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                          Thursday, December 24, 1992


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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................. 44
2. Bush Lifts Arms Embargo Against China ................................ 46
3. N. Korean Officials Lay Blame on China for Missing U.S. POWs ......... 32
4. After Election: Crisis for KMT ....................................... 59
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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................. 44
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[DJ, 12/23/92] BEIJING - China ordered France to close its Canton consulate
in a month in retaliation for France's reported plans to sell 60 Mirage
fighter planes to Taiwan. France hasn't confirmed the sale, but French and
Taiwanese news reports said French firms signed contracts in November.

Chinese firms also have stalled on planned deals with French companies. Some
big-ticket purchases have been canceled, included a planned purchase of six
Airbus passenger planes. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[San Jose Mercury News, 12/23/1992] -- The smuggled passengers on the ship
Manyoshi Maru finally ended their miserable trip (See yesterday's CND-G).
For the immediate future,the women will be housed at Santa Rita jail in
Dublin, the men will be detained at an INS facility in Los Angeles. Four of
the minors were released to San Francisco attorney John Wu, who said he will
connect them with their U.S. relatives, if they have any, and try to find
long-term accommodations for them. The four said their parents, farmers and
fishermen, borrowed $3,000 as a down payment for each child to board a small
boat in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, on Nov. 5. The next day, the ship docked
with the Manyoshi Maru on the open sea and they set sail for the U.S.A. "In
the last few days, we thought we were going to die," said Zhang Hang, 17.
(Forwarded by: Charles Mok)
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[AP-DJ, 12/23/1992] HONG KONG -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will fully
normalize relations with China next year and plans to boost annual lending
to between 1.2 billion U.S. dlrs and 1.3 billion dlrs, an official said
Wednesday. K.H. Moinuddin, senior economist with the bank, said in an inter-
view with AP-DJ that China's borrowings likely would approach those of the
bank's two largest borrowers Indonesia and India. This year's borrowings by
China will approach 900 million dlrs, Moinuddin said. He said 1992 has
marked a "more or less normalized" relationship between ADB and China after
the "temporary slowdown" in lending that followed Beijing's 1989 crackdown
on pro-democracy demonstrators. The bank lent about 500 million dlrs to
China in 1991, when it began reopening to Beijing after the Tiananmen Square
massacre. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[AP-DJ, 12/23/1992] HONG KONG -- Chinese threats to nullify all Hong Kong-
related business contracts after Beijing's takeover of the territory in 1997
violate international law and threaten Hong Kong's stability, the Hong Kong
Bar Association said today. "They suggest that constitutional provisions are
not taken seriously, and their interpretation may be subject to the whim of
prevailing political consideration. The statements endanger the continuation
of the rule of law both now and after 1997," the statement said.

In a nine-page statement, the Bar Association concluded China's threats vio-
lated numerous provisions in the Basic Law and Joint Declaration. "Article
160 of the Basic Law provides the vital protection of legal rights acquired
before 1997," the statement said. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)

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2. Bush Lifts Arms Embargo Against China ................................ 46
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian and a CND reader
Source: UPI 12/23, JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE (J.E.N) 12/22/1992

WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton indicated Tuesday that the United States could
use its economic clout to influence China's policy toward Hong Kong and pro-
mote freedom in China. In a related move, the administration of President
George Bush announced that it is unfreezing a number of arms deals with
China suspended in the aftermath of the violent crackdown of prodemocracy
movement in Beijing in 1989. "The president has decided it is in our
national interest to close out four cases of suspended Foreign Military
Sales" to China, the State Department announced late Tuesday.

"The president's decision closes out this arms sales agreement between the
United States and China," the department said. "We have no plans for new
arms sales to China." The statement said that President Bush has notified
Congress of his decision.

"These four FMS programs were suspended to demonstrate our deep concern
about the tragic events in China," the statement said. "We have made our
point. We now believe that contining to hold aging items after a three-and-
a-half-year suspension hinders rather than helps U.S. efforts to promote
cooperative PRC behavior in a range of areas."

The four programs covered by Bush's order involve an avionics upgrade for
the Chinese F-8 aircraft, equipment for a munitions production line, four
anti-submarine torpedoes and two artillery-locating radars. "The equipment
will be delivered as is, with no follow-on support, repairs, maintenance or
training by the United States," the department said.

Hours before Bush's decision was announced, President-elect Bill Clinton
told a news conference in Little Rock, Ark., that he will be firm in nego-
tiations with China.

Clinton said he supports efforts to "reach out to China, bring them into the
family of nations," and said he was "encouraged by the movement toward
market economics."

At the same time, Clinton said: "I do not support the repression that we saw
at Tiananmen Square. I do not support the use of prison labor to make pro-
ducts to export into our country or other countries. I do not support
violations of international arms treaties or the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction for economic or other purposes. And so I will do my best to
negotiate and to be firm and moving forward."

