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A CHINESE WEEKLY OF NEWS AND VIEWS J3, No. 34- "August 20-26, 1990 China's Stand On Gulf Crisis Schiolar Discusses • 4 Current J0t i Issues MS*- In China BeijingR^!i- VOL. 33, NO. 34 AUGUST 20-26,1990 CONTENTS EVENTS/TRENDS 4-6 China Against Iraq's Invasion Sino-Foreign Cuitural Exchanges China, Indonesia End a 23-Year Chasm Li's Visit Enhances Ties With n In a recent interview with Beijing Review on China's cultur• Singapore al co-operation and exchanges with other countries, Liu De- News in Brief you, vice-minister of culture, stressed that China should study and learn from all the fine forms of art expression created INTERNATIONAL by other nations, be they ancient, modern or contemporary (p. 11). A New Era for Sino-Indonesian Relations 7 China and Singapore: Friendly Neighbours 9 China OpF>oses Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait Li Peng Speaks on Kampuchea and Gulf Crisis 10 • Chinese leaders on various occasions have said that China CHINA opposes Iraq's invasion. They call on Iraq to pull its troops out of Kuwait. China wants the UN Security Council resolutions Sino-Foreign Cultural Ties in for to be really implemented (p. 4). Bright Future 11 A Dream Comes True for a German Girl 16 China's Democracy and Scholar Discusses Democracy and Other Issues Future—He Xin's Conversation With Guy Sorman • In two separate interviews, He Xin, a Chinese scholar, talks Economic and Political about a wide range of topics such as China's democracy, the Reforms—He Xin's "June 4 incident," Marxism in China, economic and political Conversation With Barbara reforms and China's future (pp. 18 and 27). Alighiero 27 BUSINESS/TRADE 36 BOOKS 37 Li Peng Visits Indonesia and Singapore FROM THE CHINESE PRESS 38-39 • Li Peng, the first Chinese premier to visit Indonesia in 25 CULTURE/SCIENCE 40-42 years, and President Soeharto endorsed a memorandum of understanding on August 8 declaring the formal resumption COVERi A grand occasion as Italian op• of Sino-Indonesian relations. It marked a new chapter in the era star Luciano Pavarotti performs at relationship between the two countries. While in Singapore, Li the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and his host Lee Kuan Yew played the role of "road cleaners," (up). Members of a Peking opera troupe removing the last obstacles to the official establishment of from China receive a warm welcome af• diplomatic ties, which are to be realized in a few months ter a performance in India (below). (pp. 4-6). Photos by Li Shengnan General Editorial Office Published every Monday by BEIJING REVIEW Subscription rates (1 year): Tel: 8314318 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing 100037 Australia 30.50 TU<: 222374 FLPDA CN The People's Republic of China New Zealand.. ..NZ.$40.50 FAX: 8314318 Distributed by China International Book UK ..CI 6.50 English Dept. Tel: 8315599 Ext. 546 Trading Corporation (GUOJI SHUDIAN) USA US$30.50 P.O. Box 399, Beijing, China Canada ..Can.$30.50 EVENTS/TRENDS China Against Iraq's Invasion hina has made it very clear that she is against Iraq's C invasion of Kuwait by vot• ing for Resolutions 660, 661 and 662 of the United Nations Se• curity Council," said visiting Chinese Premier Li Peng at a press conference in Singapore on August 12. China is opposed in principle to military involvement by big powers, Li continued, because it could only aggravate the already complicated situation. He said China held that the crisis should be resolved within the Arab Leaque and the Gulf Co-operative Committee. However, Li said, it was under• standable that Saudi Arabia had GUO ZHANYING taken some defensive measures CUnese PTemiei U Peng makes a speech at the welcoming banquet given by for the sake of its own security. President Soeharto in Jakarta on August 7. Li made a similar statement at a press conference in Jakarta on August 8, saying that China China, Indonesia End a 23-Year Chasm hopes the UN Security Council's resolutions on Gulf crisis "will hen Premier Li Peng's ments decided early in July to be really implemented." special plane touched reopen their diplomatic relations At home, Chinese President W down on Jakarta on Au• as of August 8, a move seen Yang Shangkun urged Iraq to gust 6 afternoon for a five-day widely as conducive to the peace respond to the opinions of the visit on the first leg of his three- and stability in the Asian region international community and nation tour, he became the first as a whole. settle disputes through negotia• Chinese top leader ever to visit During the conversation on tions, so as to restore peace to the Indonesia in 25 years and wrote August 7, Li said that China and Gulf region at the earliest possi• finale to a 23-year chasm in the Indonesia have a history of being ble date. Yang made the remarks in a conversation