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...United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD v), the forum where the developing countries present their complaints to the wealthier nations. After a month of sometimes heated dialogue, the conference ended last week in division, indecision and frustration. TIME'S Hong Kong Correspondent Ross H. Munro reports...
Reports TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Ross H. Munro: "The Chinese export some $2 billion a year to the colony. They earn a further $2 billion in remittances from Hong Kong residents to their relatives on the mainland and from some 50 Hong Kong-based companies that the Chinese control in shipping, banking, retailing and other fields. Trusted Chinese are assigned to work in these ventures to learn Western management methods. Now the Chinese are trying to draw both investment money and expertise directly into China. This could transform the Hong Kong economy in the next few decades. Hong Kong...
...half years as the Toronto Globe and Mail's man in Peking, Ross H. Munro has been reprimanded by Chinese officials, described to visiting journalists as a troublemaker and pointedly excluded from press trips around the country. That was even before he wrote a candid and widely reprinted series on human rights in China, or rather the absence thereof. Now Munro has received the ultimate rebuke: Chinese officials have informed the Globe and Mail that "for obvious reasons" Munro's visa, due to expire Dec. 23, will not be renewed, and he will have to leave Peking...
...Munro had been scheduled to leave the country by mid-January anyway; his replacement, former Drama Critic John Fraser, has already left for Peking. The Chinese clearly meant the expulsion as a warning to the 38 other foreign journalists there. Says Munro: "This raises a very serious question about whether reporters in China can write professionally, accurately and fully about this country...
...Munro is concerned that "in general, we resident correspondents worry too much about getting our next trip, just as outside journalists worry about getting their next visas. This sometimes leads to an almost unconscious self-censorship." Munro's own reports have not all been critical of China. He marveled last year at a grain harvest he was allowed to join, and even his human rights series contains kind words for the leniency with which the Chinese sometimes handle people accused of nonpolitical crimes. As for his stories about the less engaging aspects of Chinese life, Munro claims no bias other...