From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: China News Digest (Global), Tue, 10/6/1992
Summary: CND
Keywords: CND
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date:  7 Oct 92 04:10:22 GMT

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                              (News Global)

                        Tuesday, October 6, 1992

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1. News Brief (2 Items) .................................................23
2. Chinese Leaders Gather Before Party Meeting ..........................70
3. Mandela Arrived in China and Gives Speech in Beijing University ......50
4. Police Detains Rock Musicians and Artists on Drug Suspicion ..........55
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1. News Brief (2 Items) .................................................23
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[REUTER, 10/1/92] TAIPEI -- Taiwan plans to ease a four-decade-old ban on
Chinese films, television programmes and publications, but commercial sales
remain banned, a government official said on Thursday. "We expect imports
of Chinese films and publications to be legalised in December or January
next year," an official of the Government Information Office said. But
imports will only be allowed on a case-by-case basis for academic research
or exhibition, he said. Draft rules on the imports are being reviewed by the
cabinet's Mainland Affairs Council, which formulates policy towards China.
(From: A CND Reader)
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[JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 10/4/92] TOKYO -- The leader of the governing
party's No. 2 faction, Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, will leave Tuesday for a four-day
visit to China for talks with Chinese leaders, party sources said Sunday.
Mitsuzuka, a one-time foreign minister, will be a Chinese government guest
and meet Foreign Minister Qian Qichen.  He also hopes to meet Communist
Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng. He hopes to discuss
with the Chinese leaders the promotion of youth exchanges and friendship
upon the 20th anniversary this year of the restoration of diplomatic ties
between Japan and China, the sources said. Mitsuzuka and current Foreign
Minister Michio Watanabe lost out to Kiichi Miyazawa in the 1991 race for
president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a post that carries with it
the post of prime minister. (From: Liu Jian)

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2. Chinese Leaders Gather Before Party Meeting ..........................70
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>From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 10/4/92

BEIJING -- China's Communist Party leaders will meet this week to approve
key decisions to be ratified at the upcoming national party congress,
highlighted by strong new endorsements of free-market economic reforms,
Chinese sources said Sunday.

The party's policy-making Central Committee, which numbers just over 170,
is to huddle beginning Monday at a guarded guest house compound in western
Beijing for about five days, the party and government sources said.

The so-called plenum of the Central Committee is a prelude to the party's
14th national congress, which is to open Oct. 12 and last about nine days.
The party convenes a congress about every five years to set key personnel
and policies.

In China's top-heavy political decision-making system, however, most of the
major decisions have already been outlined by senior officials and powerful
party elders, who have hammered out broad agreements during the past three
months.

The moves will be approved by the Central Committee and then essentially
ratified by the nearly 2,000 delegates to the congress.

"The delegates at the congress will basically just be eating, sleeping and
raising their hands a lot," said a Chinese official familiar with the
preparations.

According to sources with access to key documents prepared for the congress,
the meeting will enshrine senior leader Deng Xiaoping's revival of
market-oriented economic reforms with strong new endorsements, but not change
many top party officials.

Although Deng, 88, weighed in heavily this year on the key decisions for
what could be his last party congress, the sources said he was forced to
compromise with more hard-line leaders on some issues to win enhanced
approval for his policies.

Along with a keynote report by party General Secretary Jiang Zemin pointing
China firmly toward a "socialist market economy," the sources said party
documents would reflect new commitments to protecting pro-reform officials
from political attacks.

At the same time, they also appeared to confirm recent reports in the Hong
Kong media that the new Central Committee and Politburo will reflect a
generally more reformist cast.

The Politburo's Standing Committee, the pinnacle of official party power,
will likely be enlarged to seven members from the present six. Two
conservatives currently on the panel, Song Ping, 75, and Yao Yilin, 75, are
to step down, the sources said.

Premier Li Peng, a conservative, is to retain his slot, along with the
moderates Jiang and Qiao Shi and the reformist Li Ruihuan. Two new members
are reportedly Gen. Liu Huaqing, 76, a Deng ally in the military, and Hu
Jintao, 50, a moderate who was previously party secretary in Tibet.

Jiang is likely to receive some form of additional title or duties as a bid
to improve his flagging standing, and Qiao Shi, 68, who oversees the
country's security apparatus, may also be in line for new powers, the
sources said.

