From: "micky wong" <micky.wong@canrem.com>
Subject: us delegation to tibet [f
Reply-To: "micky wong" <micky.wong@canrem.com>
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Date: 12 Dec 92 18:20:59 EST

In Article: <9212100312.AA14668@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
   Subject: US Delegation to Tibet [forwarded article]
      From: PNCSPPC@ccvax1.cc.ncsu.edu writes:

> lines deleted for brevity.

>Source: UPI, 12/3/1992

>BEIJING -- Meeting with worried Chinese leaders to discuss possible
>Clinton administration effects on bilateral relations, a U.S. Senate
>human rights delegation won China's agreement Thursday to visit
>Tibet.

Will some of our "NET PATRIOTS" view this as the CCP selling out
"Chinese Interest" to the U.S. ?    :-)

>China granted the delegation permission to investigate alleged human
>rights abuses in Tibet, said Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., chairman of
>the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Lines related to MIA deleted.

>China is extremely concerned about relations with the Clinton
>administration, especially Clinton's campaign promise to put
>conditions on a bilateral trade agreement, called most favored nation
>status.

>The delegation led by Boren, who also heads the Senate Intelligence
>Committee, met Chinese leaders and told them "bluntly" that unless the
>Chinese took action to improve their human rights situation, congress
>"will continue to condition most favored nation status."

>"The (Chinese), especially in this period of transition, have it in
>their power to take initiatives that could change the environment,
>could change our evaluation" towards the MFN vote, Boren said.

>In meetings with Chinese leaders, including Communist Party General
>Secretary Jiang Zemin and security czar Qiao Shi, the Chinese
>expressed "curiosity" about the U.S. position and wanted to know if
>the senators were  serious about their threat to condition MFN, Boren
>said.

>Underscoring their seriousness about conditioning MFN on improved
>human rights, the three Democratic senators sent a letter of appeal to
>China's Minister of Public Security, Tao Siju, which included a list
>of all imprisoned Tibetan and Chinese political prisoners and Chinese
>prohibited from leaving the country.

>Indications were that China heard the senators' message clearly.

>Besides allowing the senators to visit Tibet and allowing an MIA
>delegation in, China has already granted a passport to one dissident
>on the list, intellectual Liu Xiaobo, indicating their desire to
>appease the Clinton administration before its inauguration.

>Pell and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., will visit Tibet starting Friday,
>and have requested to tour a prison and visit two Tibetan monasteries
>that have been at the center of the Tibetan independence movement.

>"The Chinese cooperated in every way to make it possible for us to go
>to Tibet. Six months ago it was a different story, this time they
>could not have been more friendly," Pell said, referring to the
>scheduled trip in May that was cancelled by the Chinese.


Will the CG be as nice to Mr Patton?  :-)
Will the CG be as this sensible to the demand for demoncracy from the
people of HongKong?      :-)

>Boren said they made it clear to Chinese leaders that with the coming
>of a new administration, U.S. policy towards China will change, and
>that a new policy was needed to keep MFN status.

>"They can no longer count upon the use of veto authority by the
>president to overrule the longstanding opinion expressed by congress
>that there must be progress on human rights, on the proliferation
>question," Boren said.

When Ronald Reagan used SDI(Strategic Defence Initiative or Space War)
to challange the then USSR communists to show their cards,  the
seemingly invincible USSR crumbled into piles of economic mess.

Those who have the need to deal with remnants of Communists shall always
remind themselves.


crumbled into rabbles
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