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...President is scheduled to hold seven hours of talks with Deng, Premier Zhao Ziyang and General Secretary Hu Yaobang. Reagan and Zhao will sign at least two documents, both relatively minor: a treaty that would eliminate double taxation on U.S. companies in China, and a two-year extension of a cultural exchange agreement reached in 1979. If last-minute negotiations pay off, the two leaders will endorse a deal allowing U.S. companies to build nuclear power plants in China. The discussion has been snagged over a U.S. requirement that any country receiving American nuclear technology seek U.S. consent before reprocessing...
...priority. This places constraints on the resources available for strategic weapons and other military requirements. Under a strict austerity program adopted five years ago, China reduced its military spending in 1980 and again in 1981. More recently, in order "to cope with international developments" (in the words of Premier Zhao in June 1983). Beijing has indicated that defense modernization would be given higher priority with special attention paid to strategic weapons programs. However, it has declined to give budget data and has implied that increased spending on modern and advanced weapons will be made possible by economizing elsewhere within...
Regan's mission, which followed Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang's U.S. tour in January, was meant to help heal wounds that had opened in U.S.-Chinese economic relations and to prepare the way for President Reagan's arrival in Peking at the end of April. Prodded by American manufacturers, Washington set off a 1983 trade skirmish by freezing imports of Chinese textiles at the previous year's levels after talks on a new accord broke down. The People's Republic, which did not begin welcoming U.S. business on a large scale until 1979, responded...
Australian diplomats traveling in China with Prime Minister Bob Hawke were the first to convey the news to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. When the two leaders sat down at a state banquet, Zhao turned to Hawke and asked, "Who do you think will succeed Andropov?" The official Chinese message to Moscow was brief but surprisingly warm, noting: "It is the sincere desire of the Chinese government to see relations between the two countries normalized...
During his visit, Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang [Jan. 23] stressed that the Taiwan-mainland conflict is "China's internal affair." If France had believed a similar argument by England in 1776, where would the 13 colonies be today...