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...that he has the mandate of the electorate. "Local analysts have expected Lee to take the initiative to break the impasse," TIME correspondent Jamie A. FlorCruz reports from Beijing. "The first step will probably be to open direct sea links, which is a win-win situation for both sides."Sino-U.S. Relations Ride Rocky Road
...faithful picture of this different life is presented in the latest movie by the controversial Chinese director Zhang Yimou, To Live. It portrays a peasant who lives through the Sino-Japanese war, the civil war, the Cultural Revolutions and social reforms of the late 1970's. Time changes, but one thing remains unchanged for him: he still has to struggle to find a way "to live." In today's China, there are 800,000,000 peasants in a situation just like his or maybe worse. Although the economy is booming, the cultural elites still do not make up a substantial...
Such is the effect of an American foreign policy that sees the national interest as the self-interest which is good for business. In return for China's yuan, the United States will place its abuse of human rights on the back burner. The Clinton Administration perpetuates Sino-American trade even at the cost of Tibetan repression, the suppression of free thought and the jailing of dissidents. Dollars come before democracy when the pair cannot be promoted together...
...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...