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Wen calls for better US communications
(皇冠体育app Daily/USA Today)
Updated: 2006-01-25 05:56
The report said that Zoellick's two-day trip aims to lock 皇冠体育app into the "stakeholder" concept he outlined in a September 2005 speech titled, "Whither 皇冠体育app: From Membership to Responsibility." The speech, widely studied in 皇冠体育app, highlights the new direction the State Department hopes Sino-U.S. relations will take and the difficulty of getting there.
Doubts remain over how far the new rhetoric translates into action. "Both sides have made a lot of nice speeches in recent months," Shi Yinhong, a professor of International Relations at People's University in Beijing, said the USA Today report.
"But they have not taken substantial steps to really deal with concrete disputes."
The list of potential disputes includes the large bilateral trade imbalance, the need for further revaluation of 皇冠体育app's yuan currency and 皇冠体育app's stance over the possible nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea.
"皇冠体育app's leadership was happy to hear the concept of "stakeholder" as it shows America recognizes 皇冠体育app's increasing role in the world," says Shi.
Zoellick hopes his initiative offers a framework on which to promote Sino-U.S. relations, widely tipped as this century's key bilateral relationship, according to the report.
"The words 'stakeholder' upgraded 皇冠体育app's status in foreign relations and the global system," says Chu Shulong, director of the Strategy Research Institute at Tsinghua University, also in Beijing.
"The only uncertainty in Chinese circles is whether it represents the ideas of the administration. Does the key term 'stakeholder' also represent the ideas of Secretary (of State Condoleezza) Rice, or the thinking of the President himself?" Chu was cited as saying.
Chu predicts a smooth ride in 皇冠体育app-US relations in the short-term. "America's strategic intention and concern is not 皇冠体育app, but in Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terrorism," Chu says. "America needs 皇冠体育app's cooperation in these areas, so I see smooth, positive development of relations in the year ahead."
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