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             * C h i n a   N e w s   D i g e s t *

		    (ND Canada Service)

                       -- Dec. 20 (I), 1989


Table of Contents
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 Headline News .................................................... 82
 1 Ceausescu killed protesters with tanks in Romania .............. 62
 2 Scowcroft Made Other Secret Trip To Beijing In July ............ 48
 3 China Warned Against Subversion by "Hostile Foreign Forces" .... 41

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(1)  US  President  George  Bush is receiving  strong  criticism  following
     reports  in  the  American news media that National  Security  Affairs
     advisor  Brent  Scowcroft  and  Deputy  Secretary  of  State  Lawrence
     Eagleburger   visited  Beijing  for  consultations  with  the  Chinese
     leadership in early July, a month after the violent suppression of the
     pro-democracy  began.    The July visit came after the  US  Government
     announced it had suspended high level contacts with the PRC Government
     in protest over the violence.
                           From: ONLINE-L@OHSTVMA.BITNET (JBH Online)
                           Source: Radio Australia, 12/19/89

(2)  According to World Jornal,  VOA announced that they have cancelled the
     Cantonese  broadcasting programs to China.  It was also reported  that
     the  Manderin  broadcasting time has been shorten to 9 hours  per  day
     from previous 12 hours per day.  VOA claimed this is resulted from the
     recent  budget  cut.  However,  sources has suggested this is  another
     example of which Bush administration has cramped  to the pressure from
     Beijing.
                               From: Tang@alisuvax.bitnet (Deming Tang)
                               Source: World Journal

(3)  Chinese  President  Yang Shangqun arrived in Caro yesterday to  start
     his three-day visit of Egypt. Minister of Finance and Deputy Minister
     of Foreign Economy and Trade went along with Yang.
                               From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
                               Source: AP, Caro, 12/18/89

(4)  FDC's  Vice-Chairman Wu'er Kaixi and Secretary in General Wan  Rennan
     arrived  in  Australia yesterday.  They will have an  interview  with
     Foreign Minister of  Australia and economic sanction against China is
     expected to be the topic.
                               From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
                               Source: AP, Sydney, 12/18/89

(5)  In their most recent publications,  both 'Time' and 'News Week' place
     Tiananmen  Square  event  in  Beijing at the first  in  their  yearly
     special reports.  'News Week'  also choose one of the student  leader
     Shen  Dan  as 'The People of the Year'.  Shen is the  youngest  among
     other 'The People of the Year', who are all from socialism countries.
                               From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
                               Source: World Journal, NY, 12/19/89

(6)  Two  leading  figures  in  the  Federation  for  Democracy  in  China,
     currently visiting Australia as part of a world tour,  have called for
     limited  economic  sanctions  against  their homeland and  a  halt  to
     foreign investment there, until reforms are forthcoming.   The two say
     that citizen-level contacts should continue, however.
                          From: ONLINE-L@OHSTVMA.BITNET (JBH Online)
                          Source: Radio Australia, 12/18/89

(7)  President  Nicolae  Ceausescu told an Iranian newspaper  this  weekend
     that capitalism will not come to Eastern Europe.  Ceausescu begins his
     first visit to Iran today.
                          From: ONLINE-L@OHSTVMA.BITNET (JBH Online)
                          Source: Radio Netherlands International, 12/28/89

(8)  The late physicist and Nobel Peace Prize winning human rights activist
     Andrei D.  Sakharov will be buried today in Moscow.   Thousands turned
     out  to show their respects by filing past his casket in the Palace of
     Youth  over the weekend,  and memorial ceremonies were held in at  two
     different sites.
                          From: ONLINE-L@OHSTVMA.BITNET (JBH Online)
                          Source: Radio Netherlands International

(9)  Premier  Li Peng has called for the resumption of "friendly and  close
     relations"  between China and Australia, during an unannounced meeting
     with a high ranking Australian diplomat in Beijing.
                          From: ONLINE-L@OHSTVMA.BITNET (JBH Online)
                          Source: Radio Australia, 12/19/89

(10) There  has  as  yet  been no  official  statement  from  the  Rumanian
     Government   concerning  the  anti-government  demonstrations  in  the
     eastern  city  of  Timisoara  this past  weekend,   but  reports  from
     travellers  arriving  from  that  area say that  at  least  dozens  of
     protestors  against  the  regime of President Nicolae  Ceausescu  were
     killed by security forces.   Some reports indicate the violence may be
     continuing.  Ceausescu  is  a hardline Communist who has been a  close
     ally  of China,  Cuba and North Korea,  and has  steadfastly  resisted
     calls for reform in the Eastern bloc.  Meanwhile,  Rumania has  closed
     its borders with Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and the Soviet republic
     of Moldavia.
                          From: ONLINE-L@OHSTVMA.BITNET (JBH Online)
                          Source: BBC, 12/19/89

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1.  Ceausescu killed protesters with tanks in Romania
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From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu
Source: Associated Press, 12/18/89

    VIENNA - Romanian police opened fire on protesters during weekend anti-
government riots.

    At least two people were killed, including a child, a  person traveling
in the region said Monday.

    In  West  Germany,  Radio Bremen quoted William Totok,  an  author  who
emigrated from Romania to West Germany,  as saying eyewitnesses told him as
many as 300 to 400 people were killed.

    The report couldn't be independently confirmed.

    In a late evening report, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said Romanian
security forces took full  control  Monday of Timisoara,  Romania's fourth-
largest city, following the largest protests against the hardline Communist
government in 2 years. Tanks were reportedly patrolling Timisoara.

    Premier Miklos Nemeth of Hungary said there were unconfirmed reports of
protests in other Romanian cities and of soldiers being placed on alert.

