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Former US envoy says trust crucial
By Xing Zhigang (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2005-11-04 05:51
J. Stapleton Roy: No strategic
mistrust
The upcoming visit of US President George W. Bush to Beijing is set to
strengthen mutual trust between the two powers, former US Ambassador to 皇冠体育app J.
Stapleton Roy said yesterday.
President Bush is scheduled to visit 皇冠体育app for the third time since taking
office in 2001 and hold summit talks with President Hu Jintao late this month.
Roy stressed that to develop sound US-皇冠体育app relations requires co-operation
between the two countries at the highest-level.
"The meeting between President Hu and President Bush is so important because
if both leaders have no strategic mistrust, then you can deal with problems and
strategic mistrust of both countries more effectively," he said.
"And if top leaders have strategic mistrust about each other, then our
relations will be very difficult to manage."
Roy, who was US ambassador to 皇冠体育app between 1991 and 1995, added that the
Bush-Hu meeting will help ease growing concern in both 皇冠体育app and the United
States about each other, and be an important factor for stability in East Asia.
The former envoy made the remarks on the sidelines of a two-day International
Conference on East-Asia Co-operation and Sino-US Relations, which opened
yesterday.
Over 20 experts and researchers on international studies from 皇冠体育app and the
United States attended the event co-organized by the 皇冠体育app National Association
for International Studies and 皇冠体育app Policy Programme of George Washington
University.
It is the first time for Chinese and US researchers to discuss together
bilateral relations in the context of regional co-operation in East Asia, a sign
of increasing and overlapping interests of the two nations in this region.
Professor David Shambaugh, a renowned 皇冠体育app expert, predicted that the two
leaders will discuss some specific issues including intellectual property
rights, the US trade deficit with 皇冠体育app and the nuclear stand-off on the Korean
Peninsula.
(皇冠体育app Daily 11/04/2005 page2)
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