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Mon, Feb 17, 1997
Deng Xiaoping: there's a report that Jiang Zemin and Li Peng have returned to Beijing because of Deng's ailing health. Ethnic problems: a China Times article puts the recent Uighur uprising into broader perspective, describing it as one of many uprising by ethnic groups to 'resist Chinese rule' in recent 'decades'.
Hong Kong: Beijing will have to approve the list of top officials who will head the SAR government.
Also in today's news about the Territory: property prices are expected to rise higher along new routes proposed by the Mass Transit Railway Corp. for extending services in Kowloon and Hong Kong.
Korea: as Beijing mulls over its options about the recent defection of a senior North Korean official, it continues to prepare for a possible flood of immigrants along the the Sino-Korean border . Such preparations have been on-going for many months and include the establishment of holding camps. The Far Eastern Economic Review ran a number of articles on the subject in the 10 October 1996 issue; three of the stories about North Korea may be accessed here.
[Note: the Far Eastern Economic Review on-line service is free, but requires that users register with them and login, and therefore first-time users should first introduce themselves on the FEER registration page.]
United States: the current issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review has a story on the United State's awakening to the 'China threat'.
Boat people: Chinese refugees detained by the US Coast Guard have been given temporary asylum in Guyana, the South American nation.
Peasants: Eyes are on the disposable income of Chinese peasants, as analysts predict that billions of dollars worth of consumer products will be sold over the next few years to China's 250 million peasants.