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

		    (ND Canada Service)

                       -- Jan. 18 (I), 1990


Table of Contents
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 Brief News: China restricts contacts with foreigners, etc............ 40
 1. Chronology of an American Betrayal................................ 100
 2. East Block News: Mongolians in democracy rally.................... 39

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[South China Morning Post/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP]  A new Communist Party document
has instructed all Chinese that meetings between Chinese and foreigners must
be reported to the authorities and a full, written account of the
conversation submitted. New regulations are also being prepared to restrict
the activities of foreign journalists. Foreign journalists are expected to
face the same restraints that existed under martial law. The new rules have
turned the trumpeted lifting of martial law into a farce. 
 
[South China Morning Post/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP]  Mr. Yan Mingfu, the liberal
official who lost his party secretariat job after the June 4 Tiananmen
Square crackdown, appears to have been relieved of all his party functions.
Mr. Yan, director of the party's United Front Works Department, was absent
from a nationwide conference organised by the department, judging from New
China News Agency reports. Mr. Ding Guan'gen, reputedly a bridge partner of
Mr. Deng Xiaoping, is likely to replace Mr. Yan.

[South China Morning Post 1.1.90/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP]  The General Secretary,
Mr. Jiang Zemin is planning a trip to North Korea in the spring, possibly in
late March. Diplomatic sources say Mr. Jiang will hold extensive talks with
the North Korean leader, Mr. Kim Il-sung, over the rapid changes in Eastern
Europe, especially the fall of the Ceaucescu regime. The Chinese leadership
is also anxious to meet Mr. Kim because of his rapidly declining health.
Last month, North Korean officials said the "Great Leader" had given up
smoking because of health reasons. 

[Fortune magazine/ccoleman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu]  Governments and investors in
Asia privately lauded the initiative [of Bush's sending Scowcroft to China]. 
Bush's overture has already prompted others to ease pressure on China. 
Japan will invite Chinese officials to visit Tokyo soon.  The World Bank
said it hopes to resume lending to the PRC. And France has signaled its
willingness to help finance a joint venture. 

[South China Morning Post/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP]  More than 100 managers in
China's southern province of Hunan have resigned recently because of
economic difficulties, Beijing's anti-corruption drive or problems with the
communist Party. Among the main reasons cited for the resignations were a
lack of capital and a fall in rpoduction and profits, it said. Since an
austerity programme was instituted in September 1988, many factories in
China have found themselves short of raw materials, spare parts and
electricity, and some have been unable to honour contracts. 

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 1. Chronology of an American Betrayal 
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 [New York Times 1.14.90 A.M.Rosenthal/antolovi@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu]

This is the chronology of the American betrayal of the struggle for freedom
in China. It is worth studying. There is still a chance to recover some of
America's honor.

June 4., 1989:  The Communist rulers of China order military troops to shoot
down students and workers peacefully demonstrating for a taste of freedom.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, die. In the weeks that follow thousands are
arrested; most are still in jail.

June 20:  President Bush orders some mild sanctions against China. He says
any high-level contacts with the murderers of Beijing are suspended until
they acknowledge the validity of the demonstrators' aspirations.

Early July:  Exact date still secret. Mr. Bush sends a high-level mission to
China but keeps that fact hidden.

July-November:  More executions. New waves of arrests, closing in tighter on
student leaders who had escaped; purging of officials who had shown any
sympathy with them.

November 30:  Mr. Bush vetoes an act of Congress, passed without opposition
in the House and Senate, to guarantee that Chinese students now in this
country would not be forced to return to China as long as they were in
danger.

December 9:  A top-level mission is sent publicly to Beijing. Warm exchanges
of toasts with the men who ordered the murders. Administration refuses to
say whether other secret missions were sent to China.

December 10-24:  Mr. Bush says some sanctions will be lifted. Brushes aside
protests from Republican and Democratic members of Congress.

Administration makes it plain that it expects gestures from Chinese 
Communists before Congress reconvenes to try to override the President's
veto.

