From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: CND-EP 23-7-92 THU
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Date: 23 Jul 92 06:32:23 GMT

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===================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  ===================
                               July 23, 1992

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1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................ 14

2. My Father Is No Enemy of China:
   A Letter from Bao Tong's Son in the U.S. ............................ 82

3. Report: Global Chinese Students' Federation Second Symposium
         on the Future of China in the 21st Century and  Taiwan  Tour... 76

4. Russia Fails to Assure Japan of Intention to Return Islands ......... 29
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1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................ 14
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[7/12/92] In the recent Olympic Physics Match, held in Helsinki of Finland,
China gets five golden medals. Thirty-eight countries took part in the match
with each country allocated five participants. In the record list, five
chinese student take the first, the third, the fourth, the seventh and the
eleventh place. (From: Qin Zhengdi)
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[7/13/92] Last saturday, Helsinki Cup soccer game was ended by Chinese boys
winning the Cup of 14-year class. The other age-classes were won by Brazil
and Taiwan. The match was not professional but aimed at increasing the
interest of children to soccer. This is the first time  that china got the
Cup. The chinese team was from Locomotive sport association which is under
Railway Administration. The biggest newspaper in finland, Helsinki Sonamat,
gave a full report.(From Xiaohau Yu)

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2. My Father Is No Enemy of China:
   A Letter from Bao Tong's Son in the U.S. ............................ 82
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>From:  Eddie Cheng, <echeng@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Source: The New York Times, July 21, 1992 
        By Bao Pu

[CND Editor's Note: Mr.Bao Tong, former chief aide to Zhao Ziyang, has been
sentenced to 7  years  in prison,  according to  reports  by news agencies.
Please read July 22's CND-Global for more information on the  sentencing of
Mr. Bao Tong.]

[NYT's Note: Bao Pu is a  graduate student in  computer engineering at  New
Jersey Institute of Technology]

Kearny, N.J.  -  Bao Tong,  my father, is  to go on  trial today in Beijing
after nearly  three  years of  detention  without  charge.   The  case  has
attracted considerable international  attention because my father  was  the
top aide to  the ousted Communist Party chief, Zhao Ziyang, who sympathized
with the  students  in Tiananmen Square.  His  trial may  have implications
both for Mr.  Zhao and for the fate of economic and social reform.

I want people to see my  father for himself,  to understand his strength of
character and how his hopes and  beliefs have been trampled on to serve the
ambitions of others.

As Mr. Zhao's chief of  staff,  Bao  Tong was deputy director of the  State
Commission  for  Economic  Reform  from  1980  to  1987.   This  commission
developed policies that successfully dissolved thousands of communes, which
had stifled the  productivity  of some  800  million  farmers for more than
three decades.

In cities, primitive market systems were set up and nurtured.  A few cities
were  opened  for  foreign  investment.   Deng  Xiaoping's  intentions  for
economic reform were carried out with great care.

My father ardently  believed in the necessity  of  political reforms.  From
1987 to 1989, he was the director of the Political Reform  Research Center,
a  research and  policy-making institution.  He was in charge of developing
an extensive program for reform, including  plans for separating the powers
of party and state, setting up  a fair and  equitable civil service  system
and promoting democratic procedures in party and government.

The  market system  grew  while the old economic  system slowly  dissolved.
Privatization took place in various ways.  Public property first started to
fall into the hands of the  most impoverished, who were also the most eager
for change.  But those  with the right  connections in  the old bureaucracy
had the best access to new opportunities, and the use of bureaucratic power
for  financial  gain  became  incredibly  tempting.  Some  made  outrageous
fortunes in comparison  to  average  wages.  Anger brewed  among  those who
still depended  on  the old system;  to them  it  appeared that the  reform
mostly benefited corrupt bureaucrats.

The profound social changes that resulted from the initial economic reforms
made the reformers  vulnerable.  The proposals for political reform sharply
aggravated the  party's  internal  struggles.   Recognized  reformers  were
personally attacked as supporters of "bourgeois liberalism."

In the spring of  1989,  the people's  anger  and  impatience  with  reform
expressed itself in the students' pro-democracy movement.  Conservatives in
the leadership  seized this  as  a pretext to  overthrow  the  faction that
threatened them.  Zhao Ziyang was ousted and Bao Tong was arrested and held
near Beijing in Qin Cheng, a special prison for political prisoners.

My father considered economic inequities unavoidable in the early stages of
reform and felt that corruption was dangerous to its progress.  He strongly
believed that regimes  that  become  autocratic are bound to degenerate and
that personal gain was incompatible  with serving the public  interest.  He
persisted, aware of the precariousness of his position.

In 1987 and 1989,  he quietly endured numerous political attacks, hoping to
avoid  any  ideological controversies  that  might  destroy  the  chance to
proceed with reform.   He  was attacked  by the  old  guard  as dangerously
radical and criticized by impatient young reformers as too cautious.

He continued to push for reform, despite what  he  saw as  the  inescapable
predictment  of all  reformers of a Communist  system.  As with  Mikhail S.
Gorbachev, attacks would come from all sides -- from old party veterans and
from the  people, whose  lives were suddenly disturbed by the economic  and
social instability that inevitably accompanies change.

Bao Tong's persistent efforts to grapple with seemingly clashing viewpoints
and his personal  sacrifice for a  vision of a better future for the people
of China  exemplifies the kind of courage  and strength respected by people
everywhere.  My father's  trial is not just a political  event.  It  is  an
attack  on  values  that have universal respect --  individual  courage and
self-sacrifice for a greater good.

