CHRISTOPHER FAVORS MEETINGS FOR U.S., CHINA.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times While China and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. threaten to impose trade sanctions Trade sanctions are trade penalties imposed by one or more countries on one or more other countries. Typically the sanctions take the form of import tariffs (duties), licensing schemes or other administrative hurdles. on each other, Secretary of State Warren Christopher Warren Minor Christopher (born October 27, 1925) is an American diplomat and lawyer. During Bill Clinton's first term as President, Christopher served as the 63rd Secretary of State. , speaking Friday in New York, called for regular summit meetings between the countries and frequent Cabinet-level exchanges to keep relations from drifting from one crisis to another. Christopher, addressing a combined audience of several foreign policy organizations, said that ``even in the darkest days of the Cold War,'' there had been regular high-level meetings between Soviet and U.S. counterparts. ``Given the range of our interests and the importance of China to our future security and well-being, I believe the time has come to develop a more regular dialogue between our two countries,'' he said. ``Holding periodic Cabinet-level consultations in our capitals would facilitate a candid exchange of views, provide a more effective means for managing specific problems, and allow us to approach individual issues within the broader strategic framework of our overall relationship.'' Christopher said he would raise the issues of more regular consultations in talks with China Foreign Minister Qian Qichen
Qian Qichen (钱其琛) (born January 5 1928) is a Chinese diplomat and communist political figure. He served as Chinese foreign minister from April 1988 to March 1998. when they meet in July in Jakarta, Indonesia. Bob Dole, who is expected to be the Republican challenger for the presidency in November, charged in a speech last week in Washington that President Clinton was ``lacking a strategic policy toward China'' and hurting American credibility throughout Asia. ``The bottom line is that American credibility in Asia is low and still declining,'' Dole said. Christopher's speech was in some ways a reply to those charges, although he focused solely on China and, by extension, Taiwan and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . The secretary of state pointedly called for a bipartisan consensus on dealing with China, something he said the United States had maintained since 1972, when Washington and Beijing opened diplomatic ties. In recent months, the Clinton administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton executive - persons who administer the law has sent mixed signals to Beijing. It has threatened to impose 100 percent tariffs on up to $3 billion in Chinese exports to the United States annually, starting next month. The sanctions were proposed to punish China for continuing to pirate software, compact discs and other ``intellectual property.'' |
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