From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: CND 30-7-92 THU
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Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 30 Jul 92 05:52:29 GMT

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                        Thursday, July 30, 1992

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1. News Brief (1 Item)..................................................11
2. China Dissident Claims Forced Psychiatric Drugging...................67
3. Chinese, Russian Police Cooperate on Cross-border Crime..............82
4. China Says It Signs Pact to Buy $130M of U.S. Vehicles...............36
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1. News Brief (1 Item)..................................................11
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[AP-DJ, 7/29] HONG KONG -- China's bustling Shenzhen stock exchange  plans
to issue at least 10 million yuan worth of new stocks on Aug. 8, a leading
Chinese-language newspaper reported Wednesday.  According to the  indepen-
dent  Ming  Pao newspaper, tens of thousands of people from all over China
are expected to descend on the southern city and wait for days in front of
brokerage  houses to snap up application forms to buy the shares.  The re-
port didn't say how many total shares would be  offered,  which  companies
would  offer  them,  or how many companies there would be. But earlier re-
ports have said that by year's end as many as 30 new companies,  or  about
double  the  current  number,  could list shares in Shenzhen and Shanghai,
China's two legal stock markets. (From: Huijie and Jian Liu)

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2. China Dissident Claims Forced Psychiatric Drugging...................67
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From:    Tina Tong, <ttong@attmail.com>
Source:  Reuters, 7/28/92
By:      Janet Snyder

A Chinese dissident arrested  last  month  while  commemorating  the  1989
Tiananmen  Square  massacre says in a smuggled letter he has been confined
to a mental hospital and forcibly given psychiatric drugs.

Wang Wanxin, 42, was detained on June 3 in the Beijing square after unfur-
ling  a banner calling for a favourable reassessment of the pro- democracy
movement.

His protest was made on the eve of the third  anniversary  of  the  bloody
crackdown on student-led demonstrations.

A relative who brought the letter out told reporters on Tuesday  Wang  was
being held in Beijing's Fangshan county psychiatric hospital.

No charges have been filed against him, the relative said.

Wang appealed in the  letter  to  the  United  Nations  Secretary  General
Boutros  Boutros-Ghali, U.S. President George Bush and other world leaders
to rescue him.

He attested to his sanity but said the government treated dissidents  like
him  like  mental patients "in the same way as gulag in the old Soviet Un-
ion."

He accused the hospital of forcing him to take medication.

"I am not a psychiatric patient but they are giving me  medication  every-
day,"  Wang said in the letter.  "They are forcibly administering drugs to
me."

"They are trying all the time to destroy my body and my spirit."

"I urgently need your help and I need justice," Wang  said.   "I  have  no
power to control my life.  Please help me."

Wang's letter said Beijing police  held  him  until  June  30,  when  they
transferred him to the mental institution.

"Although various countries have different laws and criteria  for  judging
human rights, there should be a uniform standard for judging whether a man
is sane or not."

He was jailed twice in 1966 and 1976 for supporting paramount leader  Deng
Xiaoping at a time when Deng was in political disfavour.

Wang did not take part in the 1989 demonstrations that brought hundreds of
thousands  of  Chinese  onto  the  streets  of Beijing.  Hundreds, perhaps
thousands, were killed when the army was ordered to crush the protests.

Beijing rooted out dissidents suspected of taking part in the  1989  demo-
cracy movement.  The two so-called "black hands" behind the protests, Chen
Ziming and Wang Juntao, were each sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Student leader Wang Dan, one of dozens of students jailed after the crack-
down,  was  sentenced to four years.  Other sentences have gone as high as
20 years.

Last week Bao Tong, the most senior official arrested in  connection  with
the demonstrations, was found guilty of leaking state secrets and counter-
revolutionary incitement.

The former top aide to ex-Communist Part General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was
sentenced  to  nine  years  in  jail, but the judges ruled he will have to
serve only seven.

Because he has already been behind bars for three  years,  Bao  should  be
released in four years.

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3. Chinese, Russian Police Cooperate on Cross-border Crime..............82
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From:    A CND Reader
Source:  UPI, 7/27/92
By:      David R. Schweisberg

BEIJING -- National police in China and Russia are  exploring  cooperation
to  combat  an  increasing new export opened by recent economic and travel
freedoms in the two nations: cross-border crime.

The contacts have been initiated by police in Moscow and  Beijing  as  li-
beralized  policies  and a booming traffic in trade and travel between the
neighbors have led to an upswing in crime, Chinese and  Russian  officials
said in recent interviews.

Most of the offenses involved are minor or economic, the  officials  said.
But a small number of violent crimes have been reported and some organized
Russian and Chinese gangs have begun operating in the other nation's  ter-
ritory.

