Newsletter on the campaigns of the Radical Party for the freedom of Tibet and the democracy on China.

"I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of great change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world".

Tenzin GYATSO, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, 1992

Issue #63, September 1, 1997

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CHINA: DISSIDENT REQUEST REFORMS

Wei Jingsheng is less alone. Numerous Chinese dissidents have openly asked for political reforms. On the contrary, the European Union and its member nations are increasingly quick to accommodate the regime in Beijing.

The request for democratic reforms in China is becoming more pressing and imposing. From many sectors of Chinese political dissidency, the call that capitalist reform of the economy necessitates and adequate reform of the individual to participate in public life is growing stronger.

A number of known militants, among them Qin Yangmin, have delivered an appeal to President Jang Zemin requesting reforms that would lead to the direct election of the maximum number of officials in the Chinese government.

In light of the demands of the Chinese democrats, the European "democrats," practicing so-called "realpolitik," continue to blindly legitimate the Chinese ruling class, through the signing of contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars and investing in the Chinese "market" without considering the alchemy that will allow it to sustain the absence of political rights and freedoms, and also forgetting "en passant" the more than 600,000 Chinese, Uguiri, Tibetan, and Mongol prisoners incarcerated in the prisons and laogai for their "criminal" political opinions.

(Published by FREEDOM FOR TIBET/DEMOCRACY IN CHINA ! - Number 58 - 31 May, 1997)