(February 21, 1993) Beijing’s flurry of goodwill gestures, highlighted by the release of political prisoners, allowing dissidents to travel abroad, curtailing conspicuous surveillance of foreign reporters, and hinting at an olive branch for Hong Kong, has China – watchers scratching their heads and wondering: what next?
Peking frees writer
(December 18, 1992) Dai Qing, a dissident journalist jailed for ten months after the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations, will fly to the United States next Sunday, having won a long battle for permission to leave China.
World Bank urged to stop funding Chinese dam
(September 23, 1992) A newly formed coalition is putting pressure on the World Bank and other corporate money-lenders to stop funding China’s controversial Three Gorges Dam.
Foes of dam step up campaign against China project
(September 21, 1992) Foes of a proposed giant dam spanning the Yangtze River in China stepped up their campaign here today by calling on all possible credit sources not to back the project.
Environmentalists organize to stop world’s biggest dam
(September 21, 1992) Chinese and Western environmentalists joined forces Monday to try to stop China from building the world’s largest dam, which they say would be a disaster from central China and its people.
Dissident writer trying to publish books critical of Three Gorges project
(August 4, 1992) Dissident journalist Dai Qing is challenging China’s censorship by trying to publish a series of books critical of the multi-billion-yuan Three Gorges project.
Chinese dissident sees rights improvement
(June 8, 1992) Dai Qing, a dissident journalist, who was prevented from returning home last weekend, was allowed to fly to Beijing today and said that the Government seemed to be improving its human rights record.
Chinese dissident allowed to return
(June 8, 1992) Ms. Dai Qing, who is studying at Harvard University, was refused entry to China before the Tiananmen Square anniversary, but returned to spend the summer with her family.
Dissident allowed home with LI’s help
(Jun. 4, 1992) Chinese Prime Minister Mr. Li Peng has personally intervened to allow dissident journalist Ms. Dai Qing to return to China to visit her relatives.
Elderly political prisoners tortured in Chinese jails
(June 1, 1992) A student leader who fled China after spending a year being moved from jail to jail has released an account of the way in which political prisoners as old as 70 were tortured.
Sacramento Bee
(May 10 , 1992) “This spring, after more than half a century of debate, the Chinese government finally decided to tame the dragon, or try to” writes Stephen Magagnini.
‘No matter how we vote, we vote in blindness’
(April 3, 1992) On April 3, 1992, the National People’s Congress approved the Three Gorges dam. But the refusal of one-third of NPC delegates to give the project their blessing amounted to an unprecedented display of opposition from China’s ‘rubber-stamp’ parliament.
Damning China’s Three Gorges
(February 15, 1992) A controversial plan to build the world’s biggest hydro dam on the Yangtze River will be examined by an international tribunal this week – and Canada is under fire by human –rights and environmental groups for its role in the project.
Fear silences Chinese opponents
(January 11, 1992) Margaret Barber states: “Jan Wong wrongly implies that little opposition to the Three Gorges Dam exists within China”.
Taming people China’s first step in taming river
(December 28, 1991) Jan Wong writes: “Those who couldn’t be bought off were simply silenced, leaving foreigners almost only critics of mammoth project”
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