Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20857; Sat, 4 Jul 92 01:31:46 -0400 Received: from kentvm.kent.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29571; Sat, 4 Jul 92 01:31:40 EDT Message-Id: <9207040531.AA29571@Athena.MIT.EDU> Received: from KENTVM.BITNET by Kentvm.Kent.edu (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with BSMTP id 4011; Sat, 04 Jul 92 01:27:36 EDT Received: from KENTVM.BITNET by KENTVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 6763; Sat, 04 Jul 92 01:27:31 EDT Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1992 01:06:27 -0400 Reply-To: CND-US%DJOHN-SUN.KENT.EDU@Kentvm.Kent.edu Sender: "China News Digest (US News)" From: cnd-us%djohn-sun.kent.edu@Kentvm.Kent.edu Subject: CND-US, July 4, 1992 Comments: To: china-nd@kentvm.kent.edu To: Multiple recipients of list CHINA-ND +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ (US Regional) Saturday, July 4, 1992 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CND-US, normally 1 or 2 issues a week, is a supplement to CND-Global and | | has basically no overlap with the daily news. CND-US provides in-depth | | information concerning Chinese students/scholars in the United States. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Table of Contents # of Lines ============================================================================ 1. News Brief (2 items) ..................................................25 2. Call for Signatures: An Open Letter to Chinese Government - IFCSS Statement on GONG Xiaoxia's Being Denied Entry to China ..... 51 3. Zhang Qing: Beaten, but No Charge......................................21 4. Painful Stories About Visa Application: Telling From the Other Side ...17 5. Less Painful Way for Passport Renewal .................................22 ============================================================================ 1. News Brief (2 items) ..................................................25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHICAGO(BUSINESS WIRE, 7-2)--United Airlines will become the first U.S. carrier to offer non-stop service from the United States to the People's Republic of China with the inauguration tomorrow of service three days a week between San Francisco International Airport and Shanghai International Airport, with continuing service to Beijing. "Our new service will link Shanghai -- the world's sixth largest city and a major commercial center in the PRC -- with our Pacific gateway in San Fran- cisco," said Stephen M. Wolf, United's chairman and chief executive off- icer. "From San Francisco, United offers customers convenient connections to more than 40 North American, European and Latin American destinations." United will operate the new flights with Boeing 747 aircraft -- Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays from San Francisco, and Sundays, Tuesdays and Thurs- days from Shanghai -- through September, when the flight will resume opera- tions via Tokyo. (From Liu Jian) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ International Symposum on Grassland Researches will be held in Huhehot,16- 20 Aug., 1993 sponsored by Grassland Society of China. Symposium Themes: I. Grassland resources utilization, protection and dynamics monitoring. II. Forage plant germplasm development and its divisity III. Grassland farming systems -- theory and application. Send your papper's title before Sept. 1, 1992, To: Executive secretary of ISGR Grassland Research Institute Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Wulanchabu East Str. 010010 Huhehot. Telex: 85015 Hume CN Fax: 471-665224 (from TIAN, SHU-NING , 6-30) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Call for Signatures: An Open Letter to Chinese Government - IFCSS Statement on GONG Xiaoxia's Being Denied Entry to China ..... 51 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: IFCSS 4th Congress, translated by Zuofeng Li, 7/2/1992 The following is an open letter to the Chinese government, regarding the recent incident of a Chinese student in the U.S. being denied entry into China. The letter was circulated at the IFCSS 4th Congress. The text below is translated from the original Chinese text. Please send your signature to . An Open Letter to Chinese Government In early June, Ms. Gong Xiaoxia, a Chinese student at Harvard University, was detained by the Chinese authorities upon arriving at the Guangzhou Cus- toms when she returned to China for a visit, and later deported to Hong Kong. Ms. Dai Qing, a Chinese visiting scholar at Harvard University who arrived at Hong Kong at the same time as Ms. Gong, was also refused entry into China (Ms. Dai was able to enter China after the help from many peo- ple). During the 5 hours of detention, the authorities never explained to Ms. Gong why she was being refused entry into China. Overseas Chinese students are shocked at the fact that a Chinese citizen, holding valid Chinese passport, should be deprived of the very basic civil right of returning to the homeland by the government of one's own country. After the publication of Deng Xiaoping's speeches during his trip to the Southern provinces and the No.2 Document of the CPC Central Commitee, the Chinese government time and again announced that overseas Chinese students are welcome to go back to China, free to enter and leave the country, without regard to their political stands. It is beyond our understanding why the Chinese government should break its promises. Such a behaviour will not only chill the China-loving overseas Chinese students, but also discredit the Chinese government. We hereby make the following requests to the Chinese