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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08BEIJING855PROMINENT ECONOMIST SEES CHALLENGE IN RESPONDING TO
[...] (SBU) On March 6, the Vice President of the National Development and Reform Commission's Academy of Macroeconomic Research, Ma Xiaohe, characterized elevated inflation as a challenge that will outlast recent food supply shocks. Five consecutive years of double-digit GDP growth has boosted dema [...]
2008-03-10 06:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL EINV CH
08BEIJING869PRC-PAKISTAN: MFA, SCHOLARS REMAIN FOCUSED ON
[...] (C) Summary: MFA officials and PRC scholars believe the new coalition government in Pakistan will be inherently weak and that extended political instability would likely lead to the intervention of the Pakistan Army. Though the shakiness of the nascent coalition Government will slow the devel [...]
2008-03-10 09:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PARM CH PK
08BEIJING870NPC: FOOD INFLATION RURAL SECTOR'S MAIN CONCERN
[...] (SBU) Ministry of Agriculture officials met the press on March 10 to discuss agricultural and rural development issues. The officials cited China's rural development accomplishments in 2007, notably the 9.5 percent increase in rural incomes, and also outlined the challenges ahead. Food prices [...]
2008-03-10 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EFIN PGOV ETRD CH
08BEIJING871PRC/LEBANON: PRC UNAWARE OF MARCH 14 CONVENTION,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-10 09:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MASS PTER PARM CH LE
08BEIJING873PROVINCIAL NPC DELEGATIONS DISCUSS PREMIER'S WORK
[...] (C) Provicial delegations to the National People's Congress (NPC) spent March 6 and 7 "discussing" the Premier's Government Work Report (ref C),in the process revealing concerns over both local problems and the Government's ability to solve them. At the Beijing, Shanghai, Anhui and Tibet se [...]
2008-03-10 16:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH ECON PGOV SOCI
08BEIJING886(S) CHINA STILL INVESTIGATING LIMMT; URGES THE
[...] (S) China continues to investigate the export control activities of LIMMT and urges the United States not to impose sanctions on this Chinese firm, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Director Wang Daxue told PolOff on March 11. Recalling the recent U.S. inform [...]
2008-03-11 08:52:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08BEIJING889ZHEJIANG PARTY SECRETARY ZHAO HONGZHU ON SOCIAL
[...] (C) Zhejiang Party Secretary Zhao Hongzhu emphasized the need to address China's pressing social problems during a March 9 lunch hosted by the Ambassador. Zhao said the emphasis on social issues is the core message of this year's National People's Congress (NPC) session and is his primary co [...]
2008-03-11 10:02:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI ECON EINV PREL CH TW
08BEIJING891CONTACT SAYS CHINA GREAT WALL INDUSTRY CORPORATION
[...] (S) China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA) Secretary General Li Genxin told PolOff on March 11 that Wang SIPDIS Haibo, Chief Executive Officer of China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC),is taking great personal interest in the upcoming March 20 meeting in Washington, m [...]
2008-03-11 10:25:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
08BEIJING892March 11 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: XINJIANG TERRORISM, SAFETY AND
[...] Key points at the March 11, 2008 regular MFA Press Briefing were: -- China continues to investigate the suspicious liquid found on a flight from Xinjiang to Beijing and rejects attempts to link terrorism to a single religion or ethnic group. -- China is working to ensure safe air quality [...]
2008-03-11 10:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA RS SU SR
08BEIJING895GANSU ECONOMY GROWING, BUT MORE INVESTMENT NEEDED:
[...] (C) Gansu Province has benefited from Central Government initiatives to balance development by boosting spending in western China, but it continues to face major challenges, including water and power shortages, low rates of foreign investment, lagging employment opportunities, and a decrease i [...]
2008-03-11 23:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH ECON EFIN EIND ENIV ENRG PGOV SENV SOCI
08BEIJING896INNER MONGOLIA NPC DEPUTIES TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT: WE'LL
[...] (SBU) Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's NPC Deputies met on March 7 and stated that they would continue to pursue rapid economic growth despite Central Government efforts to cool growth. Inner Mongolia remains focused on the energy sector as its engine for growth, and a Petro China official s [...]
2008-03-12 01:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG PGOV EINV CH
08BEIJING899CHINA SUPPORTS NEW UNSYG SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE
[...] (C) PolOff on March 12 conveyed to MFA reftel points urging China to support and engage new Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan Ambassador Kai Eide. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said the United [...]
2008-03-12 02:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC CH AF
08BEIJING90MFA: CHINA INTERSTED IN STABLE AND PEACEFUL
[...] (C) MFA Asia Department Deputy Director General Liu Jian briefed PolMinCouns January 8 on Chinese Foreign Minister (FM) Yang Jiechi's January 5 phone call to Pakistan FM Inam-ul Haq. (Note: See also the January 5 report on the telephone conversation by the official PRC news agency Xinhua (re [...]
2008-01-08 09:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TER PARM CH PK
08BEIJING900CHINESE VIEWS OF ASIAN AND ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: China believes multilateral arrangements in the Asia-Pacific region foster trust and stabilize relations, creating the peaceful diplomatic and security environment China considers necessary to speed its domestic development. China now finds useful an ASEAN-led regional architectur [...]
2008-03-12 03:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEAN ARF APEC CH
08BEIJING91CHINA WILLING TO ASSIST GAMBARI BUT REMAINS
[...] (C) Summary: China remains willing to assist UN Special Advisor Gambari in his efforts to return to Burma but opposed to addressing Burma in the UN Security Council, MFA Asia Department Counselor Yang Jian told PolOff January 8. Commenting on our points addressing MFA's December 29 "unofficia [...]
2008-01-08 09:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH BM
08BEIJING912PRC/SUDAN: MORE FROM SPECIAL ENVOY LIU GUIJIN ON
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Sudan is ready to engage with rebel groups at any time, and Western nations should pressure rebel groups to participate fully in the peace process, Chinese Special Envoy for Darfur Liu Guijin told Beijing-based diplomats March 12. Press reporting on the Governm [...]
2008-03-12 10:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KPKO MARR UNSC SU CH FR UK
08BEIJING915PRC/SUDAN: MORE FROM SPECIAL ENVOY LIU GUIJIN ON
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Sudan is ready to engage with rebel groups at any time, and Western nations should pressure rebel groups to participate fully in the peace process, Chinese Special Envoy for Darfur Liu Guijin told Beijing-based diplomats March 12. Press reporting on the Governm [...]
2008-03-12 22:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KPKO MARR UNSC SU CH FR UK
08BEIJING92January 8 MFA Press Briefing: India PM visit, A/S Hill
[...] Key points at the January 8 MFA Press Briefing: -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet with President Hu Jintao, NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao during his January 14-15 visit to China. -- EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill will meet with VFM Wu Dawei during [...]
2008-01-08 11:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH
08BEIJING924MFA MAINTAINS CLAIMS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA; URGES
[...] (C) Summary: China continues to explain its claims in the South China Sea (SCS),including the nine-segment dotted line that traces out its jurisdiction over islands and waters in the SCS and overlaps with territorial and economic exclusion zone claims of five other countries and Taiwan, throu [...]
2008-03-13 09:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC
08BEIJING927CHONGQING PARTY SECRETARY BO XILAI ON U.S.
[...] (C) New Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai emphasized the historical ties between Chongqing and the United States, as well as investment opportunities for U.S. firms, during a March 13 meeting with the Ambassador. Coming across as an energetic salesman for his region, Bo claimed that the Cent [...]
2008-03-13 10:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON ETRD EINV SOCI PREL CH
08BEIJING929March 13 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TIBET PROTESTS,
[...] Key points at the March 13, 2008 regular MFA Press Briefing were: -- In recent days a few monks in Lhasa have made "a disturbance" and tried to sow political unrest. China resolutely opposes the attempts of the "Dalai group" to split China and, thanks to efforts by the local government, "t [...]
2008-03-13 11:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH JA KS PE
08BEIJING930NEWSPAPER REPORTS ON AIRLINE "TERRORIST" INCIDENT;
[...] (SBU) The Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao),a newspaper run by the Communist Party's flagship People's Daily newspaper, described on March 11 how a 19 year-old "Uighur girl" smuggled gasoline contained in beverage cans onboard a China Southern flight from Urumqi to Beijing. The article claimed t [...]
2008-03-13 11:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV KOLY CH
08BEIJING931MARCH 12 CPPCC OLYMPIC PRESS BRIEFING: PROTESTS,
[...] (U) Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),the largely ceremonial advisory body that is currently in session in Beijing, held a press conference March 12 to discuss preparations for the August Olympic Games. CPPCC members present included Beijing Vice Mayor [...]
2008-03-13 11:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KOLY ASEC PHUM CH
08BEIJING95CHINA'S INITIAL GPA OFFER
[...] (SBU) On January 7, Embassy Beijing Economic officers met with Ministry of Finance (MOF) Government Procurement Management Division II Treasury Department Director Wang Shao Shuang regarding MOF,s December 28 submission of its Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and initial offer. Director [...]
2008-01-09 06:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD WTRO EFIN EINV EIND CH
08BEIJING964REFERENDUM IN BURMA DEMARCHE
[...] (C) PolOff on March 14 conveyed to MFA reftel points urging China to make clear to the Burmese regime that the planned May referendum on the regime's draft constitution should adhere to internationally accepted standards for free and fair elections and referenda. MFA International Organizatio [...]
2008-03-14 08:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM BM CH
08BEIJING969MFA: CHINA SUPPORTS CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTION;
[...] (C) Summary: During his March 2-3 visit to Nepal, Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei affirmed China's support for a peaceful Constituent Assembly election in April, MFA India, Nepal, Sri Lanka Division Deputy Director Zhao Lijian told PolOff March 11. Zhao said the Chinese Government [...]
2008-03-14 09:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ECON CH IN NP
08BEIJING971CHINA: NO RESPONSE ON JOINT DEMARCHE ON CHAD/SUDAN
[...] (C) PolOff relayed reftel points asking for support of a joint demarche and for feedback on the specific language of a possible demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) West Asia and North Africa Department North Africa Division Officer Liang Wei March 14. Liang reviewed the points and p [...]
2008-03-14 10:20:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SU CH CD
08BEIJING972CORRECTED COPY: March 13 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TIBET
[...] Key points at the March 13, 2008 regular MFA Press Briefing wee: -- In recent days a few monks in Lhasa have made "a disturbance" and tried to sow political unrest. China resolutely opposes the attempts of the "Dalai group" to split China and, thanks to efforts by the local government, "th [...]
2008-03-14 10:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH JA KS PE
08BEIJING973AMBASSADOR EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT VIOLENCE IN
[...] (C) In a March 14 meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, the Ambassador expressed concern about unconfirmed but numerous reports of violence in Lhasa, Tibet (septel),including shootings, or at least gunshots. He urged the PRC Government to exercise restraint in dealing with the situ [...]
2008-03-14 11:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF PREL CH
08BEIJING975REPORTS OF VIOLENCE, RIOTING IN LHASA, TIBET
[...] (C) ConGen Chengdu and Embassy Beijing have received numerous accounts of serious violence and rioting in Lhasa March 14. The Ambassador raised USG concerns over these reports with Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui on March 14 and urged the Government to exercise restraint (reftel). Riots re [...]
2008-03-14 12:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF NP IN CH
08BEIJING977CHINA: NO JOINT DEMARCHE ON CHAD/SUDAN
[...] (C) China is unwilling to give a joint demarche with other P5-plus-1 nations on the issue of Chad and Sudan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) International Organizations and Conferences Department Attache Diao Junshu told PolOff March 14. In an after-hours phone call, she dictated the follow [...]
2008-03-14 12:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SU CH CD
08BEIJING980TIBET: MARCH 15 UPDATE ON SITUATION IN LHASA
[...] (C) The situation in Lhasa, Tibet on March 15 remains fluid, with reports that the city had calmed after a night of explosions and gunfire later giving way to reports of increased violence and the arrival of more military (or possibly paramilitary) personnel during the afternoon. The U.S. Mis [...]
2008-03-15 13:33:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
08BEIJING981TIBET: MFA TELLS AMBASSADOR PROTESTERS ARE
[...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi provided a propaganda-heavy description of the current unrest in Lhasa to the Ambassador the evening of March 15. Liu described incidents of "beating, burning and looting" and said the unrest was the coordinated effort of the "Dalai Lama clique" aimed [...]
2008-03-15 16:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
08BEIJING982TIBET: CHINESE OFFICIAL SCHOLAR CONTACTS EMBASSY
[...] (C) A scholar at an official Chinese think tank requested an urgent meeting with PolOff the evening of March 15 to gauge foreign reaction to the events in Lhasa. The order to do so, our contact said, had come from the "very top" of the Chinese political system and reflects the "great concern" [...]
2008-03-15 16:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CH
08BEIJING983ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF RISING TENSIONS, VIOLENCE IN
[...] (C) ConGen Chengdu continues to receive reports from sources on the ground in Lhasa indicating rising tensions, increasing violence and the presence of tanks as nightfall descends on the city. The city has apparently been sealed off. Meanwhile, sources say protests in Gansu Province have tur [...]
2008-03-15 17:12:00Embassy BeijingSECRET//NOFORNPHUM PGOV KIRF PREL CH
08BEIJING984XI JINPING ELECTED PRC VICE PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Hu Jintao was "re-elected" President of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission by a plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) on March 15. The NPC deputies elected Xi Jinping PRC Vice President and re-elected Wu Bangguo as the NPC Chairmman. Thirteen new NPC Vi [...]
2008-03-15 17:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
08BEIJING999TIBET: MARCH 17 UPDATE ON PROTESTS
[...] (C) This cable draws heavily on sources and information obtained by officers and staff at Consulate General Chengdu, and has been coordinated with the Consul General in Chengdu. Summary ------- 2. (S) Summary: Contacts of Embassy Beijing and ConGen Chengdu report that the situation in Lh [...]
2008-03-17 14:34:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF ASEC CH
08SECTIO04OF07BEIJING3049BEIJING 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-07 08:34:00Embassy BeijingSECRET//NOFORNASEC CASC CH CMGT ECON KOLY OVIP PREL PTER
09BEIJING10MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, FINANCIAL CRISIS,
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "To cautiously evaluate the future of U.S.-China relations" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/04): "Regarding certain historical lessons after the 10th and 20th Anniversaries, this year the government and the s [...]
2009-01-05 09:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1010MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "U.S. media acknowledged that there is insufficient evidence for the "Chinese hacker" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/16): "Tang Lan from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations tells t [...]
2009-04-16 08:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1012DEMARCHE DELIVERED CONCERNING DESIGNATION OF GOODS
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel A points concerning designation of goods and entities under UNSCR 1718 to Ambassador for Korean Peninsula Issues Yang Houlan in a pull-aside following his meeting with Senior East Asia Advisor for the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Frank [...]
2009-04-16 09:39:00Embassy BeijingSECRETUNSC PARM KN CH KNNP
09BEIJING1013APRIL 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NORTH KOREA, HOLBROOKE VISIT,
[...] Key points at the April 16 MFA press briefing: -- China has "taken note" of reports that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have been expelled from North Korea. -- Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke "exchanged views on issues of common interest [...]
2009-04-16 22:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PARM KNNP KWBG IAEA EFIN AMED CH KS KN
09BEIJING1014CHINA/IPR: ECONOMIC DOWNTURN WEAKENING IPR
[...] (SBU) China is facing increased difficulty in enforcing intellectual property rights (IPR) and preventing "local protectionism" during the economic downturn, Chinese government officials at the Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Ministry of Commerce acknowledged to a recent U.S. government dele [...]
2009-04-17 02:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND KIPR ECON CH
09BEIJING102MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, ISRAEL
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "U.S.-China cooperation promotes world peace" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (01/13): "For these two countries, the U.S.-China relationship has become one of their most important global partnerships. Their relationship is acquiring more a [...]
2009-01-13 09:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1024PRC/DPRK: VFM HE YAFEI DISCUSSES SIX-PARTY TALKS
[...] (C) North Korea has not shut the door to the United States or to Six-Party Talks, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told Staffdel Jannuzi April 16. VFM He downplayed the possibility of a DPRK nuclear test, urged the United States to "keep talking" with the North Koreans and praised U.S.-China co [...]
2009-04-17 08:32:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP OVIP KS CH
09BEIJING1025MEDIA REACTION: MILITARY, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] MILITARY "U.S. conventional military strength ranks NO.1 in the world; Obama is not silly or naove" Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao),a newspaper affiliated with the official Communist Youth League's China Youth Daily (04/17): "On April the 5th, the U.S. President, during his speech in Pra [...]
2009-04-17 08:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1026CHINESE STILL STUDYING U.S.-PROPOSED DESIGNATIONS
[...] (S) MFA International Organizations and Conferences UN Affairs official Yang Zhiyu told PolOff on April 17 that China was "still studying" the U.S.-proposed designations of goods and entities under UNSCR 1718 conveyed to the MFA on April 15 (ref A). A response, if any, to the U.S. proposal wo [...]
2009-04-17 08:42:00Embassy BeijingSECRETUNSC PARM KN CH KNNP
09BEIJING1028 U.S. Firms Voice Concerns about China's Stimulus Packages
[...] (SBU) Summary: A lack of transparency and "buy local" biases could thwart U.S. companies seeking to benefit from China's considerable stimulus package funding, according to representatives of major U.S. firms. Firms report that the plan has been used to support Chinese firms and create import [...]
2009-04-17 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH
09BEIJING103JANUARY 13 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: MIDDLE EAST, EU, INTERNET
[...] Key points at the January 13 MFA press briefing: -- China is "gravely concerned" that UN Security Council resolution 1860 is "not being implemented" in Gaza. -- China "attaches great importance" to its relationship with the EU -- China calls on France to create conditions for the improv [...]
2009-01-13 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH TW IS XG RW UG BR KN MI SF CB
09BEIJING1032CHINESE ACADEMICS ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Embassy contacts expressed cautious support for the new U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, though our interlocutors argued that the new strategy did not appropriately address the Kashmir issue. They were suspicious of long-term U.S. intentions in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Citin [...]
2009-04-17 10:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR CH PK AF IN
09BEIJING1044MEDIA REACTION: ADMIRAL ROUGHEAD'S VISIT TO CHINA,
[...] ADMIRAL ROUGHEAD'S VISIT TO CHINA a. "The U.S. fears China's anti-warship capabilities" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(04/20): "A former U.S. chief of naval operations once mentioned that China's research int [...]
2009-04-20 08:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1046SRAP HOLBROOKE'S APRIL 15 DINNER WITH CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-20 09:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER EAID NATO MOPS MARR CH PK AF
09BEIJING1047DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: PRC
[...] (C) PolOff conveyed diplomatic note and human rights pledge (ref A) on the U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Division Deputy Director Xu Jing on April 20. Xu referenced her MFA colleague's April 8 re [...]
2009-04-20 09:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNHRC UN CH
09BEIJING1050 Kenyan Ambassador on Growing China
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-21 02:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD PREL SENV CH KE
09BEIJING1055XINJIANG: NO EVIDENCE OBSERVED OF MEDIA-REPORTED
[...] (C) Summary: Despite rumors of arrests of underground or terrorism-related religious practitioners, the overall atmosphere in Xinjiang seemed more relaxed than on previous PolOff trips in advance of and just following the 2008 Olympics (Refs A and B),with no checkpoints and fewer propaganda p [...]
2009-04-21 06:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PTER PREL PGOV KIRF CH
09BEIJING1058China/Oil Reserves: Active Purchases, But Facilities
[...] (SBU) Summary. Beijing is taking advantage of lower oil prices to build up its strategic petroleum reserves (SPR). The four existing SPR facilities - which hold the equivalent of about 25 days of imports - reportedly are now full, challenging China's ability to continue purchasing oil for re [...]
2009-04-21 06:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON SENV CH
09BEIJING1063MEDIA REACTION: FINANCIAL CRISIS, CHINESE NAVY'S
[...] FINANCIAL CRISIS a. "The internal defect and future evolution of the international currency system" 21 Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao) under Guangdong 21 century publishing company Ltd. (04/21): "For more than 30 years, the Dollar Standard System has caused the abnormal dev [...]
2009-04-21 09:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1064BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON HIGH-LEVEL
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing April 17, German Ambassador Michael Schaefer told the group that a Bundestag delegation had been able to hold a dinner meeting with Charter '08 writers and signers after the German Embassy informed the MFA and asked the Chinese government [...]
2009-04-21 09:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING1066GLOBAL TIMES LAUNCHES ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION,
[...] (SBU) People's Daily President Zhang Yannong presided over the official launch of the Global Times English-language edition at an April 20 reception in Beijing. At the event, People's Daily and Global Times editors told us the new English- language publication would maintain the "patriotic" [...]
2009-04-21 11:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1067APRIL 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: UN CONFERENCE ON RACISM,
[...] Key points at the April 21 MFA press briefing: -- China "regrets to see some countries did not attend" the UN Conference on Racism. -- China is ready to play a constructive role in the Middle East and hopes relevant parties follow UN resolutions and use diplomacy to achieve "the peaceful c [...]
2009-04-21 22:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ENRG KPAL IAEA SENV CH EG IS JA RS
09BEIJING1075MEDIA REACTION: EASTERN TURKISH TERRORISTS, CIA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] EASTERN TURKISH TERRORISTS "U.S. punishes Eastern Turkish terrorist leader" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/21): "Recently, the U.S. Department of Finance announced that they would put financial sanctions on the leader of the Eas [...]
2009-04-22 09:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1076CHINA POSTAL LAW DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche on China's Postal Law to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on April 22 in the form of a letter from Charge d'Affaires Daniel Piccuta to Assistant Minister LIU Jieyi. Liu, the most appropriate interlocutor, and the next lowest appropriate interloc [...]
2009-04-22 09:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO CH
09BEIJING1080CROSS-STRAIT FTA A POSSIBILITY?
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan is intent on negotiating with Beijing a comprehensive Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA),equivalent to an FTA, according to a contact who met recently with top officials from both sides. Beijing is amenable to reaching a deal with Taipei that will advance cro [...]
2009-04-23 03:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
09BEIJING1083INNER MONGOLIA GROWTH GOAL "ONLY" 13 PERCENT,
[...] (SBU) Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) officials claimed March 30 that, while the IMAR's resource-based economy was faring better than that of China's export-oriented regions, the province was still feeling the ill effects of the global financial crisis. Some VIPs present at the openin [...]
2009-04-23 04:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EPET PGOV CH
09BEIJING1092MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CHINESE BLOGGERS,
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "China should think more broadly than the west" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/23): "Some people believe that democracy is a general value globally. However, this is a theoretical law. Democracy is not a [...]
2009-04-23 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1094APRIL 23 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Yasukuni Shrine, Dalai Lama,
[...] Key points at the April 23 MFA press briefing: -- A "correct and proper handling" of historic issues is the bedrock of Sino-Japanese relations, and Japan should take appropriate steps to safeguard the relationship following Prime Minister Taro Aso's sending an offering to the Yasukuni Shrine. [...]
2009-04-23 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH JA FR KN KS
09BEIJING1095CNO ADM ROUGHEAD DISCUSSES MIL-MIL TIES, PIRACY,
[...] (S) In an April 18 meeting with Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Gary Roughead, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said China adhered to the principle of peaceful development and noted that the PLA Navy (PLAN) had been expanding to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. AD [...]
2009-04-23 09:57:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL MARR MOPS PBTS PHSA CH KN
09BEIJING1096FOREIGN MEDIA PRESSURED TO COMPLY WITH CODE OF
[...] (C) The Chinese Government issued a new "code of conduct" for PRC staff working at foreign news bureaus on February 13, and although the code largely repeats existing prohibitions on independent news gathering by Chinese assistants, authorities are now enforcing these rules with increased vigo [...]
2009-04-23 10:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1097CHINA'S HEALTHCARE REFORM/REBALANCING:
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's blueprint for healthcare reform released on April 6 is being heavily promoted by the official media but will take years to implement and experts question whether it will address fundamental problems in China's healthcare system. The plan is unlikely to improve trust in [...]
2009-04-23 22:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SOCI CH
09BEIJING11PRC VFM HE YAFEI IN PAKISTAN: SEEKING TO REDUCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-05 09:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER PK IN CH
09BEIJING1107MEDIA REACTION: AMERICAN NETWORK SECURITY, TAIWAN, U.S.
[...] AMERICAN NETWORK SECURITY "American 'Network War Command Office' is set up to control the network power [and security of the U.S.]" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/24): "The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administrat [...]
2009-04-24 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1110MFA ARMS CONTROL DG ON IRAN AND SOUTH ASIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iran remained suspicious of U.S. intentions, but the new approach by the United States and the E3-plus-3 was the best way forward on the nuclear issue, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Director General Cheng Jingye told A/DCM April 24. China had engaged Tehran "at dif [...]
2009-04-24 10:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH PK AF
09BEIJING1113IRANIAN OFFICIAL ADDRESSES BEIJING AUDIENCE ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A visiting Iranian Atomic Energy Agency official told an invited audience of some 30 PRC government officials, Chinese academics, and foreign diplomats (including PolOff) April 23 that Iran considered the attainment of nuclear energy a main policy goal, and argued that sanction [...]
2009-04-24 11:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH IS
09BEIJING1115AUSTR STRATFORD AND DOC DAS KASOFF REVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 31-April 1 visit to Beijing that marked the first USTR/Commerce senior visit under the new Administration, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (AUSTR) for China Affairs Timothy Stratford and Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia Ira Kasoff out [...]
2009-04-25 10:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR EIND WTRO CH
09BEIJING1120U.S. UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE AND PRC DG CHENG
[...] (C) In Beijing to represent Energy Secretary Chu at the April 20-24 International Nuclear Energy Ministerial, U.S. Ambassador to UNVIE Greg Schulte met with MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Director General Cheng Jingye on April 22. Ambassador Schulte complimented DG Cheng for Chi [...]
2009-04-27 06:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC IAEA CH IR NK
09BEIJING1125MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, IRAN, U.S. POLICY, DALAI
[...] NORTH KOREA "Three doubts in North Korean issue" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/27): "There are three questions concerning North Korea's development of nuclear weapons. First, is it a goal or a method? Second, concerning the nu [...]
2009-04-27 08:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1126PRC REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) China would like the United States to be elected to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),MFA International Organizations and Conferences Human Rights Division official Chen Yingzhu told PolOff April 27. Chen requested that the United States support China, and noted that China "thinks highly [...]
2009-04-27 10:06:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNHRC UN CH
09BEIJING113MEDIA REACTION: RUSSIA, ISRAEL, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] RUSSIA "The conflict is on a downward spiral, even though the conflict took a briefly positive turn" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(01/14): "If Russia wants to transfer gas into Europe, it must transport gas through the Ukrainian border. However, Ukraine has not [...]
2009-01-15 09:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1131AGENDA FOR JUNE GICNT PLENARY IN THE HAGUE
[...] On April 29, PolOff joined Arjen van den Berg, Political Counselor at the Dutch Embassy in Beijing, and Andrey Chernyshov, Second Secretary at the Russian Embassy in Beijing, to present the proposed agenda for the June 16-17 2009 Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Plenary Me [...]
2009-04-28 06:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER MNUC KGIC KNNP CH RS NL
09BEIJING1133CHINA/RUSSIA: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS OR STRATEGIC
[...] SUMMARY: In spite of PRC public support for the Sino-Russian "strategic partnership," Chinese officials privately view Russia as "irrational, aggressive and untrustworthy," according to an opinion page editor at a leading state-owned newspaper. Our contact noted that many readers found a rec [...]
2009-04-28 08:17:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS AF
09BEIJING1134MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS, U.S. POLICY,
[...] U.S.-CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS "China and Japan should alleviate the U.S. influence in their countries' future development" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/28): "The Japanese Prime Minister will visit China soon. This brings attentio [...]
2009-04-28 08:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1135 MGSF01 H1N1 SWINE FLU OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 1 - NO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As of COB April 28 Beijing time, no cases of swine influenza (AH1N1) virus infection in humans or livestock had been reported by the local press or government authorities. As a precaution, the Chinese General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine (AQ [...]
2009-04-28 09:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1136APRIL 28 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: UIGHUR DETAINEES, SWINE FLU,
[...] Key points at the April 28 MFA press briefing: -- The Uighur detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay are "members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement" and "should be handed over to China." -- China takes the swine flu issue "seriously" and has "jump started" a program to respond to the t [...]
2009-04-28 22:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER PHUM CH JA FR MX
09BEIJING1147MEDIA REACTION: H1-N1, OBAMA'S 100 DAY, U.S.-CHINA
[...] H1-N1 "H1-N1 approaches East Asia" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/29): "The WHO has upgraded the emergency status of the H1-N1 virus to level 4, this adjustment has created tension in many countries. The U.S. has published its p [...]
2009-04-29 08:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1148PRC-KAZAKHSTAN: NAZARBAYEV VISIT STRESSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The energy deal announced during Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev's April 15-19 visit to China was only a deal "in principle," and Sino-Kazakh energy cooperation was proceeding under "market principles," according to an MFA official. Otherwise, the visit emphasized security and la [...]
2009-04-29 09:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG EAID PTER ZK CH
09BEIJING1149CHINA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER OCTG AND TIRES TRADE CASES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-29 09:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND EMIN KFPC CH
09BEIJING1162DEMARCHE DELIVERED--U.S. DEMONSTRATES SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 08:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON CH
09BEIJING1165MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, OBAMA'S 100 DAYs
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. conducts hundreds of special investigations on China every year" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/30): These reports focus on the national security of the U.S. It is believed that the purpose of th [...]
2009-04-30 08:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1168SOMALIA: CHINA'S VIEWS ON COMBATING PIRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China supported the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) and would like to improve military coordination but had to maintain sole control of its military operations and avoid a "military hierarchy," an MFA official told PolOff April 29. The official said China [...]
2009-04-30 09:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH MARR MOPS PGOV PHSA PREL SO
09BEIJING1169PRC SCHOLARS SHARE VIEWS ON AFRICOM, SOMALIA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China "shares African concerns" about U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)'s perceived "militarization" of U.S. policy in Africa, according to two Chinese scholars on Africa. Our contacts expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of prosecuting Somali pirates and urged the United St [...]
2009-04-30 09:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCG CH MARR MOPS PGOV PREL SO EINV
09BEIJING1170APRIL 30 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK, Visas, Japan, Visits
[...] Key points at the April 30 MFA press briefing: -- China hopes that all parties involved can safeguard the Six-Party Talks. China and Japan are both willing to increase communication and coordination for peace and prosperity in East Asia and the world. -- Foreign reports that China is tigh [...]
2009-04-30 09:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH JA FR KN KS SP MX
09BEIJING1171 MGSF01 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 2
[...] (U) The World Health Organization (WHO) China Representative Hans Troedsson reported on April 28 that while an "unspecified number" of suspected H1N1 are cases currently being investigated in China, to date, there still are no confirmed cases of infection by the virus in humans or livestock. [...]
2009-04-30 09:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1172PRC: CHINESE SCHOLARS SUGGEST ACHIEVING NEAR-TERM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese participants at a UK/France-sponsored seminar on UN Security Council Reform April 29 uniformly affirmed the need for UN Security Council reform, though none expressed any urgency in acting on this need. While offering generally positive views of the UK/France "intermedia [...]
2009-04-30 10:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KUNR UN CH JA RS
09BEIJING1173EDITOR SUSPENDED FOR INTERVIEW PRAISING "UNIVERSAL
[...] (C) Zhong Weizhi (protect),the editor-in-chief of China's only national-level "private" newspaper, The Economic Observer, was suspended for publishing an interview with a controversial historian, Zhong told PolOffs March 25. The historian in question, Sun Yat-sen University's Yuan Weishi, ha [...]
2009-04-30 10:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PHUM PGOV KDEM CH
09BEIJING1174BEIJING CONTACTS HAIL ECONOMIC"BREAKTHOUGH" AT
[...] (C) Embassy contacts trumpeted the outcome of the April 25-26 PRC-Taiwan dialogue in Nanjing as a breakthrough for cross-strait economic cooperation. Two contacts noted that the rapid progress since the renewal of talks in June 2008 had "exceeded expectations." The Financial Cooperation Agre [...]
2009-04-30 11:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECIN EFIN ETRD PREL TW CH
09BEIJING1176XXXXXXXXXXXXDISCUSSES G-20, DPRK,
[...] (C) Taiwan's participation as an observer at the upcoming May World Health Assembly (WHA) meetings demonstrated what could be achieved based on "one China, very broadly interpreted," XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX working lunch hosted by the Charge d'Affaires. XXXXXXXXXXXX said he would ask for approp [...]
2009-04-30 13:07:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL ECON EFIN PARM PHUM KUNR CH TW KN KS
09BEIJING1177 CHINA - STATE COUNCIL OPINION URGES
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's State Council issued a seven-point "Opinion" April 10 on "Strengthening Management of Government Procurement" that is a binding administrative prescription with quasi-legal force (unofficial translation at Paragraph 7). Local media portray the new guidelines as targetin [...]
2009-05-03 22:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EINV WTRO PGOV CH
09BEIJING1179NASA DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH CHINA NATIONAL SPACE
[...] (SBU) On April 24, NASA Assistant Administrator (AA) for External Relations Michael O'Brien briefly met with Dr. SUN Laiyan Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to discuss upcoming NASA-CNSA bilateral expert group meetings on cooperation in earth and space science. [...]
2009-05-03 22:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA TSPL TPHY PREL CH
09BEIJING118PRC SCHOLARS SAY CHINESE GOVERNMENT CAUTIOUSLY
[...] (C) Summary: The Chinese Government has distanced itself from Zimbabwean President Mugabe but will not pressure him to step down unless the South African Development Community (SADC) or African Union (AU) calls for his resignation, Chinese scholars recently told PolOff. The scholars agreed t [...]
2009-01-15 08:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH ZI SF
09BEIJING1189MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, A(H1N1),U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC
[...] U.S. POLICY Quote: "There is strength in Obama's soft-style diplomacy" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(05/04): "It's time to make some conclusions concerning Obama's diplomacy during his first 100 days. Ob [...]
2009-05-04 08:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1191 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 3
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-04 10:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1192 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 3
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-04 10:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1196MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CHINA'S INFORMATION
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "China won't worry a smarter U.S." The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/05): "During the first 100 days of Obama's administration, the diplomacy of the U.S. has become smarter. This is the 'smart power' emphas [...]
2009-05-05 08:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1197 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 4
[...] (U) As of COB on May 5 Beijing Time, there are no confirmed cases of infection of humans or livestock by the A/H1N1 influenza virus on Mainland China. One case was confirmed in Hong Kong on May 1 (REF D). 2. (SBU) Two American citizens remain under quarantine. Two others who had crossed o [...]
2009-05-05 09:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1198PRC/MEPP: FM YANG EXPOUNDS ON CHINA'S PEACE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a five-day swing through the Middle East, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi laid out China's five-point plan for progress on the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),according to an MFA official. He conveyed to the new Israeli government hopes expressed by Arab leaders that the M [...]
2009-05-05 11:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS SY EG IR
09BEIJING1199MAY 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: FLU, QUARANTINES, VISA POLICY,
[...] Key points at the May 5 MFA press briefing: -- China has taken "urgent and temporary" measures to "protect the safety of the animal husbandry industry and the people" from the threat of H1N1 Influenza. -- The spokesperson had no information about reports that four American citizens have be [...]
2009-05-05 22:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH MX CE CA AS KU JP
09BEIJING1204SHIELD S13-08: CHINA INFORMED OF PRC FIRMS
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper urging China to investigate and prevent the supply of a key chemical weapons precursor and training to a chemical manufacturing plant in Iran to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Biological and Chemical Weapons Division Deputy Director [...]
2009-05-06 07:47:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING1206INCREASED GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP OF POLITICAL
[...] (C) Aggressive censorship is making it more difficult to hold political discussions online, according to multiple bloggers and online activists. While contacts differed on whether the ongoing "anti-vulgarity" campaign was being employed as cover for the political tightening, all agreed that c [...]
2009-05-06 08:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PROP SCUL SOCI CH TW EINT
09BEIJING1207MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, FINANCIAL
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS a. "China rebuts U.S. Senior Official's criticism" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/06): "Michael Mullen indicated two days ago that China's efforts to strengthen the navy and air force are mainly poi [...]
2009-05-06 08:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1209REPORTS OVERSTATE CHINA'S AID TO ASEAN
[...] (C) Summary. There is less to China's much-heralded April 12 announcement of a multi-billion dollar aid package to ASEAN than media reporting suggests, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry contact. For example, the $10 billion investment cooperation fund will only receive $1 billion in in [...]
2009-05-06 08:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PREL PHUM TH BM CH
09BEIJING1210 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 5
[...] (U) As of COB on May 6 Beijing Time, there are no confirmed cases of infection of humans or livestock by the A/H1N1 influenza virus on Mainland China. One case was confirmed in Hong Kong on May 1 (REF E). 2. (SBU) Two American citizens remain under quarantine. --A 38 year-old female has [...]
2009-05-06 10:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1211PRC "OPPOSES" USNS VICTORIOUS PRESENCE IN CHINA'S
[...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for North American and Oceanian Affairs Zheng Zeguang called the Charge to meet for coffee May 6 and during that meeting expressed "firm opposition" to the presence of the USNS Victorious in China's Exclusive Economic Zone. Referring to statemen [...]
2009-05-06 11:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PARM PM CH
09BEIJING1221MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, CHINA
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "U.S. and China deal with naval confrontation in the Yellow Sea quietly" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/07): "Yesterday, the U.S. media reported the confrontation between the U.S. and China in the Y [...]
2009-05-07 08:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1223 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 5 -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-07 10:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1224 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 6 -
[...] (U) This cable corrects Beijing 1223. Please disregard Beijing 1223. AMERICANS IN QUARANTINE, QUARANTINE CHARGES, AND NOTIFICATION ----------------------- ------------------- ---------------- Â [...]
2009-05-07 10:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1227MAY 7 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HU-OBAMA TELCON, USNS VICTORIOUS,
[...] Key points at the May 7 MFA press briefing: -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President Barack Obama discussed bilateral relations and had an "in-depth exchange of views" on H1N1 influenza, agreeing to cooperate in addressing the issue. The two leaders also discussed the Korean Peninsu [...]
2009-05-07 23:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH MX CE CA AS KU JP
09BEIJING1230CHINA TO SEND DELEGATION TO ISLAMABAD REGIONAL
[...] (U) China will send a delegation to the May 13-14 Islamabad Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Asian Affairs Department Deputy Director Cao Jing. The delegation will be headed by MFA Asian Affairs Department Director General [...]
2009-05-08 03:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP EAGR EAID ECON ENRG KPWR PREL AF CH
09BEIJING124MEDIA REACTION: CHINA DIPLOMACY, MADE IN CHINA
[...] CHINA DIPLOMACY a. "Don't always compare China's strengths with the shortcomings of others" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/15): "Recently, people have been comparing the 30 years since the 'opening up' with the 30 years before i [...]
2009-01-15 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1241 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 3 Sent
[...] (U) As of COB on May 4 Beijing Time, there are no confirmed cases of infection of humans or livestock by the A/H1N1 influenza virus on Mainland China. One case was confirmed in Hong Kong on May 1 (REF C). 2. (SBU) Post has become aware of four American citizens who are being or were recent [...]
2009-05-08 08:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1242China's Qinghai Province Slow to Rebalance Economy and
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Tibetan and other minority communities in rural Qinghai Province see only limited benefits from China's rural development efforts. Like much of rural China, weak local government capacity hinders Chinese Government development efforts throughout rural Qinghai. These problems are [...]
2009-05-08 08:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING1244PRC: DEMARCHE URGING AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASE
[...] (C) In response to reftel points requesting that China urge the Government of Burma to release democratic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, MFA Asian Affairs Department Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam Division Deputy Director Chen Chen told PolOff May 8 that China hoped that all parties in [...]
2009-05-08 09:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CH BM
09BEIJING1245 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 7
[...] (U) As of COB on May 8 Beijing Time, there are no confirmed cases of infection of humans or livestock by the A/H1N1 influenza virus on Mainland China. One case was confirmed in Hong Kong on May 1 (REF F). 2. (SBU) The 20-year old American citizen who had been in quarantine since May 2 was [...]
2009-05-08 09:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1246CHINA - SHIP RECYCLING DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Econoff coordinated with the Australian Embassy to deliver the demarche on the International Maritime Organization's (IMO's) Ship Recycling Convention to the Chinese Ministry of Transport (MOT) and the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on May 4. Chinese Government representatives stated they [...]
2009-05-08 09:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND ETRD EWWT IMO KTIA PREL SENV CH
09BEIJING1247BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON DPRK, GTMO
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing May 8, French DCM Nicholas Chapuis reported that State Councilor Dai Bingguo told visiting former French President Chirac that the West would not gain from more sanctions on North Korea. Dai reportedly said that "the lever of economic d [...]
2009-05-08 10:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING1249WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: CHINESE REPORTERS AND
[...] (C) PRC journalists and bloggers lamented continued government restrictions on the media and the Internet at a May 3 Charge-hosted dinner, organized jointly by Embassy POL and PAS sections, to mark World Press Freedom Day. Our contacts, mostly outspoken journalists and bloggers in their earl [...]
2009-05-08 12:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PHUM PGOV PREL KFLU CH JA
09BEIJING1253SHIELD S13-08: CHINA SEEKS MORE INFORMATION OF PRC
[...] (S) In response to Ref A demarche, urging China to investigate and prevent a group of employees from Zhejiang Material Industries Chemical Group and Shanxi Weiqida Pharmaceuticals Company from traveling to Iran to provide technical training and expertise, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Depar [...]
2009-05-11 02:38:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING1261CHINA/RUSSIA: FM YANG'S VISIT TO MOSCOW REAFFIRMS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China and Russia share a common interest in a multi-polar world and "democratization of international relations," but the China-Russia strategic partnership is "not an alliance and not directed at a third country," according to an MFA official. The official said China and Russia [...]
