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To: gdichaz who wrote (67991)	2/27/2000 12:09:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

China opens annual parliament session on March 5 By Paul Eckert BEIJING, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Beijing is cleaning its sidewalks and ridding its streets of undesirables to get ready for the descent upon China's capital of thousands of lawmakers for the National People's Congress. The NPC, China's 2,900-plus member parliament, will open its annual full session on March 5, sitting for two weeks to discuss the nation's budget, economic development plans and public concerns about crime, corruption and unemployment. Security at the Great Hall of the People venue is expected to be especially heavy this year after a series of protests by members of the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong. The NPC was the focus of peaceful protests last year after it rubber-stamped a tough anti-cult law the government has used to jail hundreds of members of what it says is an ``evil cult.' The centrepiece of the NPC's work this year is expected to be Premier Zhu Rongji's plan to spend trillions of dollars to boost economic growth in poor hinterland provinces. The landlocked provinces have largely missed out on 20 years of dynamic growth enjoyed in coastal areas and the east-west gap risks triggering social or political unrest, particularly among independence-minded ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang. Preparations last week for the NPC session included police around Beijing rounding up migrant labourers from poor provinces to ship them out of the capital. While the Communist Party-controlled legislature looks inward, it will also have to grasp fast-paced challenges from outside China, including Beijing's campaign to join the World Trade Organisation and its war of words with rival Taiwan. WTO, TAIWAN China's WTO bid would be a ``hot topic' at the NPC this year, the semi-official China News Service said last week. NPC deputies ``will show special concern for and make suggestions on advantages and disadvantages of China's entry into the WTO,' the agency said. The NPC would review laws, regulations and policies and ``use law to guarantee the implementation of WTO terms,' it said. WTO negotiations between China and the EU ended on Thursday with no agreement and no date set for them to resume. Leaders of a U.S. Senate committee said last week a key WTO agreement Washington made with China last November was in peril after Beijing threatened in a government policy paper to attack Taiwan if it delayed talks on reunification. The China News Service, citing Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's assertion last July that Sino-Taiwan ties must be conducted on a state-to-state basis, said ``significant changes have taken place in Taiwan and cross-strait relations during the past year' requiring the NPC's close attention. With Taiwan holding critical presidential elections on March 18, shortly after the NPC adjourns, the parliament is likely to echo government criticisms of candidates it says favour independence for the democratic island. FAKE PARLIAMENT, REAL ISSUES While the NPC is formally the highest organ of government in China, delegates are not popularly elected and the NPC has never rejected a Communist Party proposal. Critics at home and abroad dismiss the NPC as political theatre -- replete with colourful ethnic costumes to highlight minority participation and forced applause after turgid speeches -- designed to make a one-party state appear democratic. An NPC joke circulating in Beijing is of the ``three fakes': fake statistics, fake newspaper reports and fake speeches." At the same time, however, the NPC offers a snapshot of Chinese power in flux, with provincial representatives demanding a greater say in decision-making. Legislators have become more vociferous in recent years in demanding to review spending plans. Government officials vowed to tighten regulation of the central budget after widespread corruption and misuse of funds were discovered in 1998. The NPC has also grown increasingly strident in recent years in criticising the government for failing to tame corruption -- an issue likely to surface this year after a massive smuggling scandal which touched relatives of senior Communist officials.

To: gdichaz who wrote (67991)	2/27/2000 1:31:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The two other sources all quoted Nikkei as their source. So, basically, there has been only one independent source. Simply logic. I hope, by tomorrow, all this will be cleared up and my concern proves unnecessary. Regards, Ibexx

To: gdichaz who wrote (67991)	2/27/2000 1:55:00 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 152472

The 16 may not be the giant front runner that you think. Last week, I saw Sierra wireless, Xircom, and Telsin mentioned. I think if you keep adding them up, you will find that 16 is about right. Sony, Toshiba, (the tiawan PC maker), Kyocera, LU, SRWEF, Xircom, Telsin, LGIC, Neopoint, a US carrier(I can;t remember them right now), DDI, UNicom (and 4-5 more?). I think if you go back and count them up from press releases, it becomes striaghtforward. (sorry about the names, but I did not have time to go back and find them in past quotes...)