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...changes sweeping China was tempered by some pointed remarks on trade Wednesday. "China's economy is still burdened with complicated and overlapping barriers," he complained while addressing a group of American businessmen. The President expressed disappointment that no agreements on trade disputes had been reached during his Beijing visit, and warned that for China to achieve its coveted membership of the World Trade Organization it will have to free up its economy to trade and investment...
...geostrategic card to play? Someone we can do business with? The next evil empire? Now, by one of those sudden confluences of the political stars, the off-and-on debate over how to handle China is at a high boil just as Clinton sets forth on the first presidential visit to the People's Republic since Beijing's tanks mowed down the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square nine years...
Christians and Jews alike are fascinated with the prospect that POPE JOHN PAUL II will make his first visit to Israel to mark the anniversary of Jesus Christ's birth in A.D. 2000. The Pope is ardently interested, but plans have long been entangled in politics and diplomacy. Now the Pope is also exploring a visit to Iraq. ROGER CARDINAL ETCHEGARAY, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was recently in Baghdad to bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray--who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations...
...Chinese television. Then President Clinton's Monday address to Beijing University students -- and their feisty response at question time -- was also broadcast live to a nation unused to viewing any unscripted politics. "Saturday's candid exchange on camera could help Clinton silence critics in Washington who opposed his China visit," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "And that could only help China...
...China's grand and often bloody history is what big films are made for. Unfortunately, confrontation is the last thing President Clinton is looking for this week -- so don't expect this visit to raise David Lean from the dead. Unless someone remakes Farewell, My Concubine...