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* * * C H I N A N E W S D I G E S T * * *
Special Report
June 29, 1990
Chinese Governmental Documents on Oversea Students
(Part 1)
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Editor's Note: CND has finally gotten the Chinese Government documents
on oversea Chinese students ready for transmission. The documents will
be broadcasted in 3 packages. We thank the Indepedent Federation of
Chinese Students and Scholars in the USA (IFCSS) for providing the
documents, including the English translations for Parts 2 and 3. (A
summary for Part 1 from IFCSS previously has been posted on CND. The
complete translation for Part 1 in this package was done by CND staffs.)
Please note that this is not an official translation authorized by
the Chinese government (The Chinese Government actually denies the
existence of these documents.) CND is NOT affiliated with the Chinese
Government or IFCSS.
Due to our limited resources, CND will be unable to provide the Chinese
versions of these documents. Readers may find the Chinese versions of
these documents in the May 20, 1990, issue of Press Freedom Herald.
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A Summary of the Meeting of the Education Consuls of
Chinese Embassies and Consulates
Currently, we have over 50,000 students and scholars studying in the US
and Canada. Our oversea student work is facing a very serious and
complicated situation, and has become a political struggle and a
struggle for keeping our talented students. The US administration has
accepted wholely the four points in the Emergency Chinese Immigration
Relief bill of the Congress, waving the requirement of the tens of
thousands of Chinese J-1 holders to return home after the completions of
their studies. The Canadian government, in an effort to plunder the
Chinese talents, has altered its normal immigration procedure in order
to seduce many of the Chinese students to immigrate (It is reported that
about 6,000 who have filed applications for immigration).
These are gross interferences of the internal affairs of China by the US
and Canada authorities, and wanton plundering of the Chinese talents,
and part of the their long term policy of infiltration, brain-washing
over our students and the policy of achieving "peaceful evolution" in
our country. These policies have caused severe ideological aberrations
and differentiations among our oversea students and scholars:
About 70% - 80% of the total number of the government-sponsored students
and scholars in the United States and Canada will not return to China in
the near future, or will stay there for prolonged periods of time or
immigrate to other countries.
About 10% of our students and scholars actively participate in anti-
government activities. There are about 100 hard-core anti-government
elements. Backed by the right-wing anti-Communist forces in US and
Canada, the reactionary KMT forces in Taiwan, and the exiled criminals
from the mainland, they plan and organize anti-government activities in
hope of establishing a bourgeois republic in China.
On the other hand, less than 5% of the total students are with
relatively high political awareness, a higher degree of patriotism and
are the government's back-bone elements.
I. Working Principles for Students and Scholars in the US and Canada:
Standing on the high ground of international political struggles, hold
high the banner of patriotism, intensify ideological and political work,
rely on and strengthen our back-bone elements, win over the majority,
expose and strike at the tiny minority of hard core anti-government
elements.
For a period to come, the basic emphasis of our work among the overseas
students and scholars is not whether they will return or not, but
whether they are patriotic or not.
We must be fully aware of the necessity, difficulty and long-term nature
of the struggle against subversion and infiltration.
II. Detailed Principles To Deal With Students Of Different Categories:
Students and scholars are divided into five different categories,
according to their political stances, their altitudes to our government,
their responses to the administrative measures of US government and the
immigration policy of Canadian government, and their decisions about
returning to serve China. Different measures should be applied
accordingly.
Category 1: People in this category have higher political awareness and
more correct position and understanding of anti-government activities.
They do not accept the exemption (of two-year home residency
requirement) or apply to become immigrants; they are willing to return
to serve China or undertake the procedures of temporarily staying abroad
according to the requirements of our government (embassies and
consulates). We must firmly protect and support this group of people
and, moreover, teach them how to be good at uniting the students and
scholars in the middle so as to increase the forces we may rely on. In
the complex environment abroad they may become targets. We must adopt
firm measure to protect them. If they are unable to continue to study or
work in the U.S. and Canada, we may transfer them to other countries or
go back to China to continue their studies. After they return to China,
we will adopt appropriate measures of benefits for them on issues like
job-placement, scientific research conditions, professional promotion,
residency registration (Hu4 Kou3), housing, and opportunities to go
abroad again. Some of them may, according to our needs, continue to stay
abroad to study or work in order to give full play to their political
role and their role of uniting and organizing overseas students and
scholars.
Category 2: People in this category are somewhat patriotic and hope
their socialist motherland will prosper and become strong. But in the
near future these people will not fully agree with our government's
principles and policies. But they do not fundamentally oppose our
government. They can maintain ties with embassies and consulates.