government: (1). Immediately withdraw the erroneous decision to prohibit Ms. Gong Xiaoxia from entering China, publicly apologize to Ms. Gong, and reimburse her for all financial loss incurred; (2). Provide an explanation on this incident to overseas students; (3). Immediately adopt effective measures to fulfil the promises that the Chinese government has made to the overseas students many times, and guarantee that such incidents will not happen again. We call the Chinese students in the U.S. and all other countries to unite together and take the invasion on Ms. Gong's civil rights as that on their own. We call them to, in all possible ways, express their dissatisfaction and protest, strive for their right to visit their homeland and their dear ones, as well as the civil rights of every overseas student, the rights of every Chinese citizen, so that human rights and freedom will prevail in China. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Zhang Qing: Beaten, but No Charge......................................21 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: Xiaohua QU , forwarded by Bo Xiong. Date: June 28, 1992 Being sparked by recent racial riot in LA and in Toronto local, several person asked me what's the final result of Zhang Qing's case (Ed: CND-US reported this case on 10-01-91). Here is a brief report for those con- cerned. Zhang Qing was charged with assault. He counter-charged one of the security guards with assault. The case was well reported by many chinese News media here in Toronto, and then by CND in last Oct. as well. On January 14, 1992, both parties appeared before the court. Everyone with a sense of reality knows that case involving police violence is always difficult to win. In order to protect the best interest of Zhang Qinag, his lawyer from proposed that the two parties entered into a peace bond. And the charges to Zhang and the security guard were droped at the same time. So Zhang Qing was cleared from any charge. A seperate complaint was then formally submitted to the Police Complaint Commission. This is for your information. Again I would like to thank to all of you who have supported Zhang and voiced your concerns last year. Particularly I would like to thank Mr. Chi Yan-Kun and Mr. Li Yi-Fan, who helped in typing many materials into computer network. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Painful Stories About Visa Application: Telling From the Other Side ...17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: ROY@****.BITNET, forwarded by Bo Xiong Date: June 24, 1992 [The following is a message that appeared on the e_mail list INTER-L. The author is a foreign student advisor at a U.S. college. - editor] I received a letter today from one of our applicants we accepted. He said he was denied a F-1 visa. The reason he was denied does not make any sense, I will now quote the letter "The vice consul told me that he wanted an extremely detailed letter from you about why I was selected to receive the fellowship and the source of funds. He also asked for a complete list of all Chinese students now attending MCO and those who are admitted for 1992" end of quote. He wonders how all of these requests are related to his visa application and so do I. I have been requested by the student to fax this information to the Vice Consul. I am reluctant to comply with this demand. I would appreciate comments and advice. Would any of you send this kind of Information? Especially the request for the names of our Chinese students? Has anyone recived a request like this? Thanks in advance to any of you who wish to reply to this message. Maxine Roy XXXXX College of Ohio ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Less Painful Way for Passport Renewal .................................22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: AEIC >From: Guyang Huang, 6-30 AEIC (Amhest) --- During the recent meeting between CAL and Chinese State Commission of Science delegation in NY Chinese Consulate, the NYC Science Councilor Mr. Gu, Shen-xing told CAL delegates that now the consulate Sci. & Tech. group could help CSS to renew passort. As the first trial, a Chinese student in Univ. of Mass. who initially came to US few years ago as a visiting scholar from Hungary contacted NYC Concu- late Sci. & Tech. group. His passport renew application has been rejected by the education group, which has traditionally been in charge of passport renewal, in the excuse of "special case for people from a third country needs approval from either home working unit or Chinese consulate from that country". The same excuse has been heard from a Chicago education councilor to a similar case. This time, few days after that Amherst Chinese student contacted Mr. Hu in NYC Sci.& Tech. group, his public-affairs passport was renewed for 5 years. Previously public passports got three years extention from the education group. NYC Consulate Sci.& TEch. phone # are: 212-330-7419/7418 Besides Mr. Gu and Mr. Hu, there are also Mr. Hou and Mr. Wu1 working in the group. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Editor of This Issue: Xiaowen Li Coordinating Editor: Zuofeng Li | | Bo Xiong | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest (CND) offers the following services: | | (1) Global News (daily) (2) US Regional News | | (3) Canada Regional News (4) Europe & Pacific Regional News | | (5) Hua Xia Wen Zhai (a weekly Chinese magazine) | | (6) several information packages. | | To subscribe or get help, mail to: cnd-info@djohn-sun.kent.edu | | To contribute news, please send to: cnd-editor@djohn-sun.kent.edu | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+