    Romania  virtually sealed its borders,  blocking or restricting  travel
from  neighboring  Hungary,   Yugoslavia  and  Bulgaria,   and  from  other
countries.

    Arriving  flights  were turned back around at  the  Bucharest  airport.
Bulgarian TV said travelers were held in trains for hours before being sent
back by Romanian border guards.

    President  Nicolae  Ceausescu,  the East bloc's longest-ruling  leader,
traveled to Iran on a state visit.

    Ceausescu  has crushed opposition,  rejected the reforms being  adopted
elsewhere in Eastern Europe and imposed harsh economic measures on Romania.

    Romanian  emigres  said  thousands of demonstrators  enraged  with  the
hardship and  repression  under  Ceausescu  clashed with security forces in
Timisoara.

    Police  reportedly fired shots and also used water cannons against  the
demonstrators.

    Romania's  strictly  controlled state-run media made no mention of  the
unrest.

    The traveler in Romania, a  Yugoslav who refused to give his name, told
AP other Yugoslav tourists  reported  seeing  more  dead in Timisoara after
security forces intervened to break up the protests.

    Those reports also couldn't be independently confirmed, and Romania has
refused to allow Western journalists into the country.

    "Police and troops moved in quickly,"  the traveler said. He added only
police, but not troops, were seen firing at the demonstrators.

    "I saw two dead, including a child, on the streets," the source said.

    Ceausescu,   71,   rarely travels abroad,  and his departure  for  Iran
indicated  he  wanted to appear unruffled by the demonstrations.  His  wife
Elena, the second most powerful person in the country, stayed behind.

    In  Geneva,   exiled  King  Michael of  Romania  Monday  condemned  the
crackdown on anti-government  protests  and said he was deeply moved by the
demonstrators' "courageous action."

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2.  Scowcroft Made Other Secret Trip To Beijing In July
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From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu
Source: Associated Press, 12/18/89

    WASHINGTON  -  National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft made a  secret
mission to Beijing in July, the White House acknowledged Monday.

    Scowcroft's  surprise visit to China earlier this month created a  wave
of criticism.

    The  first visit came just a month after the bloody Chinese  government
crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.

    President  Bush  sent Scowcroft to China "to personally underscore  the
United  States'  shock and concern about the violence,"  said  White  House
spokesman Marlin Fitzwater.

    Fitzwater also said that Scowcroft's trip intended "to impress upon the
Chinese government the  seriousness with which this incident was viewed  in
the United States."

    Fitzwater  left  open the possiblity that Scowcroft or other  top  U.S.
officials had made other secret trips to China.

    "I can't rule out other encounters," Fitzwater said.

    He added that he, personally, had been unaware of earlier trips.

    The  spokesman  declined  to say when in July  Scowcroft  had  gone  to
Beijing,  but said it was  at  least a month after government troops killed
hundreds of democracy protesters when the troops moved into the square June
3.

    Fitzwater's comments were the first administration acknowledgement that
Scowcroft has made more than one trip to China after the crackdown.

    Rep.  Sam  Gejdenson,  D-Conn.,  chairman   of   the   Subcommittee  on
International  Economic  Policy  and Trade of  the  House  Foreign  Affairs
Committee, said Bush had "misled the American people and the Congress."

    "How  does  the  White House square that  (earlier  trip)   with  their
statements  at the time that high-level contacts with the Chinese were  cut
off," Gejdenson said.

    Scowcroft  and  Deputy Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger  visited  Beijing
Dec. 8-9.

    A wave of criticism from Congress followed the surprise mission.

    "The president felt this  face-to-face  mission,  like the one recently
completed by General Scowcroft,  was necessary to show the sense of purpose
and direction  of  the  United  States  government,''  Fitzwater added in a
statement.

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3.  China Warned Against Subversion by "Hostile Foreign Forces"
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From: IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET (J. Ding)
Source: UPI, 12/16/89

    Senior  Chinese  officials  abandoned a recent conciliatory tone toward
the United States and reverted back  to  harsh  rhetoric,  warning  against
subversion  by  "hostile  foreign  forces,"  the  state-run  press reported
Saturday.

    The Communist  Party  newspaper  People's Daily quoted the officials as
renewing  xenophobic  charges  that the West is trying to undermine China's
socialist  system. The officials spoke Friday at a meeting of the Communist
Youth League, the party's 56-million-member juvenile branch.

    The  tough  talk  came  less than a week after a surprise initiative by
President  Bush  to  restore  Sino-U.S. relations with a trip to Beijing by
National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft.

    The  Chinese  Foreign Ministry had praised the visit and direct attacks
in  the  press  on  the  United  States,  almost  daily fare since the June
crackdown on China's budding pro-democracy movment, had subsided.

    But  Ding Guangen, an alternate member of the ruling Politburo known to
be  close  to  senior  leader Deng Xiaoping, Friday urged vigilance against
ideological  subversion  and  "so-called peaceful evolution by some hostile
foreign forces."

    "We  can  never  make  any concessions before the attack from bourgeois
liberalization, for there is no way out by making concessions," Ding said.

    Bourgeois   liberalization  is  a  catchphrase  for  Western  political
concepts  such as democracy and often includes cultural influences, against
which the government has waged a fierce campaign.

    Communist  Party chief Jiang Zemin, addressing the same meeting, made a
veiled  reference to the sanctions imposed by Western nations against China
after the crackdown.

    He  said  China's  stability  is based on a loyal party, a well-trained
army,  and  "a  tradition  of  not  yeilding  to any outside pressure," the
People's Daily reported.

    "A  visit  by  one person or another doesn't change the essence of this
society," said a Western diplomat asked about the remarks.

    "It's the same old leaders, the same old ideology," he said.

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