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Politics : Clinton -- doomed & wagging, Japan collapses, Y2K bug, etc

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To: Bill Grant who wrote (400)	9/20/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: SOROS	of 1151

IN BED WITH THE COMMUNISTS -- TELLS WHERE THE HEART IS South China Morning Post Fallout from Clinton woes worries Jiang SIMON BECK in New York and WILLY WO-LAP LAM President Jiang Zemin has asked China's diplomats to ensure that relations with the US do not suffer as a result of the sex scandal surrounding President Bill Clinton. Later this month, Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan will make an unscheduled visit to Washington to meet senior US officials. Diplomatic sources in Beijing said Mr Jiang had privately expressed concern that achievements scored in the two Sino-US presidential summits would be jeopardised if Mr Clinton's political fortunes worsened. "Jiang is particularly worried about private and unofficial pledges that Clinton made in connection with Taiwan," a diplomatic source said. "Beijing is also afraid 'anti-Chinese' congressmen would take advantage of the sex scandal to revise Clinton's friendly policy towards China." Mr Jiang has reportedly instructed Mr Tang and other officials to ensure that achievements in bilateral ties will stay irrespective of Mr Clinton's fate. The mainland media has played up the meeting on Wednesday between General Zhang Wannian and Mr Clinton. Xinhua quoted Mr Clinton as saying the momentum of the two presidential summits must be maintained. Mr Tang, who is visiting New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly, has been invited to Washington. He was originally due to meet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in New York for side talks, as is routinely the case during the annual UN session. But the two sides have agreed to shift the talks to Washington and give Mr Tang access to other administration officials, effectively upgrading the meetings. Sources in the United States said part of the reasoning for elevating the importance of the meetings was because American officials were fearful of letting the momentum gained in the June summit in Beijing slide. Human rights is one key area where little has been achieved. The talks will also begin to lay the groundwork for another meeting between presidents Jiang and Clinton - on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum leaders meeting in November in Kuala Lumpur. A visit to the US by Premier Zhu Rongji , originally slated for late this year, was now unlikely to take place until 1999, according to another official.

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