The Hong Kong reports said the seventh slot would be given to Vice Premier
Zhu Rongji, a leading reformist, but the sources said Zhu's appointment was
not yet finalized.

The sources also discounted reports last week saying Deng and party elder
Chen Yun, the godfather of China's economic conservatives, were seriously
ill.

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3. Mandela Arrived in China and Gives Speech in Beijing University ......50
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>From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 10/5/92

BEIJING (UPI) -- African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, visiting
the college whose students led the 1989 pro-democracy movement, Monday
saluted Chinese youths for their political activism and "commitment to human
progress" -- in apparent veiled praise of Tiananmen Square activists.

"The students and the youth of China were often in the forefront of.
historic struggles," Mandela told an audience at Beijing University.  "We
salute this great institution, its student body and its faculty --
both past and present -- for the courage they have displayed and their
commitment to human progress."

However, Mandela quickly claimed he had not been referring to the 1989
protests, but to 1919 student demonstrations, which -- while also led by
Beijing University students -- helped build the coalition that eventually
led to the 1949 victory of communists in China's civil war.

For years, the ANC has maintained close ties with China's Communist Party.
The black-emancipation group has incorporated much of communist strategy
into its longtime struggle against South Africa's whites-only government.

Monday, Mandela spoke under heavy police presence to some 400 carefully
picked students.

The well-behaved attendees represented a student body that has entered
Bejing University since 1989, when Chinese troops brutally crushed Tiananmen
Square protesters. Very few of the new crop of pupils are politically active.

During Monday's ceremony, school President Wu Shuqing told Mandela how much
the Chinese people support and respect the black leader's cause.

"The Chinese people have always been supporting the ANC and South African
people's just struggle against racial segregation, and have long had good
relations with the ANC," Wu said.

University officials also presented Mandela with an honorary law degree.

In a 40-minute acceptance speech, Mandela thanked China for its support for
the ANC's fight against apartheid.  "We salute the people of China, their
government and their political leadership for the contribution you have made
to the struggle of our people for democracy and freedom," the South African
leader said.

Mandela is on a six-day tour of China at the invitation of President Yang
Shangkun, who met him in welcoming ceremonies Sunday.

The official Xinhua news agency reported that at the welcoming, "Yang noted
that as early as the 1950s, the Chinese government and people gave staunch
support to the ANC in its struggle against apartheid."

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4. Police Detains Rock Musicians and Artists on Drug Suspicion ..........55
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>From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 10/4/92

BEIJING -- Chinese police have detained at least 30 young anti-establishment
musicians and artists on suspicion of using and selling drugs and have
allegedly employed beatings and coercion to force confessions, associates of
the detainees say.

During a month-long dragnet that apparently followed months of preparation
by authorities nationwide, the Beijing Public Security Bureau targeted the
tiny group of relatively Westernized artists and rock musicians.

Those detained included the lead singers of two of Beijing's best-known
rock bands and an undetermined number of the Uyghur ethnic minority group
residing in Beijing, according to friends and associates of the detainees.

The sources, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution, said police
systematically questioned and even beat some suspects, attempting to force
confessions and to obtain information on other suspects.

One detainee later released "was beaten up the first few days, but they left
him alone at the end," of his detention, one friend said.

With scant evidence, police have relied on cajoling and intimidation to
extract information from suspects. They have detained almost all those
captured for at least one week without informing their relatives, and no
charges have been brought so far.

Police claimed they knew the musicians and artists were using and selling
hashish and heroin, and were determined to jail some as an example, the
sources said.

Rapidly escalating drug use among young people in China in the past few
years has triggered a fierce backlash by the government, which once boasted
of having eradicated narcotics after the 1949 communist revolution.

But wealth and the "open-door" policy have rekindled drug abuse. Chinese
addicts number more than 300,000, according to the latest government figures,
and among drug users in one area of western Xinjiang Province, 80 percent
are between 14 and 28 years old, according to the state-run Xinjiang Daily.

Xinjiang is populated mostly by the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group. They
have been accused of growing and supplying drugs from Xinjiang to customers
in Beijing.

The latest roundup, which has shaken the capital's semi-underground
community of self-employed youth, is based on little more than suspicion,
the sources claimed.

"They made one guy go down a list and pick out the names of those people he
had used drugs with," said one friend angrily.

The small community of rock musicians and artists argue their long hair and
unkempt appearance made them stand out from ordinary Chinese and made them
an easy target for police.

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