"We have shown good faith," Clinton said about the 15 billion dollar trade
deficit with China. "That should give us some ground for serious discussion
about what kind of world we want to live in and where we're going to go, the
kind of freedom the people of Hong Kong are going to have, what kind of
freedom the people of China are going to have and how we can move forward
together."

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3. N. Korean Officials Lay Blame on China for Missing U.S. POWs ......... 32
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Forwarded by: Jian Liu and Zhao Hua
Source: DJ 12/23, and AP 12/22/1992

Bob Smith, R-N.H., said hundreds of Americans, perhaps more, were taken to
China when American forces pushed the N. Korean troops back to the Yalu River.

"It gave us goose bumps to hear this," said Smith, vice chairman of the Sen-
ate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs, and the first U.S. senator to visit
North Korea, returned Tuesday from a weekend visit.

"It was something we've long suspected, but we've never had the proof. ...
Every single Korean official we talked to confirmed this."

The Los Angeles Times reported in July that dozens of U.S. POWs from the war
may have been subjected to medical experiments in China and some executed.
The Chinese have insisted they kept no American POWs.

Smith met Sunday with North Korean officials, including Yang Hyong Sop,
chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly, and Kang Sok Ju, vice chairman of
the assembly's Foreign Affairs Commission.

Smith said he was told the Chinese oversaw POW camps in North Korea and in
Manchuria, China. Smith said he saw photos of Chinese soldiers guarding
Americans.

"This is where the answers lie. The answers lie with China. We've got to
press them for information," said Smith. "I think the evidence is clear ...
they did go to Manchuria, were held and weren't returned. The Chinese owe
us an answer," he said.

Smith said his delegation, which included a State Department official,
toured the Korean-American War Museum in the capital of Pyongyang. They saw
only a few of the 70 or more rooms but were allowed to see reams of docu-
ments and effects of American servicemen.

Officials at the Pentagon and the State Department said Tuesday
they had no immediate response to Smith's findings.

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4. After Election: Crisis for KMT ....................................... 59
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Forwarded by: Tina Tong <skn1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Source: SCMP, 12/21/1992

The secretary-general of KMT, Dr James Soong, offered to resign in the wake
of the party's poor performance during Saturday's election. He took the
unusual step of holding himself responsible for KMT losses in the parliamen-
tary elections, when party support slipped to an unprecedented low of 53 per
cent. However, since it was candidates handpicked by Dr Soong and his mentor,
Mr Lee Teng-hui, who fared worst, his move has signalled the start of a no-
holds-barred power struggle within one of Asia's oldest political parties.

The setback sustained by the so-called Mainstream Faction, led by Mr Lee and
Dr Soong, could also spell dramatic changes in Taiwan's relations with the
mainland.

By last night, Mr Lee, who is eyeing the presidential election in 1996, had
not accepted the resignation of his chief strategist. He and his closest
advisers were plotting ways to counter the offensive mounted by the Non-Main-
stream Faction, whose candidates performed well in balloting.

Members of the Mainstream Faction, mostly native-Taiwanese who favour the
perpetuation of the island's status quo, or de facto independence, had dom-
inated Taiwan politics since 1990.

However, successful candidates of the Non-Mainstream Faction, mostly main-
landers and army-backed politicians who favour a faster pace of unification
with China, are poised to form the largest faction among the 96 KMT members
of the new legislature.

One estimate said the New KMT Alliance (NKMTA), which represents the Non-
Mainstream Faction in the Legislative Yuan, would muster up to 40 lawmakers.

The resignation offer by Dr Soong yesterday was sparked by calls by angry
NKMTA legislators that he be dumped.

"The party's wrong strategy has led to the setback. Soong should step down
to take responsibility," said NKMTA leader Mr Jaw Shao-kang, the biggest
winner in Saturday's election.

Mr Jaw, who ran without party endorsement, said Taiwanese voted against the
KMT because Dr Soong nominated too many wealthy candidates with business
ties.

Other Non-Mainstream politicians privately claimed that Mr Lee had formed a
clique that was close to political reform as well as a "progressive policy"
towards reunification.

"Unless the ruling party listens more to the voice of the people and regains
the people's confidence . . . it may become the opposition party after (the
1996) presidential elections", Mr Jaw added.

The Taiwan media said last night veteran KMT cadres Mr Chiou Chang-huan, Dr
Ma Ying-jeou, and Mr Hsu Li-teh, were front-runners to succeed Dr Soong.

NKMTA stalwarts are demanding that Mr Lee hold the postponed 14th KMT party
congress within three months.

There, Non-Mainstream politicians hope to elect a new Central Standing Com-
mittee where Mr Lee's followers would be sidelined.

