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...real APEC action may have been Clinton's buttering-up of China, the big engine fueling the Asian economic explosion and arguably APEC's most important partner. The Chinese are "going to be like Japan, but outstrip our Japanese problem by an order of magnitude," Ratan says. The APEC summit, he adds, lays groundwork for serious negotiations with China on what it really wants: entry into the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) sooner than 2020. Not discussed: China's human rights record, which Clinton separated from renewal of China's Most Favored Nation status earlier this year.Post your...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in Morocco for a first-ever economic summit between Israel and Arab states, said the Arab League may lift the 43-year-oldeconomic boycott of Israelnext spring. "There is growing recognition" that the boycott is "really a relic of the past and ought to be consigned to the history books," Christopher said. Saudi Arabia and five Persian Gulf emirates led the way in September by deciding to stop discriminating against companies that do business with Israel...
...growing strength of hard-liners, or that Kang is simply stalling until the succession to Kim Il Sung is settled. They note that the younger Kim has still not been formally named President or party chief. Jimmy Carter, who is pressing to return to Pyongyang to arrange a summit between North and South Korea, is holding off until Kim's ascendancy is assured. That could come mid-month, at the end of a 100-day mourning period for his father...
...Routine Summit...
Time was when a Moscow-Washington summit would have put the world on hold, and any disagreement would have sent cold war chills around the globe. Not so when Russian President Boris Yeltsin met President Clinton at the White House for a two-day display of warmth, cooperation and goodwill to emphasize how relations between the two countries have changed. The leaders agreed to speed up nuclear disarmament and push for smoother economic relations. They politely agreed to disagree over Bosnia and Russian arms sales to Iran...