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WENT ON TO STATE THAT WHAT CHINA REALLY FACED LAST YEAR WAS
POTENTIAL REBELLION WHICH WOULD HAVE NEGATED ALL GAINS ACHIEVED
BY LAST TEN YEARS OF REFORM AND OPENNESS. HE FURTHER STATED THAT
CHINESE POLICY IN AFTERMATH OF INCIDENT HAD BEEN LENIENT, AND
CONCENTRATED ON REEDUCATION, RATHER THAN PUNISHMENT. CHINESE SIDE
ACKNOWLEDGED THAT A LIMITED NUMBER OF PRISONERS REMAINED IN
DETENTION FOR ACTIVITIES RELATED TO 1989 DEMONSTRATIONS, BUT
WOULD NOT/NOT GIVE PRECISE FIGURES BEYOND STATING THAT ONLY NINE
PEKING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, INCLUDING WANG DAN, REMAINED IN
PRISON. WE SHALL FOLLOW UP AND ATTEMPT TO VERIFY ACCURACY OF THIS
ASSERTION.
5.IN RESPONSE TO DIRECT QUESTION, FU VENTURED QUOTE PERSONAL
OPINION UNQUOTE THAT IT WAS QUOTE QUITE IMPOSSIBLE UNQUOTE THAT
INCIDENT SIMILAR TO SUPPRESSION OF 1989 TIANANMEN STUDENT
MOVEMENT COULD OCCUR AGAIN. THE ROOT POLITICAL CAUSES UNDERLYING
THE EVIDENT DISSATISFACTION WHICH FED LAST YEARS MOVEMENT HAD
BEEN ADDRESSED BY THE CPC UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF JIANG ZEMING,
AND THE CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION WAS QUOTE GOOD UNQUOTE. ALSO,
SECURITY AUTHORITIES WERE NOW PROPERLY EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH ANY
FUTURE EVENTUALITIES WITHOUT HAVING TO RESORT TO DEADLY FORCE.
6.CONTRARY AND WELL ESTABLISHED VIEWS WERE BRIEFLY EXCHANGED ON
TIBET, BEFORE SESSION DEVOTED ITSELF TO HKONG CONFIDENCE ISSUE.
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