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China's Accession to WTO Achievable in 1999  Former US
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said September 28 in Shanghai that he believes China's
accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is achievable this year. In a speech at a luncheon reception at the ongoing Fortune Global Forum, Kissinger said that China's participation in the WTO "should be in the interest of China, of the US and of the world community." He said the negotiations failed in April because of domestic American politics, and that it cannot resume exactly at that same point. "But with the wisdom of both sides, ...I believe a solution should be achievable within this year," he said. The former US diplomat, who was met by Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Monday, said that maintaining a cooperative relationship between China and the US will be in the interest of both nations and indeed the entire world. Therefore the two countries should resolve their disputes through diplomatic channels on the basis of mutual understanding and accommodation. The two have no conflict on principle issues, although they are quite different in their ideology and culture, he said. "I cannot consider that we can have stability and progress in Asia if China and the United States are in a cold war with each other," he stressed. China has experienced great changes over the past two decades, and its opening to the outside over the past 10 years was much greater than that of the previous 200 years, he said. He stressed that the US should continue its "one China" policy. "Every American president,...has agreed that Taiwan should be part of China," he said. "Every single American president, of both parties, including President Reagan, who explicitly stated, and President Clinton repeated last year, that America affirms 'one China,' and not 'two Chinas' or 'one China, one Taiwan.'" (Xinhua) |
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