A boost to China-US ties
Updated: 2006-04-28 10:32 Bush shared Hu's view on bilateral relations, saying both countries had
expanded their areas of cooperation, and China, a great country with remarkably
increasing international status, was a key partner in safeguarding world peace
and was playing an increasingly important role in that regard.
Hu said China and the United States had common strategic interests in
opposing and containing "Taiwan independence" and safeguarding peace and
stability across the Taiwan Strait.
He voiced his appreciation for statements repeatedly made by President Bush
and the US government on their adherence to the one-China policy, abidance of
the three Sino-US joint communiques and opposition to "Taiwan independence."
Hu said China holds that the one-China principle is the basis for maintaining
peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and improving and developing
cross-Strait relations.
China will, with utmost sincerity and endeavor, strive for a peaceful
national reunification and will never tolerate "Taiwan independence," stressed
the Chinese president.
Bush said the US government's position on the Taiwan question has not changed
and the United States would stick to the one-China policy, understands China's
concern on the issue and did not want to see unilateral actions taken by the
Taiwan authorities in their bid to change the status quo across the strait
hurting US-China relations.
Both sides agreed that in the current international situation, China and the
United States had extensive common strategic interests and broad prospects for
reciprocal cooperation.
They agreed that a sound bilateral relationship was of strategic significance
for safeguarding and promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the
Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.
They agreed to take bilateral relationship from a strategic height and
long-term perspective and comprehensively advance bilateral constructive and
cooperative relations in the 21st century so as to benefit the two peoples and
other peoples around the world.
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