with Saudi Ar• relations between Asia's two invaded by foreign countries, abia's first Ambassador to China leading developing nations. and that both are facing the task Tawfiq Alamdar on August 7 in "Let bygones be bygones, and of developing their economies. Beidaihe, a summer resort by the let's look forward," Li said in That's why the two countries JBohai Sea. a two-hour private conversation need a peaceful international en• Yang said resorting to arms with President Soeharto the fol• vironment and a stable domestic and invading other countries lowing day. The latter was eager situation, he added. should not be allowed in interna• to agree. "Our two countries," "Since ancient times our two tional affairs. the president told his Chinese peoples have had the tradition of The fact that China had vot• guest, "should try to improve our friendly exchanges and cemented ed to support the UN Security relations in a forward-looking at• a profound friendship," he said. Council resolutions, Yang said, titude and not to leave a burden Indonesia was one of the first indicated that "we oppose Iraq's to our future generations." countries to establish diplomatic invasion and call on it to pull China and Indonesia esta• relations with the People's Re• troops out of Kuwait promptly, blished diplomatic relations in public of China, he noted. And so as to restore the sovereignty 1950. But these ties were sus• there was once a period of good and territorial integrity of the pended in 1967. Through friend• co-operative relations between country." • ly consultations, the two govern• the two countries. 4 BEIJING REVIEW, AUGUST 20-26, 19M EVENTS/TRENDS "We highly appreciate Presi• Li's visit to Indonesia as "a new stage. Chinese Premier Li Peng's dent Soeharto's wise decision on historical milestone in the rela• recent visit to Singapore is a resuming Indonesia's diplomatic tionship between our two nations clear indication of the two coun• relations with China," Li said. and countries." tries' enthusiasm for establishing "Persisting in the policy of re• On August 8, Chinese Foreign diplomatic relations at an early form and opening to the outside Minister Qian Qichen, who ac• date. world, the Chinese government companied Li to Indonesia, Li said that China is ready, is working hard to attain econo• signed a memorandum of un• together with the government of mic development and improve derstanding with his Indonesian Singajwre, to work for the fulfil• the people's livelihood," he ad• counterpart, Ali Alatas, to de• ment of this historic mission in ded. "China needs a long-term, clare the formal resumption of the spirit of mutual respect and stable and peaceful international diplomatic relations between understanding, which represents environment." China and Indonesia. the common aspirations of the Despite the vicissitudes in the The memorandum stated that people of China and Singapore. international arena, China will the government of the People's During his August 11-13 offi• steadfastly pursue an indepen• Republic of China appreciates cial goodwill visit, Li and Singa• dent foreign policy of peace and the position of the government of pore Prime Minister Lee Kuan it sincerely hopes to maintain the Republic of Indonesia in con• Yew exchanged views on bilater• and develop friendly relations sistently adhering to the one- al relations and international is• and co-operation with all other China policy and its recognition sues of common concern. countries in the world, Li said. of the government of the Peo• The two leaders expressed sa• "We highly appreciate the in• ple's Republic of China as the tisfaction over co-operative ef• creasingly important role played sole legal governmetit of China forts between the two countries. by ASEAN (Association of with Taiwan as an integral part "Singapore hopes China will Southeast Asian Nations) in in• of China. The two governments join the Asia and Pacific Econo• ternational affairs as a regional have reached the understanding mic Conference when she consi• group working for peace," the that Indonesia maintains only ders the time appropriate, and at premier added. "The Chinese economic and trade relations of the same time agrees to the par• government has always attached non-governmental nature with ticipation of the economies of great importance to the develop• Taiwan. Hong Kong and Taiwan," said ment of friendly relations and The memorandum stated that Lee Kuan Yew. co-operation with the ASEAN both governments reiterate non- On the Kampuchean problem, countries. recognition of dual nationallity Li stressed that any plan for solv• "Although China differs with for their nationals. ing the issue must have the "ap• the ASEAN countries in its so• The two governments enjoin proval of the four Kampuchean cial system," Li said, "this differ• their respective nationals, who factions.