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...repeatedly of a "positive and cooperative relationship" between the two countries. "We spent a great deal of time on the array of global problems that China and the United States face together and that we can work together to solve," she said after meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. "It's important to the global community, which is counting on China and the United States to collaborate to security and peace and prosperity for all." En route to Beijing she told reporters that she wouldn't allow discussions over key issues like the global economy, security and climate change...
...ready to resume the human-rights dialogue.' YANG JIECHI, Chinese Foreign Minister, agreeing to restart talks with the U.S. on China's rights record that had been suspended since...
...would allow the carrier to visit after all, though by this time the ship was already well on its way to its home base in Japan. Similar confusion seemed to be in evidence a few days later when, during a visit to the White House, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi reportedly told President Bush the episode was due to a "misunderstanding." But the next day, ministry spokesman in Beijing Liu Jianchao, told reporters that reports Yang had used the word "misunderstanding" didn't "conform with the facts...
...Huang Jing, a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C., is that China's Foreign Ministry has relatively little power and largely acts as a messenger to convey policies crafted at higher levels, such as the military. "Everyone seems to think that Yang Jiechi is China's Condi Rice," says Huang, "but he's actually quite low on the totem pole compared with a senior general, to whom he would have to bow and be deferential." Of course, many bureaucracies suffer from communications problems, blurred lines of authority and plain old dumb decisions...
...trip to China, Summers raised the issue in closed-door meetings with both Chinese and American officials, according to a source familiar with the trip. Additionally, in an Oct. 19, 2002 letter to Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States Yang Jiechi, Summers specifically cited that Yang had “not been granted access to legal counsel” and asked the ambassador “to expedite the handling of Dr. Yang’s case, and, if appropriate, move expeditiously to expel him from the People’s Republic...