"The Non-Mainstreamers are plotting a veritable coup against (President)
Lee, which, if successful, will mean that the KMT will have a new candidate
for the 1996 presidential elections," a political source in Taiwan said.

Western diplomats in Taipei said the relatively few Mainstream politicians
in the Legislative Yuan, which is fast becoming a centre of power, could
form a strategic alliance with the moderate Formosa Faction of the DPP,
which collectively picked up 50 seats last Saturday.

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                  Season's Greetings from China News Digest

                          Friday, December 25, 1992


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1. News Brief (6 Items) ................................................. 72
2. Beijing Students Say: MERRY CHRISTMAS! ............................... 46
3. State Security Chief Calls for New Antispy Law ....................... 32
4. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #91 (cm9212d) ..................... 25
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1. News Brief (6 Items) ................................................. 72
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[J.E.N., 12/22/1992] BEIJING -- China's existing hijacking law classifies
the crime as a counter-revolution offense but Xinhua quoted Public Security
Minister Tao Siju as saying various revisions are deemed necessary. "We
have many difficulties in deciding the nature of hijackings in practice
according to this law," Tao told the NPC (ref. News Item #3 also).

Analysts say the real reason China wants to change the law is because coun-
tries may grant Chinese hijackers asylum if Beijing accuses them of foment-
ing counter-revolution, a political crime. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[DJ, 12/24/1992] BEIJING -- China Thursday called "totally groundless" a U.S.
congressman's report that it held and never returned hundreds of American
soldiers captured during the Korean War. A Foreign Ministry statement car-
ried by Xinhua said there are no American prisoners of war in China and that
the issue was settled long ago. "The assertion that China has not returned
hundreds of American POWs of the Korean War is totally groundless," the
statement said. The Foreign Ministry said that all but 21 U.S. POWs were
repatriated after the war or were turned over to the Neutral Nations Repa-
triation Commission. Of the 21 who stayed in China, 18 later left, one died
and two still live in China. "The U.S. side is well aware of these facts,"
the statement said. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[AP-DJ, 12/22/1992] HONG KONG -- More coastal cities have joined the queue
to establish free trade zones where investors enjoy a range of tax
privileges, said Wednesday's China Daily. They are Qingdao in Shandong, and
Mawei and Xiamen in Fujian. Other coastal cities, including Shantou in
Guangdong, Yantai in Shandong, Beihai in Guangxi, have asked for approval to
set up similar zones.

Waigaoqiao, China's largest free trade zone which covers 10 square kilome-
ters, has already started operation in March, said the paper. Eight other
zones have already gone or are expected to go into operation over next two
years. They are Dalian in Liaoning, Tianjin and Zhangjiagang in Jiangsu,
Guangzhou, Futian and Shatoujiao in Shenzhen SEZ, Haikou, and Ningbo in
Zhejiang. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[J.E.N., 12/24/1992] TAIPEI -- Taiwan's gross domestic product will grow by
between 6.5% and 7.0% in real terms in 1993, powered by double-digit expan-
sion in capital investment, according to Liu Tai-ying, president of the
Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), the vernacular Commercial
Times reported Thursday. He said that for the first 11 months of 1992
exports grew only 0.3% in new Taiwan dollar terms over the same period in
1991, despite rising 11.3% in U.S. dollar terms. The Commercial Times said
TIER's forecast of 6.72% real GDP growth in 1993 is slightly more optimistic
than the 6.52% forecast by the government's directorate general of Budget,
Accounting and Statistics and than the 6.62% figure put forward by the
Chung-Hua Institute for Economic Research. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[AP, 12/21/1992] BEIJING -- China on Monday announced a $50 million project,
mostly privately financed, to protect the giant panda. Donors of $5 million
or more would get a reserve named after them. The project includes the estab-
lishment of new panda reserves and linking the new preserves to existing
ones. China says about 1,000 pandas live in the wild; Western experts say
there are 1,100 to 1,500. (Forwarded by: Zhao Hua)
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[J.E.N., 12/22/1992] TOKYO -- The Mainichi Shimbun said its joint poll with
the Asian Affairs Research Council, conducted in Nov., shows 88% of Japanese
and 77% of Chinese approved of the imperial visit to China in Oct. Only 3%
of Japanese and Chinese disapproved of the emperor's visit. Six percent of
Japanese and 19% of Chinese had no opinion while 3% of Japanese and 1% of
Chinese did not know or did not answer at all. The poll covered 2,000
Japanese, of whom 71.4% responded. More than 2,000 Chinese responded to the
survey.

