     "The run-up to my trip (to Beijing) leads me to be concerned that 
they're going in the wrong direction with these detentions of dissidents," 
he said on Wednesday in Australia.
     Christopher voiced his "strong distaste" for the roundups and said 
they may end up quashing plans to broaden Washington's security dialogue 
with Beijing.
     The lates known detention was on Tuesday when police accused ex-
student leader Wang Dan of rumormongering and warned he would "pay the 
price" if his outspokenness hurt mainland China.
     Foreign Minister Qian Qichien flatly rejects the formula of MFN in 
exchange for human rights progress.
     "Human rights and MFN are completely separate issues," Qian reiterat-
ed on Sunday.  "We strongly oppose linking them."
     The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday rebuked Clinton for voicing sympathy 
for mainland China's dissidents.
     "No foreign country, organization or individual has the right to make 
irresponsible remarks or interfere," a ministry statement said.
     Ask virtually any businessman, Chinese or American, whether mainland 
China should enjoy most favored nation tariffs and the answer is emphatic 
--yes.
     Sino-U.S. trade is blooming at a world-beating clip and U.S. busines-
ses, whose exports to mainland China reached US$8 billion last year, are 
finally piercing formidable barriers to reach mainland China's 1.2 billion 
increasingly wealthy consumers.
     America is even more crucial to mainland China, sucking up 34 percent 
of all Chinese exports in 1993--about U.S. worries about a 25 percent leap 
in its bilateral trade deficit to US$23 billion.
     Hong Kong would also be throttled by a trade war.  Officials in the 
British colony that finance and manage much of mainland China's trade said 
of mainland China's MFN status would cost 75,000 local jobs, swipe up to 
nine percent from the territory's overall trade and slash 3.1 percentage 
points from its economic growth rate.
     Editorials Reunifying the Chinese language.  At a recent symposium on 
the Chinese language held in Taiwan, participat scholar urged that people 
on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait should strive to reunify the written 
form of the Chinese language.  The call deserves a hearty response.
     Until 221 B.C., when the first emperor of the Chin-dynasty unified 
China, many different forms of the Chinese language existed in China.  Uni-
fication of the country created a need to unify the language.  The emperor 
ordered a common written form be used throughout the land.
     The move, tyrannical as it may seem from the viewpoint of modern peo-
ple, proved a gread success and a blessing for the Chinese.
     The use of a common written language has enabled people in various 
areas of the country to communicate with one another with little difficulty 
despite the different ways they talk.
     The people in Shandong, for example, talk as differently from the 
people in Guangdong as the English do from the French.  The people from the 
French.  The people from the two provinces can make themselves understood 
easily by writing.
     The unification of written Chinese, therefore, has been tremendously 
helpful in keeping the nation united throughout the centuries.
     However, the Chinese Communists' attempt to revolutionize the Chinese 
language by adopting a simplified form of the language has created a lin-
guistic split.
     Used on the mainland now is a simplified system much different from 
the traditional characters, which are used in Taiwan.  The difference is 
not so great as to make either system entirely unrecognizable to users 
of the other system.  Yet those who habitually use one do have considerable 
difficulty understanding passages written in the other form.  This, without 
a doubt, is one of the obstacles to Chinese reunification.
     The reasons given by Peking for adopting the simplified characters 
are that the simplification facilitates the writing and learning of the 
language and learning of the language and helps reduce illiteracy.
     Illiteracy is as widespread as ever on the mainland since the sim-
plification of the characters.  In Taiwan, where the traditional chara-
cters are used, fewer than 6 percent of the people are illiterate, and the 
vast majority of these individuals grew up before the island reverted from 
Japanese rule to China in 1945.
     The simplified characters, besides being deprived of the artistic 
value of the traditional characters, are actually harder to read.  The 
reason is simple.  Simplification of the strokes has made the characters 
look more similar, so distinguishing one from the other has become more 
difficult.
     And in this era of the computer, when the need to write in long-
hand is decreasing rapidly, simplification of the characters hardly makes 
writing easier and faster.
     We hope that authorities on the mainland will abandon the use of the 
simplified characters and re-adopt the much more beautiful traditional 
traditional form of the language.  Persisting in using the simplified 
characters is hampering the reunification of the nation.
     Intel introduces new Pentium processors.  Intel Corp. introduced new 
Pentium processors running at frequencies of 90 and 100 MHz.  The 100-MHz 
version of the Pentium processor runs todays'PC software faster than any 
other processor available.  It is 50 percent faster than the original 
version announced one year ago and has an iCOMP index rating of 815 with 
a SPECint92 rating of 100.0.
     These new Pentium processors will be manufactured in volume at Intel's 
most advanced microprocessor production factories in Ireland and Santa 
Clara.  With the 3.3 volt, 0.6 micron, 4-layer metal advanced process tech-
nology, the size of other members of the Pentium processor family.  This 
announcement comes on the heels of demonstrating a 150-MHz Pentium proces-
sor at the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in 
San Francisco approximately two weeks ago.
