The United States should, together with China, advance Sino-US
relations in a healthy, steady way by handling the Taiwan issue
properly in line with the one-China policy and the guidelines of
the three Sino-US joint communiques.
President Jiang Zemin made the remarks April 26 in Beijing during
his meeting with Dr. John H. Marburger, assistant to the US
president and director of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy of the US, who was invited by Chinese Minister of Science
and Technology Xu Guanhua to attend the 10th meeting of the
China-US Joint Commission on Science and Technology
Cooperation.
China and the US have on the whole maintained good relations
recently, Jiang said, noting that bilateral cooperation in economy
and trade, counter-terrorism as well as science and technology have
made new progress, with consultations on major international and
regional issues beefed up.
"But bilateral relations have also suffered undue interference, "
he said.
Acknowledging that bilateral technological cooperation between
China and the US is on a win-win roll, he said that extensive and
fruitful technological cooperation has been made in more than 30
fields over the past 23 years, contributing to the economic and
social development and the improvement of the people's living
standards.
Marburger regarded the Joint Commission meeting as a very
"successful" one, saying that the consolidation of bilateral
technological cooperation conforms to the interests of both
countries.
He
also voiced the willingness of his country to strengthen
cooperation with China in the already agreed fields.
(
April 27, 2002)