2009-05-11 08:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS AF
09BEIJING1263MEDIA REACTION: RMB INTERNATIONALIZATION, CHINA'S FINANCE
[...] RMB INTERNATIONALIZATION "Editorial: We should be cautious about the internationalization of the RMB" The independent Chinese weekly business newspaper distributed in major cities throughout China, Economic Observer (Jingji Guanchabao) (05/11) "A currency's internationalization should be t [...]
2009-05-11 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1264 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 8 -
[...] (SBU) On May 11, China's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported the first confirmed case of H1N1 on Mainland China. (NOTE: One confirmed case had previously been reported in Hong Kong on May 1(REF E) END NOTE). The 30 year-old male, a Chinese national, is a graduate student in St. Louis. He arri [...]
2009-05-11 11:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1271MEDIA REACTION: GRAIN WEAPON, GLOBALIZATION, A(H1N1),
[...] GRAIN WEAPON "What should China use to defend itself against the American's grain weapons?" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/12): "The U.S. is the only country that has bonded grain, energy, finance, military, diplomacy and values [...]
2009-05-12 09:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1272EMBASSY PROTESTS TREATMENT OF AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following reports of detention and harassment of U.S. journalists attempting to report in Tibetan areas of western China, the Embassy has thrice protested to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In an April 17 meeting, PressOff asked the MFA to clarify rules governing foreig [...]
2009-05-12 09:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1274 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 9
[...] (SBU) As of COB May 12, China's Ministry of Health (MOH) has reported one confirmed case of H1N1 on Mainland China, in Chengdu (REF A). One confirmed case had previously been reported in Hong Kong on May 1 (REF F). STATUS OF AMCIT QUARANTINE CASES -------------------------------- 2. (SB [...]
2009-05-12 10:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1275MAY 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CONTINENTAL SHELF, SRI LANKA,
[...] Key points at the May 12 MFA press briefing: -- China has submitted information to the UN on the outer limits of its continental shelf. -- The work of Chinese companies in building a port in Sri Lanka is "a normal business action" and reports that it is otherwise are "distortions" and "gro [...]
2009-05-12 13:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH KN
09BEIJING1280SOMALI PIRACY: CHINA INVITED TO ATTEND CGPCS
[...] (SBU) China will send a delegation of officials from the MFA, Ministry of National Defense (MND) and Ministry of Transportation to attend the May 29 meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Di [...]
2009-05-13 06:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO
09BEIJING1282MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS, H1N1, RMB CURRENCY
[...] U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS "A positive turn for U.S-Iran relations" The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao)(05/13): "Recently, Iran has released the female American Journalist that it held. The American media felt calm and relief. However, the Obama administration [...]
2009-05-13 09:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1283 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 10
[...] (SBU) On May 13, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) posted a travel advisory about travel to the U.S. related to the H1N1 outbreak. Earlier in the day, MFA had notified Embassy Beijing of their intent to issue the travel advisory, noting that the advisory is not a travel warning, but rat [...]
2009-05-13 11:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1285MAY 13 TAO PRESS BRIEFING: ARMS SALES, MA'S ONE YEAR MARK,
[...] Key points from the May 13 Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) press briefing: -- Regarding potential U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the TAO spokesman said China's "consistent" and "clear-cut" policy is that it opposes U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. -- Assessing Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's first year [...]
2009-05-13 23:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM ECON ETRD CH TW
09BEIJING1294MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN, CHINESE ECONOMY, GEITHNER'S VISIT,
[...] TAIWAN "Time the U.S. eschewed its faulty Taiwan policy" The official English-language newspaper China Daily (05/14): "Some scholars credit the TRA for the positive developments in Sino-U.S. and cross-Straits ties. This is ridiculous, coming as it does on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. C [...]
2009-05-14 08:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1295PRC: NEW MFA BOUNDARY AND OCEAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
[...] (C) The recently-established MFA Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs would focus more on technical and legal issues than on policy matters, including providing advice on incidents involving USNS vessels in the South and East China seas, Maritime Delimitation Division Director Yang Li told [...]
2009-05-14 09:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC
09BEIJING1296CHINA WATCHERS CONFERENCE MAY 7-9
[...] (C) Embassy Beijing warmly thanks the participants in the China Watchers Conference, held in Beijing May 7-9. The new conference brought together participants from 17 different posts and commands, including multiple agencies and members of the analyst community. Participants exchanged views o [...]
2009-05-14 09:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL OTRA AMGT PGOV CH
09BEIJING1297 CHINA'S EXPORT DECLINE STABILIZING IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. China's General Administration of Customs May 12 reported a 22.8 percent drop in China's overall foreign trade to $170.7 billion versus the prior year, the sixth straight monthly decline in China's overseas trade flows. While on a year-on-year basis exports dropped by 22.6 per [...]
2009-05-14 10:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EIND EMIN CH
09BEIJING1298 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 11
[...] (SBU) As of COB May 14, there are two confirmed cases of H1N1 on Mainland China, one in Jinan City (Shandong Province) confirmed on May 13, and one in Chengdu confirmed on May 11 (REF A and C). There had been one confirmed case previously reported in Hong Kong on May 1 (REF F),and Hong Kong c [...]
2009-05-14 10:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1299MAY 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: H1N1, DEFENSE POLICY,
[...] Key points at the May 14 MFA press briefing: -- China continues to work to monitor and contain H1N1 influenza, dismissing as "irresponsible" allegations that the United States and Canada have not taken sufficient measures to contain the virus's spread. -- Regarding press reports of a USG o [...]
2009-05-14 23:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CH FR AS KN PK BR CA MX
09BEIJING1310MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, H1N1, U.S. POLICY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. radical voice offends China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/15): "Is it possible that the Chinese Intelligence Institute is better than the CIA? It must be the case because, yesterday the U.S. rel [...]
2009-05-15 08:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1311China's Africa Aid Aims to Achieve
[...] (SBU) Summary. China has a distinct approach to Africa development assistance and is open to exchanging views with the United States. Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) officials provided an overview to Emboffs of their African aid priorities, but skimped on budget and project details. They ack [...]
2009-05-15 08:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAID EINV CH
09BEIJING1314SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR KERRY'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Senator Kerry, the Chinese leaders place great importance on personal relationships with foreign counterparts and on the symbolism of high-level visits. They will want to use your visit to demonstrate that China is deepening links with all parts of the U.S. Government. They will welcome [...]
2009-05-15 09:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH
09BEIJING1315SCENESETTER FOR SPEAKER PELOSI'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Madame Speaker, your visit to China comes at a significant time. 2009 marks a series of key anniversaries: January 1 commemorated 30 years of diplomatic relations between our two countries; March saw the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising and the Dalai Lama's flight to India; [...]
2009-05-15 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH
09BEIJING1317 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 12
[...] (SBU) Mainland Chinese newspapers (both Chinese and English-language publications) have criticized U.S. government response to the H1N1 outbreak, blaming the "low-key approach" of the government and media for what it sees as ineffective prevention measures against the spread of the virus. The [...]
2009-05-15 10:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1318DASH FOR THE CASH: LOCAL PARTY SECRETARY GETS HIS
[...] (C) Providing a window on the thinking of local officials in China, the Party Secretary of Hulunbeier City in Inner Mongolia on May 12 described to PolOff his successful campaign to obtain a large chunk of PRC stimulus package funding for his city, as well as his efforts to maintain the munic [...]
2009-05-15 12:02:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KPAO CH
09BEIJING1329DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHINA URGED TO SUPPORT UNSC
[...] (SBU) PolMinCouns conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Deputy Director General Li Junhua May 18 reftel points urging China to support UN Security Council action on Burma in the wake of new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi. There was no immediate substantive r [...]
2009-05-18 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC PHUM BM CH
09BEIJING1330MEDIA REACTION: NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA a. "U.S. puts great emphasis on the nomination of their new Ambassador to China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/18): "Obama personally announced that the Governor from Utah, Jon Huntsman, will be the [...]
2009-05-18 08:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1333LESSONS FOR S&ED - SWAGGER OVER SUBSTANCE AT 2ND
[...] (C) China used the second High-level Economic Dialogue (HED) with the EU in Brussels May 7-8 to secure a vague commitment to &resist protectionism8 and take a dig at the United States and missed the chance to make substantive concessions on the numerous trade and investment barriers the EU rai [...]
2009-05-18 09:30:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV EAID ETRD WTRO PREL CH EU
09BEIJING1335 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 13
[...] (U) As of May 18, there are three confirmed cases of H1N1 on Mainland China. China's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on May 16 the first confirmed case of infection of influenza A(H1N1)in Beijing Municipality. There are two other confirmed H1N1 cases on Mainland China (REF D and F). Hong K [...]
2009-05-18 10:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1336XXXXXXXXXXXXX
[...] (C) CDA spoke by phone with XXXXXXXXXXXXX to discuss recent pressure by the Chinese government to censor the company's Chinese website, accelerated perhaps by the approach of significant political anniversaries.XXXXXXXXXXXXX averred that the root of the problem was China's Politburo Standing Comm [...]
2009-05-18 23:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING1339 CHINA'S AUTO INDUSTRY ENJOYS RECORD SALES FOR FOURTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Record auto sales in April suggest that China's auto support plan is providing a significant boost to the industry. April auto sales data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) show that 1.15 million vehicles were sold, the fourth straight month of [...]
2009-05-19 04:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND OTRA SENV CH
09BEIJING1346DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ECOSOC NGO COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC PHUM NGO SOCI UN CH
09BEIJING1347MEDIA REACTION: A/H1N1, CHINESE SPY, FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] A/H1N1 "The domestic increase of the A/H1N1 virus in Japan shocks neighboring countries" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/19): "Yesterday, Japan confirmed that the number of A/H1N1 cases in Japan has increased to 139. Both China [...]
2009-05-19 09:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1348CHINA PROTESTS PACOM ADMIRAL KEATING'S REMARKS IN
[...] (C) In a May 18 meeting, MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang delivered a formal demarche to the Charge protesting remarks appearing in a Times of India article by Pacific Command (USPACOM) Commander Admiral Keating. Admiral Keating is quoted in the [...]
2009-05-19 09:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV CH IN
09BEIJING1349DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS
[...] (C) China recently donated USD one million for assisting Pakistan's internally displaced persons (IDPs) and will likely provide more, MFA Asian Affairs Department South Asia Division official Xing Lei told PolOff May 19 in response to reftel points urging China to provide aid. Xing said China [...]
2009-05-19 09:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PREF PHUM UN CH PK
09BEIJING1350BURMA: MFA DG QUESTIONS EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW
[...] (C) The Charge delivered ref A points on May 18 urging PRC support for UN Security Council action in response to the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi to MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang. In response, DG Zheng suggested that a statement from the UN Sec [...]
2009-05-19 10:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PHUM BM CH
09BEIJING1352 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 14
[...] (U) As of May 19, there are four confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1) on Mainland China. China's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that the suspected case in Guangzhou reported on May 18 has been confirmed as influenza A (H1N1) positive by China CDC (REF A). There are three other confirmed H [...]
2009-05-19 10:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1353MAY 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA, BOC
[...] Key points at the May 19 MFA press briefing: -- -- China "hoped the new U.S. Ambassador to China would play a positive role in promoting friendship between the two countries." -- China "welcomed the verdict" convicting two former Bank of China employees who "committed embezzlement and then [...]
2009-05-19 11:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH FR AS KN PK BR IN KS XG BM RS
09BEIJING1361MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL, A/H1N1, RUSSIA
[...] ISRAEL "Obama urges Israel to accept this historic opportunity for peace" The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao) (05/20): "It was said that Obama's main goal for this meeting was to send a message to Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. wit [...]
2009-05-20 08:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1362 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 15
[...] (U) China's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on May 20 that the suspected case in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) was not/not influenza A (H1N1),but was seasonal influenza H3. As of May 20, there are four confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1) on Mainland China (REF A, B, E and G). Hong [...]
2009-05-20 10:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING137CHINA INFORMED OF MARAGING STEEL SHIPMENT TO IRAN
[...] (S) On the margins of a meeting on another topic, PolOff shared reftel points informing China of an upcoming purchase of maraging steel from a Chinese company to an Iranian entity associated with Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO) with MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Departmen [...]
2009-01-16 06:22:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING1376MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. POLICY, A/H1N1
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Hacking military computers 'not a hack job'" The official English-language newspaper China Daily (05/21): "There is no way hackers - including those from China - can access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military or government networks. The US milita [...]
2009-05-21 08:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1377 TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 16
[...] (U) China's Ministry of Health (MOH) notified Embassy Beijing on May 21 that the Beijing Health Bureau reported its second confirmed case of influenza A (H1N1) on May 20. This is the fifth confirmed cases on Mainland China. Hong Kong also has three confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1). -- [...]
2009-05-21 10:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1378"UNHAPPY CHINA": NATIONALISTIC RUBBISH OR CLARION
[...] (C) The book "Unhappy China," a nationalistic rant against the United States and China's own supposedly West-worshipping elite, sold briskly in China following its release in March, but sales appear to have tapered off. China's official media have been largely critical of the book. Only a "sm [...]
2009-05-21 11:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PGOV PREL PHUM CN
09BEIJING1379MAY 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Ma Ying-jeou Stop-Over,
[...] Key points at the May 21 MFA press briefing: -- China continues to oppose official exchanges between other countries and the Taiwan authorities in accordance with the one China principle, and that position is unchanged. -- A statement on the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference posted on t [...]
2009-05-21 23:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CH DA BM CB LA VM
09BEIJING1383UN CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO CHINESE
[...] (U) On May 20, 2009, EconOff delivered demarche on UN Conference on Development Impact of Crisis (ref A) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Organizations Deputy Director General Guo Xue Jun. Guo had no immediate comments. 2. (U) Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei discussed th [...]
2009-05-22 09:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN UNGA
09BEIJING1384SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS A MIXED BAG OF TENSIONS,
[...] (C) Chinese academic and Indian diplomatic contacts in recent meetings painted a mixed picture of Sino-Indian ties. Interlocutors cited historic tensions and present disagreements, but also noted that incremental progress had been made. Chinese scholars downplayed the "String of Pearls" strat [...]
2009-05-22 09:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PBTS PHSA IN NP PK CH
09BEIJING1386SOMALI PIRACY: CHINA INVITED TO ATTEND MAY 29
[...] (SBU) China's Ministry of National Defense would likely continue to push its proposal to put counter-piracy military operations in the Gulf of Aden under UN command, MFA International Organizations and Conferences (IO) Department UN Affairs Division official Jiang Hua told PolOff May 22 in res [...]
2009-05-22 10:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO
09BEIJING1387TIANANMEN: JUNE 4 MEMORIES REMAIN FRESH FOR
[...] (C) Twenty years on, the June 4, 1989 violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators continues to have a powerful impact on Chinese society and politics, despite the fact that the event remains a taboo subject, according to a range of Embassy contacts. The Party has reportedly created a sp [...]
2009-05-22 12:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PROP CH
09BEIJING1388PRC/SUDAN: PRC SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DARFUR
[...] (C) In a May 25 meeting with Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration, Special Representative for the Chinese Government on Darfur Ambassador Liu Guijin agreed that the United States and China shared common goals in Sudan. Liu added that China hoped that the new U.S. Administration's "con [...]
2009-05-25 12:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU LY
09BEIJING1389PRC/SUDAN: MFA DG CALLS NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary: MFA DG for West Asia and North Africa Song Aiguo told Special Envoy for Sudan General Scott Gration May 25 that China sought "comprehensive" ties with Sudan by developing links with authorities in the south but maintaining strong relations with Khartoum. Song urged the internati [...]
2009-05-25 12:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1390TIANANMEN: JUNE 4 MEMORIES REMAIN FRESH FOR
[...] (C) Twenty years on, the June 4, 1989 violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators continues to have a powerful impact on Chinese society and politics, despite the fact that the event remains a taboo subject, according to a range of Embassy contacts. The Party has reportedly created a sp [...]
2009-05-25 12:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PROP CH
09BEIJING1391MEDIA REACTION: A (H1-N1),Geithner visit,
[...] A (H1-N1) "America's loose disease control measures arouses global argument" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/22): Quite a number of H1N1 cases have been exported from America. Some developing countries, where there are few confi [...]
2009-05-26 01:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1395MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, GEITHNER'S VISIT, PELOSI'S
[...] NORTH KOREA "20 Chinese experts are polled on North Korean nuclear issue" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/26): "Qing Hua University professor Sun Zhe believes, "North Korea's nuclear test is blackmail in nature. North Korea took [...]
2009-05-26 09:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1396 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 17
[...] (U) As of May 26, China's Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced twelve confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1) on Mainland China. There are five confirmed cases in Beijing, and one case each in the following cities: Chengdu, Jinan City (Shandong Province),Guangzhou, Fuzhou (Fujian Province),[...]
2009-05-26 11:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1397MAY 26 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK Nuclear Test, Tiananmen
[...] Key points at the May 26 MFA press briefing: -- The Chinese government is "firmly opposed" to North Korea's nuclear test and "strongly urges" the DPRK to honor its commitments, stop moves that edge it closer to isolation, and return to the Six-Party Talks. -- Apologizing for the "political [...]
2009-05-26 11:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH BM TT MY PK KN KS LT NP
09BEIJING1398PRC/DPRK: CHINESE MFA ON UNSC RESOLUTION RE DPRK
[...] (C) China wanted any UN Security Council resolution responding to the DPRK's May 25 nuclear test to be measured, be made in the interest of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, and support the denuclearization of the Peninsula and the Six-Party Talks, MFA North American Affairs DG Zheng [...]
2009-05-26 13:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MOPS KN KS CH
09BEIJING1404HUMAN TRAFFICKING MOVIE DIRECTOR TELLS STUDENTS TO
[...] (C) A recent Embassy showing of "Blind Mountain," a PRC film depicting a young, college-educated Chinese woman who is trafficked for marriage to a poor farmer in rural Shaanxi Province, elicited strong reactions from a student audience. In a Q&A session afterward with the film's director Li Yan [...]
2009-05-27 05:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH
09BEIJING1414PRC/SUDAN: AFM LIU JIEYI TELLS S/E GRATION CHINA
[...] (C) The United States and China had common interests in Sudan, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi told Special Envoy for Sudan General Scott Gration May 25. AFM Liu stressed that China believed the political and peace-keeping tracks were both important and underscored the need to persuade p [...]
2009-05-27 08:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1416PRC/SUDAN: CENTRAL PARTY COMMITTEE SAYS CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee International Department Director General Liu Denglin told Special Envoy for Sudan General Scott Gration May 25 that China would "spare no efforts" to bring about lasting peace and stability in Sudan. Initial implementation of the [...]
2009-05-27 08:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1417MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE, A/H1N1
[...] NORTH KOREA a. "North Korea launches two missiles to fight against the Security Council" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/27): "The U.N Security Council has expressed its severe opposition and criticism about North Korea's nuclea [...]
2009-05-27 09:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING142TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF UNSCR 1267
[...] (S) On January 16, PolOffs conveyed to MFA the U.S. intention to request that the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 Sanctions Committee add four al-Qaeda associates detained or formerly detained in Iran to its list of individuals associated with the Taliban, al-Qaida and/or Usama Bin Laden ( [...]
2009-01-16 08:07:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH PK IR
09BEIJING1424SENATOR KERRY DISCUSSES U.S.-CHINA CLIMATE CHANGE COOPERATION ON COPENHAGEN WITH CHINA'S VICE PREMIER LI KEQIANG
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-29 08:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH ENRG KHGH SENV
09BEIJING1428CODEL PELOSI MAY 27 MEETING WITH PRC PRESIDENT HU
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 27 meeting with CODEL Pelosi, Chinese President Hu Jintao noted that China hoped that the developed world would take the lead on climate change by providing financial assistance and technical support to developing countries but admitted the developing countries had a res [...]
2009-05-29 09:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PARM MNUC PBTS PTER PGOV CH KN
09BEIJING1429CODEL KERRY MEETING WITH NPC VICE CHAIRMAN LU
[...] (SBU) China "resolutely opposed" the latest North Korean nuclear test and wanted to work with the international community to push North Korea back to the Six Party Talks said National People's Congress Vice Chairman Lu Yongxiang in a meeting with Senator John Kerry on May 26. On climate chan [...]
2009-05-29 09:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG CH KN KS
09BEIJING1432CODEL KERRY MEETING WITH PRC NPC FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] (SBU) Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Li Zhaoxing and Senator John Kerry (D-MA) May 27 both noted multiple avenues for cooperation on climate change at the December 2009 UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen. Twenty-nine pieces of environment [...]
2009-05-29 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG CH KN KS
09BEIJING1433MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, INDIA, CHINA'S SAVINGS RATE,
[...] NORTH KOREA "It is an inferior policy to pressure with a nuclear test" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(05/28): "The recent nuclear tests conducted by the DPRK may become a crucial step in future DPRK issues. [...]
2009-05-29 10:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1434PRC/DPRK: CHINA RESPONDS WITH SPECIFICITY TO U.S.
[...] (C) China supported adoption of a new UN Security Council Resolution that would respond appropriately to the May 25 DPRK nuclear test, MFA Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told Charge d'Affaires May 31. The resolution would demonstrate the international community's seriousness in safeguarding th [...]
2009-05-31 13:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MOPS KN KS CH
09BEIJING1435PRC/SUDAN: CHINESE OIL COMPANY VP DISCUSSES SUDAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a rare and free-flowing discussion with visiting Special Envoy for Sudan General Scott Gration, the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) reported a "wait-and-see" attitude about Sudan's future but hoped to continue oil production regardless of the 2011 refer [...]
2009-06-01 00:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ENRG EPET SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1440MEDIA REACTION: GEITHNER'S VISIT, NORTH KOREA
[...] GEITHNER'S VISIT "Complaint diplomacy should be discarded" The official Xinhua Daily Telegraph (Xinhua Meiri Dianxun) (06/01): "Before the visit began, Geithner informed the Chinese media that the first goal of the visit is to inform China about the measures the U.S. will take to deal with [...]
2009-06-01 09:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1446SPEAKER PELOSI'S MAY 27 MEETING WITH NPC CHAIRMAN
[...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with CODEL Pelosi on May 27, National People's Congress (NPC) Chairman Wu Bangguo applauded the state of bilateral relations, encouraged greater exchanges between the Congress and the NPC, urged greater U.S.-China collaboration on energy and climate change and [...]
2009-06-02 05:17:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL OREP MARR MOPS PARM MNUC PBTS PTER PGOV
09BEIJING145TAIWAN: HU JINTAO'S DECEMBER 31 SPEECH SETS MORE
[...] (C) In his December 31 speech, President Hu Jintao established a more realistic, flexible and less urgent policy direction on Taiwan, according to Embassy contacts. The speech's purpose is to establish new "guiding principles" that elevate Hu's "Six Points" on Taiwan policy to the level of De [...]
2009-01-16 08:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING146CHINA-AFGHANISTAN RELATIONS
[...] (C) Afghan Embassy First Secretary Meerwais Nab told PolOffs January 14 that China and Afghanistan have good bilateral relations, but he noted Chinese concerns, including the presence of U.S. forces near the Sino-Afghan border, India's influence in Afghanistan, "elements" in Afghanistan assist [...]
2009-01-16 08:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER SNAR ETRD PK IN AF CH
09BEIJING1463CHINA OBJECTS TO SPECIAL 301 DESIGNATION, WANTS MORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: China objects to its designation as a Priority Watch List (PWL) country in the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) 2009 Special 301 Report, Department of Treaty and Law Director General Li Ling of China's Ministry of Commerce told visiting USTR officials on May 27. She said that [...]
2009-06-02 09:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND KIPR ECON CH
09BEIJING1464MEDIA REACTION: GEITHNER VISIT, NORTH KOREA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] GEITHNER VISIT a. "Geithner explains the prospects of the fiscal deficit; while speaking, he made a concerted effort to speak in Chinese" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(06/02): "An expert suggests that Geithner's visit is to co [...]
2009-06-02 09:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1466 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 18
[...] (U) As of COB June 2, China's Ministry of Health (MOH) has officially communicated information about 43 confirmed cases of infection by the novel 2009 A/H1N1 influenza virus and one suspected case. Ten of those confirmed cases involve American citizens. Confirmed cases have been detected in e [...]
2009-06-02 09:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1467BEIJING GEARS UP FOR JUNE 4 ANNIVERSARY
[...] (C) On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, China's security forces are warning well-known activists against protest activities and putting many under virtual house arrest. Despite tight Party control of Inte [...]
2009-06-02 10:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH
09BEIJING1468JUNE 2 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NORTH KOREA RELATIONS, PSI,
[...] Key points at the June 2 MFA press briefing: -- Asked about reports that China canceled official exchanges with North Korea, the spokesperson said that China and North Korea "always have normal people to people exchanges." -- Asked whether China and North Korea remained allies, Qin repeated [...]
2009-06-02 23:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH KN KS JP BR
09BEIJING147CHINA'S SEVEN-POINT ROADMAP FOR BILATERAL RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's January 15 farewell call, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi expressed gratitude for the President's support for strong bilateral relations and asked the Ambassador to deliver a seven-point message to Washington: -- Appreciation for President Bush's pe [...]
2009-01-16 09:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR EFIN PK IN KN KS TW IR
09BEIJING1474MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-03 09:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1476 CHINESE BID TO BUY HUMMER AWAITS GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A Chinese industrial machinery company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with General Motors (GM) to purchase its civilian Hummer brand. A GM China official (protect) confirmed that Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery does not have experience in the autom [...]
2009-06-03 23:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV SENV CH
09BEIJING148MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. DEPLOMACY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "To create a space for new win-win" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(01/16): "The U.S. -China economic and trade relationship has been developing over the last 30 years. The relationship's growth has exceeded the most optimistic estimation [...]
2009-01-16 09:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1482 CONGRESSMEN MARK KIRK AND RICK LARSEN'S
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-04 04:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EAGR ECON PREL MCAP WTRO CH
09BEIJING149REPORTED AZADEGAN DEAL NOT OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED
[...] (U) Citing Iranian media, official Chinese media outlets are reporting that China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) signed a USD 1.76 billion agreement allowing CNPC to develop the North Azadegan oil field. According to the reports, development [...]
2009-01-16 10:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET EINV PREL PARM PTER MNUC POL
09BEIJING1490PELOSI DELEGATION'S MEETING WITH CHINA'S NATIONAL PEOPLE'S
[...] (U) Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Representative Edward Markey (D - MA) on May 27 led a delegation that met with China's National People's Congress (NPC) Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee (EPRC). Please see paragraphs 13 and 14 for a list [...]
2009-06-04 07:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EIND ENRG CH
09BEIJING1492MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST,
[...] OBAMA'S VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST "The U.S. lowers its position; this is beneficial for world peace" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/03): "On June 2nd, Obama began his first trip to the Middle East. His major goal is to reach a fr [...]
2009-06-04 09:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1493CHINA WANTS CONSENT OF SUDAN IN RENEWING THE SUDAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China wanted to gain the consent of Sudan and the Africa Group regarding the UN Human Rights Council's upcoming renewal of the mandate for the Sudan Special Rapporteur, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun to [...]
2009-06-04 10:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM AORC CH SU
09BEIJING1494TIANANMEN ANNIVERSARY PASSES QUIETLY AMID HEAVY
[...] (C) The 20th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators passed quietly in Beijing amid the tightest security witnessed in Tiananmen Square in years. As of 17:30 Beijing time, no unrest or large-scale demonstrations were observed by PolOffs posted at Tiananmen and [...]
2009-06-04 11:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING1495JUNE 4 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY CLINTON'S TIANANMEN
[...] Key points at the June 4 MFA press briefing: -- China calls Secretary Clinton's message on the twentieth anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre "groundless accusations" in contravention of the U.S.-China Joint Communiqus and international norms. China believes the Secreta [...]
2009-06-04 23:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ETRD SENV CH KN KS JP BR IN
09BEIJING150CHINESE NEW YEAR TRAVEL RUSH BEGINS; PRESIDENT HU
[...] (SBU) With China's Lunar New Year travel rush officially underway migrant workers, students and middle-class residents are queuing for hours to snatch up scarce train tickets. Severe ticket shortages, allegedly exacerbated by the hoarding and scalping of railway passes, led Chinese President [...]
2009-01-16 11:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PROP ECON ELTN SOCI CH
09BEIJING1500 CONGRESSMEN KIRK AND LARSEN'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen met with Minister of Commerce Chen Deming May 31 under the auspices of a National Committee on U.S.- China Relations visit. Chen praised the legislators' work as Co-Chairs of the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group. Chen observed tha [...]
2009-06-05 04:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EAGR ECON PREL MCAP WTRO CH AF
09BEIJING151 CHINA ANNOUNCES STEEL AND AUTO INDUSTRY SUPPORT PLANS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The State Council approved industrial support plans for the auto and steel sectors on January 14, the first two of ten industry focused plans to help those sectors hardest hit by the economic slowdown. The measures will support domestic demand, protect employment and promote en [...]
2009-01-16 11:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND EMIN ECON SENV CH
09BEIJING1515CHINA CONSIDERING INCREASE IN THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] PolOff delivered ref A demarche encouraging China to support a significant real increase in the IAEA regular budget and to move costs associated with nuclear security into the regular budget to Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Director Zhang Shen on June 5. Zhan [...]
2009-06-05 08:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL AORC ENRG KNNP IAEA CH
09BEIJING1516IAEA FUEL BANK ISSUE: CHINA SUPPORTS FULL
[...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche encouraging China to support a full and open discussion of fuel bank assurances at the June 15-18 IAEA Board of Governors meeting, including advocating with other countries to do the same, to Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Direc [...]
2009-06-05 08:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA CH
09BEIJING1518DIRECTOR OF STATE COUNCIL INFORMATION OFFICE MEETS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives Mark Kirk (D-IL) and Rick Larsen (R-IL) met on June 1 with Wang Chen, Director of the State Council Information Office(SCIO),to discuss issues related to open access to information in China. The Congressmen specifically raised censorship of Voice of America (VO [...]
2009-06-05 09:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINT ECON KIPR CH
09BEIJING1519MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA, JUNE 4
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. stimulates its economy, China needs to benefit as well" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/05): "Although the American economic stimulus plan limits U.S. government procurements to American-made produc [...]
2009-06-05 09:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING152CHINA CUTS GASOLINE AND DIESEL PRICES, AGAIN
[...] (U) Official media reported on January 14 that China cut its benchmark retail gasoline and diesel prices by 2 percent and 3.2 percent respectively. This is the first cut since China's new pricing mechanism took effect at the beginning of 2009 (see Ref). This move follows the Government's Dece [...]
2009-01-16 11:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ECON EPET EFIN CH
09BEIJING1520"ESCORT OF THE YOUTH FLOWERS" - CHINA SEEKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on May 22 mandated that all computers sold in China, whether imported or manufactured domestically, be pre-installed with "Green Dam - Escort of the Youth Flowers" Internet filtering software effective July 1, 2009. [...]
2009-06-05 11:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING1521 CHINA TO INTRODUCE GREEN ENERGY SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's National Energy Administration (NEA) has announced it will soon submit a support plan for the alternate energy sector. Although specific details have not yet been released, the plan will focus on more-efficient and alternative energies--particularly wind and solar-- a [...]
2009-06-07 22:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV SENV CH
09BEIJING1522Brazilian President Lula's Trip
[...] (SBU) Summary. During President Lula's trip to China, Brazil and China reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen their relationship and finalized China Development Bank's (CDB) $10 billion loan to Petrobras. Details of the deal indicate that China will not acquire stakes in any Brazilian oil [...]
2009-06-08 01:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV EIND PREL EFIN EPET
09BEIJING1523CONGRESSMEN KIRK AND LARSEN'S MEETING WITH CHINA
[...] (C) Summary. Recent economic trends in the U.S. are encouraging and there is no longer a "scare factor" for investors, China Investment Corporation (CIC) (China's sovereign wealth fund) President Guo told Representatives Kirk and Larsen May 31. CIC intends to increase its investments in the [...]
2009-06-08 02:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV CH
09BEIJING1531S/P Slaughter's Talks with MFA, MOFCOM, NDRC, and Academics
[...] (C) In a June 1 meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) VM He Yafei, State Department Policy Planning Director Anne-Marie Slaughter discussed the U.S. proposed agenda for the late July first meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SnED),noting differences between the [...]
2009-06-08 07:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM UNSC ECON EFIN EAID MNUC PTER JP AF PK KS
09BEIJING1534MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S SPEECH IN EGYPT, NORTH KOREA
[...] OBAMA'S SPEECH IN EGYPT "Obama is not the terminator of cultural conflict" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(06/08): "Obama intends to fix the divergences between the U.S. and the Muslim world through his speech [...]
2009-06-08 08:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1535REPS KIRK-LARSEN MEET VICE PREMIER WANG QISHAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 09:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL ECIN CH
09BEIJING1536FRANCE-CHINA TENSION OVER DALAI LAMA, AFRICA ASSISTANCE,
[...] (SBU) Economic Counselor Josselin Kalifa and Financial Counselor Pierre Mongrue from the French Embassy in Beijing told Econoffs June 5 that Sino-French relations are on the mend following several months during which China gave France the cold shoulder as punishment for President Sarkozy's Dece [...]
2009-06-08 09:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD PHUM AU CH
09BEIJING1537TIBET: FOUR MONKS SENTENCED TO LABOR CAMP AFTER
[...] (S) Four Tibetan Buddhist monks have been sentenced to two years of reform through labor for their participation in a demonstration in Guinan, Qinghai Province, on February 25, according to a "living Buddha" at Guinan's Lucang Monastery. Two additional monks were still awaiting sentencing as [...]
2009-06-08 10:27:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPHUM PGOV KIFR CH
09BEIJING1538COMPUTER INDUSTRY CONTEMPLATES RESPONSE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met on June 8 with representatives of several trade associations to further discuss their reactions to the Chinese government's mandate that all computers sold in China after July 1 be preinstalled with "Green Dam" Internet filtering software (reftel). Those present el [...]
2009-06-08 12:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING154DALIAN SUNNY INDUSTRIES/LIMMT AND BELLAMAX
[...] (C) PolOff on January 19 informed MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department officer Sun Lei that the United States will levy sanctions against Dalian Sunny Industries/LIMMT and Bellamax for the transfer of controlled missile technology to Iran. PolOff briefly described the sanctions as outli [...]
2009-01-19 02:17:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MUC ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING1543 CHINA/RUSSIA: CROSS-BORDER TRADE SUFFERS FROM ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China-Russia cross-border trade has dropped noticeably since October 2008, due largely to Russia's economic troubles and a Russian crackdown on Russian shuttle traders, according to Chinese officials in the border town of Suifenhe in Heilongjiang Province. Suifenhe officials ha [...]
2009-06-09 06:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EIND ETRD CH RS
09BEIJING1546MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "U.S. needs China vs. China needs the U.S." The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao) (06/09): "U.S. officials and economic personnel have frequently visited China. They all have similar attitudes concerning avoiding ag [...]
2009-06-09 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1547CDA AND MFA DG ZHENG ZEGUANG: DPRK, MIL-MIL,
[...] (C) In a June 9 luncheon hosted by the Charge, MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang said that senior officials who met with Deputy Secretary Steinberg had been impressed by his seriousness of purpose and by his explanation of the U.S. position on how [...]
2009-06-09 09:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV CASC SENV CH
09BEIJING1548 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 19
[...] (U) As of COB June 9, China's Ministry of Health (MOH) has officially communicated information about 97 confirmed cases of infection by the novel 2009 influenza A/H1N1. 27 of those confirmed cases involve American citizens. Confirmed cases have been detected in nine provinces and the municip [...]
2009-06-09 10:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1549JUNE 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK, CENSORSHIP SOFTWARE, NEW
[...] Key points at the June 9 MFA press briefing: -- China hoped all parties would "proceed from the interests of denuclearization and strengthening peace and stability" on the Korean Peninsula to avoid a deterioration of the situation. -- Asked directly whether the Treaty of Friendship, Coopera [...]
2009-06-09 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH KN KS BR GB RS LO
09BEIJING1556 China/Economic Rebalancing: New Growth
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. China's export-dependent growth model has served it well, but that model has now reached its limits, according to locally-based foreign economists. Domestic consumption could fuel future growth but it will take many years -- even decades -- to achieve the fundamental economic [...]
2009-06-10 07:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EDEV CH
09BEIJING1557MEDIA REACTION: U.S. DIPLOMACY, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S. DIPLOMACY "Smart Power, 3Ds, and soft diplomacy" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (06/10): "After Obama took office, he successively visited the American States, Europe and the Middle East. In this way, he manifests an obvious difference between himself and [...]
2009-06-10 08:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1559UPDATE ON CHINA'S INFORMATION COLLECTION,
[...] (U) Post presents the following updates to the survey on China's immigration control and watchlist systems for terrorist screening. Responses are keyed to lettered subheadings in ref A. 2. (SBU) A: Immigration Databases and Traveler Information Collection: No updates to report. 3. (SBU) [...]
2009-06-10 09:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV CVIS ASEC KHLS KVPR CH
09BEIJING1571Secretary Geithner's June 1 Meeting with Vice
[...] (SBU) In a June 1 meeting in Beijing, Vice Premier Wang Qishan told Treasury Secretary Geithner that discussion in the Economic Track of the late July Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) should be strategic, include bilateral and global issues, and neither duplicate nor replace discussions [...]
2009-06-11 05:20:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL CH
09BEIJING1578MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, GREEN DAM SOFTWARE, EASTERN
[...] NORTH KOREA "U.S. stance on the North Korea issue gets tougher" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(06/11): "Secretary Clinton recently implied that the U.S. will take tough actions against North Korea. Analysts think the tougher stance by the U.S. is related to sub [...]
2009-06-11 08:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1579JUNE 11 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK, CLIMATE CHANGE, GITMO
[...] Key points at the June 11 MFA press briefing: -- The UN Security Council (UNSC) should adopt a "responsible and balanced resolution" to promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and safeguard peace and stability in the region. -- China had a "positive and responsible attitude" to [...]
2009-06-11 09:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AF CH GJ JA KN KS SENV
09BEIJING1582UK-CHINA ECON DIALOGUE: NO LONGER A “BLOODY
[...] (C) While the 2008 first round of the UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) was a "bloody disaster," the second meeting, held in London May 11, 2009, produced "decent results," according to UK Embassy Econoff Tamsin Rees, who coordinated the UK Embassy's contributions to the event. Rees sa [...]
2009-06-12 02:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD PHUM AU-1 CH
09BEIJING1586SECRETARY GEITHNER'S MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] (C) Chinese President Hu Jintao told visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner June 2 that continuing close contacts between China and the U.S. under the Obama administration are building good momentum in the relationship. He cited his April meeting with President Obama in which the two leade [...]
2009-06-12 08:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALOVIP ECON EFIN PREL CH
09BEIJING1587MEDIA REACTION: A/H1N1 VIRUS, TIBET, NORTH KOREA
[...] A/H1N1 VIRUS "Alert level of H1N1 is raised to the highest. This is the first time in 41 years" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(06/12): "The World Heath Organization is expected to announce that H1N1 is pandemic. This is the fi [...]
2009-06-12 09:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1588APPLE IPHONE FACING LICENSING ISSUES IN CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Apple Corporation representatives told Emboffs on June 11 that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has refused to accept the company's application for a license critical to introducing the iPhone in China, effectively continuing to shut the iPhone out of t [...]
2009-06-12 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EIND ECON CH
09BEIJING1589SCO: SECRETARIAT STAFF PREDICT NOT MUCH NEW AT
[...] (C) Contrary to MFA official comments trumpeting the importance of the upcoming SCO summit in Yekaterinburg June 15-16, officials at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Secretariat in Beijing downplayed expectations for new developments at the summit in a meeting with PolOff June 12. T [...]
2009-06-12 11:47:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR
09BEIJING1592Peru-China Free Trade Agreement
[...] (SBU) Summary. During the late April visit to China by Peruvian Vice President Giampietri, China and Peru signed a comprehensive free trade agreement which covers goods, services and investment and is expected to go into effect by the end of this year. Giampietri also promoted Chinese investme [...]
2009-06-15 01:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV EIND PREL EFIN CH PE
09BEIJING1596CHINESE HEALTH OFFICIAL: H1N1 QUARANTINES WILL
[...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: During a June 12 meeting Beijing Health and Human Services (HHS) Attache had with Director General REN Minghui (please protect),head of the Ministry of Health's (MOH) Department of International Cooperation, to discuss other areas of the bilateral health relationship, [...]
2009-06-15 08:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALKFLU KFLO KSAF KPAO AEMR ASEC CASC TBIO PREL
09BEIJING1597PRC: DEMARCHE ON UNOMIG DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) On June 15, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin reftel points urging China to support a resolution extending the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) for two weeks to allow negotiations on a revised mand [...]
2009-06-15 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS PBTS UNGA CH GG RS
09BEIJING1598MEDIA REACTION: GREEN DAM SOFTWARE, EASTERN TURKISTAN,
[...] GREEN DAM SOFTWARE "Green Dam software; an American company plans to sue over plagiarism" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/15): "Recently, China has fulfilled its promise to open its network. This has received global compliments. [...]
2009-06-15 23:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING160MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. POLICY, NORTH
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "China could take more initiative when dealing with Obama" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/20): "Recently, American scholars advised Obama to visit China for his first official presidential visit. Although Ob [...]
2009-01-20 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1602 China/Economic Plans: Continued Reform Endorsed
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Beijing's 2009 economic planning document, in contrast to last year's version and some of the trends evident in China's recent economic support and stimulus plans, endorses liberalization and economic transformation. Financial reform continues. China's largest state-owned enter [...]
