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.S. provides missile
efense plans to China
WASHINGTON (AP) — China will get an
ite on I S. missile defense plans before
lent George W. Bush visits Beijing next
Ih as the United States tries to convince other
I tries that the proposed shield is not a threat.
IVhite House said Sunday.
[This is part of the administration’s outreach to
ia and other nations such as Russia to discuss
them the reason why we are developing a
Hie defense system and how
■ designed to protect us from
Be nations or accidental
nunches.” White House
■^■csman Art Fleischer said in
t p telephone interview.
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|hc\ will support because it is
iimcd at China.” he said.
t Th president thinks it is impor-
^|to consult w ith our allies and
r nations.”
l<jischer denied that the Bush
inistration was courting
a’s support of the missile
ise system in exchange for
acceptance of a nuclear or
ary buildup by Beijing, as
rted in Sundav’s New York
Other nations have
nothing to worry about
from American develop
ment of a missile de
fense system. It will
protect the peace in the
world ... when the real
threat to peace are these
rogue nations.
— Ari Fleischer,
White House spokesman
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he White House is pursuing
_uss eparate and apart” from the issue
^■hina's desire to expand ns limited arsenal of
uciear missiles, Fleischer said. “The United States
^^■nade it clear and continues to make it clear that
^^■liiary buildup there is not necessary.”
also said there was no change in U.S. poli
cy fii the testing of nuclear weapons, now pre-
! Jud< d by a worldwide moratorium. “We have no
dans to resume testing,” Fleischer said.
Jhc United States might raise the future possi-
lit\ of underground tests being resumed in both
films, according to the Times and The
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l Initial Capitol Hill reaction to those reports was
ritk d.
”1 would not like to see the Chinese expand
their nuclear capabilities,” said Sen. Al ien Specter
said Sunday on CBS’ "Face the Nation.” “I think it
is much too soon to even think about matters that
offset our missile defense.”
China is "the coming colossus of the world and
a superpower," said Specter, R-Penn.. who added
he had just returned from a China trip where he
talked with government leaders. "1 would not want
to see them become any more
powerful in the nuclear line. I
think we ought to formulate our
policy in many different ways to
try to avoid just that.”
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North
Dakota, said on CNN's "Late
Edition” that the United States
“ought to try to continue to put
pressure on the Chinese and oth
ers not to have offensive weapons
buildup. Our entire approach
ought to be to reduce Me nuclear
threat, not increase it.”
Fleischer said the system is
intended to protect the United
States and its allies from hostile
nations with missile capabilities
such as Iran, Iraq and Libya.
"Other nations have nothing to
worry about from American development of a mis
sile defense system.” he said. "It will protect the
peace in the world ... when the real threat to peace
are these rogue nations.” •
China fears the missile shield would undercut
the deterrent effect of China's small nuclear
arsenal.
“China's position on missile defense is clear-
cut and consistent,” China’s Foreign Ministry
said in late August after Bush said the United
States would withdraw 1 a 1972 arms control treaty
signed by Washington and Moscow. “We hope the
U.S. government will seriously consider the posi
tion of the international community and proceed
with caution.”
Jiang seeks to rewrite
Communist charter
Chinese capitalists vie for party affiliation
BEIJING (AP) — President Jiang Zemin has
saved his biggest battle for last: changing the
bedrock dogma of China's Communist Party.
In July, Jiang surprised the world by inviting
capitalists to join the ruling party. Now, as he
nears the end of his years in power, he wants to
give them a formal place in the
charter that has guided the
party through 80 years of war,
revolution and reform.
Doctrinaire Marxists are
furious.
Picking such a risky ideolog
ical fight is a striking change
for Jiang, a cautious dealmaker
who has survived as party
leader for 12 years by avoiding
battles.
But, having confounded
skeptics who wrote him off
even as he became party leader
in 1989. the 75-year-old former
soap factory manager has final
ly amassed enough power to force a major deci
sion and make it stick.
"Jiang Zemin’s position as ‘first among
equals’ is now beyond dispute. You can’t chal
lenge him,” said Joseph Cheng, director of the
Contemporary China Research Center at the City
University of Hong Kong.
• MaoTse-tung led China through its revolution.
Deng Xiaoping unleashed forces of free enter
prise that have turned it into an economic power.
To Jiang Zemin fell the task of meshing his
country into the globalized world. While keeping
up intense pressure on dissidents in defiance of
human rights critics, he has presided over strong
economic growth, launched a military modern
ization drive and led Beijing out of the diplo
matic isolation that followed the 1989 crack
down at Tiananmen Square,
Now he has set out to write a new party line.
Jiang’s contribution to official theory main
tains that the Communist Party — until now,
“vanguard of the working class” — has to
change and embrace forces that are creating
jobs and prosperity in China. That means mak
ing peace with entrepreneurs who are viewed
with suspicion and disgust by
party hardliners.
Jiang’s term as president ends
in 2003, but he is expected to
give up his more important post
as party general-secretary next
year. Rewriting the party charter
is the biggest item on an agenda
meant to secure his power and
place in history.
But Jiang still faces resist
ance wfithin his party, mainly
from doctrinaire Marxists,
though also from nationalists
who think he’s too soft on the
United States and party veterans
unwilling to share power with
newly arrived entrepreneurs.
Jiang, however, is bolstered by some recent
high-profile successes.
The leader who cultivates a common touch
shook hands with jubilant crowds in the streets
of Beijing after the Chinese capital was awarded
the 2008 Olympics. His government is on the
brink of achieving its 15-year-old goal of joining
the World Trade Organization. He has traveled
the world building up China’s image as a benign
power and valuable trading partner.
Yet Jiang does not just want to be a frequent
flier who played piano at the White House. He
wants to qualify for greatness by making his mark
on communist history as a weighty Marxist thinker.
Senior officials are barnstorming the country
talking up Jiang’s campaign. State television car
ries nightly reports quoting people from all walks
See Capitalists on page ~4B.
Jiang Zemin’s
position as first
among equals’ is now
beyond dispute. You
can’t challenge him.
— Joseph Cheng,
director of the Contemporary
China Research Center at the
City University of Hong Kong
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