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re China-US relations, upcoming summit Oct 28. 

Keeping up with perspective, while re-reading Kalb's 'Kissinger', noted
Winston Lord, often mentioned in past US state dept info on Burma, was
Kissinger's special assistant and with the US secretary of state on
their Pakistani PIA airline flight to Peking (chapter 'The China
Breakthrough')and his meeting with Chou En-lai, China's foreign minister
and Prime minister, a prelude to Nixon's meeting Mao in 1972. Lord is
still top man at the state dept, overlooked for Albright's appointment.
His wife,Bette, is Chinese, Shanghai-born, left China at eight years
old, wrote book, 'Eighth Moon', telling of sister's life under
communists. ..During China trip then, Lord was estatic. One wonders how
US State Depart's senior Sino expert Winston Lord feels now, after 25
years...and so much more repression...and opium traffic...

> 
>  BEIJING, Oct 7 `97(Reuter)- China which will probably build
> on average one new nuclear power plant per year in the coming
> future  is regarded by the Swedish-Swiss ABB as the world`s
> biggest potential market for nuclear technology.
> Robert Newman, president of ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear
> Systems Inc makes proposes that ABB exports to China which are
> now at about $1.0 billion will rise enormously if the U.S.
> restrictions on exports of American-made nuclear technology
> will be abolished. This can be decided at the Sino-U.S
> presidential summit at the end of this month.
> 
>  WASHINGTON, Oct 7 `97 (Reuter)-On October 28 there`ll be the
> Sino-American summit where President Clinton can make the
> decision to implete the 1985 Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation
> (PNC) which was negotiated under the Reagan administraton. 

It  allows the U.S. to export nuclear technology to China under
> the condition that Beijing  stops its nuclear weapons,
> chemical and missile exports and its assistance to the Iranian
> and Pakistanian nuclear weapons program.

By his decision Clinton must also keep in mind that potential
> exports to China can be about $15 billion and create lots of
> new jobs.
> 
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