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

		    (ND Canada Service)

                       -- Dec. 14 (I), 1989


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 Headline News  ...................................................  52
 1)  Royal Society Limits Collaboration With China  ...............  18
 2)  China: Official Response To Washington Post    ...............  15
 3)  Australia Will Allow Chinese Dissidents To Visit  ............  14
 4)  Bush Administration Continuing To Chip Away At Sanctions  ....  19
 5)  Nancy Pelosi Vowed To Marshal Votes For Congress To Override..  22

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    The 12 Chinese who fled to Korea  by a fishingboat last month arrived in
    Taiwan today. In a news conference,  these  people say they are all from
    Zhejiang province and attended the democracy movement in Beijing, one of
    them donated 10 thousands RMB to  the  students. They knew each other on
    the way back from Beijing after  June 4 and arranged the escape together
    because they were wanted by the public security bureau.
                                   From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
                                   Source: World Journal, Taibei, 12/13/89

    Source close to Beijing says that it is possible that starting from next
    year, China will completely stop sending state-sponsored students to the
    U.S.
                                   From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
                                   Source: World Journal, Taibei, 12/13/89

    China: Li Peng Calls For Simultaneous  Restructuring  -  Premier Li Peng
    says  China's   social   and   political   restructuring   should  occur
    simultaneously  with   its   economic   restructuring,   and   that  all
    restructuring should be conducive  to  order and tranquility rather than
    causing unrest.
                                  From: ONLINE@IRISHMVS.BITNET "JBH Online"
                                  Source: Radio Beijing

    As the two Mr. Bush's  top  aides'  China trip has raised criticism from
    the congress, congress's trade  subcommitee  of foreign affair committee
    will hold a hearing on Wednesday of December 13. The congressmen want to
    know how Bush tried to improve U.S. government's relationship with China
    when CCP leaders show no sign  of regret on Tiananmen Square's massacre;
    they also  want  know  how  the  former  president  Nixon  and  his aide
    Kissinger played their roles.
                                   From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
                                   Source: The New York Times, 12/12/89

    Chinese UN representative who used to be the vice chairman of UN's human
    right commitee is intended  to  run  for  the position of chairman. Many
    Chinese human right organizations in New  York area are taking action to
    persuaded UN representatives not to vote for it.
                                    From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
                                    Source: World Journal, 12/13/89

    The South China Morning Post in  Hong  Kong reports that premier Li Peng
    ordered to conduct a complete  investigation on news media. According to
    the report, during the interview  with West German reporter in November,
    Li Peng said the students  would  not  be punished. However, later on in
    Xin Hua News Agency's  report,  the  word of 'students' disappeared. It,
    therefore, became that all  people  who  attended the democracy movement
    would not be punished,  and  Xin  Hua's  report  was quoted by all major
    newspaper.
                                 From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
                                 Source: South China Morning Post, 12/12/89


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1. Royal Society Limits Collaboration With China
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From: Tang@alisuvax.bitnet "Tang, Deming"
Source: Physics Today, November 1989

The Royal Society of  London  announced  in  August  that because of China's
political crackdown in  June,  it  was  terminating scientific collaboration
with Chinese government bodies.  A  memorandum of understanding with China's
Ministry of Geology  and  Mineral  Resources  will  not  be  renewed, and an
agreement with the PRC's Natural  Science Foundation is suspended. The Royal
Society also will not send or receive high-level delegation to or from PRC.

The Royal Society will continue  to support visits by individual scientists,
including those  arranged  under  agreements  with  the  Chinese  Academy of
Sciences and the Technology. But  it  will  not make grants to scientists to
attend international meetings  in  China  "until  it  can  be sure that such
meeting are  fully  international,  attracting  high-calibre scientists from
around the world, and that attendance by British scientists will not used to
imply support for Chinese government policies."


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2. China: Official Response To Washington Post
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From: ONLINE@IRISHMVS.BITNET "JBH Online"
Source: Radio Beijing

RB reports that a Chinese  Embassy  official  in Washington has published an
article in the opinion section  of  the  Washington  Post in response to the
Post's 30  November  editorial  regarding  China's  repression  of  the pro-
democracy movement.  The  article  challenges the Post's editorial assertion
that the Chinese Government  initiated  a  "wave  of  repression" on 4 June,
vigorously  prosecuting  movement   participants   and  threatening  Chinese
students studying abroad  with  reprisals  upon  their  return  if they were
involved in the movement  overseas.    The  embassy official's response says
that only a small number  of  "criminals" were prosecuted in connection with
the movement and that students  returning  from study abroad have received a
"warm welcome" from the Chinese Government and people.


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3. Australia Will Allow Chinese Dissidents To Visit
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From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
Source: AP, Australia, 12/13/89

An Australian official says  that  his  government  will allow three Chinese
dissidents to visit Australia even Chinese government has protested.

The three dissidents are FDC's Yan  Jiaqi,  Wuer Kaixi, and Wan Rennan. They
are going  to  Australia  for  a  foundation  of  FDC's  branch  office. The
Australian official says they told Chinese government that rally and freedom
of speech is very important for Australia's life style and its system.

The three have departed yesterday  from  San  Francisco. Their first stop is
Japan Wan Rennan is also going to visit Taiwan.


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4. Bush Administration Continuing To Chip Away At Sanctions
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From: "J. Ding" <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Source:   WASHINGTON (AP)   December 12, 1989

[By: BEAMISH, RITA ;  Associated Press Writer]

The  Bush administration s considering lifting a ban on satellite exports to
China, continuing to chip  away  at  sanctions  imposed on Beijing after its
violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

President  Bush  "did    not    intend to disrupt normal civilian commercial
relations"  when  he  barred  military   exports  to  China last spring, and
officials  are reviewing the sanctions  with that in mind, White House Press
Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Tuesday.

The  news  from  the    White    House   brought  condemnation from Rep. Sam
Gejdenson,  D-Conn.,  chairman  of   House  Foreign  Policy  subcommittee on
international  economic  policy  and  trade. He said the idea of lifting the
sanction on satellites "makes no sense whatsoever."


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5. Nancy Pelosi Vowed To Marshal Votes For Congress To Override Bush's Veto
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From: "J. Ding"  <IZZYQ00@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Source: WASHINGTON (UPI)   December 12, 1989

[BY: GORMAN, STEVEN J.]

Rep.  Nancy  Pelosi,   D-Calif.,  vowed  Tuesday to marshal the votes needed
for  Congress  to  override  President   Bush's  veto  of her bill to permit
Chinese students to stay in the United States after their visas expire.

Pelosi  suggested  Tuesday  that Bush vetoed the bill as a concession to the
Beijing  government  in    paving    the    way  for last weekend's surprise
mission  to  China  by  national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy
Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.

"The  president  wanted to create  favorable conditions for the trip and did
so  at the expense of the students,"  Pelosi said in a statement issued at a
Capitol Hill news conference.

The  California  congresswoman    said    she   learned  from administration
officials  that  Scowcroft  had  been   the  only  high-ranking  White House
official who urged Bush to veto the bill.


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