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12 JUN 1986

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YOUR TELNO 539: VISIT OF HU YAOBANG

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1. YOU SHOULD BY NOW HAVE SEEN WYE'S TELELETTER OF 6 JUNE TO ASHTON ON THE EARLIER INCIDENTS IN TIANJIN TO WHICH FRIDAY'S DEMONSTRATION WAS RELATED.

2. THE DEMONSTRATION TOOK THE FORM OF A MARCH THROUGH PEKING BY AFRICAN STUDENTS TO THE STATE EDUCATION COMMISSION IN ORDER TO PROTEST AT THE TIANJIN INCIDENTS. THE FOLLOWING DAY THE COMMISSION HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE AT WHICH THE CHINESE VERSION OF THE MAIN INCIDENT WAS REHEARSED. CHINESE STUDENTS HAD COMPLAINED OF THE LOUD MUSIC. THIS HAD LED TO AN ARGUMENT AND TO FOREIGN STUDENTS THROWING BEER BOTTLES AT THE CHINESE. THE AFFRAY HAD BEEN STOPPED BY THE UNIVERSITY AUTHORITIES AFTER ABOUT 30 MINUTES.

3. IN AMPLIFICATION THE SPOKESMAN DESCRIBED IT AS AN 'ISOLATED CASE', DENIED THAT THERE WAS ANY ELEMENT OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, AND SAID THAT GENERALLY SPEAKING CHINESE AND FOREIGN STUDENTS WERE ON GOOD TERMS ALTHOUGH THERE HAD BEEN SOME UNHAPPY INCIDENTS''.

4. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL OTHER SMALLER SUCH ''ISOLATED CASES'' RECENTLY. A MOROCCAN WITH A JAPANESE GIRLFRIEND WAS ASSAULTED NEAR PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY IN PEKING, A RWANDAN STUDENT IN NANJING WAS ATTACKED FOR GOING OUT WITH A CHINESE GIRL AND A ZAMBIAN STUDENT IN SHENYANG HAS GOT INTO TROUBLE OVER ALLEGED RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.

5. CHINESE STUDENTS' RESENTMENT OF AFRICAN STUDENTS IS IN PART FOUNDED UPON THE FACT THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT GIVES THE AFRICANS SCHOLARSHIPS OF YUAN 180 A MONTH WHILE THE CHINESE STUDENTS GRANT IS ONLY YUAN 30. BUT A MORE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF FRICTION IS OFTEN SEXUAL

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