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This goal cannot be accomplished without the cooperation of China, North Korea’s most significant ally both ideologically and economically. During his recent visit to Crawford, Texas, Chinese President Jiang Zemin asserted that he hopes to see a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons and that he will aid the Bush administration in exerting pressure on North Korea to forego its nuclear development project. Despite these positive statements, it remains to be seen whether, after the Nov. 8 Party Congress during which it is expected that Jiang will step down, China will continue to pursue the issue...
...Jiang Zemin and George W. Bush chowed down on a barbecue lunch last week at Bush's Crawford ranch retreat in Texas, they were the picture of congeniality-even taking a tour of the ranch in Bush's pickup truck. But was this just a pose for the cameras, or the beginning of a genuinely warm friendship between the two giant nations? Neither. For both countries, being pragmatic and reaching an accommodation with each other has become a matter of the highest policy priority. It's not that they want so much to be with one another, but that they...
Person of the Week As Chinese President, Jiang Zemin has seen relations with the U.S. rise and fall and rise again. Now, after a triumphant visit to George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Jiang seems ready to ride off into the sunset with a diplomatic coup in his saddlebag. He is expected to hand over his reins to a new posse of leaders this month...
...troops and northern rebels. Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Youssouf Ouedraogo said: "We cannot tolerate any longer the killings of foreign civilians." He did not, however, specify what action his country would take. A 1998 census found 2.3 million Burkinabés in the Ivory Coast. U.S. Last Visit Jiang Zemin visited President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch for talks that were seen as the Chinese President's swansong before his retirement, expected later this year. The two leaders said they opposed nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula, and Jiang said there'd been a frank exchange on Taiwan...
Three members of Congress called on President Bush yesterday to press for the release of Yang Jianli—a Harvard graduate who has been detained in China for almost six months—when Bush meets with Chinese President Jiang Zemin next week...