2009-06-15 23:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EIND EFIN EAGR ENRG EDEV SENV CH
09BEIJING161CHINA WARNS OF CONSEQUENCES OF ICC ARREST WARRANT
[...] (C) Summary: China is concerned that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir that will make the Sudanese Government less cooperative and further destabilize the situation in Sudan, MFA West Asian and North African Affairs Department Su [...]
2009-01-20 09:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1620PRC: RELEASE OF UIGHURS TO BERMUDA VIOLATES
[...] (S) The U.S. decision to release four Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility to Bermuda for resettlement had "seriously violated the legitimate sovereignty and national security interests of China" and China urged the United States to withdraw its plan to hand over Uighurs hel [...]
2009-06-16 08:27:00Embassy BeijingSECRETMOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KAWC KISL KPAO CH
09BEIJING1621MEDIA REACTION: GUANTANAMO UYGHURS, NORTH KOREA, IRAN
[...] GUANTANAMO UYGHURS "Eastern Turkistan prisoners want to open a restaurant in Bermuda" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/16): "Recently Western media organizations have reported on every move of the four East Turkistan Prisoners sen [...]
2009-06-16 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1626JUNE 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: USS JOHN MCCAIN, KIM JONG-IL
[...] Key points at the June 16 MFA press briefing: -- China had "taken note" of media reports regarding a June 11th collision between a Chinese submarine and a sonar array trailed by the destroyer USS John McCain. -- The spokesperson said China was "not aware of the relevant situation" when ask [...]
2009-06-16 09:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AF CH GJ JA KN KS SENV
09BEIJING1627JUNE 4 CONFERENCE ANGERS PARTY, SOME PARTICIPANTS
[...] (C) An underground academic conference on the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen crackdown elicited a swift reaction by Chinese security agencies, according to key organizers of the meeting. Nineteen people, including prominent professors, journalists and activists participated in the May 10 forum, which [...]
2009-06-16 10:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING1630GICNT: UPDATED MODEL GUIDELINES DOCUMENT DEMARCHE
[...] On June 16, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Director Shun Jian. Shun said that his staff would review the document contained in reftel and provide comments by the July 13 deadline requested in reftel. PICCUTA [...]
2009-06-17 03:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KGIC
09BEIJING1631CHINA -- 2009 TIP REPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] On June 16, PolOff delivered ref A demarche, outlining the publication of the annual TIP report, to An Gang, Director of the MFA's North American and Oceanian Division. An told PolOff that China hoped that the United States would "stop releasing such annual reports." An informed PolOff that [...]
2009-06-17 03:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAM KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG
09BEIJING1634CDA AND MFA ASIAN AFFAIRS ON DPRK
[...] (C) In a June 16 luncheon in honor of visiting Hong Kong CG Joe Donovan hosted by the Charge, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX said that China liked a U.S. proposal described by Ambassador Bosworth here on June 5 to put all issues related to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula into a package for [...]
2009-06-17 06:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV CH KN KS
09BEIJING1635TREASURY SECRETARY GEITHNER'S MEETINGS WITH
[...] (C) In the first of Secretary Geithner's June 1-2 meetings with Chinese officials, Minister of Commerce (MOFCOM) Chen Deming said China does not want its trade surplus with the United States to increase, as that would spur purchase of more U.S. Treasury bonds and generate additional U.S. criti [...]
2009-06-17 06:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL OVIP CH
09BEIJING1636 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 20
[...] (U) As of COB June 16, China's Ministry of Health (MOH) has officially communicated information about 227 confirmed cases of infection by the novel 2009 influenza A/H1N1. Of the confirmed cases, 70 are American citizens. Confirmed cases have been detected in 15 provinces and the municipaliti [...]
2009-06-17 07:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1638MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, NORTH KOREA, AMERICAN BONDS
[...] IRAN "Iran falls into a suspected color revolution" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/17): "Two Chinese experts expressed that because Iran has a supreme leader with high authority it is hard to compare it to the former Soviet stat [...]
2009-06-17 08:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING164January 20 MFA Press Briefing: Wen Jiabao Visit to Europe,
[...] Key points at the January 20 MFA Press Briefing: -- Premier Wen Jiabao will visit EU headquarters, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom from January 27-February 2. Wen plans to attend the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos. -- As President-elect Obama prepares to take offi [...]
2009-01-20 10:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KS KN CH SZ UK SP GM EU TW
09BEIJING1649CHINESE INTERNET REACTION TO IRANIAN ELECTION
[...] The recent Iranian presidential elections and their aftermath were hot topics on major Chinese news portals, Internet forums and microblog platforms in China over the past week. Netizen commentary on traditionally liberal sites expressed support for students with some even comparing the situat [...]
2009-06-17 10:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EINT CH IR
09BEIJING165PRC SPECIAL ENVOY LAYS OUT POSITION ON GAZA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China's Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process Ambassador Sun Bigan described for PolMinCouns January 20 the five principles that China believes are necessary for progress in the Middle East Peace Process in light of the current situation in Gaza. In addition to calling [...]
2009-01-20 10:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS
09BEIJING1650PRC: MFA SENIOR OFFICIAL PROTESTS RELEASE OF
[...] (S) China firmly opposed the transfer of Chinese citizen Uighur detainees at Guantanamo to a third nation, Chinese MFA Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Hongbo informed the Charge during a strongly-worded demarche June 17. U.S. attempts to "justify itself" were not welcomed and continuing to appro [...]
2009-06-17 23:05:00Embassy BeijingSECRETMOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KAWC KISL KPAO CH PS UK
09BEIJING1654CHINA'S NON-FERROUS METALS INDUSTRY GETS GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: China announced May 11 a detailed three-year plan to stimulate its non-ferrous metals industry focused on industrial consolidation and technology innovation. The plan encourages regrouping among non-ferrous metal companies with the goal of forming three to five large-scale corpo [...]
2009-06-18 04:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH
09BEIJING1657INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT: CHINA SHARES U.S. CONCERNS
[...] (SBU) China shared U.S. concerns about creating an international piracy court, MFA Treaty and Law Department International Law Division Deputy Director Xu Yu told PolOff June 17 in response to reftel points urging China's support for the U.S. position opposing the creation of an international t [...]
2009-06-18 08:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL CH
09BEIJING1658PRC: CHINA'S POSITION ON THE CCIT REMAINS UNCHANGED
[...] (SBU) On June 17, PolOff conveyed to MFA Treaty and Law Department Public International Law Division Officer Wang Xiaolin reftel points noting U.S. concerns about the Coordinator's Proposal regarding the UN Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) and requesting Chinese gover [...]
2009-06-18 08:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER UNGA CH
09BEIJING1659MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, BRIC SUMMIT,
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "U.S. and China need to regulate their behavior in the South China Sea" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (06/18): "Technically speaking, the 'intimate contact' between the U.S. de [...]
2009-06-18 08:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1660PUBLIC OUTRAGE OVER GREEN DAM UNLIKELY TO PROMPT
[...] (C) After an initial wave of media criticism, the Communist Party Propaganda Department ordered news outlets to report positively on the government's decision to require that new computers be sold with pre-installed Internet filtering software. Following the order, official media, including th [...]
2009-06-18 10:47:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING1661CHINA/RUSSIA: CHINESE SCHOLAR AND RUSSIAN
[...] (C) Despite China and Russia's public statements about the importance of their strategic partnership, neither country viewed its bilateral relationship as its top foreign policy priority, a Chinese expert on Russia told PolOff June 15. The scholar predicted that the Shanghai Cooperation Organi [...]
2009-06-18 10:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS
09BEIJING1662PRC/IRAN: HU-AHMADINEJAD MEETING; ELECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An MFA official reported that President Hu Jintao told Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the margins of the SCO Summit that Iran needed to show flexibility, take advantage of the opportunity to engage with the United States, and help the international community oppose nuclear prol [...]
2009-06-18 14:04:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING1663JUNE 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, SUB COLLISION, GREEN DAM,
[...] Key points at the June 18 MFA press briefing: -- MFA Spokesman Qin Gang stated that China "respected the choice of the Iranian people" in recent elections. -- Despite controversy over the "Green Dam" internet filtering software China had a responsibility to protect Chinese youth from "bad [...]
2009-06-18 23:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EINT CH CN KN KS TX UZ IR IN
09BEIJING1675REPS KIRK-LARSEN MEET VICE PREMIER WANG QISHAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen met with Vice Premier Wang Qishan on May 31 during their visit to Beijing as co-chairs of the U.S.-China Working Group of the U.S. Congress. Wang observed that, given the size of the U.S. economy, a U.S. recovery would spell recovery for Chi [...]
2009-06-19 08:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL ECIN CH
09BEIJING1677MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, U.S. ECONOMICS, U.S.-CHINA MILITARY
[...] IRAN "Five days in Tehran - The protests will have a hard time influencing Ahmadinejad" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(06/19): "If the protests expand further, Mousavi's support for the protests is not wise. It is a confronta [...]
2009-06-19 08:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1679PRC/SOUTH PACIFIC: INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While Chinese government interlocutors continued to stress the centrality of "non-interference" to China's foreign policy, a Fijian EmbOff told us a new package of Chinese economic assistance to Fiji announced earlier this year arrived just as western sanctions were proving probl [...]
2009-06-19 08:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD CH FI AS NZ
09BEIJING1680PRC: AFGHAN FM SPANTA VISIT AFFIRMS POSITIVE
[...] (C) Afghan FM Spanta's June 9-11 visit to China provided both sides an opportunity to affirm positive bilateral relations but produced no new bilateral economic or security initiatives, according to MFA and Afghan Embassy contacts. While China reiterated its commitment to assist in Afghanistan [...]
2009-06-19 08:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID EINV CH AF
09BEIJING1682GREEN DAM INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary. The Chinese government has a legal obligation to protect children from inappropriate content on the web Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told EMIN June 19. Mandating the internet filtering software Green Dam be provided with every new computer sold in China is in [...]
2009-06-19 10:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING1693MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE COOPERATION, IRAN, CHINA'S INTERNET
[...] CLIMATE COOPERATION "The trilateral climate meeting between China, the U.S. and Japan will begin in July and climate cooperation will be the key topic" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(06/22): "On June [...]
2009-06-22 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1695CONGRESSMEN KIRK AND LARSEN MEETINGS WITH CHINA'S CENTRAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen held meetings with People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Zhou Xiaochuan and China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) Chairman Liu Mingkang during their visit to Beijing as co-chairs of the U.S.-China Working Group of the U.S. Congress. G [...]
2009-06-22 09:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON CH
09BEIJING1698PRC: SCHOLARS DOWNPLAY POSSIBILITY OF HIGH-PROFILE
[...] (C) The United States "should not expect too much" from China in terms of high-profile advocacy of potentially controversial or unpopular strategies associated with the United States, particularly in Pakistan, Chinese academic contacts told the U.S. Embassy in recent weeks. They described PRC [...]
2009-06-22 10:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID CH PK AF
09BEIJING1703Congressmen Kirk and Larsen's Roundtables with Chinese,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen participated in a Chinese Business Roundtable on May 30 and a joint American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) and U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) Roundtable on June 1, during their visit to Beijing as co-chairs of the U.S.-China Working Grou [...]
2009-06-23 08:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP ECON EINV ETRD KIPR CH
09BEIJING1704MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, NORTH KOREA, And U.S. POLICY
[...] IRAN "Obama is conflicted concerning Iran" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/23): "Obama maintains restraint when stating his opinion concerning Iran. This restraint reflects that the Obama administration has a far different polit [...]
2009-06-23 08:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1705 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 21
[...] (SBU) The Ministry of Health (MOH) has scaled back its H1N1 reporting system. As of June 21, MOH now only requires daily case tallies from the Health Departments in the municipalities and provinces and no longer requires case-by-case reporting. MOH notification to Embassy Beijing now reflects [...]
2009-06-23 09:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1708MALAY PM IN CHINA: COMMEMORATING 35 YEARS OF
[...] (C) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's June 2-5 trip focused on the commemoration of 35 years of China-Malaysia relations and resulted in no new substantive initiatives, according to an MFA official and a Malaysian Embassy contact. Though the two sides touched lightly on extant disputes in [...]
2009-06-23 09:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD MARR MY CH KS
09BEIJING1710JUNE 23 MFA PRESS BREIFING: DPRK VESSEL, H1N1, IRAN
[...] Key points at the June 23 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that China was aware of relevant reports of a DPRK vessel transporting munitions but emphasized that any related inspections must abide by the provisions of UNSC 1874. -- Qin asserted [...]
2009-06-23 11:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHSA AO BM CH JA IR KN KS SW TW
09BEIJING1711SWEDISH DIPLOMAT DECLARED PNG IN POSSIBLE
[...] (C) Helena Reitberger, First Secretary at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing, told Poloff June 23 that she had been declared persona non grata (PNG) by the Chinese government and was required to depart China no later than June 30. She said she had been called in by the MFA and informed of the dec [...]
2009-06-23 13:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF SW CH
09BEIJING1720CHINA/G-20 Pittsburgh: Focus on IFI Reform and Aid, Not
[...] (C) Summary: China would like to continue working with the United States in the lead-up to the Pittsburgh G-20 Leaders' Summit, and seek to avoid a perceived European desire to raise economic imbalances that would shine an unflattering light on China and the United States, according to China's [...]
2009-06-24 05:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EFIN CH
09BEIJING1727Food Security at L'Aquila Summit: China
[...] (SBU) Summary: China is skeptical $15 billion can be raised for food security at the L'Aquila Summit, according to Guo Xuejun, Deputy Director in the Foreign Ministry International Organizations Department. China prefers bilateral and United Nations channels for delivering assistance. Guo [...]
2009-06-24 08:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD ECON WTRO EAGR EAID PREL CH
09BEIJING1728MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, INTERNET SUPERVISION, WTO
[...] North Korea "U.S. wants to use China to put sanctions on North Korea" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/24): "The two-day U.S. China Deputy Defense Minister level talks started yesterday in Beijing. Such talks between the two coun [...]
2009-06-24 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1734LIU XIAOBO ARRESTED ON SUBVERSION CHARGES
[...] (C) A June 24 Xinhua press release announced the formal arrest of dissident writer and Charter 08 signer Liu Xiaobo on the charge of inciting the subversion of the state. PolOff contacted Liu Xiaobo's wife, Liu Xia, who confirmed the press release. Liu Xia said police had also told her th [...]
2009-06-24 10:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CH
09BEIJING174CHINA: VISA DELAYS SET BACK WESTINGHOUSE PROJECT, THREATEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Westinghouse's execution of a multi-billion dollar contract to build nuclear power units in China -- a source of thousands of U.S. jobs -- continues to be hindered by visa processing delays, specifically the 9 weeks currently required for Visas Mantis Security Advisory Opinion ( [...]
2009-01-21 09:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS OEXC ECON ENRG EINV TRGY KNNP KSCA CH
09BEIJING1747JAPANESE EMBOFFS ON ECONOMIC DIALOGUE, INVESTMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Emboffs, described the June 7 China-Japan High-level Economic Dialogue (HLED) as making little progress on substantive matters but enjoying good atmospherics. The most recent meeting of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese negotiators to discuss a trilateral investment treaty w [...]
2009-06-25 06:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD CH JA KS PK
09BEIJING1752PRC THANKED FOR SUPPORT OF NOMINATIONS OF 3 PAKISTAN-BASED INDIVIDUALS FOR UNSCR 1267 DESIGNATION
[...] (C) On June 25, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin U.S. appreciation for Chinese support of the designation of Arif Qasmani, Muhammad Yahya Mujahid, and Fazeel-a-Tul Shaykh Abu Muhammad Ameen al-Peshawari to the UN S [...]
2009-06-25 08:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH PK AF
09BEIJING1753MEDIA REACTION: WTO, U.S. POLICY, NORTH KOREA, FEDERAL
[...] WTO "Don't use free trade to force China" English-language daily published by Global Times/Huanqiu Shibao, the international edition of the People's Daily (06/25): "Restricting the export of strategic resources is China's indivisible right. Free trade excuses cannot violate the basic right [...]
2009-06-25 08:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1754INDUSTRY DISCUSSES GREEN DAM DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (C) Summary. Industry's strong opposition to China's plans to roll out the internet filtering software Green Dam stems both from business concerns and domestic political concerns U.S. industry representatives said June 25. CEOs have to show their companies made every effort to stop the roll- [...]
2009-06-25 09:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING1757JUNE 25 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: GOOGLE, FISHERMEN IN INDONESIA,
[...] Key points at the June 25 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that recently Google was spreading "lewd and vulgar content," and as an internet enterprise operating in China, Google should "earnestly" abide by Chinese law. All punitive measures take [...]
2009-06-25 11:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PHUM PGOV PHSA PBTS EINT EPET ETRD BM CE
09BEIJING176PROSPECTS FOR SINO-EU RELATIONS IN 2009
[...] (C) Summary: The cancellation of the China-EU Summit, slated for December 1, was the culmination of a year of poor relations between China and France, according to European Embassy contacts. Since France ceded the rotating EU Presidency to the Czech Republic on January 1, however, China has [...]
2009-01-21 09:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF XG EZ CH
09BEIJING1761PRC/DPRK: CHINESE SCHOLARS ON UNSCR 1874 AND
[...] (C) Chinese scholars in recent conversations with PolOff said that Pyongyang's response to UNSCR 1874 had been "tepid" so far and that North Korea's domestic political situation did not appear to be tense. The DPRK had not anticipated such a strong reaction to its nuclear test from the internation [...]
2009-06-26 07:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM KNNP MOPS EFIN KN KS CH
09BEIJING177EU'S TAKE ON THE SINO-EU STRATEGIC DIALOGUE:
[...] (C) Summary: In contrast to previous years, the January 19 Sino-EU Strategic Dialogue was surprisingly productive, according to the Czech Embassy. After an initial Chinese diatribe on Tibet, the remainder of the dialogue was open, friendly, and "more than just talking points." Though the fo [...]
2009-01-21 09:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF XG EZ TW CH
09BEIJING1777PRC: MAUNG AYE TOLD TO "ADVANCE DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT;" AUNG SAN SUU KYI NOT DISCUSSED
[...] (C) SPDC Vice-Chairman Maung Aye did not discuss Aung San Suu Kyi with senior Chinese leadership during his June 15-20 visit to China, according to an MFA contact, focusing instead on strengthening bilateral ties. The Chinese urged Burma to advance its "domestic democratic development" and inc [...]
2009-06-29 09:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALAGS BM CH ENRG ETRD PHUM PREL
09BEIJING1778MEDIA REACTION: CHINA POLICY, MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS,
[...] CHINA POLICY "China needs to learn to create alliances" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(06/29): "Recently, the U.S. and Europe made a move to file a petition to WTO over China's production and export restricti [...]
2009-06-29 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING178MEDIA REACTION: INAUGURATION, U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS,
[...] INAUGURATION "People expect the U.S. will walk a new path" The official Xinhua Daily Telegraph (Xinhua Meiri Dianxun) (01/21): "A British paper had an article titled 'Great Expectations' concerning Obama's inauguration. The same title is also translated to 'bright future' in Chinese for Ch [...]
2009-01-21 09:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1801MEDIA REACTION: GREEN DAM, U.S. POLICY, U.S. MILITARY,
[...] GREEN DAM "The network is a sensitive zone for the China-West conflict" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/30): "Recently, concerning friction between China and the West, internet supervision has become a sensitive topic. The U.S. [...]
2009-06-30 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1802PRC DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE DALAI LAMA VISIT
[...] (C) PRC Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei met with Acting DCM Bill Weinstein the evening of June 29 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a demarche protesting the possibility of a visit to the United States by the Dalai Lama in order to meet with senior U.S. officials. VFM He, who spea [...]
2009-06-30 10:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH
09BEIJING1803PRC/IRAN: SCHOLAR ON ELECTION'S TIANANMEN ECHOES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a senior Chinese academic, Beijing was handling coverage of the contested Iranian elections carefully in light of potential comparisons by ordinary Chinese of the unrest to the leadership split that lead to the June 4 Tiananmen massacre. Our contact said that Beijin [...]
2009-06-30 11:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING1804JUNE 30 MFA PRESS BREIFING: ASEAN+3, FIVE PARTY TALKS,
[...] Key points at the June 30 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that China would continue to "play a constructive role" through the ASEAN+3 and Regional Security Forum and, given that the international security and economic situation was "changing ra [...]
2009-06-30 23:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MARR PHSA AO BM CH JA IR KN KS SW
09BEIJING1814MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS, INTERNET
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Why the West puts 'spy' tag on China?" English-language daily published by Global Times/Huanqiu Shibao, the international edition of the People's Daily (07/01): "For years some Western politicians and media have accused China of spying with the goal of gaining advance [...]
2009-07-01 08:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1816 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 22
[...] (U) As of COB July 1, China's Ministry of Health (MOH) has officially communicated information about 867 confirmed cases of infection by the novel 2009 influenza A/H1N1. Confirmed cases have been detected in 19 provinces and the municipalities of Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai and Tianjin. Of [...]
2009-07-01 11:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1817CHINA HAS FAVORABLE VIEW OF IRENA BUT
[...] (SBU) On June 30, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) responded via faxed letter to points conveyed in REFTEL regarding China's view towards joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF INFORMAL TRANSLATION: Dear Mr. Brent Christensen ESTH [...]
2009-07-01 23:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH
09BEIJING1818CHINA HAS FAVORABLE VIEW OF IRENA BUT NOT READY TO JOIN
[...] (SBU) On June 30, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) responded via faxed letter to points conveyed in REFTEL regarding China's view towards joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF INFORMAL TRANSLATION: Dear Mr. Brent Christensen ESTH [...]
2009-07-01 23:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH
09BEIJING1819CHINA HAS FAVORABLE VIEW OF IRENA BUT NOT READY TO JOIN
[...] (SBU) On June 30, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) responded via faxed letter to points conveyed in REFTEL regarding China's view towards joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF INFORMAL TRANSLATION: Dear Mr. Brent Christensen ESTH [...]
2009-07-01 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH
09BEIJING1820China Has Favorable View of IRENA but not Ready to Join
[...] (SBU) On June 30, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) responded via faxed letter to points conveyed in REFTEL regarding China's view towards joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF INFORMAL TRANSLATION: Dear Mr. Brent Christensen ESTH [...]
2009-07-01 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH
09BEIJING18212009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DCT),
[...] (C) During the first session of the 10th U.S.-PRC Defense Consultative Talks (DCT) held June 23-24 2009 in Beijing, both the U.S. and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) delegations affirmed that presidents of the two countries had charged them with improving the military-to-military relations [...]
2009-07-01 00:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING18222009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DC),
[...] (C) The U.S. policy of conducting surveillance in China's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) reflects a Cold War mentality and should be stopped, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) delegation maintained during the second session of Defense Consultative Talks (DCT) June 23, 2009. U.S. surveillance [...]
2009-07-01 00:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING18232009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS: ASIA
[...] (S) China appreciates and shares the concerns of the United States, Japan and South Korea regarding the North Korean nuclear test, Deputy Chief of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian told Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP) Michele Flournoy [...]
2009-07-01 00:59:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING18262009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DCT),
[...] (C) During a discussion on advancing the U.S.-PRC Dialogue on Nuclear Policy and Strategy as part of the 10th U.S.-China Defense Consultative Talks (DCT),Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian responded to a U.S. presentation on the Defense Department's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR),Ballistic Missil [...]
2009-07-01 01:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING18272009 U.S.-PRC DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DCT)
[...] (S) Summary: Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian, Deputy Chief of the PLA General Staff, stretched what was to be a sixty minute Small Group session with Ms. Michele Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP),into ninety minutes, and focused his remarks on objecting to U.S. arms sales [...]
2009-07-01 01:20:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING1834MEDIA REACTION: INTERNET CENSORSHIP, CYBER WAR, NORTH
[...] INTERNET CENSORSHIP "Foreign media demonizes the fighting over Green Dam software" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(07/02): "The postponement of the Chinese government's installation of Green Dam software has been widely welcomed by [...]
2009-07-01 05:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING18352009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DCT),
[...] (C) During U.S.-China Defense Consultative Talks June 24, 2009, Michele Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP) presented the U.S. perspective on the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, stressing the importance of China's role in the region. PRC military officials perceived [...]
2009-07-01 06:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS EAID IR AF PK
09BEIJING1838JULY 2 MFA PRESS BREIFING: WU DAWEI, G-8, GREEN DAM,
[...] Key points at the July 2 MFA press briefing: -- Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei began his visit to Russia, the United States, Japan and South Korea on July 2, and will "exchange views with relevant parties" on the situation on the Korean Peninsula as well as issues relating to Northeast Asia. [...]
2009-07-01 10:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PARM ECIN CH JA KN KS ZI RS IT TW
09BEIJING1839WFP Scaling Back DPRK Operations
[...] (SBU) Summary: The WFP is scaling back its work in North Korea because of lower than expected donor support as well as new restrictions imposed by the North Korean government, according to World Food Program (WFP) North Korea Country Representative Torben Due. The WFP is refocusing their eff [...]
2009-07-01 12:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID PREL CH KN
09BEIJING1843WFP Scaling Back DPRK Operations
[...] (SBU) Summary: The WFP is scaling back its work in North Korea because of lower than expected donor support as well as new restrictions imposed by the North Korean government, according to World Food Program (WFP) North Korea Country Representative Torben Due. The WFP is refocusing their eff [...]
2009-07-04 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID PREL CH KN
09BEIJING1844SCO SUMMIT: CHINA WEIGHS LEADERSHIP ROLE AS
[...] (C) Chinese and other Shanghai Organization (SCO) member countries' diplomats told us that the June 16 SCO summit in Yekaterinburg had served primarily as a forum for SCO members to demonstrate a sense of urgency in responding to the global financial crisis, eclipsing discussion about increasin [...]
2009-07-05 02:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR
09BEIJING1845INTERAGENCY UNSCR 1874 MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] (S) Chinese MFA Director General for International Organizations Wu Hailong, leading an interagency delegation made up of representatives of all Chinese agencies tasked with implementing UNSCR 1874, told Ambassador Philip Goldberg in a 3 hour 45-minute meeting on July 2 that China was committe [...]
2009-07-05 02:50:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS
09BEIJING1847INTERAGENCY UNSCR 1874 MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-05 02:51:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS
09BEIJING1848INTERAGENCY UNSCR 1874 MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-05 02:51:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS
09BEIJING1850CHINA WEIGHS LEADERSHIP ROLE AS ECONOMY TAKES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-05 03:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR
09BEIJING1851SOMALI PIRACY: CHINA ASKED TO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL
[...] (SBU) China was "flexible" if additional states wished to participate in the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division official Cheng Lie told PolOff July 2 in response to reftel points encouraging C [...]
2009-07-05 03:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO
09BEIJING186LAND AND SOCIAL STABILITY IN RURAL CHINA: A
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Discontent and the potential for rural unrest involving land disputes may be increasing despite the Government's recent emphasis on reforming rural land policy. Little substantive progress has been made to reform rural land policy since the announcement of new reforms at the Oc [...]
2009-01-22 03:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI
09BEIJING1867MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA,
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. and China don't need a Fourth Joint Communiqu yet" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(07/06): "The Obama Administration is continuing the stable development of U.S.-China relations [...]
2009-07-05 08:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1868140 DEAD IN URUMQI RIOTS, DEATH TOLL MAY GO
[...] (C) During the course of July 6, China's official media steadily revised upward the death toll from July 5 rioting in Urumqi, Xinjiang, to 140. The Xinhua News Agency warned the final figure could be higher. 828 people were injured and police have made "hundreds" of arrests, the agency report [...]
2009-07-05 11:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING1874MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, ENVIRONMENT, HONDURAS
[...] XINJIANG RIOT "Supporting Rabiye Qadir is being the enemy of the Chinese people" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(07/07): "The fierce violence that happened on the evening of July 5th in Urumqi, Xinjiang province has destroyed the lo [...]
2009-07-07 08:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1876MFA DEMARCHE ON XINJIANG UNREST
[...] (C) PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Department Director General Zheng Zeguang met with Charge d,Affaires Robert Goldberg at 2140 on the evening of July 6 to deliver a briefing and demarche on the July 5 unrest in Urumqi. The demarche was similar in content to July 6 Xinhua press rele [...]
2009-07-07 11:02:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1877JULY 7 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: XINJIANG, RUSSIA
[...] Key points at the July 7 MFA press briefing: - Regarding the events in Xinjiang, MFA spokesperson Qin said that the "facts could not be clearer" and that an "evil crime" had taken place that some people called a "peaceful demonstration." Qin said that these people were cowards and "totally l [...]
2009-07-07 11:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CH RS
09BEIJING1878UNREST CONTINUES IN URUMQI, COUNTER DEMONSTRATION
[...] (C) During a third day of unrest in Urumqi, large numbers of rioters of Han nationality engaged in counter protests directed at Uighur residents and businesses. According to a U.S. Embassy officer in Urumqi, as of 1800 local time, unrest, including explosions and the use of tear gas by police [...]
2009-07-07 11:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING1885 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 23
[...] (U) As of COB July 7, China's Ministry of Health (MOH) has officially communicated information about 1151 confirmed cases of infection by the novel 2009 influenza A/H1N1. Confirmed cases have been detected in 19 provinces and the municipalities of Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai and Tianjin. Of t [...]
2009-07-08 03:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09BEIJING1906MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, U.S. ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICY
[...] XINJIANG RIOT a. "July 5" incident will not create chaos in China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(07/08): "After the large chaos on July 5th, small scale chaos, demonstrations and conflicts continue. Comparable to favoring Tibet's [...]
2009-07-08 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1910China/UNSCR 1874: Delivery of State 66250
[...] (SBU) Ref A nonpaper and talking points were delivered to the Chinese Government via a telephone call between U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey and People's Bank of China (PBoC) Vice Governor Su Ning (ref B),Ambassador Phillip Goldberg's meeting in Beijing with Chinese government off [...]
2009-07-08 23:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV EPET EFIN CH
09BEIJING1911SCENESETTER FOR DOE SECRETARY CHU VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Secretary Chu, Chinese leaders are eagerly looking forward to your visit to China and to engaging you on issues of energy, climate change and science, among others, that will help determine the quality of life of the Chinese and American people over the next few decades. Your visit come [...]
2009-07-08 23:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING1923MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, NORTH KOREA
[...] XINJIANG RIOT a. "The west helps Rabiye take control in 'Xinjiang independence' organization" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/09): "Rabiye, who knew little about the 'Eastern Turkish' issue, has become the behind-the-scenes dire [...]
2009-07-09 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1924SCENESETTER FOR DOC SECRETARY LOCKE VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Secretary Locke, I wanted to send you a note that addresses some of the issues you will raise from a China mission perspective. I know that your staff has prepared papers on these matters and hope we are not duplicating some of their observations. 2. (SBU) Clearly, Chinese leaders are [...]
2009-07-09 09:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING1927JULY 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: XINJIANG UNREST, RIO TINTO
[...] Key points at the July 9 MFA press briefing: -- Regarding the events in Xinjiang, while current casualty figures were not available, no foreign casualties had been recorded. -- Regarding Turkey's proposal to discuss the events in Xinjiang before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),[...]
2009-07-09 10:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU
09BEIJING1928CHINESE INTERNET REACTION TO XINJIANG UNREST
[...] The recent riots and ethnic tensions in Xinjiang were hot topics on major Chinese news portals, Internet forums and microblogging platforms in China over the past few days. Widespread censorship was present on popular social discussion platforms. Many netizens expressed skepticism about avai [...]
2009-07-09 10:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EINT CH
09BEIJING1929TENSIONS SUBSIDE IN URUMQI UNDER CONTINUED HEAVY
[...] (C) Poloff in Urumqi witnessed no new disturbances during the course of July 9. Public transportation was operational and many businesses had reopened. Poloff witnessed Uighurs walking unmolested in predominantly Han neighborhoods. Uighur neighborhoods appeared to have far less activity and fo [...]
2009-07-09 11:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1945EMBASSY AIR QUALITY TWEETS SAID TO "CONFUSE" CHINESE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),ESTH Off and MED Off met on July 7 with Mr. WANG Shuai of MFA's Office of U.S. Affairs to respond to MFA's concerns about recent publicity in international and local press surrounding an air quality monitor installed on t [...]
2009-07-10 07:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV CASC KGHG TRGY ENRG PREL CH
09BEIJING1947DEMARCHE ON RESULTS OF U.S.-RUSSIA PRESIDENTIAL
[...] On July 10, Acting DCM delivered reftel non-paper highlighting President Obama's summit meeting with Russian President Medvedev to Acting DG for North American and Oceanian Affairs Ding Xiaowen. Also on July 10, PolOff shared the non-paper with the MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department [...]
2009-07-10 07:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL RS CH
09BEIJING1951PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SHIELD S15-09: SYRIA
[...] (SBU) On July 10, Poloff conveyed reftel points and non-paper on Syrian desires to obtain Schedule 2B chemicals from China to the MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Weapons Division Deputy Director Yang Yi. Yang had no immediate response but promised to provide any [...]
2009-07-10 08:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER CH
09BEIJING1952MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, NORTH KOREA
[...] XINJIANG RIOT a. "By being extreme, western media loses China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/10): "China is changing, but western media's attitude towards China seems forever unchanged. When the '7.5' incident happened, weste [...]
2009-07-10 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1953INFORMAL PROPOSAL FOR U.S.-CHINA BILATERAL INTERAGENCY
[...] On 10 July 2009 Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) External Security Division Director Xia Jingge informally proposed a bilateral interagency exchange on counterterrorism issues in Mid-September 2009. Director Xia suggested the exchange should be jointly led by Director General for External Sec [...]
2009-07-10 10:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH CT
09BEIJING1954XINJIANG SITREP FOR JULY 10, 2009
[...] (C) No major incidents of unrest occurred during in Urumqi during the course of July 9, though Embassy officers witnessed a brief scuffle as security forces broke up a demonstration of about 30 Uighurs in front of western journalists on July 10. The People's Armed Police (PAP) presence in the [...]
2009-07-10 11:36:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPGOV PREL PHUM CASC CH
09BEIJING1957GOOGLE CLAIMS HARRASSMENT BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Google China representatives claim the company's services have been blocked by the Chinese government periodically over the past three years. After users reported on June 18 that Google.cm search engine was not filtering returns for pornographic sites, the government on June 2 [...]
2009-07-12 23:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PHUM PGOV ECON CH
09BEIJING1967MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS,
[...] XINJIANG RIOT a. "Any country with the rule of law will not bear these violent crimes" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao)(07/13): "The Central Committee of the CPC and the Xinjiang local government took instant action when the Urumqi '7.5' incident oc [...]
2009-07-13 09:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1969PRC SCHOLARS URGE QUICK ASSISTANCE FOR IDPS; WARY
[...] (C) State Council-affiliated academics told Embassy officers that recent progress on counter-terrorism efforts in Pakistan could collapse if the basic needs of IDPs resulting from military operations were not addressed quickly. According to Chinese scholars, mistrust of U.S. military intention [...]
2009-07-13 10:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID CH PK AF
09BEIJING197MEDIA REACTION: INAUGURATION, U.S. - CHINA MILITARY
[...] INAUGURATION "The World expects changes in the U.S." The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao)(01/22): "The American media indicates that there has never been a president like Obama who has gained the expectations of the entire world. The world is expecting ma [...]
2009-01-22 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1970RISE IN MASS INCIDENTS WORRISOME BUT NOT YET A THREAT TO OVERALL STABILITY, CONTACTS SAY
[...] (C) A jump in the number of "mass incidents," or violent protests against local governments, in June is unrelated to the recent ethnic riots in Xinjiang and does not signal a threat to overall social stability, Embassy contacts report. However, violent incidents indicate serious discontent belo [...]
2009-07-13 10:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ASEC CH
09BEIJING1971China's new super think tank
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to widespread official and media criticism of Chinese think tanks' failure to adequately respond to the global financial crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao pushed for the creation of a new think tank with an impressive roster of high-level members. The center made i [...]
2009-07-13 10:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL EFIN CH
09BEIJING1972URUMQI CALM -- JULY 13 SITREP
[...] (C) Urumqi and Kashgar remained calm July 11-13, according to a U.S. Embassy team on the ground there, with no reports of new violence. The government July 11 revised the official death toll upward to 184 and provided an ethnic breakdown which showed that three quarters of the riot fatalities [...]
2009-07-13 10:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING1973INDONESIAN FM VISIT TO BEIJING
[...] (C) Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda's July 1-3 trip to Beijing concentrated mainly on positive aspects of Sino-Indonesia ties, including signing of an extradition treaty, and further development of the strategic partnership, according to MFA and Indonesian Embassy contacts. However [...]
2009-07-13 10:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EFIN PBTS MARR ID CH
09BEIJING1974 H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP #24
[...] (U) China's Ministry of Health (MOH) informed Post on July 13 that as of July 11, it would no longer be sending daily notifications on newly-confirmed H1N1 cases and directed us to the MOH website for the latest H1N1 information. MOH now posts a daily announcement on their website that includ [...]
2009-07-14 03:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09BEIJING198CHINA CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR TALKS IN ZIMBABWE
[...] (C) Summary: China supports the African Union (AU) position that continued negotiations offer the best way to resolve the political crisis in Zimbabwe, according to a Chinese diplomat. China also supports mediation efforts by South Africa and the South African Development Community (SADC) an [...]
2009-01-22 09:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH ZI SF
09BEIJING1988MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, OBAMA'S VISIT TO GHANA,
[...] XINJIANG RIOT "Stability is the lifeline for development" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (07/14): "Only with stability can ordinary people be happy and peaceful and for society develop and progress. Under the strong leadership of the Central Committee and the S [...]
2009-07-14 09:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1989PRC: INDIAN ACTIONS ON ARUNACHAL PRADESH DESIGNED
[...] (C) Chinese scholars believe the media-hyped controversies over recent Indian troop movements near the disputed province of Arunachal Pradesh and the province's inclusion in the Asia Development Bank's Country Strategy for India reflect India's desire to pressure China to recognize India's terr [...]
2009-07-14 10:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER MOPS MARR EAID CH IN
09BEIJING1990SHOOTING ELEVATES URUMQI TENSIONS AND SECURITY
[...] (C) Urumqi was largely calm July 14 but the fatal shooting of two Uighurs by police on July 13 appeared to have resulted in an increased People's Armed Police (PAP) presence in Uighur neighborhoods and the closure of many shops that had only recently reopened. Jiefang Nan Road, where the inci [...]
2009-07-14 11:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP TU CH
09BEIJING1992JULY 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: XINJIANG UNREST, THREATS OF
[...] Key points at the July 14 MFA press briefing: -- The spokesperson emphasized the fact that since "most of the dead" were Han and a "small number" were from ethnic minorities in the recent July 5 incident in Urumqi, there was "no such thing as ethnic genocide." -- When asked about threats b [...]
2009-07-14 12:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU
09BEIJING1994PROPOSED DATES FOR U.S.-CHINA NONPROLIFERATION AND
[...] On July 15, PolOff delivered reftel proposal, suggesting a late August date for the bilateral Nonproliferation Dialogue and a mid-October date for the Security Dialogue to Wang Lei of the MFA's Arms Control Department, General Policy Division. PolOff advised Wang that Washington envisioned b [...]
2009-07-15 03:11:00Embassy BeijingSECRETKNNP PARM CH
09BEIJING200January 22 MFA Press Briefing: President Obama's Inaugural
[...] Key points at the January 22 MFA Press Briefing: -- MFA Spokesperson was "not aware" of President Obama's inaugural speech having been censored when broadcast on Chinese media, adding that the media in China enjoyed their "own editing right." -- China hopes the "relevant parties" will adher [...]
2009-01-22 10:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD CH KN FR IR XF BM
09BEIJING2003MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOTS, RIO TINTO
[...] XINJIANG RIOTS a. "We are dependent on all ethnic groups to maintain Xinjiang's stability" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (07/15): "With strenuous and detailed efforts after the 7/5 incident, Xinjiang has made great progress in maintaining stability and the peo [...]
2009-07-15 09:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2004TRAFFIC CONTROLS REMAIN IN URUMQI UIGHUR QUARTER
[...] (C) Embassy officers in Urumqi reported continued high security, including traffic controls, in the Uighur sections of the city July 15. About 50 percent of businesses in the Uighur quarter were closed, including large markets and bazaars. Uighurs remained fearful of being seen speaking at l [...]
2009-07-15 10:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP PTER CH
09BEIJING2009STATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE MINISTER DISCUSSES CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary. The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) will be playing a broader role in all matters relating to IPR in the upcoming Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) according to SIPO's Commissioner. The Ministry of Commerce will still coordinate China's overall JCCT partic [...]
2009-07-16 06:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH
09BEIJING201CHINA GIVEN ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON CHINA'S SHENYANG
[...] (S) After noting continued "unavailability" of MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department officials to meet with PolOffs since the October 3 announcement of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the Charge shared reftel information providing additional details about a Chinese company's assistance to Nor [...]
2009-01-22 10:32:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE ETTC SY KN CH
09BEIJING2013STATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE MINISTER DISCUSSES CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary. The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) will be playing a broader role in all matters relating to IPR in the upcoming Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) according to SIPO's Commissioner. The Ministry of Commerce will still coordinate China's overall JCCT partic [...]
2009-07-16 07:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH
09BEIJING202CHINA INFORMED SYRIAN ENTITY SEEKING HIGH-GRADE
[...] (S) After noting continued "unavailability" of MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department officials to meet with PolOffs since the October 3 announcement of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the Charge shared reftel non-paper informing China of attempts by a Syrian entity of proliferation concern to [...]
2009-01-22 10:36:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE MNUC ETTC TSPA SY CH
09BEIJING2021MFA OFFICIALS EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT U.S. POLICY ON
[...] (C) In June 16 meetings with visiting Hong Kong Consul General Joseph Donovan, MFA officials urged the U.S. to act cautiously toward the universal suffrage question in Hong Kong, but welcomed private advice from Washington on the issue. One official commented that the large June 4 vigil in Ho [...]
