From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Bo Xiong)
Subject: [News] Chinese Gov't Attacks U.S. Act Protecting Chinese Students
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 06:47:47 GMT

The following is carried in October 15's CND-Global:
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2. Chinese Government Attacks U.S. Act Protecting Chinese Students ......43
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From: A CND Reader 
Source: UPI, 10/14/92 [edited by CND]

BEIJING -- China assailed new U.S. legislation Wednesday granting refuge in
the United States to Chinese students, calling it a "grave step" that
undermines education and culture exchanges.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, in a statement carried by the
official Xinhua news agency, said the bill signed by President Bush last
week was "absolutely unacceptable."

The legislation was designed to provide a safe haven for Chinese dissidents
after the Beijing government's crackdown on the Tiananmen Square
pro-democracy movement on June 3-4, 1989, and largely affects thousands of
Chinese students in the United States.

It allows all Chinese nationals who arrived in the United States on and
before April 11, 1990 and have been staying there since to apply for 
permanent residency beginning next July unless the president determines it
is safe for them to return to China.

"This is a grave step on the part of the U.S. side that seriously
contravenes the spirit of the relevant agreements reached by China and the
U.S., undermines bilateral exchanges in the fields of education and culture
and obstructs the return of Chinese students," said the foreign ministry
spokesman.

"The allegation that it is unsafe for them to return to China and they face
political persecution is simply untenable," he added.

Lack of economic and political freedoms at home has cost China some of its
best and brightest. Only about a third of the students who have left since
the late 1970s have returned.

But the Chinese government has in recent months revived a campaign to try
to lure back students and scholars studying abroad, especially engineers,
researchers and others who could contribute to the country's economic
reform and modernization drive.

"It has been indicated on many occasions that no matter what their
political attitudes were, they are welcomed to return to work for the
socialist construction of the country and will be properly resettled," the
foreign ministry spokesman said.

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