Posted on 11/29/2001 10:31:53 PM PST by BERZERKER
The United States, underscoring a post-September 11 pledge to defeat terrorism, will hang tough in high-level talks with China on Friday and renew a demand that the Chinese curb missile cooperation with Pakistan, a senior US official said.
US Under Secretary of State John Bolton and Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Wang Guangya are expected to hold the most extensive senior-level non-proliferation talks between their countries since President George W. Bush took office in January. The September 11 attacks on New York and Washington have added urgency to the goal of halting the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons that could fall into the hands of extremists.
Expectations are low, however, that Washington and Beijing can reach an agreement that would justify the lifting of US sanctions that have delayed the export of American communications satellites to China. China asked for Friday's meeting. Bush told Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Shanghai last month that "non-proliferation is a serious issue," another official told Reuters.
"'You've got to deal with it. You can't have the kind of relationship with the United States that you want until we deal with it,'" the official said, summarising Bush's message. The White House denies any advance knowledge of what Wang may say.
WASHINGTON WILL BE LISTENING
"We don't have any reason to believe the Chinese position has changed," the senior official said on Thursday, adding: "But we'll be listening... We'll be interested to hear what they say." As for the American position, he said: "We've told them before. We haven't changed in five months. It's still the same." If there is time, the United States may also use the meeting to voice its concern about China's biological weapons programme.
China's priorities are to talk about lifting the sanctions and to learn the status of US missile defence negotiations with Russia, the senior US Official said. The US preference would be to deal with Beijing's "proliferation behaviour" across a range of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, he said. But, "frankly, if they can't address the missile sanction issue, then there is not a lot of point in talking about other aspects (of proliferation) at this stage," he added.
Let me see they have corrupted our office of the Presidency with spys, sleeper agents and hard cold cash. They have stolen our most secret secrets. They have threatened us with nuclear attack. They have stated in public that they will replace us as the dominant nation on the planet. They have used our tech to target us with nukes. They have knocked our plane out of the air and held our military men. Then they did their best to humiliate us. In reaction we did absolutely nothing.
Well, that was a damn lie wasn't it. Actually we supported their efforts for MFN, inclusion in the WTO and said nothing as they were awarded the 2008 Olympics.
Let's just ignore the murders of their own citizens and their threats at neighboring states.
Despite all this we have continued to play ball with China. But now we're going to hang tough.
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha. Bwa ha ha ha ha. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. ROTFLMAO oh it hurts... Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Wasn't Clinton treated for this STD when he was in office?
But:
They have stolen our most secret secrets.
It didn't really take much effort when the door was left unlocked and "we" took their hand, leading them to the loot, did it?
I hate to be the one to spoil the honeymoon for ya but unfortunately Pakistan has not been considered a "mortal enemy" of the United States...
Yes, another satisfied customer of Slick Willy's National Defense swap meet.
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