"Some offenders come from Russia to undertake criminal activity in China,"
said an official of China's Ministry of Public Security, the national pol-
ice agency. "And some Chinese offenders are going to Russia."

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the number of private traders from
China,  Russia  and  former Soviet bloc countries engaged in cross- border
business has become a flood, taking advantage of freer travel and  private
enterprise policies.

Thousands of traders transit each week on the trans-Siberian railway link-
ing  Beijing with Moscow and major European cities to its west.  Crowds of
others also move across more open borders between western  China  and  the
Central Asian Republics.

But some of the traders have also engaged in a rising  level  of  currency
speculation,  black  marketeering and illegal sales of railway tickets and
other commodities. Some border areas have reported an increase  in  thefts
and robberies.

Chinese officials cited a few cases of Russian women arrested for  prosti-
tution  in  China, as well as fights and other activity among both Russian
organized crime elements in China and Chinese gangs in Moscow.

"There are small groups of young people buying and selling in Moscow,  and
some times they violate laws and regulations," noted a Russian Embassy of-
ficial in Beijing. "Most of the crime is not serious.  "

Nonetheless, last month a small delegation of  police  officials  from  an
agency  of  the  Russian Interior Ministry visited Beijing, the first such
formal contact with Russia, the officials said.

"They talked about working together, technical  cooperation  and  in  some
other fields," the Russian Embassy official said.

Chinese officials said they explored cooperation with Soviet police  offi-
cials last year, sending a delegation to Moscow, but that lapsed after the
collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Chinese officials said the talks last month remained  largely  prelim-
inary, including discussions between criminal investigation specialists on
the feasibility of joint efforts.

Part of the problem, they said, are the sheer numbers of people involved.

Russian traders have become a common sight in Beijing, lugging huge duffel
bags  stuffed  with purchases. Many sell kitsch items like Russian watches
to earn cash and then buy Chinese-made jeans, clothes and  consumer  goods
to sell at home.

"Our country is now pursuing an open policy,"  said  a  Chinese  official.
"So the foreign influences will increase, and some problems as well."

After years of trying to act alone, Chinese police  have  also  in  recent
years  begun  expanding cooperative efforts with authorities in Hong Kong,
Burma, Thailand and other countries, largely aimed at recent increases  in
narcotics trafficking.

Most police cooperation between China and the United States was  suspended
after  the  1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, but some of those efforts may
resume soon. Cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has
continued on a limited basis.

According to U.S. and Chinese officials, the FBI  has  recently  indicated
interest in sending a delegation to China to discuss anti- crime measures.

U.S. officials have resisted Chinese requests for technology and other in-
vestigative aid, however, because of continuing concern over China's human
rights abuses.

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4. China Says It Signs Pact to Buy $130M of U.S. Vehicles...............36
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From:    Huijie
Source:  AP-DJ, 7/28/92

DETROIT -- The Chinese government said it has signed  contracts  with  the
Big  Three U.S. auto makers to buy at least $130 million worth of vehicles
and parts by year's end.

"We believe that the U.S. is the world leader in auto  manufacturing,  and
many  of  its  products meet the demands of China's users," said Gan Ziyu,
vice chairman of the Chinese state planning commission.

While the Chinese announcement said  the  deal  was  worth  $130  million,
amounts  given  in  news  releases from the individual auto makers totaled
$149 million.  There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy.

Chrysler Corp., which has two joint ventures in  China,  got  the  biggest
contract,  saying it was worth more than $68 million. General Motors Corp.
said its contract is worth $48.9 million. Ford Motor Co. said it will sell
$32 million worth of cars.

Chrysler will send 1,700 fully built Dodge Maxi wagons and  Dodge  Caravan
minivans,  1,500  Jeep Cherokee kits, and 2.2-liter engine parts. The Maxi
and Caravan are made in Windsor, Ontario,  and  the  Cherokee  in  Toledo,
Ohio.

GM will sell 2,708 minivans and utility vehicles. The deal includes  1,590
Chevrolet  Lumina  APV  minivans from North Tarrytown, N.Y.; 300 Chevrolet
Sportvans from Flint, Mich.;  300  Chevrolet  Suburbans  from  Janesville,
Wis.; and 518 GMC Jimmy utility trucks from Moraine, Ohio.

Ford will sell 3,010 of its 1993 Tempo cars built in Kansas City, Mo.  The
order is equal to about one week's production there.

GM and Chrysler have joint ventures operating in China. Both send kits  of
automobile  parts  to  China for assembly there. Chrysler also has a long-
term technology transfer license and engine parts  supply  agreement  with
First Automobile Works in Changchun.

Ford had no current deals with China, spokeswoman Lin Cummins said.

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