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Leaders stress growth of Sino-US relations
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-03-20 19:56
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao met with visiting US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday in Beijing.
President Hu said US President George W. Bush sent Rice to China at the
beginning of his second term, which indicates the importance attached by Bush
and the US government to developing China-US relations.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (right) meets with
visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Beijing March 20, 2005.
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Hu expressed his belief that Rice's China tour would be helpful for China and
the United States to strengthen coordination in someissues of common concern,
and would promote the China-US constructive and cooperative relations.
Rice said she came here to "emphasize how important the United States
considers" the constructive relationship with China, which was growing and
deepening. The two sides would discuss many important issues during this visit,
she said.
People around the world are watching the "remarkable transformation" that is
going on in China, Rice said.
The two sides would deal with bilateral relations and related issues "in the
spirit of cooperation and respect", she said.
Premier: Sino-US ties conducive to world peace and
development
Premier Wen Jiabao said that the development of
China-US relations serves the fundamental interests of the two peoples and are
conducive to world peace and development.
Wen said China and the United States maintain a generally good relationship
and have forged fruitful cooperation in various fields, noting that bilateral
ties could be furthered in President Bush's second term given that the two sides
will handle the relationship from a strategic and long-term perspective.
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Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with visiting
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Beijing March 20, 2005.
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Anti-secession law aims to curb Taiwan independent forces
Premier Wen also said China's anti-secession law aims to curb Taiwan
independent forces and the law would be conducive to the stability and
development of the relations across the Taiwan Strait.
He said the secessionist activities of the Taiwan independent forces have
posed the biggest threat to the peace and stability across the Strait.
He said the law would also help to maintaining the peace and development in
the Asian-Pacific region.
He expressed his hope that the US side would understand, respect and support
China's legislation action.
China, US to achieve mutual benefit in trade cooperation
China and the United States should take each other's concerns into
consideration and handle well disputes and conflicts in trade cooperation to
achieve mutualbenefit and win-win situation, Premier Wen Jiabao said.
He said the economic and trade cooperation is an important partof China-US
relations and the two sides should further improve current bilateral
coordination mechanism based on principles of equality, mutual benefit and
development.
Rice visited China in 2002 and 2004, as the US national security adviser. But
this is her first China tour since she became the top US diplomat in January.
China is the last leg of Rice's Asian tour, which has already taken her to
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Japan and the Republic of Korea.
Analysts believe the China-US ties, the question of Taiwan and the resumption
of six-party talks on the Korean Peninsular nuclearissue are among the
priorities of her visit.
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