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TATE AND LOCAL
o Thoughts on a capitalist
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voidingthn; By ANN CERVENKA
reduce thell Suitr writer
Igtaxesr ^he 3()tli annual Student Gonfer-
siening liuience on National AHairs concluded
he told , h Saturday morning with a summary
sh ine n 011 ' 1 * ie Emerging China” and itn-
plications . on f uture relations be-
:‘Uei il ( . tween t ] ie United States and China,
is programs'? [)r. Harry Harding, author of sev
eral articles on Chinese domestic
police and relations between the
PP) BirthdtiUnited States and China, discussed
five common (|uestions raised about
I i China since the death of Chairman
1 ><UI lc ' Mpt) Tse-tungin H)7(i and the initia
tion of reforms by Vice Premier
cl when GfflDeog Xiaoping.
eut talkiiifi' Tl'e first question is whether or
i' ' notlChina is moving toward capilal-
ieakmg.L J h 1
ism.
1 ■■^rding said China has become
ft payinj; niore capitalistic, using a loosely de-
>ni bdinvff fl M. d t >'P e of capitalism.
"."'^■owever, China is far f rom a cap-
v '' italistic system when it is strictly de-
they heardifmed as private ownership of the
' pretenclfll| means of production, he sai<f.
Allhough individual enterprise
has expanded, most urban empo-
tim fold mfjyees work for the government. Har-
e speech v ding said in an urban work force of
114 million, less than 1 percent are
self-employed whereas 75 percent
are employed by the government.
I he second question is whether or
not China is renouncing Marxism.
The role of the Marxist ideology
in China has shifted from strict
dogma to a flexible set of methods to
analyze problems and broad goals,
Harding said.
Harding next explained China’s
movement toward democracy.
He said although policies have be
come more liberal, the reform
movement that began after the
death of Mao cannot be exagger
ated.
Reforms have allowed more free
dom of choice and expression, a
deactivated Marxism, more competi
tion and decreased the role of the
party. . , .
However, China still does not
want the degree of pluralism that
the United States has.
“The political reform has gone
less far than the economic reform,”
Harding said. The Communist party
still has broad political powers and
limits individual rights.
The fourth question is whether
the reforms are irreversible. “Poli
cies in place today are not necessarily
the ones that will be in effect later,”
he said.
Whether or not the reforms re
main depend upon the degree of
retrogression or the reversal of de
velopment.
If the retrogression is mild, un
popular or ineffective, aspects of the
system will be adjusted or aban
doned, he said.
A severe economic and social
breakdown would result in a deci
sion by the government to perma
nently cancel all reforms.
Because the reforms are risky,
they have aroused serious opposi
tion from traditionalists and survival
depends upon the personal author
ity of the leader, Harding said.
Harding said he is optimistic
about the reforms and believes they
have only a 30 percent chance of
cancellation.
He said although the reforms
cause serious risks, the Chinese gov
ernment can deal with them. He also
feels the opposition is losing clout as
Deng directs a social transition away
from the policies of Mao.
future
SCONA
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“If the reforms fail, the alterna
tive is not Maoism,” Harding said.
Rather, China would adopt a gov
ernment similar to that of the Soviet
Union.
The final question is whether
China is an ally or an adversary of
the United States.
“China is likely to be neither a
f riend nor foe of the United States,”
he said.
However, Harding believes the
two countries can still cooperate and
have a mutually beneficial
relationship.
In fact, continued reform in
China could be a link to more suc
cessful foreign relations, he said.
China and the United States share
many common views and goals. Both
are concerned with the expansion of
Russia, want peace in Taiwan and fa
vor American involvement in Asia,
he said.
Although many people believe
China is moving toward capitalism
and democracy, Harding told the
audience not to fall victim to the
long standing hope that Shanghai
will become another Kansas City.
^Education laws affect Houston rodeo
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it’s speed ll
hi think nil
Associated Press
HOUSTON — 1 he ef fects of the
state Legislature’s newly passed edu
cation reform laws are not only he
wn repining felt in the classroom, but also at
Unj(,n the Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo, officials for the event say.
as watchin;. junioi entries in the livestock
competition total 16,603 this year,
compared to 19,854 in 1984 and
32,139 in 1983, according to show
of ficials’ figures.
Michael McCravey, assistant man
ager of the livestock competition,
said junior entries are down because
more youths are staying home for
classes this year.
“House Bill 72, which says that
kids can be out of school on excused
absences not more than 10 days a
calendar year, has something to do
with it,” McCravey said.
To make up for the stringent
school attendance laws, livestock
show officials moved all the junior
breeding beef heifer events to the
last weekend of the show. Nearly all
the junior events are held during the
show’s second week, as they were in
previous years.
Chinese sovereignty
discussed at SCONA
By LORIE WOODWARD
Reporter
T he problem of Chinese sover
eignty is not an easy diplomatic
question to solve, a three-member
panel told approximately 200
people during SCONA Friday af
ternoon.
“No one here will probably
propose an immediate solution to
all the problems inherent in the
slogan ‘One country, two social
systems’, but we hope to air some
ideas,” said Dr. Suzanne Barnett,
a Chinese historian at the Univer
sity of Puget Sound and modera
tor of the discussion.
Chinese sovereignty involves
the Chinese people’s concern
with Chinese territory, Barnett
said. Hong Kong and Taiwan are
of particular importance, she
said.
Whether or not Taiwan is actu
ally a part of China has been a
continuing sore point between
the two countries.
Ping Chen, a Chinese doctoral
candidate at the University of
Texas, said Taiwan is a part of
China and has been for centuries.
The problem that exists is how
and when the the two will be re
united, Chen said.
In addition to popular feeling
for reunification, Taiwanese in
dependence is not acceptable to
the Chinese because of the strong
the cultural and historic ties be
tween the two countries, Chen
said.
Dr. Tsung-Kuang Lin, profes
sor at Drake University and a na
tive of Taiwan, disagreed.
The common ethnic back
ground between the Chinese and
Taiwanese does not provide a
mandate for the inclusion of Tai
wan with China, Lin said.
“To say that Taiwanese culture
is but a minor branch of the main
Chinese culture, as the Chinese
have claimed, is to ignore the tre
mendous impact of Japanese and
Western culture on the island,”
Lin said.
“They (the Taiwanese) have
developed such a high degree of
self-identity that their affinity to
the Chinese on the mainland has
become minimal.”
Though the conflict between
Taiwan and China will exist for
some time, Britain and China
have reached a settlement which
will return Hong Kong to China
in 1997.
Dr. Tomas Bellows of the Uni
versity of Texas at San Antonio
said the agreement guarantees
Hong Kong will keep a capitalist
economic system and a high de
gree of autonomy. But, he said,
the Chinese government will have
constitutional powers that could
reduce much of Hong Kong’s au
tonomy.
The Hong Kong agreement
has been considered a model for
handling the Taiwan situation,
but Bellows said he did not think
the Hong Kong solution would be
applicable to to Taiwan.
Bellows said such an
agreement would not acceptable
to the Taiwanese because the
Chinese government would have
the power to interpret statutes
and the power to select the chief
executive.
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