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3. Report: Global Chinese Students' Federation Second Symposium
         on the Future of China in the 21st Century and  Taiwan  Tour... 76
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Source: Andy Shi, 7/13/92, forwarded by Elizabeth Chien

Taipei--The Global Chinese Students' Federation's second "Symposium on  the
future  of China in the 21st century" and the Second Taiwan Tour were offi-
cially inaugurated at 3:17  p.m.  today  at  the  Grand  Hotel  in  Taipei,
Taiwan's equivalent to Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.

Invited to address the opening ceremony were representatives from a  number
of government department officials, and deputy of the National Assembly.  A
delegate from each of the participating overseas Chinese Students' &  Scho-
lars'  Federatons  and  former  pro-democracy  activists Wang Chaohua, Feng
Congde and Wu Renhua also made speeches during the second half of the open-
ing  program.  Dr.  Jianguo  Pang,  associate professor of Sociology at the
National Taiwan University, was the supervisor of activities and  acted  as
master of ceremony.

"The ultimate goal of the "Taiwan Tour" is not to have a  Taiwan  Tour  any
more."   said  Shincheng Yeh, President of the Taiwan Chinese Youth League,
main sponsor of the fifteen-day conference and tour, "we  hope  youth  from
both  sides  of  the  Taiwan  Strait  can  eventually move freely."  Taiwan
Chinese Youth League is an inter-varsity organization consisting of  gradu-
ate  and  undergraduate  students. Thirty-two government and non-government
organizations are listed as co-sponsors of the events.

A total of forty-five mainland Chinese from N. America, Japan,  and  Europe
will  be  participating  the "Taiwan Tour," twenty-six of them are selected
authors of academic papers.  The symposium has been scheduled to take place
at  the  Normal University.  The whole series of activities will last until
26th of July. 
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THE LONG MARCH FOR AN ASPIRATION

Taipei, 7/13 -- It has been four days since the first mainland Chinese stu-
dents arrived in Taipei for the second "Taiwan Tour."  In the past few days
over twenty student volunteers from a number of universities in Taipei have
been  working  day  and  night to receive their counterparts from the other
side of the Strait.

Last night, during a reception session for  the  participants,  the  Taiwan
students  presented  a big birthday cake to celebrate the first birthday of
the "Taiwan Tour."  Miss Yi Wan, Chief Executive of  the  Tour,  started  a
hilarious  singing  and  performing  session by dedicating to the group the
song "Love in the Open."

The preparation for the event dates back to September 1991 when the  Taiwan
Students'  Association  was renamed the Taiwan Chinese Youth League (Zhong1
Guo2 Quing1 Nian2 Tuan2 Jie3 Hui4) and registered with  the  Department  of
Internal  Affairs.   Recognizing the success of the first "Taiwan Tour" and
the importance of communication and fellowship between students  from  both
side  of  the  Taiwan Strait, the executives decided to organize the second
tour.

Until they finally received public donations,  executives  of  the  student
organizations  spent  over a million NT out of their own pockets.  "We were
so frustrated  that  we  almost  gave  up,"  recalled  Mr.  Shincheng  Yeh,
president  of  the Youth League, who just passed the oral examination for a
Master's degree in environmental engineering.

Given the political status quo across the Strait and the  fact  that  there
exists  no  formal  diplomatic  relationship  between Taiwan and most other
countries in the world, obtaining travel permits for the mainlanders was  a
very  complicated  process.  Student leaders and their co-workers had to go
to the various government departments over and over again.   Many  mainland
students and scholars seemed to be in the habit of putting things off until
the last minute, adding to last-minute tension.

For many mainlanders it was moving to hear that in captalistic Taiwan there
was  an average of five to ten students volunteers for this project for the
last four months.  Fatigue was not a concern, "we want to see everyone come
and  have  a good time." said Miss Chungxiao Yin, a graduate student at the
Taiwan University majoring in political science and one of the  most  dedi-
cated workers at the conference and the tour.

Yet the hard work is not over for the hosts. In the next two weeks of trav-
elling and visiting they are bound to be busy taking care of their mainland
brothers and sisters.

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4. Russia Fails to Assure Japan of Intention to Return Islands ......... 29
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>From: Huijie
Source: AP 7/16/92

TOKYO - Japan got no encouragement in 2 days of talks that a territorial
dispute with Russia will be resolved before President Boris Yeltsin visits
in September, officials said Thursday.

Several small islands were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War
II.

The conflict has blocked major Japanese aid for Russia's struggling economy.

In meetings Wednesday and Thursday, Japanese and Russian officials worked
out part of Yeltsin's schedule for his Tokyo visit, including talks with
Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa Sept. 13-14, a Foreign Ministry official
said.

But on the islands, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Kunadze said his
country's domestic situation made that issue complex, said the official.

Kunihiko Saito, Japan's deputy foreign minister, reiterated the policy of
linking a solution of the islands issue to normalization of relations.

Officials said Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe met with Kunadze and
stressed that Japan wasn't demanding an immediate return of the islands off
northern Japan. Watanabe said Japan wanted only for Moscow to make clear it
intends to return the islands.

Kunadze was quoted as saying Russia would pursue a foreign policy based on
the principles of law and justice.

So far, Japan has promised $2.65 billion to Russia and other former Soviet
republics, mostly in import and investment credits.

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