2009-07-16 09:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EINV CH HK
09BEIJING2022ONE WEEK LATER: CHINESE NETIZENS INTEREST IN XINJIANG
[...] The recent riots and ethnic tensions in Xinjiang remained widely discussed topics on major Chinese news portals, Internet forums and microblogging platforms in China in the week since July 8. Widespread censorship was evident through the continued blocking of many popular social discussion pla [...]
2009-07-16 11:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EINT CH
09BEIJING2023URUMQI DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO 192 -- JULY 16
[...] (C) Post has received no reports of new violence or unrest in Urumqi, or other areas of Xinjiang, July 16. The death toll from the July 5 riot climbed to 192 with 1,721 people injured. Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan was quoted in the local press as saying most of the dead were "innocent. [...]
2009-07-16 11:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PROP CH
09BEIJING2024MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT, XINJIANG
[...] SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT "China and the U.S. should face the climate challenge together" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(07/16): "The constructive meaning of Secretary Chu and Secretary Locke's Chi [...]
2009-07-16 12:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2025JULY 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHU AND LOCKE VISIT, RIO TINTO
[...] Key points at the July 16 MFA press briefing: --China "opposes any country providing a platform" for Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer's "separatist activity." --China's position on mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions has been "consistent and clear" and China would "follow the principles [...]
2009-07-16 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU
09BEIJING203TIBETAN "SERF EMANCIPATION DAY" DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (C) The Charge delivered reftel points to MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang on January 22. The "Serf Emancipation Day" holiday, the Charge stressed, would not serve to improve the situation in Tibet and instead would only exacerbate tensions. [...]
2009-01-22 12:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF CH
09BEIJING2034MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT, XINJIANG
[...] SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT "The new growth point for China- U.S. relationship" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (07/17): "The announcement of plan to develop a joint energy research center marked the first substantive outcome of China-U.S. energy negotiations s [...]
2009-07-17 08:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2038CHINA URGES USG TO "RESTRICT" KADEER, DEATH TOLL
[...] (C) Ministry of Public Security Vice Minister Liu Jing, in a July 17 meeting with FBI Director Robert Mueller, argued that the July 5 riot in Urumqi was a "terrorist activity," claiming that rioters were "professional and well-trained." The Director said outside observers will only be convinced [...]
2009-07-17 10:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PROP PHUM CH
09BEIJING204PRC/MEPP: CHINA VEXES ARABS WITH RESTRAINED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After a briefing by Chinese Middle East Envoy Sun Bigan, Arab ambassadors in China were frustrated and disappointed by Beijing's measured response to the recent Gaza violence, Arab embassy contacts said January 22. They expected Chinese condemnation of Israel, based on China's h [...]
2009-01-22 12:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS XF
09BEIJING2040PREMIER WEN SUFFERS CRITICISM, BUT POSITION
[...] (C) Rumors that Premier Wen Jiabao is under fire for a variety of alleged failings continue to circulate among China's politically active circles, but the chances of Wen being forced out before his term expires in 2013 are remote, according to a number of Embassy contacts. Wen has reportedly [...]
2009-07-17 10:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PHUM EFIN CH
09BEIJING2041XINJIANG: PRC SCRAMBLES TO AVOID ANTI-ISLAM IMAGE
[...] (C) According to Beijing-based diplomats, PRC officials scrambled in the wake of the July 5 violence in Xinjiang to head off potential anti-Chinese reactions in the Muslim world by urging governments from majority-Muslim countries to refrain from official statements and control their media's p [...]
2009-07-17 11:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CH ID EG TU
09BEIJING2044SECRETARY LOCKE DISCUSSES JCCT, SED WITH VICE PREMIER WANG
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SED) should focus more on macroeconomics while the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) should focus on specific issues such as IPR or the Doha round according to Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan. Wang praised the handling of the U. [...]
2009-07-20 01:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON CH
09BEIJING2053CHU AND LOCKE TALK CLEAN ENERGY WITH CHINA'S STATE GRID
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke met with State Grid President Liu Zhenya on July 16 to discuss clean energy. State Grid is China's largest transmission and distribution company, serving nearly one billion people. The company has pioneered ul [...]
2009-07-20 06:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2054DOE SECRETARY CHU AND MOHURD MINISTER JIANG DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At their July 14 meeting in Beijing, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) Minister Jiang Weixin discussed energy-efficient buildings. MOHURD officials agreed that energy-efficient standards needed to go beyond design to add [...]
2009-07-20 07:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2061MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARIES' CHU AND LOCKE VISITS TO CHINA,
[...] SECRETARIES' CHU AND LOCKE VISITS TO CHINA "The two U.S. Secretaries: visit to China under a 'green cloak'" The independent Chinese weekly business newspaper distributed in major cities throughout China, Economic Observer (Jingji Guanchabao) (07/20): "The main agenda of Secretary Locke's vi [...]
2009-07-20 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2062BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON XINJIANG,
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing July 17, French Ambassador Ladsous reported that during French National Day, he spoke with a Chinese Vice Minister who said Xinjiang was "just like Tibet" and implied France "best keep quiet." On Rio Tinto, Ladsous reported that he hea [...]
2009-07-20 09:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING2063PRC LEADERSHIP STABLE DESPITE TENSIONS; XI STILL
[...] (C) Embassy contacts have reported that relations among China's top leaders remained largely stable, and the arrangements put in train for succession at the 18th Party Congress in 2012 appeared to be holding, with Xi Jinping likely to become Party chief and Li Keqiang to become Premier. Three [...]
2009-07-20 10:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
09BEIJING2064 Secretary Locke Discusses Bilateral Trade
[...] (SBU) Secretary Locke and delegation and D/USTR Demetrios Marantis met July 15 with Minister Chen Deming and senior MOFCOM officials for a 90 minute discussion of bilateral trade and commercial issues including clean energy coooperation, global warming, trade remedies, Buy America/Buy China po [...]
2009-07-20 10:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ETRD EAGR EIND EINT BEXP CH
09BEIJING2065URUMQI RIOT A "TERRORIST ACT": FBI DIRECTOR
[...] (C) The July 5 riot in Urumqi was a "terrorist act" and the rioters were "professional and well trained," Vice Minister of Public Security Liu Jing told visiting FBI Director Robert S. Mueller July 17. The violence in Urumqi was premeditated and well organized and had nothing to do with reli [...]
2009-07-20 10:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH
09BEIJING2066JULY 20 XINJIANG SITREP
[...] (C) EmbOffs in Urumqi reported no new violence or unrest over the weekend of July 18-19 or on July 20. The official death toll from the riots remains 197. In majority Han or mixed neighborhoods the security posture had relaxed noticeably while large numbers of police continued to patrol the Ui [...]
2009-07-20 11:04:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH
09BEIJING207CHINA PROTESTS SANCTIONS AGAINST DALIAN SUNNY
[...] (S) MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Director Sun Lei called in PolOff on January 28 to complain about the "unacceptable" and "unilateral" sanctions announced against Chinese companies Limmt and Bellamax (refs A and B). Sun said China opposes the imposition [...]
2009-01-23 10:28:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING2071 Secretaries Locke and Chu Discuss Energy and Climate
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao on July 16, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu highlighted the importance of the United States and China working together on clean energy and climate change. Wen agreed that the U.S.-China relationship is the most [...]
2009-07-21 06:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2072 SECRETARY CHU MEETS WITH VICE PREMIER LI KEQIANG
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-21 06:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2073 Energy Secretary Chu and Commerce Secretary Locke Discuss
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Chairman Zhang Ping on July 14, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke discussed how the United States and China can work together on energy and climate change. Chu pointed out that throu [...]
2009-07-21 06:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2079MEDIA REACTION: ENVIRONMENT, MILITARY, RUSSIA
[...] ENVIRONMENT "'Post-crisis' economy has a new engine: green industries" The official Communist Party international paper, People's Daily Overseas Edition (Renmin Ribao Haiwaiban) (07/21):" Zhong Maochu, a professor at Nankai University's Graduate School of Economics said various indications [...]
2009-07-21 08:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2080CHINA INFORMED OF POSSIBLE WEAPONS-RELATED
[...] (S) On July 21, Poloff conveyed reftel points and non-paper regarding the possible transfer through Beijing on July 9 of torpedo batteries and technical personnel from North Korea to Iran to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Weapons Division Deputy Director Yang Y [...]
2009-07-21 09:42:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MNUC CH IR KN
09BEIJING2083JULY 21 XINJIANG SITREP
[...] (C) Emboffs in Urumqi heard of no unrest or violent incidents during the course of July 21. The People's Armed Police (PAP) presence throughout the Han and ethnically mixed areas of the city continued to decline. Foot traffic in these areas continues to visibly increase day by day. Several m [...]
2009-07-21 10:34:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING2084CHINA URGES FBI DIRECTOR TO RESTRICT UIGHUR GROUPS
[...] (C) MFA Vice Minister Zhang Zhijun, in a July 17 meeting with FBI Director Robert S. Muller, called on the United States to restrict the activities of Uighur "terrorist and separatist" groups operating on U.S. soil. Zhang also raised the Guantanamo Uighur detainees and urged the USG to step u [...]
2009-07-21 10:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH
09BEIJING2085ISRAELI AMBASSADOR SEEKS MORE SPACE FOR SECURITY
[...] (S) Israeli Ambassador to China Amos Nadai told the Charge that Israel was capable of expanding its defense and security relationship with China but this would require the United States rethinking the limitations it has placed on Israeli security cooperation with China. Israel was especially [...]
2009-07-21 10:59:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL ECON MCAP MARR IS IR CH
09BEIJING2086CHINA WANTS EXTRADITION TREATY, JUSTICE VICE
[...] (C) In a July 17 meeting with FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, PRC Vice Minister of Justice Hao Chiyong expressed hope that the United States would consider returning additional fugitives to China in the same manner as Bank of China suspect Yu Zhendong. VM Hao added that the PRC would like to [...]
2009-07-21 11:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER CH
09BEIJING2089 Energy Secretary Chu Visits China's ENN Energy Company and
[...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Energy Steven Chu met ENN Chairman Wang Yusuo on July 17 at ENN Headquarters in Langfang City, Hebei Province. Founded in 1989, ENN is an integrated energy company that is investing heavily in clean energy technology. China's largest private energy firm, ENN has act [...]
2009-07-22 06:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV CH
09BEIJING2092 MEP OFFICIAL TALKS ABOUT BALANCING ENVIRONMENTAL
[...] (SBU) In a press briefing on June 25 by Mr. WAN Bentai, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP),Wan strongly asserted that MEP's highest priority is to maintain and enforce national environmental laws, and actions to support these laws and regulations would be not be [...]
2009-07-22 06:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO PREL CH
09BEIJING2094MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA, CHINA-RUSSIA MILITARY
[...] U.S.-CHINA "Former U.S. Speaker of the House wants to use nuclear-armed Japan to suppress China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/22): "The former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently openly used a nuclear-armed Japan [...]
2009-07-22 07:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2097JULY 22 XINJIANG SITREP
[...] (C) Embassy officers present in Xinjiang received no additional reports of violence in the region. In Kashgar, the Embassy team encountered surveillance July 22. Several plain clothes security officers, thinly disguised as Han Chinese tourists, followed and took video of the Embassy officers [...]
2009-07-22 11:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING21MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, JAPAN
[...] U.S. DEPLOMACY "Obama runs 'family politics' very well" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(01/06): "Caroline Kennedy has become the most capable candidate for the New York Senate seat left by future Secretary of [...]
2009-01-06 08:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2107MEDIA REACTION: S&ED, U.S. MEDIA ON "CHINESE ECONIMIC
[...] U.S.-CHINA "Strategic dialogue can eliminate conflict from the very beginning" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao) (07/23): "Zhu Shida, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' American Society and Culture Research Division, said an [...]
2009-07-23 08:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR PREL ECON CH
09BEIJING2109PRC FEEDBACK ON PAST NONPRO CASES REQUESTED
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper requesting information on the status of investigations of past cases of missile-related nonproliferation concern to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on July 23. Yang said she woul [...]
2009-07-23 09:43:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH SY IR PK
09BEIJING2110PRC SUPPORTIVE BUT VAGUE ON ADDITIONAL
[...] (C) On July 21, Poloff conveyed to MFA Asian Affairs Department, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Division Desk Officer Hou Yanqi reftel points on enhanced civilian and military contributions to Afghanistan following the August 20 presidential election. Econoff also delivered reftel poin [...]
2009-07-23 10:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER CH AF
09BEIJING2111DETAILS ON PRC "HIGH-LEVEL" UNGA PARTCIPATION
[...] (SBU) PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Officer Li Jun July 23 reftel points requesting information on the attendance of senior Chinese officials at the 64th UN General Assembly (UNGA). Li responded that the planning process for China's [...]
2009-07-23 10:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID CH
09BEIJING2112TOP LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS DRIVEN BY CONSENSUS,
[...] (C) The need for consensus and the desire to protect vested interests are the main drivers of Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) decision-making and Chinese leadership dynamics in general, according to Embassy contacts with access to leadership circles. Contacts have variously described relations [...]
2009-07-23 10:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
09BEIJING2118MEDIA REACTION: U.S. RETURN TO ASIA, NORTH KOREA, CHINA'S
[...] U.S. RETURN TO ASIA "China should pay a high degree of attention to the United States returning to Asia" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/24): "It is foreseeable that in the future China will be facing pressure from the United S [...]
2009-07-24 07:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR PREL ECON ENRG CH
09BEIJING2121 LOCAL OFFICIALS IGNORE WATER POLLUTION PROBLEMS IN CANCER
[...] (SBU) "Cancer villages" appear to be as commonplace as water pollution in China. For local residents, it is not a question of whether cancer villages exist, but rather how badly cancer has afflicted the villages. Although local and international journalists have reported periodically on the l [...]
2009-07-24 09:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO PREL CH
09BEIJING2122(C)CHINESE REACT NEGATIVELY TO WEBB HEARING
[...] (C) The DG for the new MFA Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs called in the Charge on July 24 to protest comments made by senior U.S. officials about Chinese claims to the South China Sea (SCS). The DG reiterated Chinese sovereignty claims and urged the United States to "control" U.S. o [...]
2009-07-24 10:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS CH
09BEIJING2123HIGH-PROFILE NGO CLOSED, PRE-60TH ANNIVERSARY
[...] (C) On July 17 the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau raided the offices of the Open Constitution Initiative (aka "Gongmeng"),an NGO promoting democracy and rule-of-law, and declared the group an "illegal organization." Days earlier, Beijing tax officials had slapped OCI with a large fine for all [...]
2009-07-24 12:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PROP SOCI CH
09BEIJING2124SECRETARIES CHU AND LOCKE DISCUSS CLEAN ENERGY PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) During his recent visit to China, Energy Secretary Chu met with China's Minister of Science and Technology WAN Gang on July 15 to discuss priorities for the new U.S.-China Clean Energy Research and Development Center, which they publicly announced later the same day at a joint press con [...]
2009-07-26 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING2125DOE SECRETARY CHU DISCUSSES CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY AND
[...] (SBU) On July 16, Secretary Chu met with CAO Peixi the president of Huaneng Group, China's largest power producer. The two met at Huaneng's Gaobeidian showcase cogeneration power plant in Beijing to discuss the energy giant's effort to reduce sulfur and nitrogen oxide (SOx and NOx) and carbo [...]
2009-07-26 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING2126Senior Hu Advisor Zheng Bijian Organizing China-U.S. Clean
[...] (SBU) Professor ZHENG Bijian, a senior advisor to China's president Hu Jintao, met with the U.S. Energy Secretary Chu and U.S. Commerce Secretary Locke, during their recent trip to China. Zheng's primary aim during the brief lunch meeting was to solicit the attendance of the two Secretaries at [...]
2009-07-26 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING2127COMMERCE SECRETARY LOCKE TO MIIT MINISTER LI
[...] (C) Summary. In a July 15 discussion with Minister of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Li Yizhong on the challenges posed by the global financial crisis (GFC),Secretary of Commerce Locke emphasized the importance of investing in clean energy and technology. Secretary Locke noted th [...]
2009-07-27 00:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2137TERRORISM FINANCE: UN AND U.S. DOMESTIC
[...] (SBU)On July 23, Poloff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Officer Li Jun reftel points requesting China to freeze the assets of and take other necessary actions against Qasmani, Mujahid, and Al-Peshawari in accordance with UNSCR 1267 designation [...]
2009-07-27 06:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV KTFN ECON PTER CH
09BEIJING2141MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA S&ED DIALOGUE, NORTH KOREA, THE
[...] U.S.-CHINA S&ED DIALOGUE "The first round of the U.S.-China S&ED will start with a good opening" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (07/27): "The first round of the S&ED symbolizes the new era and structure of the U.S.-China relationship. The dialogue has three c [...]
2009-07-27 08:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR PREL ECON CH
09BEIJING2142SHANDONG PRISON LABOR VISIT
[...] (SBU) On May 11, 2009, officials from the U.S. Embassy, Beijing, visited the Luzhong Prison in Zibo City, Shandong Province. This visit was part of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation to resolve allegations of exports to the United States of porcelain products man [...]
2009-07-27 09:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PHUM PREL CH
09BEIJING2144(C) AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR CONFIRMS GOA SURPRISE
[...] (C) Summary. China's recent detention of Australian citizen Stern Hu and three other Rio Tinto executives surprised the Australian government, according to Dr. Geoff Raby, Australia's Ambassador here. Raby told the Charge July 24 that his government had seen no evidence of bribery, espiona [...]
2009-07-27 09:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON EINV CH AS
09BEIJING2149CHINA/UNSCR 1874: U/S LEVEY DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA AND CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK
[...] (S) Summary. Treasury U/S for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey on July 8 queried People's Bank of China (PBoC) Vice Governor Su Ning about Chinese actions to enforce UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1874 given China's complex financial relationship with North Korea. Gove [...]
2009-07-28 06:25:00Embassy BeijingSECRETEFIN PGOV PREL KTFN PTER CH KN
09BEIJING2152MEDIA REACTION: S&ED, U.S. BACK IN SOUTHEAST ASIA,
[...] S&ED "The U.S.'s hospitality to China surprised the world" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/28): "The opening of the S&ED that the U.S. held for China was like a 'millennium wedding' for the two countries. However, Niu Xinchun, [...]
2009-07-28 08:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH
09BEIJING2155SCENESETTER FOR HOUSE MINORITY LEADER BOEHNER'S
[...] (SBU) Minority Leader Boehner, your visit to China comes in a year filled with key anniversaries: January 1 commemorated 30 years of U.S.-China diplomatic relations; March saw the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising and the Dalai Lama's flight to India; June 4 marked the 20th annive [...]
2009-07-28 10:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH
09BEIJING2156PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON LIBYA'S CONTROVERSIAL
[...] (C) On July 28 PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Bo reftel points requesting China oppose controversial language that Libya seeks to insert into the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) mandate. Sh [...]
2009-07-28 23:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SU CH
09BEIJING2158 Secretary Chu Discusses Energy and Climate Change
[...] (U) Summary: Secretary Chu met with Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President LU Yongxiang on July 15 to discuss current and upcoming areas of cooperation in the areas of energy efficiency and climate change. Secretary Chu stressed the need for energy-efficient technologies such as efficient [...]
2009-07-29 05:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2160MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS
[...] U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS a. "Ma Ying-Jeou's reply to Hu Jintao triggers speculation" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/29): "KMT Chairman Ma Ying-Jeou's taking office is beneficial for the improvement of cross-strait relations. How [...]
2009-07-29 08:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH
09BEIJING2170SHIELD S18S-05: CHINA INFORMED OF ZIBO CHEMET'S
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Zibo Chemet's transfer of glass-lining technology to Iran to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on July 30. Yang noted that the case dealt with a transfer of [...]
2009-07-30 08:23:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING2173CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S EFFORTS TO
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Beijing Jingda Zhiyuan Technologies Development Ltd. efforts to provide controlled carbon fiber to a Pakistani missile developer to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Division Deputy Director [...]
2009-07-30 09:23:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH PK
09BEIJING2174MEDIA REACTION: S&ED, NORTH KOREA, TAIWAN
[...] S&ED "The first S&ED ended: friendly atmosphere, few outcomes" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing) (07/30): "Yan Xuetong, Director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University, argued that although the S&ED has [...]
2009-07-30 09:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH
09BEIJING2177PRC/RUSSIA: MFA, SCHOLARS DOWNPLAY IMPACT OF
[...] (C) In response to the closure by Moscow authorities of the Cherkizovsky market, the largest Chinese market in Russia (reftel),China's state-controlled media was uncharacteristically critical of Russia's "heavy handed" actions, and the issue generated commentary among Chinese bloggers complai [...]
2009-07-30 10:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS
09BEIJING2183THE URUMQI RIOTS - WHAT CONTACTS SAY HAPPENED
[...] (C) For three weeks following the initial July 5 violence in Urumqi, a series of EmbOffs visited Xinjiang to seek out solid information about the incident and its aftermath. Using the information gathered, we have put together a timeline of the events that began that day. Following is one of [...]
2009-07-31 09:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING2184MEDIA REACTION: S&ED IMPACT ON U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS,
[...] S&ED IMPACT ON U.S. CHINA RELATIONS "What challenges is Obama's China policy facing?" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao) (07/31): "In many Chinese experts' eyes, the U.S. was ultra-courteous to the Chinese delegation at the S&ED, and a broad range of [...]
2009-07-31 09:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2185XINJIANG: CHINA REPORTEDLY DEFEATED OIC STATEMENT
[...] (C) Egyptian Embassy Officer Haitham Safey (protect) told PolOff July 30 that PRC efforts to quash a proposed statement by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) condemning the Chinese government's response to the July 5 unrest in Xinjiang and its treatment of Muslim Uighurs (reftels [...]
2009-07-31 12:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CH EG TU
09BEIJING2187NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING COMMISSION URGES GREATER
[...] (SBU) At the request of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC),ESTHOffs met with Deputy Director General (DDG) of International Cooperation Madam RU Xiaomei on July 31 to share current USG views on international family planning and related policy toward China. ESTHOFF [...]
2009-08-02 23:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI KPAO KPOP PHUM CH
09BEIJING2194CHINA WELCOMES BILATERAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel nonpaper and demarche accepting China's longstanding invitation to hold Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) consultations in China to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Weapons Division Deputy Director Yu Dunhai on August 3. Yu said t [...]
2009-08-03 06:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CWC OPCW CH JP
09BEIJING2196CHINA 2009 INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION
[...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified -- it contains business proprietary information and is not for distribution to the public. 2. (SBU) In response to ref A, this cable provides updated information on investment and expropriation claims in China and includes input from the Econo [...]
2009-08-03 08:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV
09BEIJING2198MEDIA REACTION: U.S. EAST ASIAN POLICY, S&ED, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S. EAST ASIAN POLICY "Three major changes in the U.S.'s East Asian policy" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (08/03): "Two recent moves by the United States show that the U.S.'s attitude towards the integration of East Asia is changing. First, the U.S. signed a [...]
2009-08-03 08:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING22LOOKING AT THE NEXT 30 YEARS OF THE U.S.-CHINA
[...] (C) January 1, 2009, marked the 30th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. This anniversary followed the PRC commemoration of roughly 30 years of China's "reform and opening" policy under Deng Xiaoping, which led to Ch [...]
2009-01-06 08:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN MARR MASS CH
09BEIJING2212NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING COMMISSION URGES GREATER
[...] (SBU) At the request of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC),ESTHOffs met with Deputy Director General (DDG) of International Cooperation Madam RU Xiaomei on July 31 to share current USG views on international family planning and related policy toward China. ESTHOFF [...]
2009-08-04 07:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI KPAO KPOP PHUM CH
09BEIJING2214MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONSHIP, CHINA'S SOUTH
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONSHIP "On the global energy dialogue: let's first discuss what the U.S. should do" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (08/04): "China should not remain passive when the question of 'responsibility' is brought up in d [...]
2009-08-04 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2217MFA DISCUSSES XINJIANG PRESS ARRANGEMENTS AND ACCESS
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On July 29, PressOff met with Mr. Zhang Yong, Deputy Director of the Information Department of the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Zhang responded to questions about the logistics and philosophy behind the decision to pursue a markedly mor [...]
2009-08-05 00:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPROP KPAL PGOV OPRC CH
09BEIJING2223MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, U.S. ARMS DEVELOPMENT, U.S.
[...] NORTH KOREA "Clinton visits Pyongyang to bring back journalists" The official Xinhua Daily Telegraph (Xinhua Meiri Dianxun) (08/05): "Although the United States' position on U.S.-North Korea bilateral talks has not changed and the U.S. government is still insisting that former U.S. Presid [...]
2009-08-05 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2224PRC:"WILL DO WHAT IT CAN" FOR SOMALIA
[...] (SBU) Poloff conveyed August 4 to MFA African Department East Africa Desk Officer Zheng Minjuan reftel points requesting that China contribute additional support to Somalia in light of the recent agreement signed between the Transitional Federal Government(TFG) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) [...]
2009-08-05 11:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER EAID KPKO SO
09BEIJING224MEDIA REACTION: FINANCIAL CRISIS, CHINA'S POLICY
[...] FINANCIAL CRISIS a. "U.S. plans to strengthen financial monitor" The Beijing-based newspaper sponsored by official intellectual publication Guangming Daily and Guangdong Provincial official publication Nanfang Daily The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao)(01/27): "The Obama administration plans to [...]
2009-01-29 08:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2247MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA, NORTH KOREA,
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA "Clinton advances into Africa" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (08/06): "Liu Naiya, an expert on African and Asian affairs at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, noted that the [...]
2009-08-06 08:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2248 CULTURAL INDUSTRIES REJUVENATE! (NOT ABOUT MARKET ACCESS)
[...] (SBU) Summary: ChinaQs State Council July 22 announced it would lower the investment threshold in the entertainment and cultural industry and allow more private and foreign interests to invest in state-owned media groups. The moves were announced along with approval of a Culture Industry Reju [...]
2009-08-06 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV KIPR CH
09BEIJING2249SCENESETTER FOR HFAC CHAIRMAN BERMAN'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Chairman Berman, your visit to China comes in a year filled with key anniversaries and events: January 1 marked 30 years of U.S.-China diplomatic relations; March saw the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising and the Dalai Lama's flight to India; June 4 marked the 20th anniversar [...]
2009-08-06 09:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOREP PREL PHUM PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH TW
09BEIJING2262MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA, U.S.-CHINA,
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA "Hillary Clinton's Africa visit did not meet her ambitions" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing) (08/07): "In the twenty-first century, the United States needs Africa more than Africa needs the United Sta [...]
2009-08-07 09:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2263PRC/UN: UN SYG VISIT FOCUSES ON CLIMATE CHANGE,
[...] (C) UN Secretary General (SYG) Ban Ki-moon visited China July 23-26 to seek support from senior Chinese leaders for upcoming UN discussions on climate change. Contacts reported that the Chinese leadership remained non-committal on the SYG's call for China to play a greater global leadership ro [...]
2009-08-07 10:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID ENRG SENV CH
09BEIJING2273MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA "Africans snubbed Hillary" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (08/10): "On her visit to Africa, Secretary Hillary Clinton held in one hand a big stick and the other hand a carrot, rev [...]
2009-08-10 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2295MEDIA REACTION: CAN CHINA SAVE THE WORLD?, U.S. AND CHINA
[...] CAN CHINA SAVE THE WORLD? "More communication and exchanges needed" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (08/10): "Time magazine recently published a cover story with the title, 'Can China save the world?' which has once again focused international media attention on [...]
2009-08-11 08:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2298INTERNET USERS PUSH AGAINST CONTROLS, CONTACTS
[...] (C) Despite tight political controls, China's netizens are increasingly using the Internet as a forum for public discussion and even, at times, as a platform to challenge actions by government authorities, Chinese electronic media professionals told State Department Policy Planning Director An [...]
2009-08-11 10:32:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PROP SCUL CH
09BEIJING2317MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ECONOMY, U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC
[...] CHINA'S ECONOMY "Europe and the United States envy China's economic trend" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/12): "China's July Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index have both dropped, which shows China's economy is continuou [...]
2009-08-12 08:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2318PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TRANCHE 3 NAMES
[...] (SBU) On August 12, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division official Jiang Bo reftel points noting the commencement of the USG review of tranche 3 names from the 1267 Consolidated List pursuant to paragraph 25 of UN Security Council Resolution [...]
2009-08-12 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC CH
09BEIJING232 CHINESE GOVERNMENT SEEKS BETTER UNEMPLOYMENT DATA
[...] (U) Summary: China s official unemployment rate, which rose to 4.2 percent in December, is unrealistic and does not capture over 100 million migrant workers most affected by the economic downturn in late 2008. According to government officials and a local labor economist, the government know [...]
2009-01-29 09:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING2331PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PRST ON AUNG SAN SUU
[...] (C) On August 12, PolMinCouns conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Acting Director General Li Junhua ref A points in urging PRC cooperation on a UN Security Council Presidential Statement condemning the Burmese government's conviction and sentencing of Daw Aun [...]
2009-08-12 10:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM CH
09BEIJING2337MFA DISCUSSES XINJIANG PRESS ARRANGEMENTS AND ACCESS
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On July 29, PressOff met with Mr. Zhang Yong, Deputy Director of the Information Department of the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Zhang responded to questions about the logistics and philosophy behind the decision to pursue a markedly mor [...]
2009-08-13 07:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPROP KPAL PGOV OPRC CH
09BEIJING2339REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Ministry of Public Security who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on these individuals. [...]
2009-08-13 08:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN ASEC CH EAID KCRM PTER SNAR TH
09BEIJING2340MEDIA REACTION: RIO TINTO, U.S.-CHINA TIRE TRADE, U.S.
[...] RIO TINTO "Enlightenment seen in shift from 'espionage' to 'crime' in Rio Tinto case" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company's business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21 Shiji Jingji Baodao)(08/13): "Chinese authorities have backed down from accusing four Rio Tinto executives [...]
2009-08-13 09:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2341PRC OFFERS WEAK REACTION TO BURMESE OPPOSITION
[...] (C) China hopes Burma can peacefully resolve its own internal issues and maintains that the international community should not interfere in any country's legal system, MFA Asian Affairs Department Burma Division Deputy Director Chen Chen told PolOff August 13 in response to reftel points urgin [...]
2009-08-13 09:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2342CHINA MONETARY POLICY UNCHANGED, BUT CREDIT FLOW
[...] (C) Summary. China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) Director General Han Mingzhi confirmed to the Acting DCM on August 12 that China will maintain its moderately easy monetary and proactive fiscal policies. At the same time, the CBRC must continue to serve as "watchdog" for the banking sy [...]
2009-08-13 09:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV CH
09BEIJING2343CHINA: DUE DILIGENCE ON NOMINEE FOR THE
[...] (SBU) The following are answers to the due diligence questions posed in reftel. (Note: In the answers below "Cummins" and "the company" refer to the parent company headquartered in the United States; "Cummins China" refers to Cummins' wholly- owned holding company in China as well as its join [...]
2009-08-13 10:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRAD KSEP SENV CH
09BEIJING2355DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL RACE
[...] (SBU) PolOff August 14 conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Specialized Agencies Division Deputy Director Qiao Huijun reftel points on U.S. views with regard to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Director-Genera [...]
2009-08-14 07:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNESCO CH
09BEIJING2360CHINA OFFICIALLY "UNINSTALLS" GREEN DAM INTERNET
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Minister Li announced August 13 computers sold in China would not be subject to mandatory internet censorship software requirements. The remarks represent the highest level signal to date that the Chinese government has off [...]
2009-08-14 08:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING2361MEDIA REACTION: WTO RULING, U.S. "RETURNS TO ASIA," CHINA'S
[...] WTO RULING "WTO ruling will spur improvement of China's audio-visual industry" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (08/14): "If the World Trade Organization ruling is effective, American audio-visual products, primarily Hollywood films [...]
2009-08-14 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2362CHINA: POST CONCURRENCE ON DOL'S UPDATE OF
[...] (SBU) Post appreciates the opportunity to review the Department of Labor's draft update to its list of products that have been "mined, produced or manufactured using forced or indentured child labor" pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13126 (Ref A). Post concurs with the list and has no additi [...]
2009-08-14 09:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM EIND ETRD SOCI CH
09BEIJING237MEDIA REACTION: FINANCIAL CRISIS, WEN JIABAO'S EUROPE TRIP
[...] FINANCIAL CRISIS "U.S. sways Iran to deal with Taliban" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao) (01/30): "Senior U.S. officials have recently extended an olive branch to Iran seeking cooperation on the situation in Afghanistan. The two countries have commo [...]
2009-01-30 07:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2372MEDIA REACTION: U.S-JAPAN-CHINA, U.S. BURMA POLICY, CHINA
[...] U.S-JAPAN-CHINA "The U.S. does not need to use 'Japan's nuclear weapons' to deter China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (08/17): "At Japan's insistence, the U.S. has promised to provide 'nuclear protection' to Japan. The U.S. als [...]
2009-08-17 08:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2374REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION ON U.S.-CHINA BILATERAL
[...] (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 [...]
2009-08-17 22:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV MNUC PREL CH
09BEIJING2382MEDIA REACTION: THE MIDDLE EAST, NORTH KOREA, TAIWAN
[...] THE MIDDLE EAST "The U.S., Russia, and the EU start another round of chess in the Middle East" (pg 3) The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (08/18): "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's meeting with U.S. leaders will play a key role in the Middle East Peace Process. T [...]
2009-08-18 09:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2383RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE ON THE CHINESE WEB
[...] (SBU) Searches for online discussion of religion on the Chinese Internet from June to August revealed a robust discourse on religious doctrine and practice on Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist websites, discussion forums, and blogs as well as on mainstream commercial portals. Chinese religious [...]
2009-08-18 12:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL CH
09BEIJING2391MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC RELATIONS,
[...] NORTH KOREA "North Korea Collapse Theory" can stop (pg 14)" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/19): "Zhang Qiyun, a professor at Beijing University, said that Western media always focuses on speculating North Korea's collapse. The [...]
2009-08-19 09:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2398SEOUL SEARCHING DURING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS:THE
[...] (C) Summary. Falling China-ROK trade levels and an investment dispute between a Chinese firm and its Korean employees have put some strain on China-ROK economic relations. Regarding negotiations among China, Japan, and Korea of a trilateral investment treaty, the Koreans (who signed a bilatera [...]
2009-08-20 03:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL EINV ETRD JA KS CH
09BEIJING2402REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: COMPLEX
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on these individual [...]
2009-08-20 08:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AFIN PTER KCRM SNAR TH CH EAID
09BEIJING2403MEDIA REACTION: AFGHAN ELECTION, CHINESE IMMIGRATION TO
[...] AFGHAN ELECTION "Does the second presidential election in Afghanistan represent a democratic evolution?" (pg 3) 21st Century Publishing Company's business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21 Shiji Jingji Baodao)(08/20): "All of the typical characteristics of Western elections, suc [...]
2009-08-20 08:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2404AFGHANISTAN - MANAGING THE NEIGHBORS: CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: China´s interests in promoting stability along its borders, combating unrest in its western Xinjiang province, and exploiting natural resources in Afghanistan to fuel its domestic economic growth would be advanced by a successful election in Afghanistan, according to PRC scholars an [...]
2009-08-20 09:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF CH
09BEIJING2408CHINA DOES NOT WANT TAIWAN IN THE CGPCS
[...] (C) China would oppose Taiwan participation in the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),but otherwise welcomes broader participation, according to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division official Cheng Lie. Cheng, who plans to attend [...]
2009-08-21 05:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM SO CH
09BEIJING2410SHIELD: PRC FEEDBACK SOUGHT ON PAST CASES OF
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper requesting information on the status of investigations of past cases of chem/bio proliferation concern to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on August 21. Yang said each referenced [...]
2009-08-21 07:16:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING2412MEDIA REACTION: AFGHAN ELECTION, U.S.-CHINA TRADE
[...] AFGHAN ELECTION "Afghanistan: election goes beyond win-lose battle (pg 5)" The official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnianbao)(08/21): "Since President Obama became the U.S. President, in spite of the U.S. sending more troops to Afghanistan, Afghanistan's security [...]
2009-08-21 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2414PRC: INDIAN INFORMATION INADEQUATE TO WARRANT
[...] (C) India has not provided sufficient information about the three Pakistan-based individuals it proposed to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee to merit their listing as terrorists, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin told PolOff Au [...]
2009-08-21 09:11:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH IN PK
09BEIJING2416NOAA DAS DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH CHINA'S CMA AND SOA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dr. James Turner visited Beijing on August 13 to discuss areas of collaboration with the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and State Oceanic Administration (SOA). CMA officials expres [...]
2009-08-23 23:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL SENV TSPA PGOV PREL MARR CH
09BEIJING2418CHINA/AUSTRALIA: BUSINESS GOES ON DESPITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite the recent political tensions between Australia and China over Rebiya Kadeer's visit to Australia and the arrest by Chinese security officials of Rio Tinto executive and Australian citizen Stern Hu, Australia remains committed to developing its economic ties with China, a [...]
2009-08-24 00:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALENRG EINV ECON AS CH
09BEIJING2425MEDIA REACTION: AFGHAN ELECTION, DALAI LAMA, NORTH KOREA
[...] AFGHAN ELECTION "Afghans lost in the elections (pg 5)" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(08/24): "Afghanistan's election is an important step for the west's 'democratic example' in Afghanistan. Citizens of Kab [...]
2009-08-24 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2428PRC SUPREME COURT FACING CONSERVATIVE RETRENCHMENT
[...] (C) Summary. The Chinese Supreme People's Court (SPC) has begun a process of conservative retrenchment under current President Wang Shengjun that is turning back the reforms of his predecessor, Xiao Yang, according to legal scholars and SPC judges. Court officials and legal scholars have cri [...]
2009-08-24 10:42:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SCUL KCOR CH
09BEIJING2429PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: XU ZHIYONG (ON BAIL) AND ILHAM
[...] (C) On August 23, detained rights activist Xu Zhiyong and ethnic Uighur academic Ilham Tohti were released from police custody. Also released was Zhuang Lu, a codefendant in the state's "tax evasion" case against Xu and his NGO, the Open Constitution Initiative. Tohti, whose writings had been [...]
2009-08-24 10:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP SOCI CH
09BEIJING2437MEDIA REACTION: INFLUENCE OF NGOS, MILITARY WEBSITES, U.S.
[...] INFLUENCE OF NGOS "China hampered due to lack of non-governmental organizations" (pg 14) The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/25): "Foreign non-governmental organizations and 'transnational social movements' are increasingly affecti [...]
2009-08-25 09:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2438PRC/IRAN: SCHOLAR SUGGESTS U.S. NEGOTIATE SE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The unstable post-election political climate in Iran likely precludes the initiation of formal negotiations with Iran on ceasing its uranium enrichment program, according to a PRC scholar. Though Iran is sincere in wishing to reach out to the United States on broader bilateral i [...]
2009-08-25 09:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING2441AMBASSADOR MEETS MOFCOM CHEN TO DISCUSS TIRES
[...] (SBU): SUMMARY: During his August 22 meeting with Ambassador Huntsman, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming expressed concern about the possible use by the United States of the special safeguard protection measures against imports of Chinese-produced passenger car tires. Chen said that if the USG [...]
2009-08-25 11:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIJING2447AFRICAN EMBASSIES PREVIEW CHINA-AFRICA FORUM ""
[...] (C) Summary. Egyptian and South African diplomats in Beijing believe the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) offers a good platform for cooperation with China, but would be more useful if African countries did a better job of coordinating among themselves. Chinese investments have been [...]
2009-08-26 07:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH EAID ECON PREL XA EINV
09BEIJING2453MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S CURRENCY, U.S.-CHINA TRADE
[...] CHINA'S CURRENCY "We should not be rash about RMB internationalization" (pg 14) The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/26): "A signal that China is becoming a truly powerful country will be when the world starts to purchase and deposit [...]
2009-08-26 09:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2454PRC WILL ATTEND SEPTEMBER 16-18 ARF DISASTER
[...] (U) China will send a five-person delegation to participate in the ninth annual ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Disaster Relief (ARF ISM-DR) in Honolulu, Hawaii, on September 16-18, MFA Asian Affairs Department Asian Multilateral Security Division Deputy Director Zuo Wenxing to [...]
2009-08-26 09:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ARF EAID MARR CH
09BEIJING2456PRC CONCERNS ABOUT POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE IN
[...] (C) In an August 25 meeting with PolOff, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee International Liaison Department (CCID) Third Bureau Director Wu Baocai expressed concern about post-election violence in Afghanistan and uncertainty as to how to evaluate the strength of the Taliban. Whi [...]
2009-08-26 11:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM EAID MARR NATO PTER CH PK AF
09BEIJING2460MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. ECONOMY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "Does the U.S. condone CNN's interference in Taiwan issues? (pg 14)" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/27): "What is the real intention behind the CNN poll on whether or not Ma Ying Jeou should step down? [...]
2009-08-27 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2461REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: COMPLEX
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Ministry of Public Security who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on these individuals. [...]
2009-08-27 10:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN ASEC CH EAID KCRM PTER SNAR TH
09BEIJING2462OBSTACLES TO JUDICIAL REFORM IN CHIN
[...] (C) Summary: Barriers to instituting genuine rule of law in China remain formidable, according to a variety of legal scholars and judicial officials. The National People's Congress's formal monopoly on interpreting the PRC constitution and the Party-controlled Supreme People's Court's de fac [...]
2009-08-27 23:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SCUL KCOR CH
09BEIJING2464CHINA RESPONSE TO VIOLATIONS OF FAA REGULATIONS
[...] (SBU) As requested in reftels on violations of Federal aviation regulations by Chinese pilots, Econoff presented the case dossiers to the Flight Safety Office of the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) on March 23, 2009 (refs A and B) and on April 13, 2009 (ref C). CAAC conducted an inves [...]
