improve the living
standards of the people.

The pragmatism matches Deng's comments on the Shenzhen stock exchange in
January, as he surveyed the world from a revolving rooftop restaurant. Are
stock markets "capitalism's exclusive preserve? Can't they be a part of
socialism as well?"

An editorial in Outlook Weekly said the Government would no longer
interfere in enterprise operations, confining itself to macro-control of
the economy, taxation and interest rate adjustments.

You will find few ordinary Chinese to disagree with a policy which ousts
ideology and plumps for economic growth and personal enrichment.

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