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...Clinton Administration has quietly lobbied for Wei's freedom, especially in the past two years, and stepped up the pressure before and during President Jiang Zemin's visit to the U.S. last month. Jiang made no promises concerning Wei at the summit with Clinton; to let him go too close to the meeting would have resulted in a loss of face for the Chinese leadership. Earlier this month James Sasser, the U.S. Ambassador to China, said he was "personally disappointed" that Jiang's tour across America had not brought the release of political prisoners, but in the same week...
...essence, China is waging a war of attrition against dissidence--and winning. While the Chinese government wouldn't have let Wei go without pressure from the U.S. and President Jiang Zemin's successful summit with Bill Clinton, China ultimately risked little in Wei's departure beyond a brief loss of face. Because the government has a tight grip on information, Wei and other exiles can do little to get their message heard at home. Even now, most Chinese don't know...
VANCOUVER: APEC summits once had the atmosphere of a ticker tape parade trumpeting the miraculous economic growth of Asian economies. This week, however, the Asian Tigers limped to Vancouver in search of a solution to the currency crisis ravaging their economies. Even though the summit was upbeat about Asia's economic fundamentals, its decision to create an IMF bailout formula, with attendant political risks, was the strongest indicator of the depth of the crisis...
...Armed with this knowledge, President Clinton stepped up his attack on Iraq?s refusal to grant inspectors access to 68 palaces, presidential compounds and VIP residences. "Some of them actually encompass more land than Washington, D.C., does," Clinton said at the Asia-Pacific summit in Vancouver...
...summit between China's Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton [WORLD, Nov. 3] was at best the pause that represses. Suddenly, we have an American leader who is loath to berate publicly a brutal regime about human rights. And this is the same Clinton who insisted that American troops be deployed in places like Haiti and Bosnia. J. ANTHONY BLACK New York City...