2009-08-28 05:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR CH
09BEIJING2465MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN: DALAI LAMA VISIT, U.S. ARMS SALES;
[...] TAIWAN: DALAI LAMA VISIT, U.S. ARMS SALES "The result will not be good if Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party seeks support from the Dalai Lama" (pg 14) The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/28): "The Democratic Progress Party's (D [...]
2009-08-28 09:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2467China Considers Restrictions on Strategic
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary: ChinaQs Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has drafted a report recommending more stringent restrictions on the export of rare earth metals and further consolidation in the rare earth mining sector over the next six years, according to Chinese media. S [...]
2009-08-28 09:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD ENRG EMIN EIND SENV CH AS
09BEIJING2468DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INVITATION FOR SEPTEMBER 24
[...] (SBU) August 27, Post delivered to the MFA reftel invitation letter from President Obama to PRC President Hu Jintao to attend the September 24 UNSC summit on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. PolOff August 28 provided MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missiles and Convention [...]
2009-08-28 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PARM MNUC KSUM UNSC KNNP CH
09BEIJING2477MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S SECURITY, CCI CORPORATE BRIBERY
[...] CHINA'S SECURITY "Volatile situation in areas neighboring China tests China's response capability" (pg 4) The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (08/31): "China's rise will face greater challenges if the security en [...]
2009-08-31 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2478AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRC PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: Following his August 28 credentialing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, the Ambassador outlined for PRC President Hu Jintao his and President Obama's vision for the U.S.-China relationship and the goals of his mission. The Ambassador said he wanted to build a more "stabl [...]
2009-08-31 09:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ODIP OVIP KOLY CH
09BEIJING2479SUGGESTED AGENDA AND CHINESE PARTICIPANT LIST FOR
[...] (C) Summary. On August 31 MFA External Security Division Director Xia Jingge provided PolOffs with MFA-suggested changes to the draft agenda for the September 14-15 U.S.-China Inter-Agency Counterterrorism Subdialogue, the list of Chinese participants, and an overview of the sensitive issues [...]
2009-08-31 09:17:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER CH
09BEIJING248MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, NORTH KOREA, CHINA'S MILITARY
[...] U.S. POLICY a. "Obama's stance that China has manipulated their exchange rate has changed from his forefront stance to his behind-the-scenes stance" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(02/02): "Geithner has once [...]
2009-02-02 09:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2480PRC INVESTMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN: AFGHAN
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese companies are contributing to Afghanistan's corruption problem by bribing Afghan officials and cutting under-the-table deals, according to Beijing-based Afghan diplomats. Our Afghan contacts said Afghanistan needed China's investment but expressed disappointment with lim [...]
2009-08-31 10:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID EINV EMIN PREL PGOV AF CH PK
09BEIJING2481PRC DOWNPLAYS CONFLICT IN BURMA'S KOKANG REGION
[...] (C) Summary. China's Nansan border region adjacent to the Kokang region of Burma is calm, and refugees have already begun to return to Burma, ConGenOff observed August 30 and 31. PRC government statements and Chinese media accounts downplayed the seriousness of the conflict between ethnic K [...]
2009-08-31 23:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2489MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN, U.S.-CHINA TRADE DISPUTES,
[...] TAIWAN "U.S. secretly pushing cross-Strait military relations for own benefit" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao)(09/01)(pg 4): "During a recent visit to Taiwan, a researcher at an American think tank said the two sides of the Strait c [...]
2009-09-01 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2490SEPTEMBER 1 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: BURMA BORDER, NORTH KOREA,
[...] Key points at the September 1 MFA press briefing: -- China hoped that the Burmese Government would properly handle its domestic issue and guarantee the safety of Chinese citizens and their property in that country. -- The Burmese Government had apologized to China for Chinese casualties, t [...]
2009-09-01 10:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS CO KN TU
09BEIJING2491PRC RECEPTIVE TO SIGNING THE NY DECLARATION
[...] (C) Barring unforeseen problems, China will likely sign the Commitment to Best Management Practices to Avoid, Deter or Delay Acts of Piracy (the New York Declaration) during the public ceremony on September 9 before the plenary meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CG [...]
2009-09-01 10:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT KCRM PHSA PHUM SO XA XW UNSC
09BEIJING2492XINJIANG: INCREASED ETHNIC TENSIONS AND HIGH
[...] (C) Summary: Ethnic tension between Han Chinese and Uighurs has increased dramatically in three southern Xinjiang province cities and in Urumqi since the early- July ethnic violence in the provincial capital, according to local residents. Contacts did not report any increase in restrictions [...]
2009-09-01 11:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING2493BURMA/PRC BORDER SITUATION UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: As cross-border refugees from Burma's Kokang region continue to return to Burma, local residents and remaining refugees in China's Nansan border region told ConGenOff September 1 that refugee flows had moved to border crossings in Yunnan province adjacent to ethnic Wa-controlled [...]
2009-09-01 11:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2494PRC/IRAN: CHINA IN WAIT-AND-SEE MODE BILATERALLY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China is biding its time until the political crisis in Iran reaches a clearer resolution and the Ahmadinejad government consolidates power, and will signal its renewed engagement by sending a high-level delegation to Tehran once the political situation has been resolved, accordin [...]
2009-09-01 12:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING2521 WELCOME TO BEIJING
[...] (U) Embassy Beijing warmly welcomes the visit of S/R Bosworth and delegation to China September 3, 2009 for consultations with Chinese officials. 2. (U) Control Officer: Mark Lambert, Political Officer Home: (86-10)6430-7657 Office: (86-10)8531-3764 Cell: (86)139-1056-2317 Fax: (86-10)8 [...]
2009-09-02 08:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN CH JA KS
09BEIJING2522MEDIA REACTION: SIX PARTY TALKS, JAPANESE ELECTION,
[...] SIX PARTY TALKS "What if the Six-Party Talks completely fail? (pg 14)" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/02): "There are several possible outcomes If all the parties involved in the Six-Party Talks insist on maintaining their own [...]
2009-09-02 09:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2525CHINA/G-20: FOUR WANTS, ONE DON'T WANT, AND A
[...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is drafting China's G-20 Pittsburgh Summit position paper, under the direct guidance of Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei. VFM He would like the summit communique to contain statements endorsing macroeconomic stimulus plans, calling for North-S [...]
2009-09-02 10:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN CH
09BEIJING2526AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FM YANG JIECHI:
[...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, the Ambassador expressed his and President Obama's hope to keep the U.S.-China relationship moving in a positive direction and focused on major issues of mutual concern. FM Yang noted the positive tone set by Presidents Hu [...]
2009-09-02 10:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EFIN MARR SENV CH KN IR
09BEIJING2527PRC ANTIMONOPOLY LAW'S FIRST YEAR LEAVES KEY
[...] (C) Summary: The competition regime established by China's year-old anti-monopoly law (AML) is still plagued by incomplete implementing rules, a lack of decision-making transparency, a perceived reluctance to take on powerful state-owned enterprises (SOEs),and potential jurisdictional confusi [...]
2009-09-03 01:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON CH EINV EIND ECIN ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL
09BEIJING253MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, FINANCIAL CRISIS, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S. POLICY "What does the 'Buy American, hire American' Bill mean?" A Shanghai-based news company under Shanghai Media Group, China Business News (Diyi Caijing Ribao)(02/03): "Recently the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill called the 2009 American Economic Recovery and Reinves [...]
2009-02-03 09:20:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2533THE FOURTH CCP PLENUM: REFORM WITH NO CHANGE
[...] (C) On July 23, a Xinhua press release announced that the Fourth Plenum of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party would convene in September. In keeping with established practice, a date for the Plenum was not announced, but the press release noted that the Plenum would add [...]
2009-09-03 11:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CH
09BEIJING2534BEIJING AND THE DALAI LAMA'S TAIWAN VISIT
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: China has made two public statements on the Dalai Lama's ongoing Taiwan visit; the first condemning the trip but blaming it on Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),the second warning that that the visit is "bound to affect cross-Strait relations." [...]
2009-09-03 11:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF CH TW
09BEIJING2535SEPTEMBER 3 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: VISA POLICY, AMBASSADOR
[...] Key points at the September 3 MFA press briefing: -- In regards to the denial of visas to the producers of a film regarding the earthquake in Sichuan, China stated the importance of an individual country's sovereign right to determine its own policy of visa issuance. -- U.S. Special Repres [...]
2009-09-03 12:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS CO KN TU
09BEIJING2536SERBIA AND CHINA FIND ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: Affirmation of mutual support on respective Serbian and PRC sovereignty issues highlighted the political agenda of Serbian President Boris Tadic's August 19-25 visit to China, according to Serbian diplomats and Chinese government and academic contacts. Despite MFA insistence tha [...]
2009-09-03 23:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID EINV YI KV CH ICJ
09BEIJING254CHINESE ACADEMICS COMMENT ON KOREAN PENINSULA
[...] (C) In conversations with PolOff preceding recent international media reports of increasingly fiery DPRK rhetoric, Chinese scholars predicted that North Korea would seek to manufacture a crisis in order to gain the attention of the new U.S. administration. In view of the disappointing conclus [...]
2009-02-03 09:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KN CH KS
09BEIJING255FEBRUARY 3 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S.-CHINA BILATERAL
[...] Key points at the February 3 MFA Press Briefing: -- China is ready to work with the United States to promote bilateral relations. -- China is a friend of both India and Pakistan and hopes the two countries will "proceed from the interests of regional stability and promote the peace process [...]
2009-02-03 09:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD CH KN XG IN PK KS RP UK SA
09BEIJING2551SINO-TURKISH ECONOMIC RELATIONS STARTING TO THAW
[...] (C) Summary: Sino-Turkish economic relations are on the mend following Turkish State Minister Caglayan's visit to Beijing in late August to repair bilateral relations, but Turkish diplomats in Beijing predicted it might take another year for these relations to fully recover. Trade dropped and [...]
2009-09-04 09:30:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL EINV CH TU
09BEIJING2552MEDIA REACTION: JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE, U.S. NAVAL
[...] JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE "U.S. and Australia invite China to participate in military exercise" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/04)(pg 1): "The invitation by the U.S. and Australia - through their respective media outlets - to Chi [...]
2009-09-04 09:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2555ETHNIC HAN URUMQI RESIDENTS PROTEST "SYRINGE
[...] (C) Security forces locked down central Urumqi late September 3 in the wake of protests by as many as "tens of thousands" of ethnic Han demonstrators, but failed to prevent smaller protests from breaking out September 4. The official PRC Xinhua News Agency said the protesters on September 3 ha [...]
2009-09-04 11:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING256CHINA: ANTI-TRAFFICKING COOPERATION WITH VIETNAM
[...] (C) Anti-trafficking cooperation between China and Vietnam in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Guangxi) is increasingly effective, although trafficking of Vietnamese women and children remains a major problem. More than 200 trafficking victims have been rescued since 2004, but despite efforts [...]
2009-02-03 09:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWNM CH VM
09BEIJING2564MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, CHINA'S
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "If U.S. insists on following its own course, there may be conflicts" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao)(09/08)(pg 24): "In recent years, the U.S. has conducted frequent military surveillance operations nea [...]
2009-09-08 08:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING257AVIAN INFLUENZA--CHINA UPDATE JAN/FEB 2009
[...] SUMMARY: (U) As the country shut down and the population traveled home for the Chinese New Year, four more cases of human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI),influenza A/H5N1, were confirmed (during the January 24-31 period) in the provinces of Guizhou and Hunan, as well a [...]
2009-02-03 23:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAGR PREL HHS CH
09BEIJING2570XINJIANG STABILITY, ISRAEL SETTLEMENTS, PAKISTAN, INDIA
[...] Key points at the September 8 MFA press briefing: -- The Chinese Government was capable of dealing with the situation in Xinjiang and would handle the issue according to law. -- China hoped that Israel would "be prudent and take measures to facilitate the early resumption of talks" with Pal [...]
2009-09-08 09:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC SENV CH KN KS JP IN IR AE IS PK TW
09BEIJING2573GANSU AND QINGHAI TIBETANS SAY TENSIONS EASING,
[...] (S) Tibetans in Qinghai and Gansu provinces reported that human rights conditions are slowly improving, particularly in Qinghai, though some Tibetan monks and academics complained that they continue to experience pressure to cooperate with government propaganda campaigns. PolOff visited the [...]
2009-09-08 10:52:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING2574CROSS-STRAIT TRADE TALKS: THE VIEW FROM BEIJING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-08 11:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL EINV KIPR CM TW
09BEIJING2576PRC:TIRES, XINJIANG, IRAN, TAIWAN, DPRK IN AMB-VFM
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In a September 8 meeting at the MFA, the Ambassador told Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei that the United States wants to find a way forward on the 421 tire case, but is ready to move on 421 if there is no other option. VFM He was pessimistic that we could reach an agreement, and [...]
2009-09-08 12:41:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM PARM MNUC OVIP ECON ETRD AF
09BEIJING2577PRC:TIRES, XINJIANG, IRAN, TAIWAN, DPRK IN AMB-VFM
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In a September 8 meeting at the MFA, the Ambassador told Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei that the United States wants to find a way forward on the 421 tire case, but is ready to move on 421 if there is no other option. VFM He was pessimistic that we could reach an agreement, and [...]
2009-09-08 23:03:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM PARM MNUC OVIP ECON ETRD AF
09BEIJING2584MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLITICS, U.S.-CHINA TIRE CASE,
[...] U.S. POLITICS "Obama's popularity plummets; is the Democratic Party repeating its defeat?" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(09/09): "Obama's healthcare reform plan has been in a very dangerous situati [...]
2009-09-09 09:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING259Illicit Financial Activities in China: Potential
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 30, Director General Tang Xu of the PeopleQs Bank of China (PBOC) Anti-Money Laundering Bureau (AMLB) outlined recent efforts to combat illicit financial activities in China, including Penal Code revision and expanded on-site examinations. He suggested USG agencies [...]
2009-02-04 02:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL CH
09BEIJING2592MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND CONGRESSIONAL
[...] U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS "$12.38 billion contract signed; new energy promotes Sino-U.S. economic and trade relationship" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(09/10)(pg A3): "The U.S. and China have reached 41 [...]
2009-09-10 08:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2593CHINA: NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE REPORTING REQUEST
[...] (C) Below, please find Embassy Beijing's responses to reftel questions in preparation for the 2010 Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference (RevCon). -- What is the host government's general attitude towards CTBT, FMCT, NPT, and U.S.-Russian arms control efforts? What factors influence its [...]
2009-09-10 09:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PGOV UNGA
09BEIJING2594MPS DISCUSSES CHINA'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: China continues to develop its prosecutorial and administrative abilities to counter trafficking in persons (TIP) and recognizes the importance of properly taking care of trafficking victims, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Official responsible for TIP issues emphasized i [...]
2009-09-10 09:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH
09BEIJING2595REAL SYMPATHY FOR "FAKE PANCHEN": MANY TIBETANS
[...] (S) Tibetan contacts in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces are resentful of Communist Party efforts to force Tibetan Buddhists to accept Gyaincain Norbu as the 11th Panchen Lama. As the "11th Panchen" (born in 1990) grows into adulthood, however, some Tibetans, especially monks, say they sympathize [...]
2009-09-10 11:42:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING2596SEPTEMBER 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: GUANTANAMO UIGHURS, INDIA
[...] Key points at the September 10 MFA press briefing: -- China opposes any country accepting Uighur detainees after their release from Guantanamo. The individuals should be repatriated to China as soon as possible. -- China and India were making joint efforts to "safeguard peace and tranquili [...]
2009-09-10 23:20:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS KN IR IN JP LG UP MP YI
09BEIJING2597SEPTEMBER 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: GUANTANAMO UIGHURS, INDIA
[...] Key points at the September 10 MFA press briefing: -- China opposes any country accepting Uighur detainees after their release from Guantanamo. The individuals should be repatriated to China as soon as possible. -- China and India were making joint efforts to "safeguard peace and tranquili [...]
2009-09-10 23:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS KN IR IN JP LG UP MP YI
09BEIJING26January 6 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: MIDDLE EAST, SOMALI PIRACY,
[...] Key points at the January 6 MFA press briefing: -- China has told "relevant parties" to "stop military action" in the Middle East. -- Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao fishing vessels can apply for protection from the Chinese naval flotilla in the sea off Somalia through appropriate channels. [...]
2009-01-06 11:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EWWT CH TW IS
09BEIJING2609REACTION TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS; CODEL MORAN VISITS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representative James Moran (D-VA) and Joint Economic Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) visited Beijing September 1 to 3 to meet with key financial, sovereign wealth, and Chinese government leaders. Responding to entreaties to open an office in New York, China's sovereign we [...]
2009-09-11 08:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON EFIN EINV ETRD OREP
09BEIJING2612MEDIA REACTION: 9/11 ANNIVERSARY, U.S.-CHINA MILITARY
[...] 9/11 ANNIVERSARY "9/11 incident still bothers U.S." The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/11)(pg 7): "Chinese scholar Geng Xin said that the U.S. initially had the support and sympathy of the world after 9/11, but after launching two [...]
2009-09-11 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2615CHINA/INDIA: TENSIONS OVER ADB DISPUTE SUBSIDE AS
[...] (C) Summary: The India-China border dispute and their recent skirmish at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) over a proposed project in Arunachal Pradesh (AP) "will not get in the way" of bilateral economic relations, according to an Indian diplomat. He said both sides were focused on increasing [...]
2009-09-11 09:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PREL PGOV CH IN
09BEIJING2616PRC RESPONSE TO U.S. UNHRC PRIORITIES
[...] (U) On September 11, PolOff delivered to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Organizations and Conferences Department, Human Rights Affairs Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun reftel points on U.S. priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). Yao noted he [...]
2009-09-11 10:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UN UNHRC CH
09BEIJING2617BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON JAPANESE
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing on September 11, Japanese Ambassador Miyamoto stated that while the recent elections in Japan were "significant," he does not expect major changes in Japan's foreign policy. British Ambassador William Ehrman said the United Kingdom was " [...]
2009-09-11 11:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING2618China's Response to USDOL Child/Forced Labor Lists
[...] (U) Embassy Beijing Labor Officer delivered reftel demarche points and advanced copies of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) and Executive Order 13126 (Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor) lists to China's Ministry of H [...]
2009-09-13 23:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV PHUM CH
09BEIJING2626MEDIA REACTION: U.S. TARIFFS ON CHINESE TIRE IMPORTS
[...] U.S. TARIFFS ON CHINESE TIRE IMPORTS "Special protective case puts Obama in an embarrassing situation" The Beijing-based newspaper sponsored by official intellectual publication Guangming Daily and Guangdong Provincial official publication Nanfang Daily The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao)(09/1 [...]
2009-09-14 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2628Demarche Delivered: China on UNGA Food
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to the International Organizations and Conferences Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on September 10 and had a follow-up conversation on September 14. MFA officials said they are coordinating with the Ministry of Agriculture on the invitation [...]
2009-09-14 11:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD EAGR EAID UNGA PREL CH
09BEIJING2630PRC REACTS TO U.S. TIRE SAFEGUARDS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Official Chinese reaction to the U.S. decision announced September 11 to impose Section 421 tariffs against Chinese tire imports has thus far been contained to the trade sector, in line with PRC indications to the high-level interagency delegation in Beijing last week. MOFCOM anno [...]
2009-09-14 12:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIJING2635CHINA/KUWAIT: GUANGDONG REFINERY AND PETROCHEMICAL
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The USD 10 billion deal between Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and Chinese state-owned refining giant Sinopec to build a petrochemical plant and oil refinery in Guangdong Province could be derailed by a dispute over distribution rights, according to a KPC executive [...]
2009-09-15 05:04:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ENRG EPET PREL SENV PGOV CH KU
09BEIJING2645MEDIA REACTION: U.S. TARIFFS ON CHINESE TIRE IMPORTS
[...] U.S. TARIFFS ON CHINESE TIRE IMPORTS "Let trade retaliation become China's weapon" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/15)(pg 15): "The Chinese people support China's retaliatory measures against the U.S., and believe China has the [...]
2009-09-15 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2646SEPTEMBER 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK TRIPS, TIBET ISSUE,
[...] Key points at the September 15 MFA press briefing: -- The spokesperson had no information about reported trips to the DPRK by either State Councilor Dai Bingguo or Premier Wen Jiabao. -- China firmly opposed foreign officials meeting with the Dalai Lama and opposed the Dalai Lama's engageme [...]
2009-09-15 09:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PBTS MNUC CH KN IR IN JP AF
09BEIJING265CHINA INFORMED OF 2008 CANBERRA MTCR PLENARY
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel non-paper describing the results of the November 2008 Canberra Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Third Secretary Liu Wei on February 4, stressing the important contribution China could ma [...]
2009-02-04 09:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA CH
09BEIJING2651DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRC TO REFRAIN FROM STATEMENTS
[...] (C) Summary: China will avoid making any pronouncement on the outcome of Afghanistan's August 20 presidential election until after the Independent Election Commission (IEC) releases final certified results, according to an MFA official. China would like the next Afghan government to make pro [...]
2009-09-16 06:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF PK CH
09BEIJING2653SENATOR CANTWELL SEP 4-5 VISIT TO BEIJING
[...] (SBU) Summary. Senator Cantwell (D-WA) visited Beijing September 4-5, 2009, meeting with State Council Vice Premier Wang Qishan and NDRC Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua. The Senator's key message to policy makers here was that although the U.S. and China together created 40 percent of the world's g [...]
2009-09-16 07:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIJING2656EU ON TIRES CASE; CHINESE REACTIONS DAY TWO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EU Commission officials told Econ M/C September 16 their Chinese interlocutors on trade had not raised the tires issue in meetings earlier this week, though PRC Commerce Minister Chen Deming had been very tough on the subject when he met EU Commissioner Ashton in New Delhi two [...]
2009-09-16 09:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIJING2657MEDIA REACTION: U.S. TARIFFS ON CHINESE TIRE IMPORTS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-16 09:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2658RIO-TINTO UPDATES AMBASSADOR ON STERN HU ARREST
[...] (C) Summary: Rio Tinto Iron Ore (Rio) has quietly reopened negotiations with Chinalco as part of an effort to win the release of its employee and Australian national Stern Hu. In response to Hu's arrest and to avoid further accusations of stealing secrets, Rio is considering transferring all o [...]
2009-09-16 09:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD EINV PREL EMIN CH AS
09BEIJING2660AMBASSADOR BADER AND FM YANG DISCUSS THE
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 15 meeting with NSC Senior Director for Asian Affairs Ambassador Jeffrey Bader, Foreign Minister Yang was upbeat on the overall trend in U.S.-China relations. Ambassador Bader outlined his expectations for the planned November travel of President Obama to China, o [...]
2009-09-16 15:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EFIN MARR SENV CH KN IR
09BEIJING2669MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA TRADE, U.S. NATIONAL
[...] U.S.-CHINA TRADE "Obama is not reliable" The official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnianbao)(09/17)(pg 2): "The special protection case on tires reflects the remarkable cultural differences between China and the United States. Chinese experts were so optimistic a [...]
2009-09-17 09:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2670SEPTEMBER 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NIS REPORT, NORTH
[...] Key points at the September 17 MFA press briefing: -- Regarding the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy report, China urged the United States to drop its "Cold War mentality," which could undermine mutual trust and mislead the American public. -- On North Korea, China remained committed to [...]
2009-09-17 23:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PBTS MNUC CH KN KS IR JP AF RS SF
09BEIJING2671TIRE SAFEGUARD CASE: PRC RELEASES AD/CVD PETITION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) formally notified Embassy late the afternoon of September 16 of its considertaion of an anti-dumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petition on imports of chicken products from the U.S. Based on the product categories listed in the petition, th [...]
2009-09-17 23:19:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIJING2674DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING PRC SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) China has yet to study the text of the follow-on amendment to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1820 but plans to give the proposed draft "positive consideration," according to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division official Cheng Lie. In respo [...]
2009-09-17 23:19:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALKPKO PHUM KWMN PREL CG CH
09BEIJING2679P-3 NPT AND FMCT DRAFT AGENDA DELIVERED TO CHINA
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche outlining a draft agenda for a discussion of Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) issues at the upcoming P-3 meeting in Washington on September 18 to Zhang Hongliu of MFA's Arms Control and Disarmament Department General Po [...]
2009-09-18 03:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09BEIJING268MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] U.S. POLICY a. "Financial crisis leads to a reduction in the U.S. military budget---this is a bonus in the crisis" 21 Century Business Heral (21Shiji Jingji Baodao) under Guangdong 21 century publishing company Ltd. (02/04): "During this financial downturn, America, Russia and several othe [...]
2009-02-04 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2680COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST-BAN TREATY, ARTICLE XIV
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-18 04:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KTBT IN PK CH
09BEIJING2681POTUS EUROPEAN-BASED MISSILE DEFENSE DECISION
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche explaining the President's decision to adapt our Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) architecture in Europe to Zhang Hongliu of MFA's Arms Control and Disarmament Department General Policy Division on September 18. Zhang, speaking unofficially, told PolOff that [...]
2009-09-18 04:17:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL MARR EZ CH
09BEIJING2688MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA TRADE, U.S.-NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S.-CHINA TRADE "U.S. pressures China and India on emissions reduction before the G20" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/18)(pg 11): "China and India have made significant progress on environmental protection and economic devel [...]
2009-09-18 07:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2690TIRE CASE: SOY BEANS NEXT?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese media September 18 raised possible tire dispute-inspired trade remedies against U.S. soybean and auto product imports. The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has not released any petition on U.S. auto products, but unconfirmed press reports said NDRC met with Chinese industry [...]
2009-09-18 09:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIJING2691ONLINE MUSIC DISTRIBUTION FACES MORE HURDLES IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. China issued new regulations on September 3 requiring all foreign-recorded music be reviewed by the Ministry of Culture (MOC) before being distributed online. Online music providers must also prove to the MOC they have permission from copyright owners to sell and distribute the [...]
2009-09-18 09:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KIPR PGOV CH
09BEIJING2692PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: EMBASSY ROUNDTABLE WITH RIGHTS
[...] (C) On September 10, Embassy Beijing hosted a round-table discussion with 19 Beijing-based rights lawyers, visiting Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor senior advisor Susan O'Sullivan, and third-country diplomats. Most of the Chinese participants were among a group of lawyers whose li [...]
2009-09-18 11:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PROP SOCI CH
09BEIJING2693SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Mister Deputy Secretary, your trip to Beijing comes as a simultaneously prosperous and stable yet anxious and brittle China prepares for its 60th birthday October 1. Thirty years of double-digit economic growth have brought a measure of stability and prosperity to many, yet numerous politi [...]
2009-09-18 12:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH KN AF PK TW
09BEIJING2697MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, G20 SUMMIT
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. and China should be more active in managing bilateral crises" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/21)(pg 14): "The recent meeting between U.S. officials and the Dalai Lama and the U.S. special protecti [...]
2009-09-21 09:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2699PRC FOCUSED ON ITS TERRITORIAL CLAIMS IN SOUTH
[...] (C) Summary: China's primary interests in the South China Sea (SCS) are to defend its claimed territorial boundaries, protect and develop its claims to natural resources, and maintain freedom of navigation, according to an Embassy contact. Scholars and officials suggest China prefers to addr [...]
2009-09-21 10:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHSA MARR PHUM PGOV VN CH
09BEIJING2703 U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U. S.
[...] (U) Summary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Shanghai CDC) are collaborating on preparations for the World Expo 2010, including, developing a healt [...]
2009-09-22 03:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TBIO SOCI CH APER
09BEIJING2716China/Migrant Unrest: What Happened to Fears of
[...] (SBU) Summary: After reporting that 20 million migrant workers returned home for the 2009 Chinese New Year holiday unemployed, the Chinese government recently announced that the migrant labor situation has significantly improved, thereby reducing the likelihood of social unrest. China's Minist [...]
2009-09-22 09:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV EFIN CH
09BEIJING2718MEDIA REACTION: U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM, AFGHANISTAN
[...] U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM "Obama's new policy receives unprecedented criticism" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/22)(pg 1): "Obama's plan to reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal will surprise the world even more than his decision to [...]
2009-09-22 09:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2719TA'ER TOURIST TRAP: TIBETAN CONTACTS LAMENT
[...] (S) Summary: Tibetan contacts in Qinghai Province expressed dismay at the impact unregulated tourism is having on Kumbum (Ta'er) Monastery, one of the most important religious sites in Tibetan Buddhism. A monk at Kumbum told PolOff that roughly half of the 800 monks have been "corrupted" by [...]
2009-09-22 10:35:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL KIFR CH IN
09BEIJING2720SEPTEMBER 22 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: UIGHUR LEADER, JOURNALITS
[...] Key points at the September 22 MFA press briefing: -- Dolkun Isa, the Uighur leader recently refused entry into South Korea, was suspected of various crimes and wanted by Chinese and international police -- The MFA passed along the concerns of Kyodo journalists who said they had been beate [...]
2009-09-22 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MNUC PARM SENV CH KN KS JP RS
09BEIJING2724MONGOLIA-CHINA RELATIONS: HIGH-LEVEL PROGRESS,
[...] (C) Summary: The 60th anniversary of the establishment of PRC-Mongolia relations has moved that relationship in a positive direction, but mutual popular mistrust persists, according to Beijing-based scholars. Per the Mongolian Embassy, plans are for Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to visit Mongoli [...]
2009-09-23 06:19:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH MG NK MARR PBTS
09BEIJING2727DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INVITATION TO UNPKO TOP
[...] (SBU) On September 22, Post conveyed to the MFA, under the Ambassador's cover letter, reftel invitation from President Obama to PRC President Hu Jintao to attend the September 23 event at UN headquarters to honor top contributors of troops and police contingents to UN peacekeeping operations. [...]
2009-09-23 08:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA KPKO CH
09BEIJING2728MEDIA REACTION: G20 SUMMIT, CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] G20 SUMMIT "U.S. and UK propose 'global economic rebalancing'" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(09/23)(pg A4): "With the G20 summit in Pittsburgh drawing nearer, G20 countries are accelerating efforts to lay out their respective [...]
2009-09-23 08:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2730REFCOORD MEETING WITH MFA: REFUGEE LEGISLATION,
[...] (C) Summary: China has worked to pass domestic refugee legislation for the past 10 years, but "technical issues" and differences among interested ministries have prevented the legislation from being codified into law, according to an MFA official. Reiterating the well-known PRC position on No [...]
2009-09-23 10:06:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PINR PHUM PREL CH KN KS
09BEIJING2731FOURTH PLENUM: XI NOT APPOINTED TO CMC; NO
[...] (C) Summary: Although contacts expressed surprise that Vice President Xi Jinping was not appointed Central Military Commission Vice Chairman at the four-day Fourth Plenum of the Seventeenth CCP Central Committee that concluded September 18, most cautioned against reading too much into the decision [...]
2009-09-23 11:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MARR KDEM CH
09BEIJING2733PRE-ANNIVERSARY TIGHTENING OF CONTROLS ON NGOS
[...] (C) Summary: In the run-up to the October 1 sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chinese authorities have tightened control over civil society groups, according to contacts. In recent months, many NGOs have encountered official harassment, ranging from off [...]
2009-09-24 06:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING2734CHINA: RURAL LAND AND RELIGIOUS DISPUTES IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Rural land, corruption among local officials, and conflicts between different sects of Sunni Islam are equally important causes of unrest in rural Ningxia, though contacts downplayed the overall risks of instability. Disputes over rural land are largely limited to land confiscati [...]
2009-09-24 06:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL SOCI CH
09BEIJING2744China's Food Security Challenges and
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although China has eliminated widespread hunger and malnutrition within its borders, Beijing still faces challenges in ensuring predictable, affordable domestic food supplies, including: land and water constraints, ecological problems, trade barriers, a poor regulatory and inve [...]
2009-09-24 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD EAGR EAID PREL CH
09BEIJING2746MEDIA REACTION: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, TIRE TRADE, U.S.-CHINA
[...] NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT "The U.S. and UK actively promote 'a world free of nuclear weapons'" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/24)(pg 16): "According to a recent poll, the Chinese people have serious doubts about the attitudes of the [...]
2009-09-24 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2753UIGHUR BUSINESSWOMAN DESCRIBES XINJIANG REGION
[...] (S) Summary: A Uighur businesswoman and author, who is also a staff member of the Xinjiang Region Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, described mass detentions of Uighurs in the wake of the early-July ethnic violence in Urumqi. She described how she was almost detained August [...]
2009-09-24 09:52:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPHUM PGOV KIRF CH
09BEIJING2754PRC RESPONSE TO GOLDSTONE REPORT
[...] (C) On September 24, PolOff delivered to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Organizations and Conferences Department, Human Rights Affairs Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun reftel points on U.S. concerns regarding the conclusions and recommendations of the Goldstone Report. 2. (C [...]
2009-09-24 10:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS
09BEIJING2755SEPTEMBER 24 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN SANCTIONS, G-20
[...] Key points at the September 24 MFA press briefing: -- Sanctions on Iran "are not the way out" and China urges all parties to resolve the nuclear issue through dialogue. -- President Hu will give an important speech at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh on September 25. -- Planning continues f [...]
2009-09-24 23:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MNUC PARM CH KS JP IR
09BEIJING2769CHINESE GOVERNMENT INFORMED OF POTENTIAL COLLISION
[...] (SBU) On September 23, Post provided to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and both the Department of Arms Control, Outer Space, and Missile Issues and Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),information regarding the potential f [...]
2009-09-25 09:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALTSPA TSPL TPHY PREL CH
09BEIJING2770CHINA/PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI OFFICIALS PRAISE PRC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China's model of economic assistance benefits Pakistan and generates goodwill for China, according to a Beijing-based Pakistani diplomat. He praised China's focus on "bricks and mortar" development and use of concessionary loans and criticized USAID and other donors' for wasting [...]
2009-09-25 09:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID EINV ENRG ETRD PREL PGOV CH PK
09BEIJING2771MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S SECURITY, G20 SUMMIT, GLOBAL
[...] CHINA'S SECURITY "Hu Jintao explained China's new security concepts at the UN General Assembly" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(09/25)(pg A2): "Wang Yizhou, a professor at Beijing University's Institute of International Relati [...]
2009-09-25 09:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2772 BEIJING WELCOMES DEPUTY SECRETARY JAMES
[...] (U) Embassy Beijing warmly welcomes Deputy Secretary James Steinberg and delegation to China September 28-29, 2009, for consultations with Chinese officials. Delegation members include: Mr. Joseph Donovan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs; Mr. Sung [...]
2009-09-25 10:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOVIP AMGT CH KS JA
09BEIJING2773POST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ASSESS RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: U.S.-China law enforcement cooperation, while increasingly important to broadening bilateral ties, continues to face considerable challenges. The Chinese have yet to establish a record of reliable and productive law enforcement cooperation. Notwithstanding some limited joint la [...]
2009-09-25 10:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM KFRD KJUS SOCI CH
09BEIJING2785MEDIA REACTION: U.S. SOUTHEAST ASIA POLICY, NUCLEAR
[...] U.S. SOUTHEAST ASIA POLICY "U.S. strategy for returning to Southeast Asia is gradually becoming clear" The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao)(09/28)(pg 12): "At the G20 summit, President Obama said he wanted to hold the first ASEAN-U.S. summit in Singapore [...]
2009-09-28 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2787DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRC STRESSES ROLE OF IAEA,
[...] (C) China hopes the IAEA will investigate reports of Iran's covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom according to its mandate, according to MFA Department of Arms Control and Disarmament Nuclear Division Deputy Director Shen Jian. In response to reftel points on the Qom facility, Shen stres [...]
2009-09-28 10:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MNUC PARM CH IR
09BEIJING2788PRC OFFERS CAUTIOUS, YET POSITIVE REACTION TO
[...] (C) China believes the U.S. decision to have direct communication with Burmese authorities is positive and would like to maintain contact with the United States on the Burma issue, according to an MFA official. In response to reftel points previewing the conclusions of the Burma policy review, [...]
2009-09-28 11:06:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2791PROGRESS IN THE JCCT INSURANCE DIALOGUE
[...] (U) Summary. China will act on a USG request to amend its administrative regulations of the insurance industry to distinguish between serious and minor violations to avoid overly-penalizing minor transgressions, a senior China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) official told visiting Assis [...]
2009-09-29 08:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECON CH
09BEIJING2792MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, EAST ASIA, CHINA TRADE POLICY
[...] IRAN "China could take more initiative on the Iran issue" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(09/29)(pg 14): "In the past, China could, together with Russia, oppose U.S., UK, and French proposals on Iran. However, now that the U.S. ha [...]
2009-09-29 08:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2793PRC/IRAN: SCHOLARS CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR COVERT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While state-run media in China question the motives of Western-led efforts to deal with the Iranian nuclear issue and stress that dialogue is the only way forward, two of China's leading Iran experts are doubtful the P5-plus-1 engagement with Iran will bear fruit. They echoed co [...]
2009-09-29 13:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING2794SEPTEMBER 29 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, NORTH KOREA, BURMA,
[...] Key points at the September 29 MFA press briefing: -- China supported the maintenance of the nuclear nonproliferation program and resolving the Iran issue through negotiation. -- During his visit to North Korea, Premier Wen Jiabao would exchange ideas on bilateral and regional issues of mut [...]
2009-09-29 23:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MNUC PARM CH KS KN RS IR ZK BM AF
09BEIJING2795CHINESE MORE FREE TO DECIDE BIRTH TIMING AND SPACING BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China has relaxed some family planning controls and is turning towards more incentive-based mechanisms for the enforcement of family planning policies and targets. Although a restrictive policy, especially for urban areas, still exists, the most significant progress is increasi [...]
2009-09-29 23:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI KPAO KPOP PHUM TBIO UNFPA CH
09BEIJING280ROKS BRIEFED ON CCP OFFICIAL WANG JIARUI'S VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee International Liaison Department (CCID) Director Wang Jiarui met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il for five hours during his January 21-24 visit to Pyongyang and reports Kim appeared well, according to ROK Embassy contacts who wer [...]
2009-02-05 08:06:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH KN KS
09BEIJING2802TIBET: CHINA URGES CANCELATION OF SPEAKER PELOSI'S
[...] (C) Summary: Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei called in the Ambassador September 30 to urge cancellation of House Speaker Pelosi's planned meeting and joint press conference with the Dalai Lama. Tibet, VFM He said, is a "core interest," and such a meeting would impinge upon China's sovereignt [...]
2009-09-30 07:11:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING2805CHINA/REBALANCING: RURAL LAND POLICY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China has made only incremental progress on rural land policy reforms needed to restructure China's rural economy and increase rural consumption. Transfers of land use rights have increased gradually in recent years, but the overall amount of rural land that has been transferr [...]
2009-09-30 07:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR SOCI CH
09BEIJING2806MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE, IRAN, CHINA'S FUTURE
[...] CLIMATE CHANGE "U.S. politics will hinder efforts to counter global warming" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(09/30)(pg 2): "The Democratic Party in the United States has prepared for the worst: when n [...]
2009-09-30 08:20:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2808CARROTS AND STICKS IN CHINA'S ENFORCEMENT OF FAMILY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Beijing experts on family planning assert that China's family planning efforts have broadened beyond population targets and include a number of programs and strategies emphasizing a more incentive-based and service-oriented approach. Targets remain, however, as do heavy financi [...]
2009-09-30 08:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI KPAO KPOP TBIO CH
09BEIJING2810AF/PAK: PRC VIEWS ON COOPERATION WITH U.S.,
[...] (C) Summary: PRC distrust in U.S. strategic intentions in South Asia and the PRC's stove-piped bureaucracy impede China's willingness to coordinate efforts with the United States on Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to Chinese scholars at two government-affiliated think tanks. To overcome [...]
2009-09-30 10:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID MARR KDEM AF IN PK CH BM
09BEIJING2811PARANOIA ON PARADE: CHINA'S LEADERS TAKE NO
[...] (C) Summary and Introduction: In a security clampdown reminiscent of the lead-up to the August 8, 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony, authorities in Beijing are setting up checkpoints, locking down dissidents, and tightening Internet censorship in the run-up to the October 1 national day. A [...]
2009-09-30 11:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PROP CH
09BEIJING2812NORTH KOREA: UPDATE ON UNDP AND WORLD FOOD PROGRAM
[...] (C) The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is preparing to restart its program in North Korea, a World Food Program (WFP) official in Beijing told Econoffs (the UNDP office here declined to confirm this report),and Chinese officials have, for the first time ever, asked WFP for briefing [...]
2009-10-03 00:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID EAGR ECON PREL KN CH
09BEIJING2813AUSPICIOUS JCM: MARKING THIRTY YEARS OF U.S.-CHINA SCIENCE
[...] (SBU) Senior Chinese government officials from across China's science and technology (S&T) establishment are eagerly looking forward to engaging their U.S. government counterparts at the upcoming 13th Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) on Science and Technology, set to take place in Washington, DC [...]
2009-10-03 00:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG TSPA TPHY TBIO CH
09BEIJING2814 U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U. S.
[...] (SBU) Summary: In mid-September, a request for technical consultation by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC),and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) experts working in China on 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) was made by Dr. WANG Yu, Director of the [...]
2009-10-06 23:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TBIO SOCI CH GT KE EG TH KZ
09BEIJING2824MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT MODEL, U.S.-CHINA
[...] CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT MODEL "China's rise ends the unilateral world" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(10/02)(pg 15): "China's implementation of the opening up and reform policy and its rapid economic development after 1978 has frustra [...]
2009-10-07 08:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2825MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Obama plays 'hurry scurry' with the Dalai Lama" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(10/08)(pg 3): "Obama does not want the Dalai Lama making trouble at a critical time when the U.S. needs Ch [...]
