Word: sino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inside track is President Jiang Zemin, who last week held a sort of mini-summit with President Bill Clinton in New York City. Clinton and Jiang talked for two hours at Lincoln Center without reaching any new agreements. But they were determined to demonstrate publicly that Sino-American relations, which have been strained and verging on bad, are starting to improve. White House spokesman Michael McCurry offered a painstaking formulation: Clinton was "confident that we have begun a process that will lead to a series of dialogues that will help improve the opportunity" for better relations...
...Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui a visa to travel to his alma mater, Cornell University, last June. A Chinese official claimed later that the U.S. "has made it clear to the Chinese side that it has drawn a lot of lessons from the damage it has wrought upon Sino-U.S. relations...
...encountered in Bosnia had we let ourselves be drawn in by genocide. What would have happened in Somalia had we not pulled out when our boys started getting fired at? Just imagine what conflicts we could have had with China had we held human rights in higher esteem than Sino-American trade. Or if we had pushed the envelope with Russian President Boris Yeltsin on his advances in Chechnya...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher, American officials announced that Beijing's plans to sell two nuclear reactors to Iran had been terminated. Not so, said Qian. The sale had been suspended only because of problems with the original site. Western diplomats, looking for signs of a thaw in Sino-American relations, think Qian's denial may be merely an attempt to save face back home...
...will succeed Deng Xiaoping. "To appear weak before the U.S. puts potential successors in a vulnerable position," says Robert Ross, a visiting professor at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Testifying before Congress last week, Henry Kissinger, the advance man for President Nixon's opening to China, said, "Sino-American relations are in free fall." For a good indication of how far they will fall, watch what happens to Harry...