Xi expressed his sympathies for the Bush family, and asked Trump to convey a message of condolence. Bush is best remembered in China for his time in Beijing as the US' unofficial ambassador to the country in the mids. It was an experience that would go on to influence his foreign policy decision making, and help steer US-China relations through several tumultuous decades. Known in Beijing as the "bicycle-riding envoy" on account of the many hours he spent cycling through the capital's narrow hutong alleyways with his wife Barbara, Bush endeared himself to local residents with his down-to-earth practicality and apparent enthusiasm for Chinese life.
Read More. As the US' chief diplomatic envoy in China during a period before the US had formally opened an official Beijing embassy, Bush met with several key Chinese leaders, including Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, as well as numerous military and diplomatic heads. Bush poses with his wife Barbara in Beijing in Envoy to China. Following Nixon's historic visit to Beijing, Washington established a US liaison office in the Chinese capital with a chief envoy to act as an unofficial ambassador in an attempt to help break the ice.
Beginning in , Bush arrived in the capital aged 50 as the second US envoy to Beijing, during a period in which China had yet to fully emerge from decades of self-imposed isolation. Whether a system is democratic depends on whether it can represent the overall interests of the people and whether the people are satisfied.
Democracy is not for embellishment; it should deliver. Samuel Huntington writes, "The most important political distinction among countries concerns not their form of government, but their degree of government. Some people wonder why. The answer can be long, but I try to provide a brief explanation. There are many similar hotlines and high satisfaction ratings across China. If you know about them, is it still hard to understand the results of Harvard surveys?
When some people are busy fanning up the battle between democracy and authoritarianism, and putting together an alliance of democracies, what is happening on the land of China? Well, absolute poverty has become a thing of the past, and 1. Every day, 16, companies are created in China. Every day, over foreign enterprises are rushing to China, one of the biggest consumer markets and the top investment destination in the world. Almost every Chinese has basic medical insurance and old-age pension insurance.
Products from remote areas are sold across the country through live streaming. Farmers in deep mountains and young people in cities take high-speed trains to look for jobs elsewhere and pursue their dreams. Green and low-carbon living has become a new fashion. Chinese astronauts have safely returned to Earth after several months' stay in our space station. The rights and freedoms of the Chinese are fully protected by the Constitution, and they are on their way to ballot stations.
Muslims in Xinjiang and other places go to mosques nearby. One billion Chinese netizens get connected with the world for information and engagement at the click of a mouse. China has signed 26 international instruments on human rights.
China has provided vaccines to over countries and international organizations, and will supply altogether two billion doses by the end of this year. The Belt and Road Initiative, guided by the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, will take tens of millions of people of other countries out of poverty.
Over 2, Chinese peacekeepers are on duty worldwide. China is working with other countries to build a community with a shared future for mankind. I'm not saying China is perfect.
There are many difficulties and challenges on our way ahead, such as how to make our development more balanced and adequate, and ensure fairness and justice in a market economy.
We are deepening reform, improving socialist democracy, and modernizing national governance. These efforts are to meet the people's aspiration for a better life and make greater contribution to mankind.
My friends, isn't it obvious that China is just pursuing peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom, which are common values of mankind?
Isn't it obvious that both China's people-center philosophy and President Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people" are for the sake of the people? President George H. On behalf of the Chinese government, the Chinese people, and himself, Xi expressed heartfelt condolences over Bush's death and sincere sympathy to all members of his family. Bush was an old friend of the Chinese people who had witnessed and promoted the historic development of China-U.
By remaining true to his convictions, Bush deserves credit for political courage. That, in turn, might have blunted the impact of the China shock. Would such an approach have worked? Responding to intensified criticism in Congress, the new U. Policymakers at senior levels would convene twice a year for give-and-take on all manner of economic issues—not just hot-button trade, currency, and investment topics but also financial market opening, energy, the environment, and food and product safety.
Other Chinese-U. The Treasury chief wanted to include a large number of Chinese ministers and influential officials involved in economic matters, while also reserving time for brief engagement with the respective heads of state, Hu and Bush. The outcome can be described as incremental at best. The first session convened on Dec.
Some specific so-called deliverables resulted, notably an agreement on air travel that more than doubled nonstop routes between the United States and China, a Chinese commitment on emissions trading, and a tourism promotion accord.
But U. Trade Representative at that time, told me. In any event, the Strategic Economic Dialogues were overtaken by other developments—in U. The talks were supposed to be two-way, with China having reciprocal rights to air its concerns about U.
Amid the steady debilitation of other Wall Street firms, Paulson was peppered with questions from the Chinese about the health of U. At the dialogue in Annapolis in June , Wang Qishan, who had known Paulson for 15 years and succeeded Wu as the head of the Chinese delegation, pulled the treasury secretary aside.
A showdown loomed when a board meeting was scheduled for Sept. The board meeting was never held. Indeed, the U. On Sept. The staggeringly large financial gyrations that ensued for months thereafter shifted the balance of power again away from the United States and toward China—this time seismically, by several orders of magnitude greater than anything that had come earlier in the crisis.
In his chapters about events immediately following the Lehman bankruptcy, the former treasury secretary recounts numerous phone calls to Beijing in which he and other Treasury officials were essentially imploring Chinese leaders to help keep the rest of the U.
On the Saturday after Lehman collapsed, for example, Paulson called Wang in the hopes that a Chinese state-owned company would invest in the investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, which was in desperate need of a cash infusion. Here, ironically, was where the Strategic Economic Dialogue may have had its most significant impact. The depths that the United States plumbed—and the crisis in Europe that followed—thoroughly discredited Western-style capitalism in the eyes of many Chinese.
To the extent the U. The Chinese economy not only weathered the crisis, it also grew so robustly as to emerge as the single most potent source of support for global recovery. The payoff was that output expanded at a pace of 9.
In China, reformers who favored additional progress toward liberalizing markets and rolling back party-state control were thrown on the defensive. Statists were emboldened. Increasingly confident in the virtues of its own model, Beijing diverged from the economic approach its trading partners; in so doing, it undermined support for the rules-based WTO system abroad.
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