Word: li
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that the first ever summit meeting of the Security Council convened testified to the U.N.'s growing clout. Of the 15 members, 13 sent heads of government; two grabbed the spotlight. Russian President Boris Yeltsin was trying to shed his image as a hard-drinking oaf. Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng was trying to shed his pariah status as the Butcher of Beijing...
...adding an intriguing suggestion: a global missile-defense system that would blend Russian defense technology into the U.S. Star Wars program. Having just decreed the release of the last 10, he boasted that "there are no more prisoners of conscience in free Russia." But if Yeltsin earned high marks, Li barely passed. Despite support in the final summit declaration of "respect for human rights," Li denounced such concerns as "an excuse" for interference in a country's internal affairs...
Baker held marathon talks with Qian, President Yang Shangkun, Premier Li and party chief Jiang Zemin, ticking off U.S. concerns about political repression, arms sales, the trade imbalance, North Korea. A senior State Department official, recalling Baker's eight months of shuttle diplomacy that led to the Middle East peace talks in Madrid, called the discussions in Beijing "every bit as tough and difficult, if not tougher." At one point President Yang told the secretary that some problems "cannot be solved for the time being, and the two sides may well leave them aside." On the eve of his departure...
...Ladies and gentlemen of Asia, let's rock 'n' roll!" That clarion call is changing the face of television from Kuwait to Taiwan. It comes from STAR-TV, the first pan-Asian satellite TV service, launched last April by Hong Kong billionaire Li Kashing. STAR currently beams four channels of programming to 38 countries across the world's most populous region. One channel is an Asianized MTV; the others are devoted to sports, entertainment and Chinese- language fare...
Carter's message, which he repeated to Premier Li Peng and Communist General Secretary Jiang Zemin, produced no visible results, though the former President did receive assurances that Chinese students in the U.S. who obtain a permit to return home will not be harassed or arrested once back in China. Chinese analysts believe the regime may have let Carter speak to help persuade Washington to continue most-favored-nation trade relations...