-Caveat Lector- <http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB989487866660027555.djm &template=doclink.tmpl> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 11, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Business and Finance - Asia Clinton Urges U.S. to See China As a Friend, Not an Adversary By MATT POTTINGER Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL HONG KONG -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton urged Americans to resist viewing China as an adversary, saying engagement with the giant nation was the path to stability and prosperity. "The important thing, it seems to me, is not to assume that the relationship is inherently adversarial, but instead to take what we know is the truth -- that the world would be a better place over the next 50 years if we were partners, if we were working together," Mr. Clinton said in a speech to hundreds of international business leaders in Hong Kong. Clinton Assures Jiang the U.S. Wants Good Ties With China U.S., Britain Seek Explanation for Hong Kong's Expulsions (May 9) Falun Gong Protests Jiang's Visit to Hong Kong, Criticizes Beijing (May 8) The former president is in the city as a paid speaker at a forum organized by Fortune magazine. He held private talks with Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Wednesday, during which he said he conveyed his belief that President George W. Bush wanted a good working relationship with China. Touching on the "difficulties and bumps in the road" between Washington and Beijing, including last month's collision between an American spy plane and Chinese fighter and "different perceptions of political and religious freedom," he said greater economic interdependence between the two countries would enhance freedoms in China. "It is imperative to complete China's accession to the WTO at the earliest possible date," he said. Under Mr. Clinton's presidency in 1999, the White House struck a landmark agreement with Beijing that cleared the way for Chinese membership in the World Trade Organization. A year and a half later, the U.S. and other member states are still wrangling with China over the final details of its accession, which would commit Beijing to painful market-opening reforms. To an audience that included many of the world's richest corporate leaders, he said wealthy private citizens had a responsibility to "widen the circle of opportunity and community" to people stuck "on the wrong side of globalization." In what may have been a subtle criticism of Mr. Bush's proposed national missile shield, he said: "The most likely threat to our security is not from incoming missiles over the next 20, 30 years. It's from increasingly small, more sophisticated and more difficult to detect weapons of mass destruction using chemical, biological or, God forbid, small-scale nuclear devices. We have to ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
