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TO RESIST PROTECTIONIST PRESSURES AND SAID THAT THE PRC WAS ESTABLISHING A SUITABLE LEGAL SYSTEM AND INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT TO ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. ON TAIWAN, LI WELCOMED BUSH'S COMMITMENT TO THE LETTER OF THE 3 JOINT DECLARATIONS BUT WARNED THAT THE SMALL NUMBER OF AMERICANS WHO WERE TRYING TO INFLUENCE CHINA'S TAIWAN POLICY CAN INTERNAL MATTER) COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT SINO-US RELATIONS. IN REPLY BUSH SAID THAT THE US WELCOMED GORBACHEV'S FORTHCOMING VISIT TO CHINA. HE ALSO SAID THAT THE US WOULD STICK TO ITS ONE CHINA POLICY AND WOULD OPPOSE ANY SEPARATIST ACTIVITIES IN TAIWAN. HE WARMLY WELCOMED AND APPLAUDED CHINESE REFORM EFFORTS, AND UNDERTOOK TO UPHOLD FREE TRADE POLICIES. HE HOPED TO SEE AN INCREASE IN THE VALUE OF BILATERAL TRADE.
4. FROM 1100-1155, BUSH SAW DENG XIAOPING BEFORE BEING GIVEN LUNCH BY THE LATTER. DENG DESCRIBED THE DEVELOPMENT OF SINO-U S RELATIONS, AND WELCOMED THE IMPROVEMENT IN U S-SOVIET RELATIONS, PARTICULARLY IN THE FIELD OF ARMS CONTROL. HE WAS PARTICULARLY ANXIOUS TO SEE PROGRESS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS. DENG SAID CHINA HOPED TO SEE GORBACHEV SUCCEED AND STATED THAT CHINA BASED ITS FOREIGN POLICY ON THE ASSESSMENT OF ITS OWN NEEDS. IT DID NOT SEEK TO PLAY 'CARDS'' BUSH SPOKE ABOUT THE GROWTH AND POTENTIAL OF SINO-U S RELATIONS.
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5. IN HIS MEETING WITH BUSH, ZHAO ZIYANG SPOKE LARGELY ON CHINA'S INTERNAL SCENE AND DELIVERED A WARNING NOT ONLY TO CHINESE DISSIDENTS BUT ALSO TO THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THEM ABROAD. ZHAO SAID THAT THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAD BENEFITTED FROM THE REFORMS AND WOULD NOT SUPPORT THOSE WHO HANKERED AFTER BACKSLIDING. NOR WAS THERE A FUTURE FOR THOSE WHO THOUGHT THE PROBLEMS OF REFORM SHOULD BE SOLVED USING WESTERN MODELS (I.E. FULL DEMOCRACY). THE LATTER WERE NOT FEASIBLE IN CHINA'S CIRCUMSTANCES AND COULD ONLY CREATE SERIOUS SETBACKS. ZHAO SAID SUPPORT GIVEN TO PEOPLE SHOWING RESENTMENT AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT BY SOME FIGURES IN THE US WAS DETRIMENTAL TO CHINA AND HARMFUL TO SINO-U S RELATIONS. (ACCORDING TO THE FOREIGN PRESS, FANG LIZHI, THE NOTED DISSIDENT, WAS TURNED BACK BY THE POLICE FROM BUSH'S BANQUET TO WHICH HE HAD BEEN INVITED). ZHAO SAID 'CHINA DOES NOT EXPORT ITS SYSTEM NOR DOES IT EXPECT TO IMPORT OTHER PEOPLE'S SYSTEMS' BUSH AGAIN PRAISED CHINA'S REFORMS AND ACCORDING TO THE MFA SPOKESMAN, THE TWO LEADERS EXCHANGED VIEWS ON OTHER MATTERS.
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6. WHILE BUSH DID MEET SIHANOUK BRIEFLY ON 26 FEBRUARY WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT WAS SAID. HE ALSO FOUND TIME TO GO TO CHURCH, ΤΟ MEET OLD TENNIS COACHES AND HAVE A BRIEF WALKABOUT IN TIANANMEN
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