From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: China News Digest (Global), Thu, 10/1/1992
Summary: CND
Keywords: CND
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date:  1 Oct 92 05:49:14 GMT

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                              (News Global)

                       Thursday, October 1, 1992

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1. News Brief (4 Items) .................................................34
2. Bush's Veto of Conditional MFN Legislation Overriden by U.S. House ...24
3. Li Peng Pledges Further Reform on China's National Day ...............31
4. Burma Road Heroin Breeds Addicts: AIDS on China's Border .............51
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1. News Brief (4 Items) .................................................34
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[AP-DJ, 9/29/92] HONG KONG -- China's state-owned oil group, China National
Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), has obtained rights to develop oil reserves in
Canada and the U.S., and is in talks to exploit a field in South America,
according to an official report. (From: Liu Jian)
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[PR Newswire, 9/29/92] HIGHLAND PARK, Mich., U.S. -- A unique cooperative
agreement between companies representing four countries led to Monday's
grand opening of the Jeep(R) Cambodia Service, Parts and Training Center
in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  Jeep Cambodia is a cooperative venture between
Chrysler Corporation, U.S.A.; Beijing Jeep Corporation, People's Republic
of China; RM Asia Consultants Co., Ltd., Thailand; and RM Asia Co, Ltd.,
Cambodia.  In addition to providing service and parts for Jeep Cherokee
vehicles as part of Chrysler and Beijing Jeep's warranty program, Jeep
Cambodia will be selling Jeep Cherokee sport utility vehicles produced at
Beijing Jeep.  (From: Liu Jian)
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[AP-DJ, 9/30/92] WASHINGTON, USA --The World Bank's low-interest lending
arm has approved a 60-million-dlr technical assistance credit to support
reforms in banking regulation and supervision by China's central bank.
The 35-year credit from the International Development Association (IDA)
represents the bulk of a co-financing facility that includes 4.6 million
dlrs from the Japanese government. (From: Liu Jian)
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[AP-DJ, 9/30/92] HONG KONG -- Hong Kong-based Nam Tai Electronics Inc.
(NTAIF) said it is planning to expand its marketing into the China consumer
market to take advantage of the economic growth and expansion in that country.
In a press release, the company said it will be selling products for its OEM
customers in China, and the products will be manufactured in Nam Tai's factory
in China. Nam Tai, which also markets products under its own brand names of
Fortec, Santron and Namtai, said it currently has no sales in the Chinese
market. (From: Liu Jian)

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2. Bush's Veto of Conditional MFN Legislation Overriden by U.S. House ...24
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From: Liu Jian
Source: AP-DJ, 9/30/92

WASHINGTON -- The House voted to override President Bush's veto of
legislation that would impose limits on China's status as a Most Favored
Nation (MFN) for trade.

The Senate is scheduled to vote on the matter tomorrow, but is not expected
to rebuff the president.

The bill, approved by the House on a 345-74 vote, would require the
president to certify that China is making significant overall progress in
its policies on human rights, trade and weapons proliferation. Without
certification, the president would be precluded from extending unilateral
MFN status to China when the matter comes up for renewal next June.
All state-owned Chinese firms would lose MFN, which allows a firm to export
to the U.S. under the lowest possible tariffs.

Congress has battled with the president over China since the militant
crackdown on democratic protesters in Bejing in 1989. Strong majorities in
both the House and Senate oppose the president's policy of constructive
engagement with the Chinese. However, Bush has been able to muster a strong
enough minority in the Senate to prevent limits on China MFN from being
enacted into law.

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3. Li Peng Pledges Further Reform on China's National Day ...............31
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From: Liu Jian
Source: AP-DJ, 9/30/92

BEIJING -- On the eve of an important Communist Party meeting, Premier Li
Peng marked China's National Day with pledges for more economic reforms.

In his annual address, Li also singled out the U.S. for criticism, blaming
Washington for strained bilateral relations in recent years.

"No act that ... interferes in China's internal affairs is acceptable," Li
said. Trade disputes and China's human rights record have prevented Sino-U.S.
relations from improving in the three years since Beijing's crackdown on the
1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement.

Li made special mention of North Korea, saying China's "unshakable policy
(is) to constantly develop our traditional friendly relations.":

Beijing established diplomatic relations with North Korea's rival on Aug.
24, and South Korean President Roh Tae-woo left Beijing on Wednesday after
a historic summit meeting.

The focus of Li's 20-minute speech was China's economic development, which
he called the nation's "central task."

He praised senior leader Deng Xiaoping's economic reform measures, saying
the whole nation has been inspired by the 88-year-old leader's calls early
this year for bold experimentation.

The reception commemorates the Oct. 1, 1949 founding of China's Communist
government. Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk and his wife, and former
British Prime Minister Edward Heath were among the foreigners in attendance.

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4. Burma Road Heroin Breeds Addicts: AIDS on China's Border .............51
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From: Liu Jian
Source: WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/29/92
Reportor: James McGregor

RUILI COUNTY, YUNNAN -- Climb down the bamboo ladder from Zhuang Xiangsai's
woven-straw platform home, stroll 20 minutes along a muddy water-buffalo
path between rice paddies and you cross the unguarded border to Burma.

Hike for two more hours, past lush fruit orchards that fold into emerald
foothills, and you encounter the most exotic and toxic garden in the world:
the poppy fields of the Burmese highlands, source of 80% of the world's opium.

Zhuang no longer makes the journey to Burma, where heroin costs 50 cents a
fix. He got AIDS injecting the drug with dirty needles. The skeletal
42-year-old peasant now lies on the floor of his hut, eating raw opium
pellets, smoking cigarettes and choking back an explosive cough, a symptom of
the disease that will carry him to his grave.

Zhuang is an early casualty of a heroin plague -- and an incipient epidemic
of acquired immune deficiency syndrome -- spreading across China. The famous
Burma Road, hacked out of the jungle nearly 50 years ago by Allied troops, has
become a major artery for smuggling heroin out of Burma. As bundles of the
drug traverse China on the way to the U.S. and Europe, more and more is
spilling out. Addiction and disease are rising, not only along China's border
but among those most affected by China's rapid transition from Marxism to
market-oriented economics: the nouveau riche and the newly dispossessed.

Yet China's modernization, an odd mixture of progressive economics and
medieval politics, has left this vast country ill-equipped to cope with such
a complicated social problem.

The rigid Maoism that four decades ago virtually wiped out China's historic
curse of opium addiction is crumbling as tens of millions of entrepreneurs,
workers and farmers, thanks to economic liberalization, have escaped the
strong central government controls that once dominated their lives. But
China's lingering police-state mentality leaves little room for the kinds of
creative solutions the West favors in addressing social maladies such as drug
addiction.

The police take the chief responsibility for curing China's drug addicts,
and they are prescribing the same cure they gave democracy activists in 1989:
beat them into submission. It doesn't work. Drug treatment specialists say the
relapse rate for police detoxification centers in China is almost 100%. As a
result, some health specialists now are trying to come up with private
alternatives.

The government says China has about 150,000 heroin users. But Chinese
drug-treatment specialists say this number greatly understates the truth,
though by how much is unclear. They estimate that in the city of Kunming
alone, the capital of Yunnan province, bordering Burma, there are 60,000
heroin addicts. And the number is growing.

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