Based on consideration of their personal interest, they do not plan to
return to China in the near future. Some will stay abroad for a long
period time or even have applied to immigrate, but have not decide
whether to become citizens of foreign countries. We should, taking into
account practical circumstance, adopt a tolerant attitude toward these
people, continue to maintain ties with them, allow them to extend their
duration of studies and work abroad, and permit them to enjoy the
benefits of overseas students and scholars. When people in this
category apply to our government for replacing their passport from the
type of for-public-affairs to the type of for-private-affairs, if they
offer to pay back the expenses related to their overseas studies, we may
approve such changes. If they are unable to pay back these expenses for
certain reasons, they need to explain the circumstances to our embassies
and their application may be processed. We may explain to our
government-sponsored overseas students that those whom the government
has sponsored for fewer than two years may enjoy an amnesty and need not
pay back the expenses; this is to avoid a chain reaction.
Category 3: People in this category are ideologically more deeply
influenced by Western values and hold politically different views about
our principles and policies; they do not plan to return to serve the
country. But they do not yet belong to the group of people who actively
participate in anti-government activities. Some of them have already
changed their visa categories or obtained the status of permanent
residence, and may gain foreign citizenship within three or five years.
We still need to educate and win over people in this category and point
out that it is a mistake for them to receive, without our authorization,
the U.S. or Canada governments' special exemption or immigration
measures. But they may still be treated as self-sponsored overseas
students and change their passports to the type of for-private-affairs,
their cases may be handled in the same way as the people in the second
category. After they have explained the circumstances to our embassies
and consulates and have filled out "The Form For Changing Passports",
their applications for a passport of the type of for-private-affairs may
also be processed.
Category 4: These are activists who have actively participated in
anti-government activities. We must conduct criticism, education and
necessary reasoned struggles against these people, and adopt the policy
of dividing and splitting them. When we handle their application for
passport extensions or related matter, we must impose strict control.
After they have changed their attitudes, their cases may be handled
individually. Their scholarship may be cut off. Moreover, we must demand
that they pay back all expenses related to their overseas studies. Stop
their benefits as overseas students and scholars. Impose necessary
restriction on their return to China and on their families' visiting
abroad. For those in this category who have truly demonstrated their
repentance, they may be treated as people in the third category.
Category 5: These are reactionary core elements who actively organize
and plan anti-government activities. They are the targets for us to
expose and strike at. At appropriate moments, we should single out
their influential leaders who have committed extremely vile acts -- and
expose and attack them publicly. At the moment, we must first attack the
small number of evil leaders of the "IFCSS in US" and "FCSSC in Canada",
such as Liu Yongchuan, Han Lianchao, Xu Bangtai and Qu Xiaohua. When
concrete evidences are obtained, their status as overseas students and
scholars must be revoked; they are to be ordered to pay back all the
expenses related to overseas studies. Their applications for extension
of passport must be refused. We may revoke the passport for some of
them. They will not be allowed to return to China before they abandon
their anti-government position and commit concrete acts of repentance.
They are to be fired by their previous employers, and their families
must be banned from visiting them abroad.
The general principle is: rely on and increase our core forces (1st
category), unite and win over the majority (2nd and 3rd categories),
divide and split those who have participated in anti-government
activities (4th category), ruthlessly expose and strike at the tiny
number of core anti-government elements (5th category).
III. About the Party's Organizational Construction and Memberships
Surveys and investigations about the Party's organizations and members
in US and Canada should be conducted seriously and appropriate measures
taken, according to the different situations:
1. For those Party members who hold firm political stance with us, and
believe in Communist ideology, get them organized. The form of the
organizations could vary, to suit the different situations, such as
study groups for our Party's policies. The majority of the Party's
groups will be small and scattered, and will have to exist in secrecy.
They will be the cores to unite and win over the majority of overseas
students and scholars.
2. For those Party members who has swung between, those who believe in
their own self-interest only, but who have not fallen over to the
anti-Party, anti-government reactionary forces, we can keep in contact
with them on the person to person level, as the supporting force to our
core groups. We will continue to watch their deeds in the struggles.
3. For those Party members who have accepted permanent residency,
including those who have been naturalized, as long as they still hold
relatively good political views, and still love China, and have done
something for the country, we don't have to make hasty decisions about
their Party membership, but should keep in touch with them through
designated persons.
4. For those Party members who have lost their beliefs in the Communism,
totally accepted the bourgeois values, as long as they don't engaged in
the anti-Party, anti-government activities, we only cut off their
contacts with the Party organizations. Their requests to quit from the
Party can be granted. But once they are openly involved in the anti-
Party, anti-government activities, they should be expelled from the
Party.
IV. The Policies of Sending Government Sponsored Students to US and
Canada.
As the reactions to the US and Canada governments about the Chinese
students and scholars, we shall exert our pressures, and adopt the
following measures:
1. Stop sending the government sponsored students to the US, Canada for
graduate degree programs.
2. The visiting scholars sponsored by government must be politically
mature and reliable, with good working experiences and longer time of
working in China. The number of visiting scholars should be cut down.
3. The visiting of Chinese to their relatives who study in US and Canada
will be limited to the cases that the visitee has been in the graduate
program overseas for more than one year. Only their spouses will be
allowed to visit them. If the visitees belong to the fourth category
defined above, and their spouses are government employees in China, the
applications will be subject to severe restrictions; if the visitees
belong to the fifth category, the application may be refused.
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