From: matloff@mole.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: send vote now  --  final days of SURVEY
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:09:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.44856
Organization: Division of Computer Science, UC Davis


This will be the last few days of my presidential survey that I posted
earlier; I hope to post the results by Monday.

EVERYONE is welcome to vote in this survey, regardless of citizenship.

I am enclosing the survey below.

   Norm









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Please send me your answers to this survey by e-mail.  It doesn't
matter what your status is, e.g. U.S. citizen or not; everyone's 
opinion is solicited and welcome.  I will announce the statistical
results after compiling them.

1.  Who do you hope wins the U.S. presidential election next month?

    (a)  Bill Clinton.
    (b)  George Bush.
    (c)  Ross Perot.

2.  The following are summaries of comments made by the three 
    presidential candidates in today's debate, on the question
    of continuing Most Favored Nation (MFN) status for China. 
    Please read them and then indicate which one you like best.

    (a)  Bill Clinton:  
    
	 The U.S. should support the students who protested in 
	 Tiananmen Square in 1989.  The U.S. has been too friendly 
	 with the Chinese government, and thus has been sending
	 both the student protestors and the Chinese officials
	 the wrong message.  Therefore the U.S. should place some
	 trade restrictions on trade with China if China doesn't
	 improve its human rights record.

    (b)  George Bush:

	 We have to make it very clear to the Chinese government
	 that we don't at all condone suppression of human rights.
	 But if we were to place restrictions on trade with China, we
	 would harm the people who are trying to bring about reforms
	 in the direction of capitalism and economic freedom.  We
	 would also do terrible harm to the people of Hong Kong.
	 Therefore there should not be restrictions on trade with
	 China.

    (c)  Ross Perot:

	 We have to be very careful:  On the one hand, we don't want 
	 to give the Chinese government the impression that we condone 
	 repression of dissent.  But on the other hand, capitalism is 
	 thriving in large parts of China, and the country has made a 
	 lot of progress.  The human rights issue will take care of 
	 itself, as the quite elderly Chinese leaders die off and are 
	 replaced by newer, more open-minded people.  China will be an
	 extremely important consumer of U.S. export products as it
	 grows, and we should do our best to develop economic relations
	 with China.
			
    Whose stand on the MFN issue do you like best?  (Please choose only
    one.)

    (a)  Bill Clinton.
    (b)  George Bush.
    (c)  Ross Perot.

3.  Please indicate your place of birth:

    (a)  China (i.e. PRC).
    (b)  Taiwan.
    (c)  Hong Kong
    (d)  U.S.
    (e)  Other.

Again, please reply by E-MAIL, to 

   matloff@heather.cs.ucdavis.edu

I will announce the statistical results.
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