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THE BATTALION Page 3
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1979
Protesters pester Peking, premier
By KAREN ROGERS
Battalion Staff
Hundreds of demonstrators, in
cluding Taiwanese, Vietnam vete-
ns and Mao Tse-Tung supporters
athered in Houston last Friday and
Saturday to protest the visit of
hinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-
ing. Some of the Taiwanese had
ime from as far away as Oklahoma
land Mississippi.
Tengs two-day stay in Houston
Bras the last of a four-city goodwill
jour.
About 200 demonstrators
lathered at the main entrance of El
lington Air Force base where Teng’s
plane landed. Taiwanese flags
fhipped in the 20-mile-an-hour
inds while protestors shouted and
ang the Taiwan national anthem.
Many of the protesters said Teng
ias not the man he seemed to be.
“He comes here and shakes hands
ith President Carter and makes
he people think he’s a nice guy and
won’t do anything bad, ’ said
itikun Chiang, a Taiwanese student
at the University of Houston. “But
hat’s not true. Wait two or three
ears, he added.
Chiang said he believes that
hina will eventually use force to
bring Taiwan back into the People’s
Republic of China.
‘When he says they won’t use
force, that’s just propaganda to
make the American people think
they are likeable,’’ he said.
He criticized Carter for his abrupt
decision to normalize relations with
China.
He should have consulted with
Congress and the people to see their
reaction.”
Most demonstrators questioned
said they were there because “we
love our homeland, Taiwan.”
Other protestors at Ellington in
cluded several businessmen and one
Vietnam veteran who carried a sign
saying “The only good communist is
a dead comm n’9 and “Impeach Car
ter.
Teng’s motorcade escaped from a
side entrance of the airforce base.
Some members of the crowd began
running the more than one mile dis
tance, but the limousines had al
ready sped away.
There were no protestors at
NASA, Teng’s first stop, although
more than 500 persons waited at the
Hyatt-Regency hotel, in downtown
Houston, where Teng stayed.
About 600 Houston policemen
standing shoulder-to-shoulder in
full riot gear kept the protestors
away from the hotel’s main entr
ance. Two fire trucks stood ready to
spray the crowd if they became un
ruly.
Chia-pang Chiu, also a Taiwanese
student at UH, said, “Taiwan has
done nothing wrong. We re not ask
ing for American sympathy, just
their support. Don’t believe any
thing the Chinese say. They will
eventually use force on Taiwan.’’
He urged the “silent majority to
write to Congress and tell them to
sell more weapons to Taiwan. Al
though Taiwan “has enough power
for the time being,” he said, “if it
cannot get support from the U.S., it
cannot continue building a strong
army.
Houston Police Chief Harry
Caldwell shook hands with many of
the demonstrators, thanking them
for being peaceful.
Andy Lai, rally coordinator, led
the group in a cheer for Caldwell
and shouted ,“OK, Chief, we want
you to hear we give you 100 percent
support.’’
During the demonstration,
Teng’s motorcade had pulled into a
side entrance to avoid the protes
ters.
Following the three-hour de
monstration, the protesters
marched more than a mile back to
the Albert Thomas Convention
Center where they had begun the
rally.
Eighteen Mao supporters, who
protested Teng’s leanings toward
the West were arrested as they
marched toward the hotel during
rush-hour traffic.
Teng’s first brush with a protester
came when Louis Bean, a member
of the La Porte Ku Klux Klan,
lunged at the vice premier as he was
leaving for the Simonton rodeo. He
was quickly subdued by police and
charged with disorderly conduct
and resisting arrest.
Protesters did not follow Teng to
Simonton, a town 37 miles west of
Houston.
More than 1,000 policemen
greeted protesters Saturday morn
ing. Although the crowd was smal
ler, the noise was not.
This time, there was no way Teng
could avoid seeing the crowd of
about 200 who chanted “Long live
free China.
Most waved small plastic
Taiwanese flags or large banners
written in Chinese, but the message
was the same: “Teng, go home,” as
one man shouted.
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crowd shouted anti-communist remarks in
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HOUSTON — The People’s Re
public of China is interested in de
veloping its oil reserves and Energy
Secretary James Schlesinger says
that the country already is looking to
the United States for help.
Schlesinger said he and Chinese
Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping dis
cussed energy matters on Teng’s
flight from Atlanta to Houston,
where he continued his tour. The
energy official would give no details
of the conversation, but offered
some generalities.
“The Chinese are very eager to
have our help in developing their
petroleum industry, on shore as
well as off shore,” Schlesinger said.
Schlesinger also said the Chinese
wanted U. S. help in developing the
coal industry but their main thrust
was on petroleum.
Schlesinger would not say to what
degree, if any, China would assist in
U.S. Middle East policy. He said
part of their discussion involved
Soviet actions and the Middle East,
especially the struggle for control of
the Persian Gulf, from which half
the free world’s oil supply comes.
“We talked over the global
scene. ”
By LYLE LOVETT
Battalion Staff
Choosing between communism
and democracy is easy from the
American point of view. But some
Taiwanese students at Texas A&M
University find the choice more dif
ficult.
There are two different govern
ments in China. The communist
People’s Republic controls the 900
million people of mainland China,
and the democratic Republic of
China controls the 17 million in
habitants on the island of Taiwan.
Both claim to he the official gov
ernment for all of China.
Since the United States nor
malized relations with the People’s
Republic, the threat of communist
takeover is felt greater than ever in
the Republic of China.
But some Taiwanese students at
Texas A&M say their government is
as oppressive as the Communist
government of the mainland — that
to choose between their govern
ment and the Communist govern
ment leaves no choice at all.
There are two peoples in Taiwan,
native Taiwanese and those who
immigrated from the mainland after
its takeover in 1949 by the Com
munists. The government in
Taiwan, because it claims to repre
sent all of China, is controlled al
most exclusively by the immigrant
Chinese who comprise only 11.6
percent of Taiwan’s population.
Some of Texas A&M’s Taiwanese
students spoke about their govern
ment but asked that their names not
be printed. They said other students
here from Taiwan would report back
to the government. Some said their
families in Taiwan have been
threatened because of things they
(students) have said in College Sta
tion.
“If you say in public that the gov
ernment is lousy, you can be ar
rested immediately,’’ one
Taiwanese student said. “It claims
to be a free country but it’s not re
ally. Compared to this country there
is no freedom. So what’s the differ
ence between that and Com
munism?”
That student came to the United
States two years ago and is now a
permanent resident. “If I had to go
back to my country,” the student
added, “I wouldn’t dare say all
that.”
The Republic of China has rep-
resen^i ives for all of China in its
legislature. Taiwan is considered
one province in the republic and re
ceives a only a few seats. Represen
tatives elected from mainland pro
vinces 30 years ago have not had to
face re-election, hut Taiwanese rep
resentatives are elected every few
years. In this way, the 11.6 percent
Chinese population of Taiwan has
been able to control the island, stu
dents said.
“They say China is theirs. Well if
it’s theirs, why don’t they go get it?
If they can’t, they should forget it, ”
one said.
Other students expressed similar
opinions. They said they thought it
impossible for their government to
ever unite all of China and said they
would prefer an independant
Taiwan with genuine majority rule
to the present system.
One student speaking of Chinese
domination of Taiwan pointed out
that the island has been controlled
in the past by the Dutch, Manchu
rians and Japanese.
“Taiwan people are suffering from
many leaders,” he said. “They are
accustomed to being oppressed.”
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