From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
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Subject: CND 31-7-92 FRI
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Date: 31 Jul 92 03:48:22 GMT
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                             (News Global)

                         Friday, July 31, 1992

[Editor's Note: for Barcelona Olympics news, please read CND Oplympics
                Special issue dated July 31, 1992]


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1. News Brief (2 Items).................................................22
2. China Backs U.N. Efforts in Iraq.....................................36
3. U.S. Senator Dole Urges Bush to Turn up Pressure on China............43
4. Peking Circus Makes Its U.S. Debut...................................65
5. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #70 (cm9207e).....................25
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1. News Brief (2 Items).................................................22
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[AP-DJ, 7/29] BEIJING  --  An  international  banking  consortium  led  by
Spain's  Instituto de Credito Official will loan China 160 million dlrs to
upgrade a steel plant, an official Chinese newspaper  reported  Wednesday.
The  consortium  includes  French and British banks, the China Daily said,
but it did not identify them.  The newspaper said the loan  is  the  first
part  of  a  320-million-dlr  mixed  loan  program promised by the Spanish
government in January. The loans will all go toward  construction  of  the
No.  3  Steel  Plant  at  the Wuhan Iron and Steel Corp. in central China.
This will enable the company to increase its annual steel output from  the
present  4.6  million  tons  to  6  million  tons by 1995, it said.
(From: Huijie)
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[AP-DJ,7/30] BEIJING -- Iran, Bangladesh and Egypt are shopping  in  China
for  nuclear  power  plants,  an official Chinese newspaper said Thursday.
The China Daily newspaper said the three nations are  exploring  deals  to
import 300-megawatt plants modeled on China's first on-line nuclear plant.
China, generally secretive about its  international  nuclear  cooperation,
acknowledged  those deals belatedly only after Western experts claimed the
facilities were for military use. Any reactor sales are  still  likely  to
arouse  international  concern  because of fears that the three countries,
especially Iran, are trying to develop nuclear weapons. (From: Jian Liu)

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2. China Backs U.N. Efforts in Iraq.....................................36
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From:    A CND Reader
Source:  UPI, 7/30/92

BEIJING -- Chinese President Yang Shangkun has called for full implementa-
tion  of  the  United Nations Security Council measures taken against Iraq
following the Gulf War, an official news report said Thursday.

"China has continually tried to promote the implementation of the  U.   N.
Security  Council's  resolutions and will continue to play its role in the
international arena," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Yang as  say-
ing.

Yang made the remarks in a meeting Wednesday with Bader Jassim Al- Yacoub,
a  special  envoy  of the Emir of Kuwait, who is in Beijing for talks with
Chinese officials and is expected to ask for China's support for continued
sanctions against Iraq.

Yang did not specifically mention Iraq  or  the  latest  controversy  over
Baghdad's resistance to U.N. inspectors searching for materials related to
Iraqi weapons capability, but he noted that more than  a  year  after  the
Gulf War "peace in the region had still not been achieved."

"It is our view that the  U.N.  Security  Council's  relevant  resolutions
should be implemented completely," Yang said.

The statement appeared to pledge continued Chinese  support  for  all  the
measures  being  enforced against Iraq, including for the teams U.N.  spe-
cialists who have been combing Iraq for military installations  that  sur-
vived the 1991 Gulf War attacks.

China is one of the five permanent members of the  Security  Council,  but
has  often  been  reluctant to support sanctions against other nations and
had maintained good relations with Iraq before it invaded Kuwait in August
1990.

Beijing supported the U.N. decision to implement sanctions against Iraq in
1990  but  abstained  in  the  vote  authorizing the use of military force
against Baghdad, allowing the U.S.-led coalition to attack but not public-
ly endorsing the action.

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3. U.S. Senator Dole Urges Bush to Turn up Pressure on China............43
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From:    Huijie and Jian Liu
Source:  AP-DJ, 07/30/92

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole and a key Democratic
Party   supporter  of  the  administration's  China  policies  have  urged
president George Bush to "ratchet up the pressure" on China over its human
rights  and  weapons  proliferation  record  as a condition for continuing
favorable tariff treatment.

In a letter to Bush, the Kansas Republican plus Senate Trade  Subcommittee
Chairman  Senator  Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, and six other Senators
who have generally backed Bush's approach to dealing with China,  strongly
urged  the president to take a much harder stance on forcing China to com-
ply with international norms on human rights, weapons  proliferation,  nu-
clear testing and trade practices.

The letter comes as the Senate is preparing to consider  legislation  that
would  place a range of conditions on the extension of most favored nation
(MFN) trade status to China in 1993. The bill, sponsored by Senate Majori-
ty Leader George Mitchell, Democrat of Maine, is the Senate counterpart of
legislation overwhelmingly approved last week by the House of  Representa-
tives that would place conditions on a continuation of China's MFN status.

While the eight senators stopped short of saying they wouldn't again  back
a  Bush  veto of MFN conditionality legislation, their letter suggests the
President faces a tougher fight this time around and may need to  do  more
in order to prevail.

Recent events on Capitol Hill suggest that U.S. legislators, in  an  elec-
tion  year,  are  feeling increasing discomfort over China's policies in a
number of areas.