2009-10-08 08:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2826ACTION REQUEST: USG COMMENTS ON PRC DRAFT BID AND
[...] (SBU) China's State Council Legislative Affairs Office published draft implementing regulations for the Bidding and Tendering Law on September 30, 2009. The draft regulations are available at the following website: www.chinalaw.gov. Comments are due October 26, 2009. Post is preparing a sum [...]
2009-10-08 09:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PGOV EINV WTRO CH
09BEIJING2836PRC/AFRICA: KENYAN AMBASSADOR SEES PRACTICAL AID
[...] (C) Summary: While the United States and other Western countries focus on human rights and capacity building in Africa, China takes a more pragmatic and realistic approach to African aid, according to Kenya's Ambassador to the PRC. Kenyans feel that their positive attitudes toward the United [...]
2009-10-09 09:42:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID KDEM KE CH
09BEIJING2837MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S VISIT TO CHINA, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT
[...] OBAMA'S VISIT TO CHINA "Obama will visit China for four days during his eight-day trip to Asia" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(10/09)(pg 16): "According to a Global Times poll on October 8, Chinese netizens are not very enthusiast [...]
2009-10-09 09:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING284MEDIA REACTION: BUYING AMERICAN BILL, FINANCIAL CRISIS,
[...] BUYING AMERICAN BILL "'Buying American' is using the wrong solution; this will cause more problems in the future" The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao)(02/05): "The International Opinion described the recent 'Buy American' bill as an extremely stupid econo [...]
2009-02-05 09:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2845US-China Energy Policy Dialogue: Room for
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary: The fourth U.S.-China Energy Policy Dialogue (EPD) held September 27 in Qingdao agreed on the importance of deepening cooperation on clean energy issues in order to address global climate change and to strengthen energy security, and noted this topic would likely be high [...]
2009-10-13 09:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV CH
09BEIJING2847OCTOBER 13 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK MISSILES, NOBEL PRIZE,
[...] Key points at the October 13 MFA press briefing: -- North Korea's recent short-range missile test would not affect the improving situation on the Korean Peninsula. -- China congratulated President Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -- During his visit to China, A/S Campbell wo [...]
2009-10-13 11:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM CH KS KN RS IR AF IN PK UK
09BEIJING2849APEC: U.S. SENIOR OFFICIAL FOR APEC TONG
[...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting in Beijing September 29, U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Affairs Kurt Tong reviewed a range of U.S. priorities in APEC with China's Senior Official for APEC (SOM) Lu Kang, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The two highlighted the shared int [...]
2009-10-13 23:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN ECON PGOV ETRD APECO CH
09BEIJING285PRO-REFORM BLOGGER DESCRIBES PRC DEMOCRACY GROUPS,
[...] (C) The main model for the December-released "Charter 08" manifesto calling for democratic reforms in China (ref B) was "Formosa Magazine," the former journal of the Taiwan democratic opposition, according to well-known Chinese liberal blogger and media commentator Zhao Jin (aka "Michael Anti, [...]
2009-02-05 10:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI KDEM TW CH
09BEIJING2850MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, U.S.-CHINA TRADE
[...] OBAMA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE a. "Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize and Shocks the World" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(10/10)(pg 1): "Jin Canrong, professor of the People's University of China, commented that giving the Prize to Obama is [...]
2009-10-14 02:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING286TWO AFRICAN DIPLOMATS IN BEIJING SHARE VIEWS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China's growing engagement with Africa is a mixed blessing for African nations, according to two Beijing-based Rwandan and Nigerian diplomats. While acknowledging the positive role that China plays in Africa, the two diplomats lamented the imbalance in power between China and sm [...]
2009-02-05 10:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH NI RW
09BEIJING2863MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, NORTH KOREA, CHINA-JAPAN
[...] U.S. POLICY "Looking into the hidden truth about Obama's first Asia trip" Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao),a newspaper affiliated with the official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (10/13)(pg 14): "On Obama's first trip to Asia, his attendance at the U.S.-ASEAN summit in Singapo [...]
2009-10-14 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2864SUBJECT: EAP A/S CAMPBELL AND MFA DG ZHENG
[...] (C) Summary: The international community's engagement strategy and overall policy of sanctions against Burma have failed, said MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang in an October 13 working lunch with EAP A/S Campbell. A/S Campbell called for incre [...]
2009-10-14 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM PGOV CASC SENV CH TW BM
09BEIJING2865China/Electric Vehicles: Participants at First US-China
[...] (SBU) Summary. During the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-China Electric Vehicle (EV) Forum held in Beijing September 29, key industry, government and academic leaders underscored the need for greater cooperation on the development of electric vehicles, particularly in the area of developing st [...]
2009-10-14 09:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ELTN EIND SENV CH
09BEIJING2866SUBJECT: SCHOLAR SAYS PRC EFFORTS TO CURB OVERSEAS
[...] (C) Summary: PRC efforts to curb Chinese dissident activities abroad are directly proportional to PRC perceptions of influence of the countries involved, according to a Chinese scholar. For example, China will take some action should its demands that no "controversial" figures attend the Oct [...]
2009-10-14 09:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH EZ LO GE SCUL
09BEIJING2867PRC EDUCATION VICE MINISTER SUPPORTS PROPOSAL TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: PRC Education Vice Minister Hao Ping embraced a U.S. proposal to double the projected number of U.S. students studying in China to 100,000 over the next four years. During an October 13 meeting with EAP A/S Campbell, Vice Minister Hao expressed hope to reach agreement on the p [...]
2009-10-14 09:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SCUL PGOV CVIS SOCI CASC CH ED
09BEIJING2868PRC/BURMA: A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH ASIAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In an October 13 meeting with EAP A/S Kurt Campbell, MFA Asian Affairs Department Director General Yang Yanyi said that China saw many positive aspects in the U.S. review of its Burma policy and suggested proceeding based on its conclusion, despite PRC concern over continuing sanc [...]
2009-10-14 10:46:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PHUM PGOV PARM BM KN CH
09BEIJING2869PRC RESPONSE TO GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE
[...] (C) On October 14, PolOff delivered to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Organizations and Conferences Department, Human Rights Affairs Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun reftel points on the U.S. position on the Report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaze Conflict (the Goldst [...]
2009-10-14 10:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER IS CH KPAL
09BEIJING287FEBRUARY 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HUMAN RIGHTS, IRAN, DPRK,
[...] Key points at the February 5 MFA Press Briefing: -- China "attaches great importance" to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) upcoming review of China's human rights record. -- China hopes the P5-plus-1 countries will "stick to diplomatic negotiations" and show "creativity" to resolve the Ir [...]
2009-02-05 23:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM SENV CH CA IR KN
09BEIJING2870PRC: A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH VFM HE YAFEI
[...] (S) Summary: China appreciates that President Obama plans to spend three days in China and hopes the visit will produce concrete results, China's Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told EAP A/S Campbell October 13. China also hopes for a joint statement that will send a positive message that the [...]
2009-10-14 11:14:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PGOV MARR KNNP MNUC SENV APEC KN KS CH
09BEIJING2872A/S CAMPBELL'S DINNER WITH CHINESE ACADEMICS:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At an October 13 dinner with EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell, three leading Chinese international affairs experts urged the United States to start bilateral talks with North Korea. China had done its part by keeping pressure on the DPRK, they said, but now it was up to the [...]
2009-10-14 11:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MARR PGOV NK SK JP RU IN CH
09BEIJING2873CHINA: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC)
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel nonpaper and demarche requesting China to include subject matter experts in its delegation for bilateral CWC consultation with the United States to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Weapons Division Director Yang Yi on October 15. [...]
2009-10-15 02:29:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW CH AL JA
09BEIJING288PROMOTING CHINESE INVESTMENT IN AFRICA
[...] (SBU) In recent meetings with three key semi-official and private Chinese organizations that promote Chinese investment in Africa, all three stressed that they are paying more attention to political and economic risk, environmental protection, and China's reputation in Africa and around the wo [...]
2009-02-06 01:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EAID ECON ETRD UNDP CH
09BEIJING2882MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, SCO, RMB APPRECIATION
[...] NORTH KOREA "U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Campbell visits China to find a path for Obama to resume Six-Party Talks" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(02/03)(pg A16): "On whether the U.S. is in favor of an "East Asian Communi [...]
2009-10-15 07:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2883CHINA: GICNT UPDATE WITH RUSSIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] PolOff and Russian Embassy Second Secretary Andrey Chernyshov delivered reftel demarche informing China that the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Exercise Planning Group (EPG) meeting scheduled for November had been postponed to January 19, 2010 to MFA Arms Control and Dis [...]
2009-10-15 08:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC CH RU
09BEIJING2884OCTOBER 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHINA-IRAN RELATIONS, SCO
[...] Key points at the October 15 MFA press briefing: -- PM Wen Jiabao met with Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi at the October 14 SCO Prime Minister's meeting. The MFA spokesperson stated that "China values its relationship with Iran," seeks to advance "cooperation and coordinat [...]
2009-10-15 09:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER PARM CH IR AF UK
09BEIJING2895MEDIA REACTION: SECDEF VISIT TO CHINA, EXCHANGE RATE
[...] SECDEF VISIT TO CHINA "U.S. Secretary of Defense will pay a quick visit to Asia-Pacific region" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(10/16)(pg 8): "Experts said that the quick visit of the U.S. Secretary of Defense to the Asia-Pacific r [...]
2009-10-16 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2897READOUT OF PRC-JAPAN-ROK TRILAT SUMMIT
[...] (C) The Second PRC-Japan-ROK trilateral summit held in Beijing on October 10 focused primarily on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and a pledge to work towards a successful Copenhagen climate change conference, according to our contacts at the Japanese and ROK embassies in Beijing. [...]
2009-10-16 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC SENV CH JA KN KS
09BEIJING2898CAIJING'S LAST STAND?
[...] (C) Summary: Disagreements over editorial policy and business models threaten to bring about the demise of China's most influential and independent economic magazine, Caijing. The conflicts are the result of a complex clash of interests and philosophies, including competing business strategies [...]
2009-10-16 10:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV EFIN SOCI CH
09BEIJING2899CHINA TARGETS ONLINE GAMES: BATTLES ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) issued a circular on October 10 prohibiting foreign investment in the domestic online games operations through joint ventures, wholly-owned enterprises and cooperatives. The new directive comprehensively prohibits fo [...]
2009-10-16 10:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING2904MEDIA REACTION: CONGRESSIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT,
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "It is hard for the U.S. Congress to change its view on China" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (10/19)(pg 4): "On October 16, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China issued a 'Hum [...]
2009-10-19 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2908BANK OF CHINA VICE PRESIDENT ZHU MIN MOVES TO
[...] (C) Summary. The Bank of China (BOC),one of China's "big four" state-owned banks, announced October 19 that Executive Vice President Zhu Min had resigned to take a new position elsewhere. Contacts at the People's Bank of China (PBOC) have told us Zhu began working as a Vice Governor in late [...]
2009-10-20 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV PREL ECON CH
09BEIJING2910MEDIA REACTION: CONGRESSIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT, OBAMA
[...] CONGRESSIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT "Chinese Foreign Minister asks the U.S. to stop interfering in China's internal affairs" Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao),a newspaper affiliated to the official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (10/20) (pg 1): "Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesper [...]
2009-10-20 10:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2911PRC PROPOSES U.S.-PRC MEKONG DIALOGUE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recognition of increased U.S. engagement with Lower Mekong countries and China's ongoing development assistance to the region, China proposes an annual Mekong Dialogue within the Strategic and Economic Dialogue framework to coordinate development priorities and projects. Th [...]
2009-10-20 10:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID SENV ECON CH JA XC CN VM LA BM CB
09BEIJING2912OCTOBER 20 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: PIRATES, CHINA-INDIA, NORTH
[...] Key points at the October 20 MFA press briefing: -- The Chinese Government attached great importance to the safety of the Chinese crew members taken hostage on their cargo ship, the Dexinhai. -- China-India relations had enjoyed "good momentum" and Chinese efforts to obtain resources from [...]
2009-10-20 23:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM CH KS KN RS IR AF IN PK UK
09BEIJING2914EAP A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH MND/FAO MG QIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Major General Qian Lihua, Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of China's Ministry of Defense, responded positively, if cautiously, to EAP A/S Campbell's urging of improved military-to-military relations within a broader, inter-agency strategic dialogue, but complained that res [...]
2009-10-21 06:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PHUM PBTS PHSA PINS TW CH
09BEIJING2917China/Russia: Putin's Visit Leads to Energy
[...] (SBU) Summary: During Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's October 13-15 visit to Beijing, the two sides agreed to a framework for continued negotiations on a natural gas purchase arrangement; formed a joint venture to explore for natural gas in Siberia; and reached agreement on a joint ven [...]
2009-10-21 08:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG ETRD EFIN PREL RS CH
09BEIJING2918PRC/AFGHANISTAN: MCC ON THE AYNAK COPPER MINE
[...] (C) Summary: The political vacuum created by Afghan elections and "inefficient" work of the de-mining company has caused delays at the Aynak copper mine project, according to two executives at the China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC, the mine contract holder). The MCC officials requested U.S [...]
2009-10-21 08:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID EINV EMIN ENRG PREL AF CH
09BEIJING2919MEDIA REACTION: CHINA POLICY, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN
[...] CHINA POLICY "Issues for economic growth model" The official English-language newspaper China Daily (10/21)(pg 8): "China should look at the emerging global economic rebalancing in the context of an unprecedented world economic recession and expedite adjustment of its economic structure a [...]
2009-10-21 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2923DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
[...] (SBU) September 29, 2009; 12:00 p.m.; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; PRC 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Amb. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Embassy Beijing Joseph Donovan, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Rear Admiral Charles Leidig, Joint Chiefs of Staff [...]
2009-10-22 00:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALOVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL MNUC ETRD ECON
09BEIJING2924DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
[...] (SBU) September 29, 2009; 4:45 pm; Great Hall of the People; Beijing 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Amb. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Embassy Beijing Joseph Donovan, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Rear Admiral Charles Leidig, Joint Chiefs of Staff A [...]
2009-10-22 03:13:00Embassy BeijingSECRETOVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL PGOV MNUC CH KN
09BEIJING2930MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-ISRAEL, "G2," U.S. POLICY IN SOUTHEAST
[...] U.S.-ISRAEL "U.S. reassuring Israel" The Beijing-based newspaper sponsored by official intellectual publication Guangming Daily and Guangdong Provincial official publication Nanfang Daily The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao)(10/22)(page A28): "Zhu Zhaoyi, an expert on Israeli issues, said tha [...]
2009-10-22 08:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2932PRC/IRAN: PREMIER WEN PUSHES RAHIMI ON DIALOGUE;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of Shanghai Cooperation Organization high-level meetings October 15, PRC Premier Wen Jiabao urged Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi to move forward with direct talks with the United States and offered PRC support to do so, according to an MFA offici [...]
2009-10-22 12:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING2933PRC/IRAN: SCHOLARS ON TEHRAN'S VIEWS ON NUCLEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior Middle East specialist at a well-connected think-tank reported that Iranian diplomats in Beijing were seeking ways to push Tehran to negotiate with the P5-plus-1 but want to do so through cutouts, such as scholars. Beijing-based Iranian diplomats hoped that China would [...]
2009-10-22 12:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING2934OCTOBER 22 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: PIRATES, CHINA-INDIA, REBIYA
[...] Key points at the October 22 MFA press briefing: -- The Chinese Government remained concerned about the security of the 25 member crew of the De Xin Hai and an "all-out rescue effort" was ongoing. -- China and India were both emerging countries and had common interests that would benefit f [...]
2009-10-22 00:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM CH IR IS AF IN JA
09BEIJING2945MEDIA REACTION: U.S. SUDAN POLICY, JCCT,
[...] U.S. SUDAN POLICY "Subtle changes" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(10/23)(pg 3): "The Obama administration's new strategy on Sudan signifies that the U.S. government has subtly changed its attitude towards the government in Sudan from one of 'sanctions' to one o [...]
2009-10-22 08:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2946XINJIANG: URUMQI CAUTIOUSLY CALM AS RIOT TRIALS
[...] (C) Summary: During October 19-21 travel to Urumqi, PolOffs confirmed that security measures and troop presence remained high; People's Armed Police, local municipal police, and volunteer security personnel continuously patrolled the city. Most Urumqi residents we spoke to cautiously claimed [...]
2009-10-22 09:02:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALKIRF PGOV PHUM PREL PTER CH
09BEIJING2948PRC: MFA STILL COOL TO UNCAC REVIEW MECHANISM
[...] (C) Summary: While professing to hope for a successful third UNCAC Conference of the States Parties November 9-13 in Doha, PRC officials are in no hurry to reach agreement on terms of reference for a formal UNCAC review mechanism at the upcoming Doha conference. An MFA official said an additi [...]
2009-10-22 09:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNGA KCRM KCOR CH
09BEIJING2951MFA OFFICIAL ON ILLICIT FINANCING COOPERATION AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: China was willing to enhance its cooperation with the United States to combat illicit financing and terrorism, MFA Department of Asian Affairs Deputy Director General Sun Weidong told Treasury DAS Daniel Glaser October 19. Sun said the Chinese government was still going throug [...]
2009-10-22 10:20:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PGOV PTER AF CH PK
09BEIJING2952CHINA/SMEs/REBALANCING: TRYING TO OVERCOME ANTI-SME BIASES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China's largest, often State-owned companies have benefited handsomely in recent years from overt government favoritism aimed at quickly stimulating the economy, and in the longer term at building strong national champions. Smaller firms have also had to contend with a poorly d [...]
2009-10-22 10:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EFIN CH
09BEIJING2958MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA,
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "Increasing trust, eliminating doubts, and friendly cooperation" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (10/24)(pg 3): "Major General Qian Lihua, Director of the Foreign Affairs Office at the Ministry of National Defense, said that since P [...]
2009-10-25 08:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2961PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TRANCHE 3 NAMES
[...] (SBU) On October 26, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin points (ref A) on U.S. plans to sponsor or co-sponsor delisting 24 individuals and five entities contained in tranche 3 list of names from the 1267 Consoli [...]
2009-10-25 09:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER EFIN KTFN PREL UNSC CH
09BEIJING2962PRC RESPONSE TO U.S. UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE
[...] (SBU) On October 23, PolOff delivered to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Affairs Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun reftel points on U.S. priorities for the upcoming session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Third Committee session (covering human righ [...]
2009-10-25 09:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH PHUM PREL
09BEIJING2963DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S MEETING WITH VICE FOREIGN MINISTER HE YAFEI, SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-26 00:14:00Embassy BeijingSECRETECON PARM PGOV PREL OVIP
09BEIJING2964DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S XXXXXXXXXXXX MEETING WITH XXXXXXXXXXXX
[...] (SBU)xxxxx 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Amb. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Embassy Beijing Joseph Donovan, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Rear Admiral Charles Leidig, Joint Chiefs of Staff Amb. Joseph DeTrani, Mission Manager for North Korea, DNI Amb. xxxxx De [...]
2009-10-26 00:23:00Embassy BeijingSECRETOVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL MNUC SN CH KN
09BEIJING2965PRC: DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG’S SEPTEMBER 29,
[...] (SBU) September 29, 2009; 3:00 p.m.; Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound; Beijing 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Amb. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Embassy Beijing Joseph Donovan, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Rear Admiral Charles Leidig, Joint Chiefs of Staff Amb. [...]
2009-10-26 00:33:00Embassy BeijingSECRETOVIP STEINBERG JAMES B. PREL PGOV PARM MNUC
09BEIJING2968DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S SEPT 29, 2009
[...] (SBU) September 29, 2009; 2:30 p.m.; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Beijing 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Amb. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Embassy Beijing Joseph Donovan, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Rear Admiral Charles Leidig, Joint Chiefs of S [...]
2009-10-26 00:42:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALOVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL MNUC ECON KS KN
09BEIJING297POST CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ASEAN-RELATED MATTERS
[...] (SBU) Political Officer Eric Barboriak is Post's point-of-contact for ASEAN-related matters. Contact information: Office:(86 10) 8531-4438. Cell (86) 139 1053 4294. Email: barboriakem@state.gov. PICCUTA [...]
2009-02-06 08:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ECIN ASEAN CH
09BEIJING2978DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES INTERNATIONAL
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary (DEPSEC) Daniel Poneman met privately with the head of China's National Energy Administration (NEA) ZHANG Guobao on the margins of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Ministerial in Beijing on October 23. The two discussed the [...]
2009-10-26 09:09:00Embassy BeijingSECRETENERG ECON ETTC TRGY KNNP IAEA KTIA CVIS CH
09BEIJING2979MEDIA REACTION: REACTION TO STEINBERG CNAS SPEECH, MYANMAR,
[...] REACTION TO STEINBERG CNAS SPEECH "Seizing the opportunity of U.S.-China 'strategic reassurance'" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(10/26)(pg 14): "U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg recently (September 24 in a speech at t [...]
2009-10-26 10:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2980OCTOBER 27 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHINA-AFRICA COOPERATION,
[...] Key points at the October 27 MFA press briefing: -- China would deepen ties with Egypt and promote China-Africa and China-Arab ties at the early November Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt -- China hoped relevant parties would q [...]
2009-10-26 22:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM EAID CH IR IS AF IN JA
09BEIJING2982PRC/SUDAN: MFA WELCOMES SUDAN STRATEGY; CONCERNED
[...] (C) Summary: The PRC welcomed the new U.S. strategy on Sudan, concurring that the situation in Darfur and implementation of Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) must be addressed simultaneously to achieve sustainable long-term success, according to an MFA official. Western government statemen [...]
2009-10-27 09:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SU CH
09BEIJING2984MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, U.S. SPACE
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "U.S. and Chinese military shake hands at the Pentagon" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(10/28)(pg 1): "During the visit of Chinese military leaders to the U.S., the U.S. opened up rarely-seen, secret m [...]
2009-10-27 09:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING299PRC CONCERNS ABOUT POSSIBLE UNSCR 1267 LISTING
[...] (S) On February 5, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yin Yin told PolOff "upon instruction" that China "attached great importance" to the U.S. UNSCR 1267 listing request (Ref A),based on China's support of anti-terrorism efforts and U. [...]
2009-02-06 10:35:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH IN PK
09BEIJING2994MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA TRADE RELATIONS, STRATEGIC
[...] U.S.-CHINA TRADE RELATIONS "U.S. intentions behind playing the 'steel card'" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(10/29)(pg 2): "On October 26 while in Guangzhou, the new U.S. Ambassador to China, Jon Hunt [...]
2009-10-29 09:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2995PRC/LATIN AMERICA: CHINESE ECONOMIC INTERESTS
[...] (C) Summary: Politics, economics, Taiwan and common interests in social development drive China's interest in Latin America, according to a PRC scholar. Notwithstanding China's deepening relationship with Latin America, China will not develop its Latin America connections at the expense of i [...]
2009-10-29 09:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM ECON ETRD ENRG EINV AR XM CH
09BEIJING2996CHINA/AML: DAS GLASER'S MEETING WITH PEOPLE,S BANK
[...] (SBU) Summary: The People's Bank of China (PBOC) Anti-Money Laundering Bureau was willing to consider formation of an anti-money laundering and illicit finance working group under the framework of the S&ED, PBOC Anti-Money Laundering Bureau Director General Tang Xu told Treasury DAS Glaser on [...]
2009-10-29 10:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PGOV PTER CH
09BEIJING2997OCTOBER 29 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: PIRATES, FLU, BAGHDAD
[...] Key points at the October 29 MFA press briefing: -- Efforts aimed at the rescue of the crew of the Chinese cargo ship the De Xin Hai were "underway." -- The Chinese Government would step up efforts and adjust its methods in order to deal with the spread of the flu this season. -- The ter [...]
2009-10-29 23:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM SOCI CH PK NK UK IR IZ CA
09BEIJING2999CHINA/FOOD SECURITY: STILL WARY OF ACTIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: China continues to be unenthusiastic about actively supporting the L'Aquilla Food Security Initiative (AFSI),which it sees as a developed country initiative requiring developed country resources. China would like to know more about how the U.S. plans to present AFSI principle [...]
2009-10-30 08:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EAID PREL CH
09BEIJING300REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: COMPUTER
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Hebei Provincial Public Security Bureau and the Ministry of Public Security, who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has n [...]
2009-02-06 11:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM CH
09BEIJING3000NSC'S BADER AND ROSS TALK IRAN, DPRK, MIL-MIL WITH
[...] (C) Communist Party International Department Vice Minister Liu Jieyi, in an October 26 meeting with NSC Senior Directors Jeffrey Bader and Dennis Ross, stressed China's efforts to support a dual track approach to Iran. Responding to Ross' calls for the P5-plus-1 to maintain unity and keep pre [...]
2009-10-30 09:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC OVIP PGOV MARR CH KN IR
09BEIJING3001CHINESE SPECIAL ENVOY TALKS IRAN, MIDDLE EAST WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 26 meeting with PRC Special Envoy to the Middle East Wu Sike, Senior Director for the Central Region Dennis Ross underscored the high priority that the United States placed on the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and on resolution of the Iran nuclear issue. Both [...]
2009-10-30 10:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC OVIP ENRG PGOV CH IR IS
09BEIJING3003MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON IN PAKISTAN, TAIWAN, U.S.
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON IN PAKISTAN "Secretary Clinton acts as 'director' at speech in Pakistan" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(10/30)(pg 2): "Secretary Clinton's visit sparked a wave of 'Hillary fever' (positive connotation) in Pakista [...]
2009-10-30 10:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3005PRC/INDIA: CORDIAL HIGH-LEVEL TALKS VEIL
[...] (C) Summary: Contrary to recent media reports, the October 24 meeting between Indian PM Manmohan Singh and PRC Premier Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of the East Asian Summit were cordial and addressed the ongoing bilateral border dispute without acrimony, according to an Indian diplomat who att [...]
2009-10-30 11:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EINV ETRD PREL CH IN
09BEIJING301PRC PARTICIPATION CANCELLED IN ILEA BANGKOK
[...] (SBU) Post regrets to inform Department that on February 4, PRC Ministry of Public Security unexpectedly cancelled its participation in upcoming ILEA Bangkok Supervisory Criminal Investigators Course (SCIC) Session 26 February 16 to March 27, 2009. 2. (SBU) Post has nothing to indicate that [...]
2009-02-06 11:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KCRM SNAR CH
09BEIJING3018MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN, U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC RELATIONS, EAST
[...] TAIWAN "Taiwan suspects U.S. arms sales tricks" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(11/02)(pg 3): "Hou Xiaohe, an associate professor at China's National Defense University, argued that in order to avoid angering [...]
2009-11-02 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3019PRC/IRAN: CHINA URGED TO FOLLOW UK IN REFUSING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-02 09:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MNUC PARM EFIN EWWT IR CN
09BEIJING302ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON CCP OFFICIAL WANG JIARUI'S
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-06 12:17:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH KN JA KS
09BEIJING3024REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: POST BLAST
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Ministry of Public Security,s Shandong Provincial Public Security Department who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has n [...]
2009-11-03 01:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AFIN PTER KCRM SNAR TH CH
09BEIJING3025REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: TACTICAL
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Ministry of Public Security,s Shandong Police College who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory informati [...]
2009-11-03 01:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AFIN PTER KCRM SNAR TH CH
09BEIJING303CHARTER 08: IMPACT LIMITED, BUT "MOVEMENT" DRAWS
[...] (C) While the "Charter 08" pro-democracy manifesto is unlikely to push the Communist Party to engage in real political reform anytime soon, the Charter nevertheless represents a budding "movement" that worries China's leaders, as demonstrated by the detention of lead Charter drafter Liu Xiaobo [...]
2009-02-06 12:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CH
09BEIJING3035MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON IN PAKISTAN, MISSILE
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON IN PAKISTAN "Secretary Clinton blames the Pakistani government for insufficient effort in the War on Terror" Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao),a newspaper affiliated to the official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (11/03)(pg 4): "Secretary Clinton's criticism o [...]
2009-11-03 09:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3036PRC ON POSSIBLE UNGA DISCUSSION OF GOLDSTONE
[...] (SBU) On November 3, PolOff delivered to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Affairs Division Deputy Director Shen Bo reftel points on the November 4 discussion of the Report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict (the Goldstone Report) at the UN [...]
2009-11-03 10:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS CH
09BEIJING3037NOVEMBER 3, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: AFGHAN ELECTIONS,
[...] Key points at the October 29 MFA press briefing: -- China had conveyed congratulations to Hamid Karzai for his election victory. -- China had expressed its "grave concerns" and opposition to reports of a planned visit to Arunachal Pradesh by the Dalai Lama. -- PRC Government remained com [...]
2009-11-03 11:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM SOCI CH PK IN UK RS EG MY
09BEIJING3040PRC AGREES TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN ICSC;
[...] (SBU) The PRC agrees to support the candidacy of Ms. Lucretia Myers for election to the UN International Civil Service Commission (ICSC),MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Officer Liu Bing reported to PolOff November 4. In affirming PRC support for Myers' [...]
2009-11-04 06:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC KAWC KJUS KUNR UNGA CH
09BEIJING3043MEDIA REACTION: U.S. IN ASIA, U.S.-CHINA TRADE, U.S.
[...] U.S. IN ASIA "U.S. influence in Asia brings more benefit than harm" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(11/04)(pg 14): "The beneficial role played by the United States in maintaining local security and stability is irreplaceable in con [...]
2009-11-04 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3046WHEN HU JINTAO COMES FOR DINNER: LOCAL PARTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 28 meeting with PolOffs, Shi Jing (protect),a former municipal party secretary in Gansu Province, described a 2007 Chinese New Year visit by CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao to his district and offered insights into how Hu's domestic trips are organized. Much of wh [...]
2009-11-04 11:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAGR SOCI CH
09BEIJING3052FROM A TRICKLE TO A FLOOD: CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES
[...] (SBU) Production and input subsidies have multiplied rapidly and the value of support has risen exponentially since the watershed moment in 2006 when China eliminated its centuries-old agricultural tax. Agricultural subsidies now play an increasingly important role in guiding production decisi [...]
2009-11-05 05:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SENV EAGR CH
09BEIJING3056MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "Poll shows Americans both love and hate China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(11/05)(pg 3): "Experts said that the [Thomson Reuters/Ipsos] poll, which was conducted right before Obama's visit to China, aga [...]
2009-11-05 08:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3057PRC: DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST UNDETERRED BY
[...] (C) Summary: Zhu Juru, a Jiangxi province native and university professor, was recently released from a one-year term in a reeducation through labor (RTL) facility. In an October 28 meeting with PolOff, Zhu stated his intention to continue his efforts to bring about democratic reforms in Chi [...]
2009-11-05 09:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PTER CH
09BEIJING3059PRC: FAITHFUL FLOCK TO OFFICIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
[...] (C) Summary: Regular worshippers at two official Protestant churches in Hebei Province and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region regularly exceed 3,000. Growth in attendance poses new challenges for the official church, particularly in the areas of clergy training and social services. In re [...]
2009-11-05 09:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING3060SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO CHINA
[...] (C) Mr. President, China's leaders view your upcoming travel to Shanghai and Beijing as the single most important visit to China by a foreign leader this year. As we have heard repeatedly, President Hu Jintao and the senior leadership are committed, as are we, to making your meetings and prog [...]
2009-11-05 11:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH ECON IR KN MARR MNUC OVIP PARM PHUM
09BEIJING3061NOVEMBER 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: MILITARIZATION OF SPACE,
[...] Key points at the November 5 MFA press briefing: -- China's position on the militarization of outer space remains unchanged. China opposes the militarization of outer space and will not engage in any arms race in outer space. -- China will continue to take "effective measures" to combat c [...]
2009-11-05 23:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PARM MOPS KGHG TSPA CN CI SO KN
09BEIJING3065 WELCOME TO BEIJING CODEL WEXLER - NOVEMBER 9-13
[...] (U) Embassy Beijing warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Wexler to China November 9-13 for consultations with Chinese officials to discuss bilateral and multilateral issues. 2. (U) Control Officer: Noah Zaring, Political Officer Home: (86-10)6532-0451 Office: (86-10)8531-3532 Cell: (86)139 [...]
2009-11-06 06:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN CH
09BEIJING3066MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI OIL CONTRACT, AFRICA, AFGHANISTAN
[...] IRAQI OIL CONTRACT "The West attacks China for 'reaping without sowing'" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(11/06)(pg 1): "The sentiment of jealousy over the big order signed between Petro China Company Limited and BP (British Petroleu [...]
2009-11-06 08:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3071MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CHINA'S SPACE POLICY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "Barack Obama's visit to China cannot avoid the 'trade protection' embarrassment" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(11/09)(pg A4): "The U.S. recently launched a series of attacks against products 'Made-in-C [...]
2009-11-09 08:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3072PRC/AFGHANISTAN/IRAN: SHARED U.S.-PRC INTERESTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Shared interests in South Asia should prompt closer U.S.-China coordination in the region, according to an official of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee International Liaison Department (CCID). In a November 3 meeting with PolOffs, the official said that geogra [...]
2009-11-09 11:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MARR EAID CH PK AF IR
09BEIJING3073PRC: BEIJING TARGETS KEY HOUSE CHURCHES
[...] (C) Summary: Recent developments suggest that the Beijing municipal government is increasing its scrutiny and harassment of certain well-known unofficial house churches and house church leaders. The authorities dismissed a central government research institute scholar, allegedly for his ties [...]
2009-11-09 11:17:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PTER KIRF CH
09BEIJING3076 NOVEMBER 6 MFA/MOFCOM PRESS BRIEFING:
[...] Key points at the November 6 joint press briefing with MFA spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu and senior MOFCOM and MFA officials: -- President Hu's upcoming visit to Malaysia on November 10, China's first state visit there in 15 years, is intended to further mutual friendship and cooperation. Hu then [...]
2009-11-10 03:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDAPECO ECON ECIN PGOV PREL ETRD OVIP CN
09BEIJING3077 NOVEMBER 6 MFA/MOFCOM PRESS BRIEFING:
[...] Key points at the November 6 joint press briefing with MFA spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu and senior MOFCOM and MFA officials: -- President Hu's upcoming visit to Malaysia on November 10, China's first state visit there in 15 years, is intended to further mutual friendship and cooperation. Hu then [...]
2009-11-10 03:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDAPECO ECON ECIN PGOV PREL ETRD OVIP CN
09BEIJING3081PRC: HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS RAISED WITH MFA IO DDG
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 10 meeting with MFA human rights official Shen Yongxiang, PolMinCouns raised U.S. concerns regarding the two-year, pre-trial detention of American citizen Dr. Feng Xue on state secrets charges, PRC policies in Tibet and Xinjiang including recent executions there, the [...]
2009-11-10 11:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CASC CH
09BEIJING3082MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S VISIT TO ASIA, CHINA'S DIPLOMACY,
[...] OBAMA'S VISIT TO ASIA "A look at Obama's Asia trip" The official Communist Party People's Daily Overseas Edition (Renmin Ribao Haiwaiban)(11/10)(pg 6): "Obama's decision to visit East Asia at a time when the U.S. economy is in recession, various domestic reforms are facing obstacles, and [...]
2009-11-11 23:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3083NOVEMBER 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: OBAMA VISIT, EXCHANGE RATE,
[...] Key points at the November 10 MFA press briefing: -- The visit of U.S. President Obama will have a great influence on the future development of bilateral relations. -- China will follow a proactive and transparent policy to improve the Renminbi (RMB) exchange mechanism and give full play to [...]
2009-11-11 23:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ECON PHSA ABUD IN XA TW SY
09BEIJING3090U/S HORMATS MEETS VICE FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Executive Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya told Under Secretary Hormats during their November 9 meeting that the United States and China could make climate change a "highlight" of the bilateral relationship, beginning with the President's visit to Beijing early next week. He [...]
2009-11-12 08:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV OVIP ETRD ECON PREL APEC CH
09BEIJING3091NOVEMBER 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: OBAMA VISIT, OBAMA-DALAI
[...] Key points at the November 12 MFA press briefing: --The U.S. President will have the opportunity to speak with youth in Shanghai -- China and the United States are "consulting on the specific arrangements" about media coverage. --China's opposition to foreign leaders meeting with the Dalai [...]
2009-11-12 08:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PHSA CH
09BEIJING3092MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S VISIT TO ASIA, JAPAN
[...] OBAMA'S VISIT TO ASIA a. "Barack Obama must make a clear statement on his trade policy" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(11/12)(pg A4): "Aside from climate change and promoting global economic recovery, setting a positive tone f [...]
2009-11-12 08:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3094MFA RESPONDS TO HUMAN RIGHTS CASE LIST
[...] (C) On November 12, MFA International Organizations Department Human Rights Division Director Yan Jiarong called in PolOff to provide a formal response to the Ambassador's November 6 handing over of a list of cases of human rights and humanitarian concern to Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei (ref [...]
2009-11-12 11:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING3095DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary (DEPSEC) Daniel Poneman met privately with Keisuke TSUMURA, the Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Technology in Japan's Cabinet Office, and Shunsuke KONDO, the Chairman of Japan,s Atomic Energy Commission (AEC),on the margins of [...]
2009-11-12 23:37:00Embassy BeijingSECRETENERG ECON ETTC TRGY KNNP IAEA KTIA CVIS CH
09BEIJING3096GNEP BEIJING MINISTERIAL - AGREEMENT TO CONSIDER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China--led by National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman and National Energy Administration (NEA) chief ZHANG Guobao--hosted the third Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Executive Committee meeting on October 23 in Beijing. The U.S. delegation was le [...]
2009-11-13 00:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON ETTC TRGY KNNP IAEA KTIA CVIS CH
09BEIJING3097TRACK-1.5 CHINA-U.S. STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DIALOGUE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In recent bilateral track-1.5 discussions on strategic nuclear issues, several themes emerged, particularly with respect to PRC concerns regarding the direction of U.S. nuclear strategy and policy: (1) China wants "strategic reassurance" from the United States that ballistic m [...]
2009-11-13 01:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PGOV MARR MNUC MASS CH
09BEIJING3102Under Secretary Hormats Meets with NDRC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a November 9 lunch meeting in Beijing, Under Secretary Robert Hormats and NDRC Executive Vice Chairman Zhu Zhixin agreed that the State Department-National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Dialogue should focus on long-term global strategic issues. The two discussed [...]
2009-11-13 03:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EINV PREL CH
09BEIJING3105BEIJING: DEMARCHE DELIVERY ON DESIGNATION OF
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) On November 12, Beijing US Treasury Attache provided reftel demarche points on the designation of Malaysian Bank and Bank Mellat Chairman under E.O 13382 to the designated interlocutors at the People's Bank of China. The Peo [...]
2009-11-13 07:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP EFIN PARM IR CH
09BEIJING3108PRC NONCOMMITTAL ON UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS
[...] (SBU) On November 13 PolOff delivered to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Affairs Division Deputy Director Shen Bo reftel demarche urging China to oppose no-action motions during upcoming UNGA votes on country-specific resolutions on Iran, Burma and the DP [...]
2009-11-13 08:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNGA CH
09BEIJING3110THE POTENTIAL FOR SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: There is significant potential for shale gas development in China. Total resources are estimated to be 100 trillion cubic meters. Shale gas resources have been studied for the last five years and exploration began this year. The Chinese government and state-owned enterprises [...]
2009-11-13 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV EPET CH
09BEIJING3113NATO DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL IN BEIJING
[...] (C) Summary: In Beijing November 9-12 for the NATO-China dialogue, NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero briefed the Chinese on NATO's New Strategic Concept effort, operations in Afghanistan, and relations with Russia, Central Asia, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization [...]
2009-11-13 09:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS MNUC PHSA MOPS AF PK IR
09BEIJING3115CHINA'S ANTI-MONOPOLY LAW: A TOOTHLESS TIGER WHEN IT COMES
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's antitrust authorities and courts have been reluctant to use the country's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) to curb anti-competitive behavior of state-owned enterprises (SOEs),according to a number of Chinese scholars, antitrust lawyers, and newspapers. Speaking at a Georgetown [...]
2009-11-13 09:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV ETRD KIPR CH
09BEIJING3117ISRAELI AMBASSADOR ON PRC-ISRAEL MILITARY TIES
[...] (S) During a November 12 meeting with Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL),Israeli Ambassador to China Amos Nadai briefed on Israeli-Chinese bilateral military relations and appealed for relaxing USG oversight of Israeli military exports to the PRC. Military relations had been important in Israel [...]
2009-11-13 11:00:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL MASS MARR PARM CH IS
09BEIJING3118MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO ASIA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO ASIA "Obama steps onto the big Asian stage" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(11/13)(pg 1): "According to U.S. media, a new world order has arrived. Professor Jin Canrong at People's University of China sa [...]
2009-11-13 11:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3121MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO JAPAN AND CHINA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-16 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3122U/S HORMATS’ MEETINGS WITH BEIJING ECONOMISTS:
[...] (C) Summary. Vice Minister Liu He of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs (CLGFEA) told Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Hormats on November 9 that the small number of bilateral trade conflicts generates disproportionate political and social impa [...]
2009-11-16 09:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALOVIP ECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV CH
09BEIJING3123MIXED IMPACT AND INDUSTRY SKEPTICS FOR CHINA'S FOREST
[...] (U) On October 29, five Chinese central government agencies (State Forestry Administration (SFA),National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC),Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM),Ministry of Finance (MOF),and the State Administration of Taxation (SAT)jointly issued a "Forestry Industry Devel [...]
2009-11-16 10:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD KSCA CH
09BEIJING3124BEIJING HOUSE CHURCH FINDS TEMPORARY MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: The Beijing municipal government and Shouwang house church leaders reached an agreement for the church to rent a temporary meeting space for its November 15 service. PolOff visited the site of the November 15 service and observed no confrontations between worshipers and surveill [...]
2009-11-16 10:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING3126PRC NERVOUSNESS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES IN
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts confirm press reports of increased restrictions on and detention of activists and dissidents in the lead-up to the President's November 15-18 visit to China. The MFA demarched the DCM November 14 to convey concerns over alleged plans for a meeting between the Pr [...]