The survey also found that 40% of Chinese like Japan, up 4 percentage points
from the previous poll in 1988, while Japanese favoring China dropped to 40%
from 57% in 1988. On the other hand, 13% of Japanese did not like China, up
from 6% in 1988 and 29% of Chinese expressed their dislike toward Japan, up
1 percentage point from the last poll. Meanwhile 36% of Japanese like the
Chinese people and 10% hate them while 34% of the Chinese like the Japanese
people and 33% hate them. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)

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2. Beijing Students Say: MERRY CHRISTMAS! ............................... 46
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 12/22/1992

BEIJING -- Chinese caught up in the twin crazes of Westernization and con-
sumerism are blindly snapping up millions of Christmas cards for friends and
relatives.

In spite of persistent ignorance about characters like Santa Claus, door-
to-door Christmas card salesmen helping card companies sell tens of
thousands cards per day are showing the growing Chinese fascination with
western customs and increased spending on luxuries.

"Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Season's Greetings are becoming house-
hold words in China," China Daily said Tuesday.

Many Chinese are also using the Christmas season to try out new public rela-
tions skills -- an unprecedented number of Christmas cards has flowed into
offices of foreign and Chinese companies in Beijing. One store has sold more
than half-a-million of the cards.

"A public relations worker bought 100 American greeting cards, which he says
will be sent to their customers -- buyers like him purchase about half of
the total cards," the newspaper said, adding that the store now sells 20,000
cards per day.

In a scene that is played out every day this month in Beijing and other
major Chinese cities, a beleaguered parent purchases a "Shengdan Laoren"
doll for a persistent child.

Flush with cash from more than a decade of economic reforms, Chinese are
pumping millions of dollars into holiday gift items in a consumer frenzy
that could be taking place in any Western department store during the holi-
days.

While the well-heeled spend their money on luxury cars, suits and watches,
less wealthy college students have taken to buying Christmas cards, spending
as much as $25 this season, more than an entire monthly allowance for most
students.

Student salesmen have fueled the boom of Christmas cards, with some earning
more than $50 in the month before Christmas. Surveys have found that college
students are the most likely customers, the newspaper said.

"Normally retiring and reserved college students become brave as Christmas
and New Year come along, taking up the sale of cards along campus streets or
in student dining halls," the newspaper said.

The new fad has not caught on with everybody. Some students complain about
that cards are too expensive and that they feel pressured to go reciprocate
for their classmates' free-spending habits.

"What could I do? This year I have spent over $5 buying greeting cards for
my teachers, classmates and friends," the newspaper quoted one high school
student as saying.

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3. State Security Chief Calls for New Antispy Law ....................... 32
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Forwarded by: Jian Liu and a CND reader
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE (J.E.N.) and UPI, 12/22/1992

BEIJING -- Jia Chunwang Tuesday called for a new law to defend the country
against prying eyes of ruthless foreign spies. He made the call during a
speech to the ongoing 29th Standing Committee session of the 7th NPC,
China's parliament, Xinhua reported.

"Since the founding of new China (in 1949), foreign spies, intelligence
agencies and other hostile foreign forces have never stopped endangering
China's national security," Xinhua quoted Jia as saying.

"The 'hidden war' has always been an acute and complicated problem," Jia
said. "With the acceleration of China's reform and opening to the outside
world, this type of struggle has thrown up pertinent new problems."

Jia's comments come hot on the heels of a similar warning given by Public
Security chief Tao Siju, suggesting that a new propaganda campaign is in the
making to resurrect the age-old line that foreign forces are conspiring
against China.

"Hostile foreign forces continue to penetrate and undermine China," Tao
said, adding, "Antagonistic elements at home are conspiring to join forces
to create new turmoil."

"A very few people at home, who are hostile towards socialism, have tried
their best to seek support from espionage and intelligence agencies and hos-
tile forces abroad, and some people have betrayed the country for their own
interests," Jia said.

Jia also linked his call to China's economic modernization drive, arguing
that new laws are needed to keep apace with rapid socioeconomic changes.

On Sunday, the People's Daily reported that a corporate manager was sen-
tenced to 10 years in prison on charges that included the sale of state
secrets to a foreign journalist.

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4. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #91 (cm9212d) ..................... 25
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>From: CND Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board <cnd-cm@sdsc.edu>

               Hua Xia Wen Zhai (CND Chinese Magazine)
                                Issue #91
                             December 25, 1992

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1. Headline News of the Week.......................................Dai Lixin
2. The Hot Topic: Hong Kong Belongs to the People of Hong Kong.....Liu Suola
3. Humours
4. Essay: Self-Mockery on Job Loss.................................Jing Qing
5. Poem: Oath at the Tomb of Ancester Huang.......................Mao Zedong
6. "We" (Wo Men): Bitterness and New Year...........................Heng Sha
7. Information: How to Obtain a Visa to the U.S.
8. Special to Christmas: The Story of <<Silent Night>>
                         Silent Night
9. Postscript...........................................HXWZ Editorial Board
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