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To: Valueman who wrote (23555)	3/1/1999 2:21:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

China, Is Important> Monday March 1, 12:16 am Eastern Time FOCUS-US's Albright clashes with China over rights (Adds quotes from Albright and Tang) By Jonathan Wright BEIJING, March 1 (Reuters) - The United States and China clashed over human rights on Monday as U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright kicked off talks with Chinese leaders with a blunt exchange of words with Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan. Albright said Washington ''deplored'' Beijing's crackdown on pro-democracy activists while Tang said human rights were no excuse for ''wantonly interfering in other countries' affairs.'' ''A handful of anti-China elements within the United States are going all out to interfere with and obstruct the normal development of China-U.S. relations,'' Tang said in opening remarks to reporters before the talks in Beijing. ''We've always been opposed to politicising the human rights question and to wantonly interfering in other countries' affairs by using human rights questions as an excuse,'' he said. But Albright said human rights were a ''question of grave concern'' and she would raise the issue with Tang. ''We have deplored the actions that have taken place recently and I will raise those issues with the foreign minister,'' she said of the crackdown on dissent that began last year and continued at the weekend with the detention or jailing of several dissidents. As Albright arrived in China on Sunday night, her spokesman James Rubin criticised the detention of dissident Wu Yilong and the sentencing of democracy advocate Peng Ming. The detentions capped a week in which Washington and Beijing squared off on a range of unrelated issues that highlighted the complexity of a relationship President Bill Clinton has said could become a ''strategic partnership.'' Human rights will be the most contentious U.S. concern in Albright's two days of talks, while Beijing would put the emphasis on stopping Washington even thinking about missile defences for China's neighbours, especially Taiwan, Rubin said. On Friday, the State Department released an annual report saying human rights deteriorated sharply in China last year. Beijing said China was seriously displeased with the report. Spats over human rights, satellite sales and defence policy show that the goodwill from summit meetings between Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin in 1997 and 1998 has not led to a meeting of minds. But Albright and Tang also said that in the long term relations had improved and that they were committed to narrowing the differences between the two countries. ''I arrive here committed to find a way to move ahead on the many core issues in our relationship. These include regional security, non-proliferation, trade, human rights and responding to global problems,'' Albright said. ''The U.S. and Chinese governments have the responsibility, standing on the high ground of our times and history and looking into the next century, to remove obstacles to the growth of our bilateral relations. I have quite high expectations for the talks today,'' added Tang. On Sunday spokesman Rubin took pains to dispel any sense of crisis in often testy relations. ''This is not a crisis-related trip... Each decision was taken on its own merits, on its own timetable,'' he said. He was referring to the human rights report, a U.S. decision not to let a unit of Hughes Electronics Corp sell a communications satellite to a Chinese-led consortium and a Pentagon report, mandated by Congress, on Chinese missile deployments close to Taiwan. Albright's remarks to reporters before her formal talks with Tang indicated Washington intended to separate the rights dispute from trade and other issues. ''We determined some time ago that it's not a good idea to link human rights and trade,'' she said. ''We make better progress in both if they are not linked. I will be raising human rights issues and at the same time stressing that progress on WTO accession is important,'' Albright said, referring to China's bid to join the World Trade Organisation, a key issue on the U.S.-China agenda this week. Tang defended China's human rights record, saying different countries protected their people's rights in different ways. But he added: ''I stand ready to have an in-depth exchange of views with Secretary Albright on the human rights question and other issues of mutual interest.'' Apparently referring to the possibility that Washington will sponsor an anti-Chinese resolution at this month's meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, he said: ''To backtrack in this regard will have no future.'' The United States did not sponsor a resolution last year but the U.S. Senate voted 99-0 last week in favour of a resolution at this year's session. Albright has talks on Monday with Tang, Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and Vice Premier Qian Qichen. Part of her mission is to prepare for Zhu's visit to Washington in April. Related News Categories: politics, US Market News

To: Valueman who wrote (23555)	3/1/1999 4:42:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

The Law of More Valueman, I came across an interesting idea a day or two ago. Somebody pointed out to me that over something like 30 years, Irwin's companies have shown a 40% revenue gain, year after year after year. Irrespective of what he and his colleagues did, they get about 40% per year revenue growth - with just the odd blip in that pattern. Being a boring engineer type, I pondered why this might be and came up with the conclusion that we all have a kind of surplus intellect, energy and tendency to accretion. Sort of like evolution results in a longer genome as increased complexity leads to advantage which leads to accretion of sophisticated design. To keep us humble we should remember that frogs have a bigger DNA department than we do, though they live two different lives - little round fish thing, then jumping around animal thing. Some of us start out with not much, stay like that pretty much always and end at an early age still near zero. Other's accrete knowledge, understanding, thinking power, assets and financial resources at a normal sort of rate and end up running a normal sort of life with children, a mortgage free house and a bit of money to play golf when elderly. Some go faster and do well, live an pretty neat life and retire early to jetset around following their interests. Some learn heaps, achieve amazing amounts, get seriously wealthy which is often of some indifference to them. These patterns seem to start out really young and stick around always. At the extreme you get the likes of $ill Gates who have major brainpower, energy, breadth and depth of ability and end up in the $100bn category while still not middleaged. Irwin and co, who have a 30 year history together, have got a very long track record of 40%, with technical, business and other accretionary development of remarkable scope. Since I think leopards don't change their spots and people enjoy what they are good at and tend to continue it, especially when everything points in that direction [some can suddenly change tack], I suppose that Mr 40% revenue growth will carry on doing that. For a brief moment, I thought that couldn't possibly continue for more than a year or two but if you take $4bn up by 40% per year, it takes 10 years to get to where I think they should be. So it sort of fits. Hence, "More's Law" for personal growth. Which most of you will realize is interestingly parallel to Moore's Law which has fitted the rapid rate of silicon processor development for 30 years with power doubling every 18 months or so. Some of us struggle through the day and end up about where we started. Others seem to effortlessly set things sailing along, ending the day ahead of where they were the day before. Since I'm more of a 5% guy, I'm happy to give Mr 40% my money to have fun with and increase revenue 40% per year. I find it interesting anyway... Now, where is an undiscovered Mr 60%. Hay, why not find a Mr 100%? Mqurice