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The following is a roundup of stories related to world news which appeared in full on our website during the week of August 26 –September 2.
Drug Control Cooperation
Ministers of China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, the four countries adjacent to the notorious "Golden Triangle," the biggest drug production base in the world, Tuesday held a meeting on drug control cooperation and reached an agreement, titled "Beijing Declaration." This ministerial-level meeting on drug control is the first of its kind for the four nations.
APEC SME Meeting
The Eighth Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (APEC SME) Ministerial Meeting was held in Shanghai on August 29-30. A joint statement was issued, stressing technological innovation, financing and human capacity building. At a forum prior to the meeting, business leaders stressed that innovation is the key to an enterprise’s fast growth.
Sino-US Relations
David M. Lampton, director of China Studies at Johns Hopkins-SAIS and The Nixon Center, commented in his article published by The Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that President George W. Bush is neither slow on the uptake nor putty in the hands of hard-right advisers when it comes to China policy, rather he appears ahead of his predecessors in bringing ties with Beijing back to track after initial fluctuations.
IOC President Visits Beijing
Though thinking Beijing will face many challenges to organize an Olympiad, Jacques Rogge, newly-elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), expressed his full confidence that the Chinese capital will put on a successful Games in 2008.
Israel/Palestine: Things Calmed Down
With help from deplomats of the United States and the European Union, a truce agreement was reached between Israel and Palestine Wednesday. The Israeli Army is withdrawing its tanks and soldiers early Thursday from Beit Jala in the West Bank, two days after their blitz incursion in the Palestinian-ruled area. Also, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres had several telephone conversations with the Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat on restoring calm to this phase of the 11-month-old conflict. Things seems calmed down temporally.
(China.org.cn 09/02/2001)
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