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US Advance Group to Visit China, Plans for Bush's Visit Moving Along

The United States will send a second advance group to China this week to decide the agenda for US President George W. Bush's China visit scheduled later this month.

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The United States will send a second advance group to China this week to decide the agenda for US President George W. Bush's China visit scheduled later this month.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan confirmed the above information at a regular press conference in Beijing Tuesday.

Commenting on reports that Bush announced he would increase his defence budget by a big margin, the spokesman said China hopes the US' defence policy will be in the interest of world peace and development.

Proper Handling of Taiwan Issue Key to Sino-US Relations

As the clock ticked down to the China-US summit in Beijing later this month, Chinese vice foreign minister Li Zhaoxing met top US officials in Washington to make final preparations.

Li met Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage on Tuesday, and Vice President Dick Cheney dropped by his meeting with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on Monday, officials said.

Talks between Li and the top officials also cover human rights and trade, a White House official said.

Earlier, Li Zhaoxing said Monday in Washington that proper handling of the Taiwan issue is the key to developing a constructive relationship of cooperation between China and the United States. >>In Detail

Powell: US-China Relations on Improving Track

China-US relations are developing rather smoothly ahead of President George W. Bush's visit to Beijing this month, despite a year of turbulence since he took office, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.

"The relationship is back on an improving track," Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, attributing progress to a desire by both sides to heal the scars left by a crisis over a US EP-3 spyplane bumping into a Chinese jet over South China Sea.

Powell stressed that despite their ideological differences, the United States and China should cooperate in areas where they had common interests, including Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organisation, peace efforts on the Korean peninsula and battling HIV/AIDS.

"On such issues we can talk, and produce constructive outcomes," Powell said, laying out the case for engagement with China, a school of diplomacy favored by one of several competing camps in the Bush administration. >>In Detail

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