January 2-8, 1990:  American organizations like the International League for
Human Rights provide information detailing arrests and executions, which
have continued since the June murders.

Chinese students say at least 10,000 demonstrators are still in jail, beg
Mr. Bush to demand their release.

Chinese Communists denounce Eastern European revolutions, show even stronger
determination not to loosen their own control.

January 10: Chinese Communists, as predicted, announce lifting of martial
law in Beijing - not in any other place where it was imposed publicly or
secretly.

Many soldiers transferred to police force, which now numbers more than 1.5
million in addition to army about twice that size. Laws allowing arrests
without explanation, secret trials, executions, indefinite detention without
trial, forced labor, press control, brutal student "re-education" camps - 
all still on the books and recently made even harsher.

Denunciation of "lifting" of martial law as meaningless cosmetic trick comes
from all over the world. In Washington, the President orders steps to permit
World Bank loans to Chinese Communists.

January 11:  Mr. Bush hails the Chinese Communists for taking a "very sound
step". Washington reports possible repeals of other sanctions.

That is the chronology so far.

In the last days of the 1980's the Bush Administration deserted the struggle
for freedom in China. Whatever the reasons - outdated, stale geopolitics and
Mr. Bush's misplaced confidence that he really "knows" China best - the 
Administration picked the wrong China, the China of the oppressors over the
China of the oppressed.

In the first days of 1990's it did something almost as bad - it made a fool
of itself. It said that a contemptuous piece of cynical playacting by the
murderers of Beijing was a step toward freedom.

Now here is a date for the future:  On January 24., the day after it 
reconvenes, Congress will try to override Mr. Bush's veto of the bill to
protect Chinese students in the United States.

This was always important, to help the students. Now it has taken on
profound political significance.

An override would signal to the entire world that at least the legislative
branch of the United States Government remains on the side of the freedom
fighters of China. It would be an act of hope and loyalty for the Chinese
and the freedom movements still struggling in Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union.

Override of a veto requires a two-thirds majority. The White House is
working hard to persuade Republicans who voted for the bill to vote against
an override.

Between today and the date of that vote, every American can get in touch
with his or her representative and senator and urge them to vote against the
veto and for the people of China.

This will give us all a chance to take part in the chronology of Chinese-
American history and wipe away part of the stain.
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 2. East Block News: Mongolians in democracy rally
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 [South China Morning Post 1.16.90/Agence France Presse/kwchan@hkucs.UUCP]

About 5,000 demonstrators braved temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius in
the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator to demand democracy and the trial of a
former Communist Party chief, witnesses said yesterday. 

The protest on Sunday was the third since mid-December in Mongolia, the
second- oldest socialist repblic after the Soviet Union.  Like the previous
demonstrations, it was organised by the Mongolian Democratic Union (MDU),
created last month by intellectuals and young people. 

Witnesses reached by telephone from Beijing said the protest was larger and
more daring than the others, and although demonstrators challenged the
Government there was no intervention by the authorities. 

Banners reading "Down with bureaucracy" and "Speed up democratisation" were
unfurled, diplomats in Beijing said, adding that such slogans were
unprecedented in Mongolia. 

Some speakers publicly questioned the political system "inherited from
Stalin", criticised the dominant role of the communist Mongolian People's
Revolutionary Party. 

The denunciation came despite the party's secretary-general, Mr Jambyn
Bathmounkh, being seen as an advocate of "il tod" - the local version of the
Soviet policy of glasnost. 

The protesters demanded removal of a bronze statue of a very Napoleonic-
looking Stalin that has gazed over the heart of the capital since the
People's Republic of Mongolia was formed in 1921. 

Another demand was the formation of a multi-party system as well as the
trial of Yumjagin Tsedenbal, who has been living in Moscow since being
removed from office in 1984. 

He has been held responsible for the country's 32-year stagnation, earning
the sobriquet of "Mongol Brezhnev". 

The MDU has demanded free elections, greater respect for human rights, an
end to privileges and the holding of a referendum on the introduction of
market reforms in the economy. 

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