A Fujian provincial service broadcast of 18 June 1989 monitored by
the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), states that "[t]he
airport border check point of Fuzhou [capital of the Fujian
Province] armed police has adopted resolute measures to step up
checks on documents to stop lawless elements from sneaking out of
the country with counterfeit papers, safeguard the country's
sovereignty and dignity, and maintain the stability and prosperity
of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan." (BBC Summary 20 June 1989). The
broadcast charges "lawless elements in the mainland" and "bad
elements" in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan with forging "all kind of
certificates" including exit and entry visas to facilitate their
flight from China (Ibid.). It also mentions the discovery of a ring
which was involved in smuggling "mainland girls from Fujian's
Pingtan to Taiwan by fishing boat to engage in prostitution."
(Ibid.).
According to a Reuters report, "[t]wo Chinese students who claim
they were blacklisted for participating in China's pro-democracy
movement have been smuggled into Taiwan, the first such refugees to
reach the island." (Reuters 20 Sept. 1989, 1).
Another Reuters report maintains that the Taiwanese police
arrested two Chinese claiming to be wanted for their pro-democracy
activities after they had entered Taiwan illegally (Reuters 1 Nov.
1989).
A report carried by Central News Agency holds that a Taiwanese
sound music company has decided "to appoint Chang Kang, a mainland
dissident who was smuggled into Taiwan with two other activists on
29 October, publisher of the 'Blue China' magazine" (Central News
Agency 16 Nov. 1989).
A Reuters report states that 12 Chinese defectors entered Taiwan
via South Korea after the Taiwanese government had granted them
political asylum (Reuters 13 Dec. 1989, 1). The report holds that
the defectors "paid 10,000 Chinese yuan ([$]2,700 U.S.) for the
boat which left China's eastern province of Jiangsu on 15 November.
They had planned to head directly for Taiwan, but were forced to
South Korea by a typhoon." (Ibid.). The report further adds that
the Taiwanese government passed a law in September 1989 which
allows approved Chinese dissidents to settle in Taiwan (Ibid., 2).
According to the United Press International, Zhang Kang (former
Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of China's Institute of
Economic Restructuring) and two unspecified Chinese were smuggled
into Taiwan in October 1989 (United Press International 30 Dec.
1989, 1, 2).
A Reuters report mentions that despite a change in Taiwanese entry
laws to give refuge to "'genuine' pro-democracy activists" in the
aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwanese standards are
"strict, and the few self-professed dissidents who did request
asylum were sent back with other illegal immigrants who tried to
sneak onto the island to find jobs." (Reuters 28 Jan. 1991, 1).
Additional information on the subject is currently unavailable to
the IRBDC.
Attachments:
BBC Summary of world Broadcasts. 20
June 1989. "Other Reports; Fuzhou Airport Steps up on Documents."
(NEXIS)
Central News Agency. 16 November 1989. "M'Land Dissident May Serve
As 'Blue China Magazine Publisher." (NEXIS)
Reuters. 1 November 1989. "Two Chinese Saying They are Dissidents
Sneak into Taiwan." (NEXIS)
Reuters. 20 September 1989. "Doubts Grow over Taiwan's First
Chinese Student Refugees." pp. 1, 2. (NEXIS)
Reuters. 13 December 1989. "Chinese Pro-democracy Activists Grilled
by Taiwan Press." pp. 1, 2. (NEXIS)
Reuters. 28 January 1991. "Taiwan Calls on China to Free
Pro-democracy Activists." pp. 1, 2. (NEXIS)
The United Press International. 30 December 1990. "Exiled Chinese
Leaders Urge Release of Democracy Activists." pp. 1, 2. (NEXIS)