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From: CND-Global Editors <cnd-editor@cnd.org>
Organization: China News Digest (CND)
Subject: CND-Global, September 8, 1995
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(1) Sharp Exchanges Between China and Japan at Disarmament Conference
[CND, 09/06/95] BEIJING -- Chinese Ambassador to the Conference on
Disarmament in Geneva, SHA Zukang, told Japan not to make a fuss "over a
few limited number of nuclear tests," KRF reported quoting Xinhua. In
his speech, Sha urged Japan not to pose as a victim of atomic bombing
while "deliberately covering up or writing off its own [wartime] crimes"
at the same time. A Japanese delegate rebutted that "the disarmament
conference is... [for] future disarmament, not for arguing about the past,"
JEN reported. Japan has halted grants-in-aid to China to protest its two
underground nuclear tests conducted this year. Beijing received much
criticism when it demanded earlier in the conference that Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) be enacted only if all nations taking part in the
Disarmament Conference ratify it. As a compromise, Beijing eventually
dropped this demand; but in exchange it proposed that nuclear tests for
peaceful purposes be exempted from the CTBT, which will make it difficult
to monitor suspect nuclear tests. (Ray ZHANG, Jian LIU, Daluo JIA)
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(6) Demonstration Against U.S. Imperialism Held at NGO Forum
[CND, 09/06/95] BEIJING -- Xinhua reported yesterday that "several hundred
women" held the "longest-lasting demonstration" since the opening of the
NGO Forum meeting in Huairou. The theme of demonstration was "against
imperialism." The report did not mention what other demonstrations had been
held.
The line is reportedly about 200 meters long, composed of women of all
colors mainly from The Philippines, India, Nepal, Germany, Denmark, Egypt
and other Arabic countries. Some women from the United States were also in
the line. It is unclear from the report whether Chinese women were present.
The demonstrators carried banners with slogans such as "Down with U.S.
Imperialism! Women of the Working Class, Unite!" The report also cited
similar slogans put up by Danish and German delegates, as well as some
"written in Russian." CND has not seen western media reports on the event.
Some demonstrators gave speeches condemning the "exploitation of working
class women in the third world by imperialists." The whole event, said to
be initiated by a Filipina women organization, lasted for about two-hours.
An organizer told Xinhua that "U.S. imperialists not only exploit us
economically, especially our natural resources, and interfere with internal
affairs of other nations, but also control the media to spread
misinformation to mislead people." A U.S. woman reportedly agreed and said
the U.S. government policies are not only harmful to women in other
countries, but to working class women in the U.S. as well. (Hong TANG, Bo
XIONG)