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...building is being funded by a $8 million gift from Haruo Natio, the chief executive of the Eisai Company, a major Japanese pharmaceutical firm...
...animated" discussion. Among other things, Clinton requested progress on human rights for dissidents and Tibetans and an end to Chinese sales of missile technology to nations like Pakistan and Iran. Without "overall significant progress" on human rights, Clinton has promised he will not renew China's most-favored-natio n trading status next spring. The discussion grew so vigorous that at one point, according to a White House official, Jiang delivered a 15-minute lecture "on the importance of non-intervention in China's internal affairs...
...needed China as a counterweight to Moscow," says Clinton. "But there's no need to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand, no need to ignore China's spreading dangerous weapons technologies and its trampling of human rights. I would deny most- favored-natio n status to China, impose trade sanctions and encourage the younger generation's democratic aspirations. They'll triumph someday, and we want to be seen as having been on their side from the beginning. Bush is behind the curve because he shortsightedly fears the turmoil of revolution...
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