2009-11-16 11:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CH
09BEIJING3127XINJIANG PARTY CHIEF LIKELY TO STAY ON DESPITE
[...] (C) Summary: Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan seems likely to keep his job, several contacts predict, despite public anger over his handling of the July riots in Urumqi. A September 3 demonstration, in which thousands of Urumqi demonstrators demanded Wang's resignation, may have actuall [...]
2009-11-16 11:33:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING3128PORTRAIT OF VICE PRESIDENT XI JINPING: "AMBITIOUS
[...] (C) According to a well connected Embassy contact, Politburo Standing Committee Member and Vice President Xi Jinping is "exceptionally ambitious," confident and focused, and has had his "eye on the prize" from early adulthood. Unlike many youth who "made up for lost time by having fun" after t [...]
2009-11-16 12:20:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL CH TW
09BEIJING3130MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-17 10:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3132MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-18 09:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3137MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-19 09:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3138NOVEMBER 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: OPPOSITION TO JEWISH
[...] Key points at the November 19 MFA press briefing: -- China opposes Israel's plans to build new Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, viewing the move as likely to undermine trust and security in the region. -- The decision not to accept journalist questions following the meeting between P [...]
2009-11-19 11:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PHSA CH IS KN AF IN VM JA
09BEIJING3141IAEA: CHINA TENTATIVELY SUPPORTS ANGARSK NUCLEAR
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche encouraging China to support an anticipated Russian resolution to create a nuclear fuel reserve at Angarsk, Russia, during the November 26-27 IAEA Board of Governors meeting to Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Director Zhang Shen o [...]
2009-11-20 00:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC TRGY ENRG KNNP IAEA CH
09BEIJING3142IAEA: CHINA DESIRES SYRIAN COOPERATION WITH IAEA
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper requesting active Chinese support in pressing Syria to change its confrontational course and fully cooperate with the ongoing IAEA investigation of its nuclear program to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Director Zha [...]
2009-11-20 00:33:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM IAEA KNNP CH SY
09BEIJING3147CHINA URGED TO SUPPORT CREATION OF THIRD
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche asking China to support creation of a third subsidiary body dealing with Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Article X provisions for the May 2010 NPT Review Conference to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division First Secretary He Zhi [...]
2009-11-20 05:33:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV UNGA AORC CDG KNNP ENRG MNUC
09BEIJING3148CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S PROVISION OF
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Xi'an Junyun Electronic and Mechanical Company's provision of controlled gyroscopes to an Iranian missile developer to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on No [...]
2009-11-20 07:13:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING315MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT, U.S. POLICY,
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT "The order of the visits gives clues to Clinton's diplomacy goals" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(02/09): "Secretary Clinton has carefully arranged her Asia trip. She is creating a b [...]
2009-02-09 08:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING3150TIBET: STAFFDEL JANNUZI DISCUSSES POTENTIAL
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 9 meeting with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Frank Jannuzi, Tibetan poet and blogger Woeser decried the environmental degradation of the Tibetan plateau caused by unregulated mining, which she accused of both polluting rivers and increasing ethnic [...]
2009-11-20 10:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM SENV PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING3152MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO ASIA, CHINA-U.S.
[...] PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO ASIA a. "Obama's strategic concerns in focusing on Asia" The Beijing-based newspaper sponsored by official intellectual publication Guangming Daily and Guangdong Provincial official publication Nanfang Daily The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao)(11/20)(pg A02): "Obam [...]
2009-11-22 23:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3159MEDIA REACTION: CHINA-U.S. RELATIONS, TAIWAN
[...] CHINA-U.S. RELATIONS a. "China should show the United States the direction of its military development" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(11/23)(pg 14): "Obama's recent visit to China will finally decide the United States' China pol [...]
2009-11-23 09:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3160THE NETWORKING PARTY: CAREER ADVANCEMENT,
[...] (C) Chinese youth associated with Peking University pointed to career advancement and networking opportunities, rather than ideology, as primary reasons to join the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In addition to advantages in securing government positions, CCP membership now also helps recent grad [...]
2009-11-23 11:11:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI
09BEIJING3162MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-24 09:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3163NOVEMBER 24, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: LIANG GUANGLIE'S DPRK
[...] Key points at the November 24 MFA press briefing: -- The PRC views Liang Guanglie's visit to the DPRK as a "normal exchange" between the two militaries. -- The PRC supports U.S.-DPRK dialogue in advance of U.S. Ambassador Bosworth's trip to the DPRK. -- The PRC states that India's ballis [...]
2009-11-24 10:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ECON SENV PHSA CH IN KN RP
09BEIJING3168CHINA/ONE-CHILD/PENSIONS: HOW TO SUPPORT AN AGING
[...] (U) This cable is also responsive to information requested in Reftel A (C-AL9-01354). 2. (SBU) Summary: China's aging population is an important focal point for the government, but strategies for addressing the pressures caused by an aging population have so far focused on social support, a [...]
2009-11-25 06:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPINR ELAB ESOC ECON EFIN CH
09BEIJING3172SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY BURNS' TRIP TO CHINA
[...] (C) Undersecretary Burns, the President's November 15-18 visit to Beijing and Shanghai advanced the conversation with the Chinese on issues of high priority to the United States, particularly global economic recovery, North Korea, Iran and Afghanistan, climate change and proliferation. Your vi [...]
2009-11-25 08:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MNUC PARM PHUM CH AF PK IR
09BEIJING3174MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, U.S.
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "One third of the United States' latest report devoted to the Chinese Navy" Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao),a newspaper affiliated to the official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (11/25) (pg 06): "A report issued by a special U.S. Congressional co [...]
2009-11-27 06:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3179HAZARDOUS AIR DAYS IN BEIJING
[...] (SBU) From November 5 through November 8, the Air Quality Index (AQI),as measured by the Embassy's PM2.5 monitor, registered "Hazardous," whereas the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (BEPB),which reports only PM10 readings, registered only "Lightly Polluted" and "Moderately Polluted" [...]
2009-11-27 08:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV CASC KGHG TRGY ENRG PREL CH
09BEIJING3180DOE SECRETARY CHU AND CHINA SCIENCE MINISTER CO-CHAIR FIRST
[...] (SBU) On the eve of the U.S. President's first visit to Beijing, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, China's Minister of Science and Technology WAN Gang, and National Energy Administration (NEA) Deputy Administrator LIU Qi (acting for Administrator Zhang Guobao) convened the first stee [...]
2009-11-27 08:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING3182ENERGY AND COMMERCE SECRETARIES CHU AND LOCKE LEAD
[...] (U) In an effort to promote clean energy cooperation during the U.S. President's first visit to Beijing, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke led a senior-level U.S.-China roundtable discussion on clean energy on November 16. The roundtable included distinguished [...]
2009-11-27 09:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING3186BILATERAL WITH VICE PREMIER LI KEQIANG - COOPERATION AND
[...] (SBU) Commerce Secretary Locke, Energy Secretary Chu, U.S. Trade Representative Kirk and U.S. Trade Development Administrator Zak met with Vice Premier Li Keqiang on November 18, 2009 at the Great Hall of the People, to discuss a broad range of bilateral issues including energy cooperation and [...]
2009-11-30 04:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING3188SECRETARY OF ENERGY STEVEN CHU MEETS WITH ZHANG GUOBAO,
[...] (U) Upon Secretary Chu's arrival in Beijing, he met with Minister ZHANG Guobao, head of China's National Energy Administration (NEA). Zhang informed Secretary Chu that he would be out of the country during the remainder of the Secretary's visit and that the NEA Deputy Administrator LIU Qi wo [...]
2009-11-30 07:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING3190DOE SECRETARY CHU'S LUNCH WITH CHINESE STATE COUNCILOR LIU
[...] (U) Following the CERC Signing ceremony, State Councilor LIU Yandong hosted a lunch. During lunch, Madam Liu highlighted the importance of U.S.-China cooperation on electric vehicles (EVs) and said she believes that this collaboration has a promising future. U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Ch [...]
2009-11-30 09:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING3191CHINA ECONOMY: PARTY POLITBURO MEETS TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political Bureau met on November 27 to discuss next year's economic policy ahead of the major State Council planning session, rumored to start December 10. The official Politburo statement released after the meeting called for policy continuit [...]
2009-11-30 10:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN CH
09BEIJING3192MEDIA REACTION: RMB EXCHANGE RATE, CHINA'S TRADING
[...] RMB EXCHANGE RATE "Wen Jiabao: I hope the world's major reserve currencies remain stable" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(11/30)(pg A4): "At present, each country's macroeconomic policy should continue to focus on dealing with [...]
2009-11-30 10:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3205MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE SUMMIT, CHINA MODEL
[...] CLIMATE SUMMIT a. "From 'black cat' to 'green cat:' China's emission reduction roadmap" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(12/01)(pg 21): "As 2012 nears and as the deadline for the Kyoto Protocol's first [...]
2009-12-01 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3209CHINA SIDESTEPS S&ED/JCCT COMMITMENTS -
[...] (SBU) Summary. Rules providing preference in government procurement for Chinese companies with accredited indigenous innovation appear to contravene China's S&ED and JCCT commitments to consider products produced by foreign-invested enterprises in China as domestic. A recent joint Ministry o [...]
2009-12-01 10:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING3210PREVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE WAY
[...] (SBU) Acting DCM conveyed reftel points previewing the President's announcement on the way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan to MFA Asian Affairs Department Director General Yang Yanyi December 1. A/DCM expressed U.S. hope that China would publicly and strongly endorse the President's strate [...]
2009-12-01 11:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV AF PK CH
09BEIJING3211DECEMBER 1, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: COPENHAGEN
[...] Key points at the December 1 MFA press briefing were: -- At the 12th China-EU Summit in Nanjing, President Hu met with EC President Jose Manuel Barroso and other EU leaders and discussed climate change, sustainable development, and joint responses to the financial crisis. -- China believes [...]
2009-12-01 11:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ECON SENV PHSA CH EUN KN RP XK
09BEIJING3212CCTV STEPS IN TO SPRING EMPLOYEE DETAINED FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The clout of a powerful organization, such as China Central Television (CCTV),can be more useful in freeing sensitive political detainees in China than a lawyer, according to well-known blogger Zhao Jing (aka Michael Anti, protect) and his wife Fan Ming (protect). In October 200 [...]
2009-12-01 12:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PROP PGOV CH
09BEIJING3213 PRC NOMINEE TO THE SECRETARY'S 2010 INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) Embassy Beijing is pleased to nominate Guo Jianmei for the 2010 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. In her long battle to provide Chinese women with equal rights, protections and opportunities, Guo Jianmei has established herself as a trailblazer and first-generation wom [...]
2009-12-01 15:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL KPAO
09BEIJING3214CHINA TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT 2009
[...] (U) China has made progress since April 2009 in combating human trafficking. The Chinese government is implementing the National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Women and Children (2008-2012) and has issued regulations and directives to strengthen its response to sex trafficki [...]
2009-12-01 15:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH
09BEIJING3221PRC/IRAN: ISA Demarche: Chinese Firms
[...] (C) In meetings November 30-December 2, Acting Economic Minister Counselor and Econoff delivered ref A points to officials from China National Petroleum Company (CNPC),Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC). Officials from all three state-owned oil and gas firms were careful [...]
2009-12-02 09:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EPET EINV ENRG ETTC PREL IR CH
09BEIJING3222MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE SUMMIT, CHINA MODEL
[...] CLIMATE SUMMIT a. "U.S. emissions reduction sincerity is doubtful" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(12/02)(pg 2): "China, who insists on continuing common but differentiated responsibilities for the Cop [...]
2009-12-02 09:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3223Read-out from Beijing on the
[...] (SBU) Qiu Bohua, China's Ambassador for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held November 6- 9 in Egypt, told Emboffs November 23 that China pledged USD 10 billion in new concessional loans to Africa, to be distributed via bilateral channels. For Africa's least developed countries (L [...]
2009-12-02 10:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EINV EAID PREL
09BEIJING3226CHINESE WATCHING U.S. NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW
[...] (C) Summary: The PRC hopes the ongoing U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will foster significant disarmament as a reflection of President Obama's "Prague vision" of a nuclear weapons-free world, which in turn would "positively" impact China's nuclear policy, several academics told PolOff in r [...]
2009-12-03 04:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC PGOV MARR CH
09BEIJING3234MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENTIAL AFGHANISTAN SPEECH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-03 09:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3235LABOR NGO COMMUNITY OPTIMISTIC DESPITE SETBACKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Participants in a mid-November grassroots Chinese labor NGO conference noted that labor NGOs, like all civil society groups in China, continue to face difficulties, including registering their organizations and obtaining legal status. However, they emphasized, their organizatio [...]
2009-12-03 09:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDCH ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI
09BEIJING3237DECEMBER 3, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CLIMATE CHANGE,
[...] Key points at the December 3 MFA press briefing were: -- China believes developing countries such as China and India do not have an "obligation" to binding initial carbon reduction targets. -- China hopes to cooperate and sustain the momentum on dialogue with the United States regarding Ce [...]
2009-12-03 11:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM MNUC MARR SENV CH AF IR CA RS
09BEIJING3238PRC/ASEAN: OUTREACH SIGNALS CONCERN OVER RISING
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: China's outreach to ASEAN over the past two months, while mainly a repackaging of previous commitments, is intended to deepen Southeast Asian regional integration and respond to perceived rising U.S. influence in the region, ASEAN diplomats in Beijing told Econoffs. Be [...]
2009-12-04 01:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID ETRD PREL XC CH
09BEIJING3239DECEMBER 3, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CLIMATE CHANGE, SOUTH
[...] Key points at the December 3 MFA press briefing were: -- China believes developing countries such as China and India do not have an "obligation" to binding initial carbon reduction targets. -- China hopes to cooperate and sustain the momentum on dialogue with the United States regarding So [...]
2009-12-04 03:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM MNUC MARR SENV CH AF IR CA RS
09BEIJING3240PRC: PRIVATE EQUITY'S NASCENT DOMESTIC INDUSTRY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China's national-level regulation over both domestic and foreign private-equity (PE) firms is in flux as Beijing's various regulatory bodies engage in a turf war over who will lead reform efforts and ultimately control industry regulations, several well-connected Embassy contact [...]
2009-12-04 05:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEINV EFIN CH
09BEIJING3241CHINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/R BOSWORTH
[...] (U) Embassy Beijing warmly welcomes Ambassador Bosworth and his delegation to Beijing December 11-12 for consultations with Chinese officials. 2. (U) Control Officer: Nancy Leou, Political Officer Home: (86-10)6539-3027 Office: (86-10)8531-3189 Cell: (86)139-1023-4347 Fax: (86-10)8531- [...]
2009-12-04 06:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ASEC CH
09BEIJING3243BEIJING WELCOMES U/S WILLIAM BURNS AND DELEGATION, DECEMBER 8-9, 2009
[...] (U) Embassy Beijing warmly welcomes Under Secretary William J. Burns and delegation to China December 8-9, 2009, for consultations with Chinese officials. Delegation members include: Ms. Laura M. Rosenberger, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary; Mr. Thomas C. Reed, General Services Offic [...]
2009-12-04 07:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OVIP
09BEIJING3250MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENTIAL AFGHANISTAN SPEECH, CLIMATE
[...] PRESIDENTIAL AFGHANISTAN SPEECH "American experts say that the Taliban will once again return to power" Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao),a newspaper affiliated to the official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (12/04)(pg 06): "Obama's plan to increase troops did not gain the suppo [...]
2009-12-04 09:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3252PRC SCHOLAR ON IRAN, RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA, SCO,
[...] (C) Summary: A well-connected scholar of Russian and Central Asian studies argued that China would not alter its basic position on the Iran nuclear issue in response to an apparent Russian shift in approach, because PRC leadership understands that Russia's change is in tone only, Russia's und [...]
2009-12-04 10:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH AF IR
09BEIJING3253BEIJING WELCOMES CODEL MURRAY JANUARY 10-16, 2010
[...] (U) Embassy Beijing and Consulate General Shanghai warmly welcome Senator Murray and delegation to China January 10-16, 2010, for consultations with Chinese officials. 2. (U) Control Officer: Greg May, Political Officer Home: (86-10)8046-5023 Office: (86-10)8531-4062 Cell: (86)139-1056-6 [...]
2009-12-04 10:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN AMGT ASEC CH OREP
09BEIJING3254PRC: PRIVATE EQUITY NEEDS FOREIGN INPUT BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a host of industry experts, foreign PE firms looking to invest in China have two major concerns: 1) how to convert foreign currency into renminbi (RMB) in order to invest in Chinese firms; 2) how to exit from their investments to realize profits either in RMB or in fo [...]
2009-12-07 01:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH EFIN EINV
09BEIJING326 CHINA'S TEXTILE SUPPORT PLAN DISAPPOINTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On Feb. 4, the State Council's Standing Committee announced a support plan for the textile and garment industry, one of ten key industries to receive government support. The measures included lofty goals to expand domestic consumption, encourage industry consolidation and promo [...]
2009-02-10 07:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KTEX ETRD EIND CH
09BEIJING3263CHINA QUIETLY USHERS IN AG BIOTECH REVOLUTION
[...] (SBU) In early November 2009, China authorized the first commercialization of major biotech food crops. A government website confirmed their approval of phytase corn and Bt rice. Despite little fanfare, this will revolutionize China's agriculture and may be the global agricultural development [...]
2009-12-07 09:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR SENV EAGR ETRD ECON CH VN
09BEIJING3264MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE, AFGHANISTAN, NORTH KOREA
[...] CLIMATE CHANGE a. "The world sets its eyes on Copenhagen" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(12/07)(pg 13): "Many people describe the Copenhagen Conference as the last chance to save the globe. For Bangkok and cities in the neighboring area, climate change has beco [...]
2009-12-07 10:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3269CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S ACTIONS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-08 07:33:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL ETTC KSCA CH PK
09BEIJING3272ASSISTANT FINMIN ZHU GUANGYAO SUGGESTS FORMAT FOR
[...] (C) Summary: At a December 4 meeting with DCM, Assistant Minister of Finance Zhu Guangyao said there is broad consensus in the PRC that the United States and China must move beyond purely bilateral concerns to focus on regional and global issues. He proposed the S&ED II economic track discuss [...]
2009-12-08 09:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETRD EINV PREL CN
09BEIJING3274MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE, AFGHANISTAN
[...] CLIMATE CHANGE a. "Copenhagen to define the post-Kyoto era" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(12/08)(pg 1): "Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of National Development and Reform Commission, pointed out that t [...]
2009-12-08 10:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3276DECEMBER 8, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: AMBASSADOR BOSWORTH
[...] Key points at the December 8 MFA press briefing were: -- China supports U.S.-DPRK dialogue and hopes Ambassador Bosworth's talks with the DPRK lead to the resumption of the Six-Party Talks. -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen at the invit [...]
2009-12-08 23:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM MNUC KNNP SENV CH CB RS KN DA
09BEIJING3277PRC: PRIVATE EQUITY WON'T HELP SOE PRIVATIZATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts in major U.S. private equity (PE) firms in China agreed that using PE funds to privatize SOEs was a losing bet, and that new "private" equity funding coming out of SOEs would be a danger to the industry, in separate meetings with Econoffs over the past two months. At lea [...]
2009-12-09 00:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV EIND CH
09BEIJING3286MEDIA REACTION: COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-09 09:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3287COMPETING PERCEPTIONS OF PRC ACTIVITIES IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC contacts define Chinese interests in Afghanistan within the context of China's international image, security requirements, commercial goals and bilateral relationships with key countries. Afghan Embassy contacts here lament the PRC's narrow focus on projects in Afghanistan t [...]
2009-12-09 14:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALAF CH EAID MARR NATO PARM PK PREL PTER
09BEIJING3288PRC: SKEPTICAL REACTION TO PRESIDENT'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Official PRC reaction to the President's announcement of the way ahead on Afghanistan and Pakistan has been limited to a cautious statement by the MFA press spokesman at a regularly scheduled press conference December 3. Party-run media outlets expressed skepticism about the Pr [...]
2009-12-09 15:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MARR EAID CH PK AF
09BEIJING329MFA: CHINA SEEKS COOPERATION ON AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (C) The Chinese Government is paying close attention to any changes in U.S. strategies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to an MFA official, and seeks cooperation with the United States and the international community in the region. China will continue to promote stability in South Asia t [...]
2009-02-10 09:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON CH PK AF IN
09BEIJING3290DIALOGUE ON TRADE REMEDIES: USTR GENERAL COUNSEL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-10 08:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIJING3293MEDIA REACTION: COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CONFERENCE, OBAMA'S
[...] COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CONFERENCE a. "In Copenhagen, a Chinese official is refused entry three times" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(12/10)(pg 16): "For the past two days, Chinese delegates at the Copenhagen climate conference have d [...]
2009-12-10 09:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3294NORTH KOREA: UPDATE ON UNDP AND WORLD FOOD PROGRAM
[...] (C) Summary: The UN's World Food Program (WFP) Beijing-based North Korea coordinator on December 9 told Econoffs that North Korea's "middle class" would be the worst hurt by Pyongyang's recent currency revaluation. Furthermore, despite official North Korean estimates that the 2009 harvest was [...]
2009-12-10 10:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID EAGR ECON PREL KN CH
09BEIJING3295CHINESE FIRM RE-THINKS AFGHAN MINING CONTRACT
[...] (C) Summary: China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) President Shen Heting told a visiting U.S. delegation on November 12 that inefficiency and corruption in the Afghan government, security problems, and a lack of skilled Afghan workers had delayed work on the MCC´s Aynak copper mine project [...]
2009-12-10 10:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EINV EMIN ENRG MASS PREL PGOV PTER
09BEIJING3296INITIAL CHINESE REBUFF OF INDIGENOUS INNOVATION
[...] Confidential - entire text. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Huntsman transmitted reftel demarche points under cover of a letter to the Ministers of MOST, MOF and the NDRC on December 9. Separately, emboffs on December 10 delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Finance (MOF) Deputy Director Ge [...]
2009-12-10 12:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCM ECON ETRD PGOV SCUL SOCI
09BEIJING3297DECEMBER 10, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: AMBASSADOR BOSWORTH
[...] Key points at the December 10 MFA press briefing were: -- Ambassador Bosworth will be arriving in Beijing December 11 following his visit to North Korea. -- At the Copenhagen Conference, China hopes the concerns of developing countries are addressed. -- Xi Jinping will visit ROK, Japan, [...]
2009-12-11 00:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM MNUC KNNP SENV CH CB RS KN DA
09BEIJING330MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, U.S. POLICY, JAPAN
[...] IRAN "Why was the U.S.-Iran Badminton Diplomacy abolished?" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao) (02/10): "The U.S.-Iran Badminton diplomacy, amid high expectations, has failed. This has disappointed Obama, as he is dedicated to improving [...]
2009-02-10 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING3306VPP EXPANDS U.S. COOPERATION IN SHANDONG PROVINCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As part of a Virtual Presence Post (VPP) outreach trip, Ambassador Huntsman traveled to Jinan, capital of China's Shandong Province, to open the Shandong American Week, donate books to the Shandong University law library, draw attention to an exhibition celebrating 30 years of U. [...]
2009-12-11 06:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EFIN KPAO SCUL CH
09BEIJING3307U.S. Federal Reserve Nov. 18-20 Visit to Beijing:
[...] (SBU) Summary. Chinese officials and local and foreign bankers and economists told visiting Federal Reserve Governor Warsh and San Francisco Fed President Yellen that China's GDP growth has been boosted by successful fiscal and monetary policies, largely focused on infrastructure investment, [...]
2009-12-11 07:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL CH
09BEIJING331CHINA DROUGHT: NOT A CRISIS YET
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: China declared a drought emergency on February 5 in seven major agricultural provinces in central China. Although the drought is serious, it should have limited impact on overall Chinese agricultural production and food supply. A short-term drought of this nature [...]
2009-02-10 09:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SENV EAGR CH
09BEIJING3311MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, COPENHAGEN, ARMS
[...] OBAMA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "In receiving the peace prize, Obama defends war" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(12/11)(pg 1): "When receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama said that although wars have led to tragedies, militar [...]
2009-12-11 09:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3312UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' DECEMBER 9, 2009
[...] (SBU) December 9, 2009; 3:45 p.m.; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Beijing 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- Under Secretary Burns Amb. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Embassy Beijing David Shear, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Laura Rosenberger, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary [...]
2009-12-11 10:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL MNUC SENV PARM CASC
09BEIJING3313UNDER SECRETARY BURNS MEETING WITH CCID DIRECTOR
[...] (C) Under Secretary Burns met with Director of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee International Liaison Department (CCID) Wang Jiarui December 9 to discuss U.S.-China cooperation on North Korea and Iran. Wang said that the "ideal outcome" of Special Representative for North Korea Polic [...]
2009-12-11 10:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC PGOV KN IR CH
09BEIJING3314MINORITY POLICY: XINJIANG RIOTS SPARK DEBATE OVER
[...] (C) Summary: The July 5 riots in Xinjiang have sparked a heated debate over the merits of China's Soviet-style minority policy and system of autonomous regions. Beijing University sociologist and Communist Party ethnic policy advisor Ma Rong, according to several contacts, is leading the cha [...]
2009-12-11 11:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING3315XINJIANG'S URUMQI STILL TENSE, BUT LESS SO
[...] (C) Summary: The visit of PolOff to Xinjiang in early December revealed that the security posture in the capital city of Urumqi has relaxed somewhat but armed personnel from the People's Armed Police (PAP) continue to patrol the Uighur sector and other sensitive areas. While some residents e [...]
2009-12-11 11:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH
09BEIJING332FEBRUARY 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY VISIT, MIDDLE
[...] Key points at the February 10 MFA Press Briefing: -- China hopes Secretary Clinton's visit will "strengthen dialogue, increase mutual trust, broaden cooperation and push China-U.S. relations on a track of healthy and stable development." -- China "hopes U.S. Middle East policy can help ease [...]
2009-02-10 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM SENV CH CA FR IR XF IT SA
09BEIJING3321PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH RIGHTS
[...] (C) The Ambassador met December 9 with five prominent Beijing-based human rights lawyers. The lawyers reported increased harassment and political pressure due to their work on sensitive human rights and religious freedom cases and their association with the democracy manifesto Charter '08. Th [...]
2009-12-14 07:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
09BEIJING3323DAS SHEAR DISCUSSES AF/PAK WITH MFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China welcomes a "constructive" U.S. role in South Asia as well as continued dialogue and coordination with the United States regarding South Asia, an MFA official told DAS Shear December 10. Responding to DAS Shear's suggestion of areas for possible U.S.-PRC cooperation in Afgh [...]
2009-12-14 09:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MARR EAID CH PK AF
09BEIJING3325MEDIA REACTION: ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, CLIMATE CHANGE, NEW
[...] ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN "Chinese military issues warning about U.S. arms sales to Taiwan" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(12/14)(pg 16): "A Chinese Ministry of Defense official said that if the U.S. sells arms to Taiwan it will not onl [...]
2009-12-14 09:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3326PRC: Central Asia-China Pipeline Opens,
[...] (C) PRC President Hu Jintao's December 12-14 working level visits to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to inaugurate the Central Asia-China pipeline demonstrated China's growing energy cooperation with Central Asia and increasing demand for imported natural gas, according to two researchers at CNPC' [...]
2009-12-14 22:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET EINV PREL KZ TX CH
09BEIJING3327U/S BURNS MEETS WITH CHINESE SCHOLARS, DISCUSS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-14 22:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON
09BEIJING3330U/S BURNS MEETS WITH CHINESE SCHOLARS, DISCUSS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-15 03:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON
09BEIJING3331AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN: CONSULTATIONS REVEAL
[...] (C) An eight-member U.S. delegation held bilateral consultations in Beijing November 12 on potential areas for future collaboration with China in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Throughout the consultations, the U.S. delegation stressed the many areas of aligned strategic interests of the United Sta [...]
2009-12-15 03:32:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID SNAR EINV PARM PTER ECON MASS
09BEIJING3332U.S.-CHINA WORKING GROUP ON SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRS
[...] (C) In U.S.-China consultations on South Asia in Beijing November 11, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Ministry of Public Security (MPS),and Ministry of Finance and Commerce (MOFCOM) expressed a preliminary willingness to cooperate with the United States on reconstruction and develo [...]
2009-12-15 03:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID SNAR EINV PARM PTER ECON MASS
09BEIJING3335CHINA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Below is China's submission for the 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism. The Embassy POC is Donna Gorman, who can be reached via email at GormanDX@state.gov. 2. (U) China continued its counterterrorism cooperation with the United States and other nations throughout the year. In [...]
2009-12-15 06:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASCE CH
09BEIJING3336CHINA MANNED SPACE ENGINEERING OFFICE (CMSE) WELCOMES
[...] (SBU) On December 8, ESTH Offs met with representatives from China's Man Space Engineering Office (CMSE) to discuss next steps for initiating bilateral discussions on cooperation in human spaceflight, as stipulated in the Joint Statement released during President Obama's visit to Beijing in m [...]
2009-12-15 07:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA TSPL TPHY PREL CH
09BEIJING3337MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE, CHINA MODEL, TAIWAN
[...] CLIMATE CHANGE "China's high-profile criticism demonstrates skillful diplomacy" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao)(12/15)(pg 2): "China's high-profile criticism of developed countries will help China gain control in the climate negotiat [...]
2009-12-15 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3338DECEMBER 15, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NORTH KOREA CARGO
[...] Key points at the December 15 MFA press briefing were: -- It is up to the UN Security Council to consider the cargo plane detained in Thailand for suspected arms smuggling. -- Western criticism of China's persecution of Charter 08 signer Liu Xiaobo is "unacceptable." -- The 22 Uighurs se [...]
2009-12-15 08:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM MNUC KNNP SENV CH KN CB TH JP CA
09BEIJING3347AF/PAK: CHINESE SCHOLARS SHARE VIEWS WITH U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: PRC scholars from three government-affiliated think tanks told Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Dan Feldman November 12 that the United States needs to demonstrate its resolve in the fight against the Taliban and speed up the pace of reconstruction in A [...]
2009-12-15 09:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PREL SNAR EINV PARM PTER ECON MASS
09BEIJING3349CHINA/OVERCAPACITY: OVERWEIGHT OR HEALTHY BABY FAT?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China's industrial structure is extremely overcapacity and the recent massive government stimulus packages and credit expansion exacerbated the problems, according to a November 26, 2009 EU Chamber of Commerce report. The report stirred controversy in China's blogosphere and med [...]
2009-12-15 09:20:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EFIN EU CH
09BEIJING3351PRC/MONGOLIA: ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL TIES STILL
[...] (SBU) In a December 3 meeting with Econoffs, Mongolian Commercial and Economic Counselor Nyamtseren Enkhtaivan noted that Chinese-Mongolian trade was increasing "quite well," and that generally the bilateral relationship had progressed quickly over the past 60 years. For instance, bilateral t [...]
2009-12-16 03:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH EAID ECON EMIN ETRD MG PREL
09BEIJING3357ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN CHINA STILL ELUSIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-16 08:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH PGOV PHUM SOCI
09BEIJING3361MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE, AFGHANISTAN, WAR ON TERROR
[...] CLIMATE CHANGE "The final stand-off in Copenhagen: China has resisted Anglo-American pressure" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(12/16)(pg A4): "By now, developing countries and developed countries don't give in to each other's [...]
2009-12-16 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3373CHARGE'S CALL WITH DISSIDENT'S WIFE
[...] (C) On December 17, Charge d'Affaires Robert Goldberg telephoned Liu Xia, the wife of detained Charter 08 drafter Liu Xiaobo, to convey USG concerns regarding her husband's case and sympathy for the difficulties she faced. The Charge told Liu Xia that United States believed that Liu Xiaobo had [...]
2009-12-17 07:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING3376MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE, TAIWAN, NORTH KOREA
[...] CLIMATE CHANGE "Holding to the principle of shared but differentiated responsibilities" The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao)(12/17)(pg 4): "The root cause and the nature of climate change must be clarified before all the countries will reach consensus; [...]
2009-12-17 09:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3377DRC ASKS PRC TO NOT SUPPORT MONUC RENEWAL
[...] (C) The DRC had recently approached China to request PRC support to prevent renewal of MONUC's mandate, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Second Secretary Xu Zhongsheng told PolOff December 17 in response to reftel points urging PRC agreement to su [...]
2009-12-17 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNGA CH UNSC KPKO
09BEIJING3379INDIGENOUS INNOVATION - DEMARCHE DELIVERED AGAIN,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Economic Minister Counselor delivered reftel demarche regarding indigenous innovation to a National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) official December 9. The official took note of USG concerns over the Circular and promised to "respond accordingly." Separately, a Minis [...]
2009-12-17 09:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV SCUL SOCI CH
09BEIJING3380DECEMBER 17, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: COPENHAGEN TALKS, XI
[...] Key points at the December 17 MFA press briefing were: -- China supports cooperative efforts to reach a "fair, reasonable, balanced, and achievable" result at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. -- During a visit to South Korea, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with Presid [...]
2009-12-17 11:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SENV ETRD CH KS KN CB
09BEIJING3381WOMEN'S LAW STUDIES AND LEGAL AID CENTER PRESSES
[...] (C) Summary: In a December 2 meeting with PolOffs, Women's Law Studies and Legal Aid Center (LAC) Director and 2010 International Women of Courage award nominee Guo Jianmei discussed her decision to disassociate the LAC from Beijing University in order to continue taking on legal casework. Th [...]
2009-12-17 23:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM KWMN CH
09BEIJING3392U/S BURNS MEETS WITH CHINESE SCHOLARS, DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) December 9, 2009; 11:30 a.m.; Beijing 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- Under Secretary Burns David Shear, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William Weinstein, Economic Minister-Counselor, Embassy Beijing Laura Stone, Economic Officer, Embassy Beijing (notetaker) CHINA [...]
2009-12-18 08:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON
09BEIJING33938th U.S.-China High Level Joint Biotechnology Working Group
[...] (SBU) On September 16, government officials and technical experts convened the 8th meeting of the U.S.-China High Level Joint Biotechnology Working Group (BWG) in Beijing. Discussion focused on: 1) affirming U.S. and Chinese joint interests in agricultural biotechnology; 2) recognizing the pot [...]
2009-12-18 08:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR SENV EAGR ETRD ECON CH
09BEIJING33946th U.S.-China Technical Working Group Meeting in Beijing
[...] (SBU) On September 15, officials and technical experts from the United States and China convened the Sixth Meeting of the U.S.-China Biotechnology Technical Working Group on Food and Environmental Safety (TWG). Discussion focused on scientific and regulatory issues relevant to genetically engi [...]
2009-12-18 08:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR SENV EAGR ETRD ECON CH
09BEIJING3395INDIGENOUS INNOVATION - KEY MINISTRY CLAIMS TO BE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy delivered Ref A demarche to Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST),December 18, regarding the joint MOST, Ministry of Finance, and National Development and Reform Commission Circular 618 creating a national accreditation system for indigenous innovation. MOST officia [...]
2009-12-18 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV EINV CH
09BEIJING3396DAS HOLT'S NOVEMBER 20 MEETING WITH DDG LI JUNHUA
[...] (C) Summary: The PRC remains committed to UN Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKOs) and supports efforts to establish achievable mandates and to promote political processes that will complement UNPKO activities, MFA International Organizations and Conference Deputy Director General Li Junhua told B [...]
2009-12-18 09:04:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA KPKO CH
09BEIJING3397TENSE RELATIONS BETWEEN UNHCR BEIJING AND THE PRC:
[...] (C) UNHCR Beijing's already delicate relationship with the MFA was "stretched to its limit" due to incidents involving asylum seekers unrelated to UNHCR Beijing, according to a UNHCR Beijing official. The MFA strongly objected to what it perceived was UNHCR Beijing's direct involvement in effo [...]
2009-12-18 09:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PINR PHUM PREL CH KN KS CB
09BEIJING3398MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE, AFGHANISTAN, CHINA-CENTRAL
[...] CLIMATE CHANGE a. "Climate change poses a threat to global security" The official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnianbao)(12/18)(pg 10): "Climate change poses a greater threat to the world than terrorism. This is not just an alarmist view since climate change wil [...]
2009-12-18 09:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3399China/Land/Abuse of Power: Self-Immolation
[...] (SBU) Summary: A tragic self-immolation death in Sichuan Province resulting from an urban house demolition dispute, followed by another similar protest in Beijing, has stimulated unusually broad public discussions of local-level abuse of power in land seizures. Some commentators have suggeste [...]
2009-12-18 10:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV PHUM CH
09BEIJING3401SMUGGLING OF FOOD PRODUCTS INCREASES ON CHINA'S SOUTHERN
[...] (SBU) U.S. exports of agricultural products smuggled into China have surged due to an increase in politically motivated trade restrictions. China's border with Vietnam has become a prime transit point for trade in beef, pork, and poultry. A smuggler involved in this trade recently described h [...]
2009-12-21 03:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR SENV EAGR ETRD ECON CH VN
09BEIJING3411MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-21 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3414SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MURRAY
[...] (SBU) Senator Murray, your delegation will arrive in Beijing and Shanghai two months after President Obama's November 15-18 visit to China. Overall, the Chinese leadership is pleased with the direction of U.S.-China relations and your hosts will likely frame this session of U.S.-China Interpa [...]
2009-12-21 10:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON CH TW IR NK
09BEIJING3415CHINA AND DEFAMATION OF RELIGION RESOLUTIONS
[...] (SBU) Our concerns over the free speech implications of the OIC "defamation of religions" resolution will have little resonance with Chinese leaders. China's regional and bilateral interests with certain OIC member states also make it unlikely that the PRC will publicly back the U.S. counter [...]
2009-12-21 10:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC CH
09BEIJING3416PRC DEMARCHE ON AMBASSADOR'S LIU XIAOBO LETTER,
[...] (C) On December 21, MFA Americas Department Deputy Director General Ding Xiaowen summoned Acting PolMinCouns to receive a formal response to a December 10 letter from Ambassador Huntsman to Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi raising USG concerns about the detention of Charter 08 drafter Liu Xiaobo a [...]
2009-12-21 11:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL CH
09BEIJING3417 PRC OFFICIALS DISCUSS IPR PROTECTION AND ANTI-MONOPOLY
[...] (SBU) Summary: China should counter the trend toward "overprotection of IPR" by regulating "IPR transfer" and combating IPR "abuse," a Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) official said at a December 9 seminar on Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) enforcement and IPR. Other Chinese officials and judges at the s [...]
2009-12-22 03:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV ETRD KIPR CH
09BEIJING3419PRC DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST
[...] (S) On December 22, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Attache Jiang Bo reftel points on co-sponsorship and pre-notification for the upcoming UNSCR 1267 listing request of Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula and of its leaders Nasir [...]
2009-12-22 05:14:00Embassy BeijingSECRETKTFN PTER PINR PREL CH YM UN
09BEIJING3420INDIGENOUS INNOVATION - MINISTRY CLAIMS MEASURES
[...] (SBU) Econ Minister Counselor (EmbEcon) delivered ref A demarche to Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Director General for American and Oceanic Affairs He Ning December 22 regarding Circular 618 that creates a national accreditation system for indigenous innovation. EmbEcon stressed the Circular [...]
2009-12-22 07:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV EINV CH
09BEIJING3421CHINA REBALANCING: HOW MUCH, HOW SOON, AND HOW?
[...] (C) Summary. Recent senior leadership meetings in Beijing indicate that with 2009 GDP growth in excess of eight percent assured, the Chinese Government has turned its attention to rebalancing the economy for more sustainable development. Most observers believe the government is serious about [...]
2009-12-22 09:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL PGOV CH
09BEIJING3422DECEMBER 22, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] Key points at the December 22 MFA press briefing were: -- China took positive measures in Copenhagen during the Climate Change Conference. -- UK citizen Akmal Shaikh was sentenced to death for drug smuggling despite claims that he suffers from mental disorders. -- No deal was made with C [...]
2009-12-22 09:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM MNUC KNNP SENV CH EUN JA NP CB
09BEIJING3425MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE, AFGHANISTAN, JAPAN, CHINA
[...] CLIMATE CHANGE "The Copenhagen Conference did not fail" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(12/22)(pg 2): "The principles of a 'dual climate change responsibilities' have been maintained and the terms rela [...]
2009-12-22 09:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3433EMBASSY BEIJING RESPONSE TO GAO IPR REPORT
[...] (U) Summary. The China Mission is actively working to implement the recommendations put forth by GAO in its September 2009 report. The Mission's interagency IP Task Force, established in 2005, convenes a monthly meeting to share information on IPR activities in country and in home offices. T [...]
2009-12-23 08:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ECON ETRD CH
09BEIJING344UNSYG SPECIAL ADVISER GAMBARI DISCUSSES BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: The Burmese military regime's objective is to organize elections in 2010 that will be won by a military-based political party, UN Special Adviser on Burma Ibrahim Gambari told the Charge and four other Beijing-based Western mission representatives February 10. Gambari added that [...]
2009-02-11 07:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CH BM IN UN
09BEIJING3441MEDIA REACTION: FINANCE, KOREAN PENINSULA, CHINA AND
[...] FINANCE "U.S. political whip wounds Sino-U.S. trade" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(12/23)(pg 14): "Growing Sino-U.S. economic and trade ties seem to have been beaten by a whip. This whip is in fact the American people's 'politica [...]
2009-12-23 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3442CHINA SHOWS ASSERTIVENESS AT EU SUMMIT AS LISBON
[...] (C) In contrast to MFA claims that the November 30 EU-China Summit held in Nanjing was a positive event with "no points of contention," European diplomats stated that the PRC showed "new assertiveness" with Europe during the summit and noted that discussions calling for increased flexibility i [...]