The letter to Bush, authored by Baucus, was released at a  Senate  Finance
Committee  hearing  on  the China MFN issue at which senior administration
officials appeared.  "Everyone seeks changes in China," the letter states.
"No one is satsified with the pace of reform."  But it also added that the
Bush administration "could counter Chinese foot-dragging by more vigorous-
ly prosecuting the current Section 301 negotiations," a reference to ongo-
ing talks over U.S.  market access to China.

The senators urged Bush "to take additional steps  addressing  our  common
concerns with China." And they requested that the administration provide a
"comprehensive update" on the China negotiations and other issues  related
to  the  region, including Britain's transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese con-
trol in 1997 and the status of Taiwan's application for membership in  the
General Agreements on Tariff and Trade.

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4. Peking Circus Makes Its U.S. Debut...................................65
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From:    A CND Reader
Source:  UPI, 7/29/92
By:      Penny Nelson Bartholemew

CHICAGO (UPI) -- There are no elephants at this circus.

No lions, tigers and bears, oh my!

Instead, the Peking Circus consists of 12 acts  featuring  42  of  China's
very  best  acrobats  and  contortionists, hand-picked by the government's
Performing Arts Agency. After 35 years of performing all around the world,
the  troupe kicked off its North American tour recently in Chicago follow-
ing two and a half weeks of preview shows in Reno.

The four-month tour also includes shows at the  Wolf  Trap  Farm  Park  in
Vienna,  Va.;  the  Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, N.J.; and the Greek
Theater, Los Angeles.

While the Peking Circus doesn't have any animal acts, some of the perform-
ers  do  dress  up  like  lions  for the Lion Dance, a traditional form of
Chinese entertainment. Ringmaster Grace Chang, who joined  the  circus  in
Reno, said the same 12-year-old boys who perform as lion cubs also perform
as clowns.

"They're really cute, they do a lot of  wild  stuff,  they  do  a  Charlie
Chaplin-type act, no language," she said.

Which is probably a good thing, since all of the circus artists speak only
Chinese.   And   that's   why   Chang,  a  Chinese-born,  English-speaking
actress/magician who now lives in New York City, was hired as  ringmaster.
Someone  was  needed  to  introduce the acts to the audience, to interpret
what was happening and to explain the history, the various levels of  dif-
ficulty and, yes, the mystery to the American audiences.

"China has a long history of being mysterious,  being  very  beautiful,  "
said  Chang.  "That's  why when the American audiences see the acts in the
circus, they always feel (like they're seeing) something mysterious."

Chang said one of the most common questions audience members ask  is  "how
did they do that?"

The slogan of the Peking Circus is "Witness the Impossible."

Another common reaction is that,  "We  feel  like  we've  visited  China."
Chang credits the scenery used during the Peking Circus performances, sets
that include pagodas and statues of lions just like the  ones  that  stand
guard in the Forbidden City area of Beijing.

The Chinese circus tradition dates back  more  than  2,000  years  to  the
period of the Warring States. While many kinds of acrobats and contortion-
ists existed during the Ch'in Dynasty  (255-207  B.C.),  it  was  the  Han
Dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.) that saw the artform reach new heights and be-
come popular entertainment. During this period, the circus evolved into  a
lengthy show consisting of a variety of tumbling, juggling and magic arts.

Chang was born into a Chinese show business family. Her father, television
personality  Baoting  Chang, is China's equivalent of Johnny Carson. At an
early age, Chang began performing in the Chinese theater as a variety per-
former combining magic, song and dance.

Her talent and her English-speaking skills earned her a  full  scholarship
in  Theatrical  Arts at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Ia. She continued her
education at Hunter College in Manhattan.

Like her father, Chang also  works  as  a  talk-show  host  on  a  Chinese
community-access  cable channel in New York. But she frequently returns to
her native land for visits. She says the difference between New  York  and
China used to be striking, but no longer. "This year, I went back to China
from America and I saw a McDonalds in downtown (Beijing)," laughs Chang.

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5. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #70 (cm9207e).....................25
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>From: CND Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board < cnd-cm@djohn-sun.kent.edu >

                           Hua Xia Wen Zhai
                        (CND Chinese Magazine)
                              Issue #70
                            July 31, 1992

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1. Biography:  Today's Ba Jin (Part 1 of 2) .......................Mu Yi
2. Social Phenomenon:
   Chinese Coolies Being Trafficed to America ................Lin Jiabao
3. Essay:  Computer -- a Goodie, a Trouble-Maker as Well ...Shi Tiesheng
4. Journey of Life:  Two Brothers and Half a Sister ........You Qingyuan
5. New Stories in the World:  Quotations from Mr. Y ...........Liu Shahe
6. Classical Jokes:  (5 Items)
7. "We"(Wo3 Men2):  Written on the Day not Missing You ........Zhou Hong
8. Essay in Series:  To leave or to Stay (Part 3 of 3) ......Huo Yunping
9. Between Editor and Reader:
   Ending Statement for HXWZ Readers Survey No.1 ...HXWZ Editorial Board
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