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To: allen v.w. who wrote (27903)	11/8/1999 6:10:00 AM
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Schroeder sees EU deal with China by month's end -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEIJING - AP World News via NewsEdge Corporation : German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Friday he expected the European Union to reach agreement with China on its entry to the World Trade Organization, perhaps before month's end. In EU-China trade talks later this month, Germany wanted to see that certain conditions are met, and then Beijing ``will have to make the decision whether to say yes or no,' Schroeder told reporters shortly before meeting Chinese President Jiang Zemin at the end of a three-day visit to China. Jiang said that although Beijing is keen to enter WTO, there were limits to China's concessions, according to an account of the meeting given by the Chinese government's news agency Xinhua. ``China is a developing country and the opening of the commodity and service markets will take time,' Xinhua quoted Jiang as telling Schroeder. China's entry ``should be beneficial to the stability and development of the Chinese economy.' Pressure has been building on China and its major trading partners, the 15-member European Union and the United States in particular, to come to terms on Chinese membership before WTO trade ministers become absorbed in a new round of global trade talks, opening on Nov. 30 in Seattle. But European and U.S. trade negotiators have reported little progress in separate negotiations in the past two months. And China's Communist Party leaders have debated how much international competition its troubled, long-protected state industries can take. Jiang asked Schroeder for Germany's support in its bid. Schroeder told reporters that he had assured Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on Thursday that he ``can rely on Germany' during the WTO talks. Germany and China have largely enjoyed smooth relations this decade, with occasional disruptions over human rights and, this year, over NATO's war with Yugoslavia. Schroeder's state visit makes up for a May trip that was cut short to a tense day of meetings after NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. Schroeder said that his hosts extended ``friendship' during his stay. That tone was echoed in Chinese state media accounts of his meetings in Beijing. In a sign of China's growing importance, Schroeder said he suggested to Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji over dinner Thursday that Beijing join the Group of Eight, which joins major industrial economies and Russia. Zhu, Schroeder said, expressed interest but wanted to know the opinion of other G-8 members. Schroeder told reporters he raised cases of jailed journalists with Chinese leaders, but he refused to elaborate, saying that a high-profile approach will not improve the prospects for their release. ``I'm not going to come here and preach and shake my finger. But I am coming here with a great deal of respect for the progress made,' Schroeder said. One way to build on those achievements, he said, was a dialogue on improving China's spotty legal system that Zhu agreed to on Thursday. Giving China's standard defense that collective economic rights to survival must take precedence over individual civil liberties in such a large and relatively poor country, Jiang told Schroeder: ``How to help 1.25 billion people get rich is a problem I think about every day.'