2009-12-23 09:11:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN KIPR SENV EINV ETRD PHUM
09BEIJING3443CHARGE'S DEMARCHE ON LIU XIAOBO TRIAL, UIGHUR
[...] (C) Summary: The Charge raised the December 23 trial of activist Liu Xiaobo and the forced return of Uighur asylum seekers from Cambodia with MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang. The Charge expressed strong disappointment that Liu's trial had alr [...]
2009-12-23 10:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CH CB
09BEIJING3449DRC ASKS PRC TO NOT SUPPORT MONUC RENEWAL
[...] (C) The DRC had recently approached China to request PRC support to prevent renewal of MONUC's mandate, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Second Secretary Xu Zhongsheng told PolOff December 17 in response to reftel points urging PRC agreement to su [...]
2009-12-28 01:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNGA CH UNSC KPKO
09BEIJING3467CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER VISIT TO CHINA POSITIVE,
[...] (C) The December 2-6 visit of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to China, his first ever, was positive, productive and "set the right tone" in Canadian-Chinese relations, according to Canadian diplomats. While MFA officials concurred on the positive assessment of the visit, a PRC schola [...]
2009-12-28 06:47:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EMIN EINV PHUM CH CA HK KS
09BEIJING3473MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. MILITARY
[...] U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS "We should not allow the United States' Medicare to drag down China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(12/28)(pg 14): "No health care reform in the world can evade this question: where does the money come from [...]
2009-12-28 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3474CHARGE MEETS WITH DISSIDENT'S WIFE
[...] (C) Summary: In a December 28 meeting with Liu Xia, wife of convicted Charter 08 author Liu Xiaobo, the Charge expressed concern about Liu Xiaobo's safety and noted the U.S. and other countries had called for his immediate release. He said Liu Xiaobo would not be forgotten and would be upperm [...]
2009-12-28 10:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
09BEIJING3475CHINA: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO GICNT TERMS OF
[...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche informing China of the proposed amendments to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Terms of Reference to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Officer Xu Feng on December 28. Xu thanked PolOff for the draft Terms of [...]
2009-12-28 10:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC MNUC CH
09BEIJING3476CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S ACTIONS TO
[...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Malaysian-based Iranian front company Electronic Component Limited's (ECL) efforts to buy controlled gyroscopes from the Beijing-based Vibtel Industrial Co. Inc to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biol [...]
2009-12-28 10:57:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY
09BEIJING3477CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S ACTIONS TO
[...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Maanshan Huntian Equipment Ltd. Company's efforts to supply controlled steel to a North Korean weapons trading firm to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Division Officer Zhao Kun on December [...]
2009-12-28 11:01:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR ETTC PREL CH KN
09BEIJING3482POPULAR PRC FILM REDRAWS TAIWAN PROPAGANDA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The blockbuster film "The Founding of a Republic," released in China to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, marks a noteworthy shift in Chinese propaganda on Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang . While the storyline of the movie is consistent with [...]
2009-12-29 05:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI CH TW
09BEIJING3487MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, CHINA POLICY
[...] U.S. POLICY A. "New breakthroughs in U.S. healthcare reform: towards a managed competition" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(12/29)(pg 2): "Because the Democratic Party is the majority party in both th [...]
2009-12-29 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING3488PRC: U.S. TENSIONS WITH IRAN MAKE SOLVING AMCIT
[...] (C) Tensions between the United States and Iran complicate efforts to resolve the cases of six American citizens currently detained in Iran, MFA West Asian Affairs Department Iran Division Deputy Director Ni Ruchi told PolOff December 29. PolOff delivered reftel points requesting China to urg [...]
2009-12-29 09:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC PHUM PINR PROP PREL PARM PTER IR CH
09BEIJING3489DECEMBER 29, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: AMCIT IN NORTH KOREA,
[...] Key points at the December 29 MFA press briefing were: -- China hopes the U.S. will uphold the larger issue of stability on the Korean Peninsula when addressing US citizen Robert Park's detention in North Korea. -- The execution of UK citizen Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling, despite claims [...]
2009-12-29 10:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM PHSA PTER CH BM KN IS
09BEIJING349SUBJECT: HUMAN RIGHTS CASE: ZENG JINYAN'S INTERNET COMMUNICATION RESTRICTED; SEEKS VISIT WITH HUSBAND HU JIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-11 08:32:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH PGOV PHUM PREL
09BEIJING3490MONITORING G/TIP FY 08 GRANT PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-30 01:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH
09BEIJING3498MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, ENVIRONMENT
[...] U.S. POLICY A. "It is no harm to cheer for U.S. healthcare reform" The international news commercial publication of the People's Daily, Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(12/30)(pg 14): "U.S. President Obama has sent a wonderful Christmas gift to 46 million Americans who cannot afford health c [...]
2009-12-30 09:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING350SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO CHINA,
[...] (C) Madame Secretary, your having chosen to visit China during your first trip abroad as Secretary of State has special significance well understood and appreciated by the Chinese. Chinese leaders place great importance on personal relationships with foreign counterparts and on the symbolism [...]
2009-02-11 09:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH TW
09BEIJING3507PRC: VICE PRESIDENT XI JINPING STRENGTHENS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Cambodian and Chinese official sources told EmbOffs that no connection exists between Cambodia's December 19 forced repatriation to China of 20 Uighur asylum-seekers and the PRC's announcement of USD 1.2 billion in bilateral assistance during Vice President Xi Jinping's December 2 [...]
2009-12-31 05:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG EAID ECON CH CB
09BEIJING3509TRIAL AND SENTENCING OF LIU XIAOBO
[...] (C) Summary: The Chinese denied access to diplomats from at least 15 countries who attempted to observe the December 23 trial of Charter 08 drafter Liu Xiaobo on charges of "inciting subversion of state power." After applications through diplomatic channels were turned down, PolOff, along w [...]
2009-12-31 05:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CH
09BEIJING351MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, CHINA'S ROLE
[...] U.S. POLICY a. "American supervision only considers white people" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/11): "The recent crash of a tour bus has directed all of the blame on travel agencies operated by Chinese Americans. However why w [...]
2009-02-11 09:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING353GEORGIAN DIPLOMAT LAMENTS LACK OF CHINESE SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary: Georgia has received "practically nothing" from China since the Russia-Georgia conflict began in August 2008, a contact at the Georgian Embassy in Beijing told PolOff February 11. The Georgian diplomat expressed disappointment with China's limited assistance and unwillingness to [...]
2009-02-11 09:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID MARR RS CH GG
09BEIJING354U.S.-CHINA EXCHANGE RATE STABLE, NO CHANGE OF
[...] (C) Summary. After three years of steady appreciation, the Chinese renminbi (RMB) has been relatively stable against the USD since July 2008; since January 6, the RMB effectively has been pegged to the USD. In recent weeks senior Chinese leaders, including Premier Wen Jiabao and People's Bank [...]
2009-02-11 10:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON ETRD PREL CH
09BEIJING356THE ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN AND RURAL CHINA: BEIJING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-11 23:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING359THE ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN AND RURAL CHINA: BEIJING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: For the sixth year in a row, the Chinese Government,s first major policy document of the year has focused on the rural sector. The document breaks little new ground on the policy front, mainly reiterating the Government,s oft-stated goal of tackling rural poverty and boosting ru [...]
2009-02-12 01:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING365MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. POLICY, HUMAN
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "New American Treasury Secretary changes the tone of his comments on China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (02/12): "Geithner recently stated that the U.S. needs to cautiously judge China on its RMB exchange [...]
2009-02-12 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING366FEBRUARY 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TIBET, ICC INDICTMENT,
[...] Key points at the February 12 MFA Press Briefing: -- Tibet is a matter of China's internal affairs and has been a part of China since the 13th century. China continues to strive to improve its system of regional autonomy and to safeguard the interests of all ethnic groups. -- The Chinese [...]
2009-02-12 09:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH SU ZI FR
09BEIJING374DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNSCR 1540 PROGRAM OF WORK
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered ref A and B non-paper, draft amended text and talking points seeking PRC support in ongoing UNSC Resolution 1540 Committee Program of Work (POW) negotiations to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Second Secretary Zhang Ze on February 13. PolOff [...]
2009-02-13 09:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC CH
09BEIJING376MFA URGED TO INVESTIGATE IRANIAN MISSILE
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel non-paper urging China to investigate the activities of a three-person Iranian delegation traveling in China that might be engaged in the illegal procurement of missile technology to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Second Secretary Zhang [...]
2009-02-13 09:26:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE ETTC MNUC TSPA CH IR
09BEIJING379CHINESE POSITION ON KOSOVO UNCHANGED: NO PRC
[...] (C) China's position not to recognize Kosovo remains unchanged, MFA European Affairs Department Balkans Division Deputy Division Director Tian Yishu told PolOff February 13 in response to reftel points urging recognition of Kosovo. China was aware of the upcoming anniversary of Kosovo's declar [...]
2009-02-13 09:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AORC ICJ CH YI UN KV
09BEIJING380MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT TO ASIA, U.S.
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT TO ASIA "Why does Secretary Clinton visit Japan first?" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao) (02/13): "Secretary Clinton has decided to visit Japan first because it is a continuation of the Bush administrations di [...]
2009-02-13 10:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING381Talking Points Delivered: CNSA Response to Satellite
[...] (SBU) On February 13, ESTHOFF conveyed points in REFTEL regarding the collision of a U.S. and Russian satellite and discussed the issue directly by phone with Mr. XU Yansong of the China National Space Agency's (CNSA) International Cooperation Department. Post also transmitted points in writin [...]
2009-02-13 10:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA TSPL TPHY PREL KSCA CH
09BEIJING382CHINA HAD NO SAY IN MANAS CLOSURE ISSUE, SHARES
[...] (C) Summary: China did not discuss the possibility of closing Manas Air Base with the Kyrgyz Government, either before or after President Bakiyev's February 3 announcement, and only learned about it from press reports, according to an MFA official. China and the United States "share common g [...]
2009-02-13 10:30:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PGOV PTER CH KG
09BEIJING383AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND DEMARCHE PRC ON FIJI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the eve of PRC Vice President Xi Jinping's February 8-9 trip to Fiji, Australia and New Zealand expressed concern to the MFA that such a visit would send the wrong message in light of international efforts to urge the government in Suva to carry out democratic reforms, accordi [...]
2009-02-13 11:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD CH FI AS NZ
09BEIJING384MFA WILL STUDY CHINA TRANSIT PROPOSAL FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (S) PolMinCouns on February 13 conveyed to MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Deputy Director General Deng Hongbo reftel talking points laying out a U.S. proposal for a transportation route through the PRC in support of t [...]
2009-02-13 11:24:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL MARR PGOV CH AF
09BEIJING396TERRORISM FINANCE: PRC AGREES TO JOINT UNSCR 1267
[...] (S) On February 17, Chinese MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin informed PolOff that China agrees to proceed with the co-sponsorship of the separate UNSC Resolution 1267 listing request of Eastern Turkestan Islamic Party leader Abd [...]
2009-02-17 08:05:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH PK
09BEIJING397CHINESE BUSINESSMAN ON CIC IN THE U.S., HONG KONG
[...] (C) Summary. The China Investment Corporation (CIC),China's sovereign wealth fund, remains interested in pursuing additional investments in the U.S., although not in the financial sector, according to Charles Liu, a well-connected Chinese private equity firm manager in Beijing. CIC Chairman [...]
2009-02-17 08:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV PREL CH HK
09BEIJING398FEBRUARY 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY OF STATE VISIT,
[...] Key points at the February 17 MFA Press Briefing: -- China hopes to "increase mutual trust" and promote "the sound and stable development" of relations "in the new era" during the Secretary of State's visit. -- China hopes that North and South Korea will "increase mutual trust" and "solve [...]
2009-02-17 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH KS KN IN PK CB VM VT
09BEIJING400SOCIAL STABILITY CHALLENGES LOOM IN 2009, BUT PRC
[...] (C) The global economic downturn has heightened Chinese leaders' longstanding obsession over maintaining social stability, with even PRC official media predicting an increase in "mass incidents" in 2009. Beijing observers vary in their assessment of the severity of this year's stability chall [...]
2009-02-17 09:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI ECON ELAB PHUM CH
09BEIJING401MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT TO ASIA,
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT TO ASIA "Secretary Clinton calls for 'When you are in a common boat, you need to cross the river peacefully together' between the U.S. and China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/17): "Secretary Clinton h [...]
2009-02-17 09:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING402HUMAN RIGHTS: ZENG JINYAN, HU JIA, HUANG QI AND
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 17 meeting with an MFA Human Rights Division official, PolOff raised U.S. concerns regarding rights activist Zeng Jinyan and her husband (imprisoned rights activist Hu Jia),detained Sichuan-based activist Huang Qi, and imprisoned democracy activist Wang Bingzhang. [...]
2009-02-17 10:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
09BEIJING406 MFA AGREES TO REVIEW AND COMMENT ON COCA I SIDE LETTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a February 13 meeting with MFA Department of Administration Director General Li Chao, the Charge delivered a non-paper (a draft side letter in the form of a diplomatic note) regarding the renovation of the former PRC chancery in Washington DC. If agreed to and formally sent, [...]
2009-02-18 04:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYABLD AMGT CM
09BEIJING41MEDIA REACTION: RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS DISPUTES, CHINA'S
[...] RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS DISPUTES a. "A prolonged delay is not beneficial and a compromise is hard to make" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (01/07): "This is the third time that Russia has cut off the gas supply to Ukraine. This cut-off has had a smaller impact on Euro [...]
2009-01-07 09:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING412NGO SHAMES FOREIGN MINISTRY TO PROTECT HISTORIC
[...] (C) A plucky Beijing-based NGO, the China Cultural Heritage Protection Center (CHP),has publicly criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for failing to abide by cultural preservation laws in the renovation of an historic property in Beijing. CHP claimed victory after the MFA agreed in Nov [...]
2009-02-18 07:06:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI CH KPAO
09BEIJING416MEDIA REACTION: ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN, U.S.-CHINA
[...] ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN a. "The U.S.' selfish bill makes the world feel cold" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/18): "Along with the approval of the U.S.' economic stimulus plan, 787$ billion, the disputable 'buy American' bill has [...]
2009-02-18 08:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING419TIBET: SITUATION "FAR FROM NORMAL," BUT REPEAT OF
[...] (C) A repeat of the spring 2008 unrest in Tibetan areas of China is unlikely this year given the extremely tight security blanketing Lhasa and other Tibetan communities, according to several Beijing- based observers. Tensions in Tibetan areas, however, remain high as the 50th anniversary of t [...]
2009-02-18 12:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF IN CH
09BEIJING422CHINA/REBALANCING: BARRIERS TO BOOSTING RURAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Corruption, mismanagement and an inefficient central-local government budgetary system in rural China bode ill for Chinese Government plans to ease the economic slowdown in part through measures to spur rural demand. Two rural Shanxi Province communities provide examples of h [...]
2009-02-19 03:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING425 CHINA ANNOUNCES MACHINERY INDUSTRY SUPPORT PLAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. China's State Council announced February 4 a plan to support China's machinery industry, part of the government's campaign to bolster the country's slowing economy. The plan aims to support the domestic machinery industry and reduce reliance on imported parts without running aw [...]
2009-02-19 05:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND EMIN ECON CH
09BEIJING429MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, U.S. POLICY,
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "U.S.-China military discussions will not avoid speaking about the arms sales to Taiwan" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/19): "A Chinese military official has recently said that China will request th [...]
2009-02-19 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING431FEBRUARY 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CLIMATE CHANGE, SECRETARY'S
[...] Key points at the February 19 MFA Press Briefing: -- China "takes a positive attitude towards strengthening cooperation" on climate change and would "like to work with the United States." -- Good relations between the United States and China are "conducive to peace and stability" and in th [...]
2009-02-19 10:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM SENV CH KS PK
09BEIJING432PRC: CHINA SHARES U.S. POSITION ON MARCH 2 SHARM
[...] (C) China "has the same position" as the United States on the March 2 conference in Sharm al-Sheikh, MFA West Asian and North African Affairs Department Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel Division Deputy Director Xu Chen told PolOff February 19 in response to reftel points on the U.S. positi [...]
2009-02-19 10:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN EAID PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG CH IS
09BEIJING433IS CHINA COMPLYING WITH THE G-20 PROMISE ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chinese officials have been quoted broadly both in domestic and international press criticizing "buy American" provisions in the U.S. stimulus package legislation. At the same time, they have pledged that China will not adopt "buy China" provisions and will meet its G-20 Summit [...]
2009-02-19 10:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EIND CH
09BEIJING434HUMAN RIGHTS: MFA RESPONDS ON WANG BINGZHANG CASE
[...] (C) In response to U.S. expressions of concern about imprisoned democracy activist Wang Bingzhang on February 17 (reftel),an MFA Human Rights Division official on February 19 provided information about Wang's case, noting that MFA hopes the United States will view China's quick response as a [...]
2009-02-19 10:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
09BEIJING439CHINA SHARES NPT PREPCOM AND REVCON PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff discussed reftel questions regarding China's priorities for the upcoming Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) and 2010 NPT Review Conference (RevCon) with MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Director [...]
2009-02-20 08:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MNUC AORC DCG ENRG KNNP PREL PGOV UNGA
09BEIJING440MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT, JAPAN, FIANNCIAL
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT "Secretary Clinton comes to China to talk" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/20): "Secretary Clinton will arrive in Beijing today. During her visit to Japan, Indonesia and South Korea, global media seems n [...]
2009-02-20 09:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING443CHINA ANNOUNCES SHIPBUILDING SUPPORT PLAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. China's State Council announced a shipbuilding industry support plan on Feb. 11, the fifth of ten such plans for key industries designed to help sectors hit hardest by the economic slowdown. The plan includes a three-year moratorium on approval of new shipyards, but observers d [...]
2009-02-20 12:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH
09BEIJING448Graduate Unemployment in China: Financial Crisis
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Chinese government blames rising unemployment on the global financial crisis, but in the case of college graduates the crisis has only exacerbated a preexisting problem. Graduate unemployment began to rise in 2003, as a result of policies to expand enrollment, while reform [...]
2009-02-23 05:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING458MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT, TAIWAN
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT a. "The bottom line and the height of Secretary Clinton's 'trial' visit" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(02/23): "In view of the continuous efforts by the Bush administration on these [...]
2009-02-23 09:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING460CHARGE DELIVERS REVISED COCA II AGREEMENT TO CHINESE MFA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a February 20 meeting with MFA Department of Administration Director General Li Chao, the Charge delivered the revised COCA II agreement, walked the MFA through the talking points and left a non-paper detailing changes to the draft agreement received in ref A. The Charge tol [...]
2009-02-23 22:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYABLD AMGT CH
09BEIJING467MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT, FINANCIAL
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT a. "One sentence of Secretary Clinton's is worth further contemplation" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao)(02/24): "Secretary Clinton said, during her trip to Japan that 'through strengthening relations with our [...]
2009-02-24 09:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING469February 24 MFA Press Briefing: Clinton Visit, DPRK Missile
[...] Key points at the February 24 MFA press briefing: -- Secretary Clinton's first visit to China achieved "positive results." The two sides reaffirmed their desire to "maintain their close dialogue" and will expand areas of common interest in this "new era." -- China "takes note" of a possib [...]
2009-02-24 10:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KS KN EU RS JA SW PK IN CH
09BEIJING470RUSSIA SEEKS TO DEFUSE TENSIONS WITH CHINA AFTER
[...] (C) The Russian military's February 15 sinking of the Chinese cargo ship "The New Star" has caused tension between Russia and China but will not have a long-term impact on bilateral relations, a Russian Embassy contact in Beijing told PolOff February 24. Our contact reported that the MFA summ [...]
2009-02-24 10:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EWWT ETRD MARR PBTS CH RS
09BEIJING471ChinaQs NDRC Urges Expanded Fiscal Stimulus,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Rapidly increasing government spending and a decline in tax revenue caused by the economic slowdown will drive ChinaQs central and local government fiscal deficits to about 2.5 percent of GDP in 2009, compared to about 0.5 percent in 2008 and the highest level since 2002. Nati [...]
2009-02-25 00:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL CH
09BEIJING477BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON SINO-FRENCH
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing February 20, French Ambassador Herve Ladsous reported that a sequence of events is being taken to repair Sino-French relations and that several visits are planned in the near future to that end but no apologies would be forthcoming. The [...]
2009-02-25 06:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING478CHINA REACTS TO IAEA REPORTS ON IRAN AND SYRIA
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on the IAEA's recent reports on Iran and Syria to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Director Zhang Shen on February 25. As instructed, PolOff requested China's support for a strong P5 1 statement demanding Iran's full and [...]
2009-02-25 07:35:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM KNNP IAEA MNUC TRGY IR SY CH
09BEIJING482MEDIA REACTION: FINANCIAL CRISIS, U.S. POLITICS
[...] FINANCIAL CRISIS a. "Whomever saves the most energy, will be the first to recover from the crisis" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/25): "Energy conservation is not only about saving energy; it drives internal consumption and alle [...]
2009-02-25 09:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING483TIBET TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGNERS LIKELY
[...] (C) PRC authorities are barring most foreigners from traveling to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and many Tibetan areas outside the TAR, though the Chinese government has made no official announcement of this policy. One American contact with a long- standing TAR travel permit was recently [...]
2009-02-25 10:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM CASC PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING484PRESERVING JOBS TAKES PRECENDENCE
[...] (SBU) Spurred by concern over social instability, the Chinese government has responded rapidly to a deteriorating job market, and has made "stabilizing employment" a top economic priority. The main thrust of central and local government measures is to keep people on the job, even if it means [...]
2009-02-26 01:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALELAB ECON PGOV PHUM CH
09BEIJING498MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Shelving stereotypes a must for cooperation" The official English-language newspaper China Daily (02/06): "...Concerted cooperation between China and the U.S. depends fundamentally on whether the two countries can transcend the stereotypes mentally of international re [...]
2009-02-26 09:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING499February 26 MFA Press Briefing: Human Rights Report,
[...] Key points at the February 26 MFA press briefing: -- Responding to a question on the U.S. Department of State Human Rights Report, the MFA spokesman said China "attached great importance" to human rights, had made "constant progress" on human rights and "fully protected religious freedom." C [...]
2009-02-26 09:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KS KN EU RS JA SW PK IN CH
09BEIJING509CHINA: 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Please find post's contribution to the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report. Paragraph designations are keyed to reftel A questions China's TIP Situation --------------------- A. The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) serves as our main source for information on TIP related statist [...]
2009-02-27 07:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH
09BEIJING513CHINA: RISKS OF RAPID CREDIT GROWTH INCLUDE NPLS,
[...] (C) Summary. Monetary policy will play a necessary but less important and less visible role than fiscal policy in addressing China's cyclical downturn, according to People's Bank of China (PBOC) Monetary Policy Director General Zhang Xiaohui. With the CPI at one percent in January, expectati [...]
2009-02-27 08:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL CH
09BEIJING514MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS, GARY LOCKE, U.S.-CHINA
[...] HUMAN RIGHTS a. "Human rights report decried" The official English-language newspaper China Daily (02/27): "China yesterday denounced U.S. criticism of its human rights record in an annual report, saying Washington should first put its own house in order. 'We urge the U.S. to examine its o [...]
2009-02-27 09:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING515CHINA APPROVES ELECTRONICS/ IT INDUSTRIES SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) China's State Council on February 18 approved a RMB 600 billion (USD 88 billion) industrial support plan for its electronics and information technology (IT) industries, the sixth of ten industry-specific plans to bolster sectors affected by the economic downturn - and the first to includ [...]
2009-02-27 09:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EINV ECPS PGOV ASEC WTRO CH
09BEIJING517PRC LEADERS KEEN TO FORGE CLOSE TIES WITH U.S.; HU
[...] (C) The PRC leadership is determined to forge close ties with the new U.S. Administration, viewing relations with Washington as the key to China´s engagement with the world, according to an Embassy contact with access to the Chinese leadership. Though China has long viewed its relationship with [...]
2009-02-27 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
09BEIJING518HUI SAID XI SAID: CHINESE LEADERS VISIT LATIN
[...] (C) Summary: The overlapping visits of two of China's top leaders to Latin America and the Caribbean February 7-22 were marked by numerous investment and aid agreements. While some of the agreements lacked substance or were rehashed from previous visits, our contacts say China has begun to i [...]
2009-02-27 10:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID ETRD ENRG CH XM XL
09BEIJING519ZARDARI VISIT HIGHLIGHTS CLOSE CHINA-PAKISTAN TIES
[...] (C) Pakistani President Asif Zardari's February 20-24 visit to Hubei Province and Shanghai was aimed at expanding bilateral economic cooperation and promoting investment, especially in the financial, agricultural, hydroelectric, and water conservation sectors. The two sides inked a Pakistan-C [...]
2009-02-27 10:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH PK AF IN
09BEIJING520PRO-REFORM JOURNAL DIRECTOR REPLACED, POLITICAL
[...] (C) In response to renewed pressure from central authorities, the envelope-pushing pro-reform journal Yanhuang Chunqiu has removed its director, Du Daozheng, according to an Embassy contact with direct access to Du and other journal managers. The journal resisted pressure to purge Du in Novem [...]
2009-02-27 11:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH
09BEIJING526AFM LIU JIEYI PRESSES TIMING CONCERNS ON 2009 PRC
[...] (S) In a February 27 meeting with Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney noted the positive direction in U.S.-China relations, and said the just-concluded Defense Policy Coordination Talks (DPCTs) were a good beginning. Both agreed on the impo [...]
2009-03-02 07:07:00Embassy BeijingSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM PTER CH
09BEIJING527PRC LAUNCHES PR CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA
[...] (SBU) President Hu Jintao's February 10-17 trip to Africa capped a series of recent high-level visits intended to burnish China's image in Africa, according to Chinese and African contacts in Beijing. Our contacts contend that China is doing a great deal to assist Africa. At the same time, t [...]
2009-03-02 07:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID EINV ETRD AO CH KE MI ML MP
09BEIJING529China/Forex Energy Fund: Still "Just an Idea"
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary. Official Chinese media reported that China's National Energy Administration (NEA) had in early February submitted a proposal to use foreign exchange reserves to help Chinese companies acquire overseas resource assets. NEA's Oil and Gas Division Director, however, said NE [...]
2009-03-02 09:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV EPET EFIN CH
09BEIJING530MEDIA REACTION: DEFENSE TALKS, WTO, U.S.-JAPAN-CHINA
[...] DEFENSE TALKS "No barriers to U.S.-China military exchanges have been removed" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(3/02): "In the military exchanges, the U.S. is more interested in obtaining specific military info [...]
2009-03-02 09:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING531NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS TO OPEN MARCH 5:
[...] (C) China's nominal legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC),will convene March 5 and is expected to focus on measures for coping with the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on fleshing out the PRC fiscal stimulus package, increasing domestic demand and boosting employm [...]
2009-03-02 12:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON SOCI CH
09BEIJING535PRC RESPONSE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, DURBAN
[...] (C) The U.S. decision to resume participation as an active observer at the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) during the March HRC session is "good news," MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Division Deputy Director Xu Jing told PolOff March 2. Respon [...]
2009-03-03 04:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNHRC UN CH
09BEIJING544MEDIA REACTION: BUYING AMERICAN, GARY LOCKE, FINANCIAL
[...] BUYING AMERICAN "Buying American is just a tempest in a tea pot" Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao),a newspaper affiliated to the official Communist Youth League China Youth (03/03): "After passing through nine doors and two security guard posts, we were allowed access to the press confere [...]
2009-03-03 10:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING545March 3 MFA Press Briefing: Bosworth Visit, Afghanistan,
[...] Key points at the March 3 MFA press briefing: -- U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Amb. Bosworth will meet both FM Yang Jiechi and VFM Wu Dawei this week. China hopes to exchange views on issues of common interests. The spokesperson reiterated China's hope that recent diffi [...]
2009-03-03 10:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KS KN AF FR EU IN CH
09BEIJING548CHINA URGED NOT TO DELIVER A NATIONAL STATEMENT ON
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche urging China to not deliver a national statement on Iran at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting to MFA Department of Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Director Shen Jian on the morning of March 4. Shen noted previous receipt [...]
2009-03-04 06:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM EMIN TRGY ETTC MNUC KNNP PREL CH IR
09BEIJING55MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL, FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] ISRAEL "Chinese people are sympathetic to the miserable Gaza strip" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/08): "China is paying close attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict. This conflict arises much more attention from ordinary Ch [...]
2009-01-08 09:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING552MEDIA REACTION: NATO, U.S. POLITICS, CHINA'S NUCLEAR
[...] NATO "NATO wants to borrow China's 'Wakhan Corridor'" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(03/04): "A Chinese military officer has said that it is impossible for China to open the Corridor to NATO in order to also help support military a [...]
2009-03-04 08:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING556 China/G-20: Six Wants, Two Don't Wants, and a
[...] Summary. According to the British Embassy official responsible for engaging China in preparation for the G-20 summit, China hopes to support initiatives designed to promote growth, combat protectionism, help low-income countries, reform international financial institutions, encourage financi [...]
2009-03-04 10:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN CH
09BEIJING557CHINA/G-20: OBJECTIVES AND CONSTRAINTS
[...] (C) Summary: In the lead-up to the London G-20 Summit, China has clarified that its objectives include: deterring trade and investment protectionism; promoting real economic growth; deflecting public blame for the crisis; protecting its investments; and expanding China's international role. [...]
2009-03-04 10:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN CH
09BEIJING558CHINA/G-20: MFA DISCUSSES LONDON SUMMIT OBJECTIVES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials stated that, given worsening conditions, the Chinese desire a results-oriented G-20 London Summit. China perceived London pushing three themes for the summit: fighting protectionism, promoting employment and green recovery. [...]
2009-03-04 10:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN CH
09BEIJING559PRESS BRIEFING: DEFENSE SPENDING, FISCAL STIMULUS
[...] (SBU) At a March 4 press conference designed to preview the March 5 opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC),NPC Spokesman Li Zhaoxing commented on the following issues: -- Defense Spending: China's defense spending in 2009 will increase by 62.4 billion RMB (approximately 9.2 [...]
2009-03-04 12:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EFIN CH TW
09BEIJING560PRC/IRAN: CHINA SEEKS CLARITY ON U.S. IRAN POLICY,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China is keen to understand the direction of U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and is willing to facilitate dialogue between the two sides, according to an MFA official. China remains committed to the P5-plus-1 process but values its bilateral engagement with [...]
2009-03-04 12:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING57DASD SEDNEY'S MEETING WITH COMMUNIST PARTY
[...] (C) Vice Minister of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee International Department (CCID) Zhang Zhijun told Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) David Sedney December 18 that China "treasures" its relationship with the United States and considers the U.S.-China relations [...]
2009-01-08 09:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS CH AF XD SO RS TW KN IZ XA
09BEIJING570CHINA MISSION 2009 SPECIAL 301 RECOMMENDATION
[...] (U) This cable responds to Ref A seeking Post input for the annual 2009 Special 301 Review. 2. (SBU) Post recommends that China continue to be placed on the Priority Watch List with Section 306 monitoring. A World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel on January 26, 2009 found [...]
2009-03-05 06:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND KIPR ECON CH
09BEIJING575March 5 MFA Press Briefing: Sudan, Afghanistan, Tibet
[...] Key points at the March 5 MFA press briefing: -- China regrets the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir and wishes the relevant parties would consider the possible "repercussions" of their actions. -- China, as a permanent memb [...]
2009-03-05 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM SU AF CH
09BEIJING576MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S DIPLOMACY, RUSSIA, GAZA, TIBET
[...] CHINA'S DIPLOMACY "What concepts does China have that would change the world?" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(03/05): "Recently, 'the summit on Chinese and western intellectuals' to discuss China's model and its international influ [...]
2009-03-05 09:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING577 CHINA INTRODUCES NEW MEASURES TO BOOST CONFIDENCE IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On February 28 China's National People's Congress (NPC) adopted an amended Insurance Law as part of the government's efforts to boost credibility and consumer confidence in the industry. This long-awaited amendment will take effect on October 1. The new law includes measures to r [...]
2009-03-05 09:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ETRD EFIN ECON CH
09BEIJING579PRC: COW'S TONGUE CLAIM NOT LICKED, DESPITE
[...] (C) China expects the South China Sea (SCS) sovereignty dispute arising from a maritime baselines bill recently passed in the Philippines Congress will not ratchet up tension in the region and will not affect China's SCS claim, according to an MFA official. China will continue its "shelve dif [...]
2009-03-05 09:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC
09BEIJING58PRC: DASD SEDNEY DISCUSSES MIL-MIL, IRAN, TAIWAN
[...] (S) In a December 19 meeting with Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney emphasized the need for improving U.S.-China military-to-military relations and stressed that single issues should not interfere with dialogue between the United States an [...]
2009-01-08 09:49:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL MARR MASS PARM PTER CH TW IR PK IN KN
09BEIJING580PREMIER CONFIDENT CHINA CAN OVERCOME GLOBAL
[...] (SBU) Premier Wen Jiabao said China is confident it can overcome the difficulties caused by the global financial crisis in presenting his annual "Government Work Report" to the opening session of the National People's Congress on March 5. In China's equivalent of the State of the Union addres [...]
2009-03-05 15:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN SOCI ELAB PREL CH TW
09BEIJING583CHINA ANNOUNCES LIGHT INDUSTRY SUPPORT PLAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China's State Council announced on February 19 a light industry support plan, the seventh of ten plans to help the country's key industries. Like the other plans, the light industry support plan seeks to promote domestic consumption and encourage industry consolidation. The pl [...]
2009-03-06 09:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH
09BEIJING585INDUSTRY SUPPORT PLANS - CHINA ADDS LOGISTICS, DROPS REAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. China's State Council announced on February 25 that the tenth and final industry support plan would focus on logistics, not real estate and construction. This is the only plan targeting the service sector, and seeks to reform a severely fragmented and inefficient industry. Obs [...]
2009-03-06 09:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON EAIR ELTN EWWT CH
09BEIJING588MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S MILITARY EXPENSES, U.S. POLICY,
[...] CHINA'S MILITARY EXPENSES "China's military officer talks about China's defense budget" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(03/06): "Recently, China announced that it will increase its defense budget by 14.9%. This arouses great suspici [...]
2009-03-06 09:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING589NPC PRESS BRIEFING ON CHINA'S ECONOMY BY PBOC,
[...] (SBU) Summary. At a March 6 press conference held in conjunction with the ongoing National People's Congress annual meeting (refs),People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, Minister of Finance (MOF) Xie Xuren, and National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Chairman Zhang [...]
2009-03-06 10:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PREL CH HK TW
09BEIJING59CHINA URGED TO OPPOSE IRAN PRESIDENCY AT UNDP
[...] (C) PolOff January 9 conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Economic Division Officer Tang Mengxiao reftel points urging China to oppose Iran's candidacy to be President of the UNDP Executive Board. Tang offered no immediate response but promised to convey U.S. [...]
2009-01-08 09:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF EAID AORG IR UN CH
09BEIJING590CHINA--"BUY LOCAL" POLICIES ON THE RISE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Some Chinese provincial and sub- provincial governments are responding to the economic slowdown by adopting "buy local" measures designed to boost consumption of their locally- produced products. Measures have included consumer incentives as well as directives or preferences fo [...]
2009-03-06 10:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD CH
09BEIJING592CHINA/AUSTRALIA: CHINALCO,S RIO TINTO BID: A
[...] (C) The state-owned Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) announced February 12 a USD 19.5 billion bid for a bigger stake in select assets of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, in which it is already the largest shareholder (Refs A and B). If approved, the deal would be the largest-e [...]
2009-03-09 02:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALAS CH ECON EINV EIND EMIN ETRD PGOV
09BEIJING600CHARGE D'AFFAIRES PROTESTS HARASSMENT OF USNS
[...] (C) On March 8 in the South China Sea international waters near the PRC's Hainan Island, five Chinese ships harassed and interfered with a U.S. survey vessel, the USNS Impeccable, conducting routine operations (reftel). In response, the Charge d'Affaires protested Chinese actions to MFA Americ [...]
2009-03-09 09:20:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PHSA PBTS MOPS MARR KTIA CH
09BEIJING601SAO DELAYS LOSE SALES AND COST AMERICAN JOBS FOR U.S.
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. aviation companies point to current SAO processing times of 16 weeks or longer as an unreasonable threat to U.S. exports, U.S. jobs, and the chances of recovery for their communities in the U.S. The industry has grown remarkably over the past 5 years in China, and has succe [...]
2009-03-09 09:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS OEXC ECON EAIR CH
09BEIJING602MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CHINA'S MILITARY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. and China should grasp the second strategic cooperation opportunity" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(03/09): "Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs will visit the U.S. from March 9 [...]
2009-03-09 09:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING604PRC: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON CHINA'S PLEDGE AT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-09 10:20:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN EAID PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG CH IS
09BEIJING605TIBET: CHINA RAMPS UP PROPAGANDA IN ADVANCE OF
[...] (C) In advance of the 50th anniversary of the March 10, 1959 Tibetan uprising, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is engaged in a propaganda campaign focused on "positive" aspects of its rule over Tibet, particularly its "emancipation" of serfs, as a device for diverting media attention away f [...]
2009-03-09 11:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIFR CH
09BEIJING606CHINA STANDING BY ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Chinese eyes are focused intently on U.S. plans for, and action in, Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area the Chinese see as a dangerously unstable, interconnected threat to Chinese security - but one that they are uncertain about how to address. China has mixed feelings about U.S. involvement [...]
2009-03-09 11:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER SNAR PARM ETRD PK IN AF CH
09BEIJING607FOREIGN MINISTER YANG JIECHI HOLDS NPC PRESS CONFERENCE
[...] Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi outlined China's foreign policy priorities in a March 7 press conference held on the margins of the ongoing National People's Congress (NPC). U.S.-China relations are "off to a good start" under the new Obama administration, Yang said, noting there currently is an [...]
2009-03-09 12:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON ETRD EFIN PHUM ENRG CH TW XA RS KN KS
09BEIJING612MEDIA REACTION: DIAOYU ISLAND, CHINA'S DIPLOMACY, FINANCIAL
[...] DIAOYU ISLAND "Diaoyu Island issue, why is the U.S. ambiguous on this issue?" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao)(03/09): "For the U.S. government, their ambiguity on Diaoyu Island is in their own interests. But now, the U.S. government i [...]
2009-03-10 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING613BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON SINO-FRENCH
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing March 6, French Ambassador Herve Ladsous reported that Sino-French talks are "still in the doldrums." France suspects that the Chinese government is behind the Chinese antique collector who bid on the Chinese cultural relics at a Paris [...]
2009-03-10 10:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING614JILIN GOVERNOR FOCUSES ON THE ECONOMY AND U.S.
[...] (C) Jilin Governor Han Changfu focused on his province's plans for coping with the global financial crisis and attracting U.S. investment during a March 9 lunch hosted by the Charge d'Affaires on the margins of the National People's Congress (NPC). Jilin was experiencing an economic downturn [...]
2009-03-10 11:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON SOCI CH
09BEIJING615March 10 MFA Press Briefing: U.S. Naval Vessel Incident, FM
[...] Key points at the March 10 MFA press briefing: -- "The USNS Impeccable violated international and Chinese law and conducted activities in China's special economic zone in the South China Sea without China's permission." -- The "open policy of Tibet has not changed" but it is "up to the loc [...]
2009-03-10 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MARR MASS PHUM SU ZI CH
09BEIJING623CHINA/RUSSIA: LOANS-FOR-OIL DEAL STILL IN THE PIPELINE
[...] (C) After months of negotiations, China and Russia appear closer to reaching an agreement on the expansion of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) Pipeline to northeast China. A USD 25 billion oil-for-loans agreement announced in mid-February will, if finalized, provide much-needed liquidity [...]
2009-03-11 07:19:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET EINV EFIN CH RS
09BEIJING625CHINA/RUSSIA: OIL-FOR-LOANS DEAL STILL IN THE
[...] (C) After months of negotiations, China and Russia appear closer to reaching an agreement on the expansion of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) Pipeline to northeast China. A USD 25 billion oil-for-loans agreement announced in mid-February will, if finalized, provide much-needed liquidity [...]
2009-03-11 07:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET EFIN CH RS
09BEIJING628MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, TIBET, CHINA POLICY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "U.S. companies' moves to export helicopter engines to China, receives doubts" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(03/11): "American company, Honeywell, recently said that it will export engines to a Chinese manufac [...]
2009-03-11 09:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING629CHINA/SUDAN: PRC ENVOY URGES RESTRAINT, SAYS
[...] (C) Summary: China is concerned about the expulsion and closure of NGOs operating in Sudan and the negative impact on the humanitarian situation but believes the impact will not be as serious as described by Western media reports, MFA Special Envoy for Darfur Liu Guijin told PolMinCouns March [...]
2009-03-11 10:30:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID KPKO CH SU
09BEIJING631EMBASSY EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 11 meeting with MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director General Shen Yongxiang, PolMinCouns expressed concern about human rights violations in China's Tibetan areas and urged China to engage in substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama's representativ [...]
2009-03-11 11:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KIRF PGOV CH
09BEIJING632TIBET: MFA COMPLAINS ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 11 meeting with A/DCM, the MFA protested a recently introduced House of Representatives resolution on Tibet and urged the administration to prevent its passage. Noting that the U.S. Congress is a separate branch of government, A/DCM replied that the United States is [...]
2009-03-11 12:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CASC CH
09BEIJING633CHINA WILL NOT "MECHANICALLY ADOPT" WESTERN
[...] (C) National People's Congress (NPC) Chairman Wu Bangguo on March 9 emphasized the differences between China's NPC system and foreign legislatures, declaring that China would not "mechanically adopt" Western models, in delivering his annual report on the nominal legislature's accomplishments a [...]
2009-03-11 13:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON SOCI KCUL CH
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