REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION ON U.S.-CHINA BILATERAL

C O N F I D E N T I A L BEIJING 002374

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/17/2019
TAGS: PGOV MNUC PREL CH
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION ON U.S.-CHINA BILATERAL
INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM SUBDIALOGUE IN MID-SEPTEMBER
2009

REF: A. STATE 082472

B. BEIJING 001953

Classified By: Classified by Acting Political Section Chief Ben Moeling
.
Reason 1.4 (b/d).


1. (C) POLOFF raised the Counterterrorism Subdialogue with
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) External Security Division
Deputy Director Li Nan and First Secretary Wu Shifan on
August 12. Li and Wu confirmed the proposed September 14 and
15 meeting dates for the U.S.-China Bilateral Interagency
Counterterrorism Subdialogue and agreed to provide a list of
proposed participants, including full names, dates of birth
and passport numbers as soon as possible, preferably before
August 21.


2. (C) Li and Wu said the MFA Director General for External
Security Wang min would lead the Chinese interagency
delegation. They also said that they understood this would
be the seventh (vice eighth as noted in reftel A) bilateral
counterterrorism dialogue and requested clarification on this
point. They asked for clarification on designating the
meetings as a subdialogue instead of a dialogue.


3. (C) Li and Wu delivered a tentative agenda as follows:

Opening Remarks

I. U.S.-China Counterterrorism Consultation and
Cooperation
--Review and Outlook
II. International and Regional Counterterrorism
Situation
III. Counterterrorism Situations, Measures and
Concerns of China and the U.S.
IV. Counterterrorism Cooperation between China and the
U.S. in Specific Areas
Concluding Remarks


4. (C) Li and Wu noted that their tentative agenda was
intentionally vague and that reftel A agenda items could be
incorporated in the PRC tentative agenda framework. They
asked for further information on the exact nature of the
proposed U.S. agenda item on biological and nuclear
terrorism, as well as security for foreign investment and
development.


5. (C) Li and Wu confirmed that the Ministry of State
Security, Ministry of Public Security, People's Liberation
Army, and People's Bank of China planned to send
representatives to the meetings, and told POLOFF that the
Chinese government hoped the meetings would focus on concrete
steps for bilateral cooperation on counterterrorism issues.
GOLDBERG