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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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08BEIJING855 | PROMINENT 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 06:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL EINV CH |
08BEIJING869 | PRC-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 09:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PARM CH PK |
08BEIJING870 | NPC: 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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EFIN PGOV ETRD CH |
08BEIJING871 | PRC/LEBANON: PRC UNAWARE OF MARCH 14 CONVENTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 09:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MASS PTER PARM CH LE |
08BEIJING873 | PROVINCIAL 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 16:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH 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 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR |
08BEIJING889 | ZHEJIANG 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 10:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON EINV PREL CH TW |
08BEIJING891 | CONTACT 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 10:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC CH IR |
08BEIJING892 | March 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 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA RS SU SR |
08BEIJING895 | GANSU 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 23:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON EFIN EIND ENIV ENRG PGOV SENV SOCI |
08BEIJING896 | INNER 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 01:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV EINV CH |
08BEIJING899 | CHINA 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 02:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC CH AF |
08BEIJING90 | MFA: 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 09:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TER PARM CH PK |
08BEIJING900 | CHINESE 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 03:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEAN ARF APEC CH |
08BEIJING91 | CHINA 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 09:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CH BM |
08BEIJING912 | PRC/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 10:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KPKO MARR UNSC SU CH FR UK |
08BEIJING915 | PRC/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 22:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KPKO MARR UNSC SU CH FR UK |
08BEIJING92 | January 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 11:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH |
08BEIJING924 | MFA 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 09:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC |
08BEIJING927 | CHONGQING 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 10:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD EINV SOCI PREL CH |
08BEIJING929 | March 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 11:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH JA KS PE |
08BEIJING930 | NEWSPAPER 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 11:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KOLY CH |
08BEIJING931 | MARCH 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 11:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KOLY ASEC PHUM CH |
08BEIJING95 | CHINA'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 06:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD WTRO EFIN EINV EIND CH |
08BEIJING964 | REFERENDUM 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 08:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BM CH |
08BEIJING969 | MFA: 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 09:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON CH IN NP |
08BEIJING971 | CHINA: 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 10:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SU CH CD |
08BEIJING972 | CORRECTED 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 10:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH JA KS PE |
08BEIJING973 | AMBASSADOR 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 11:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF PREL CH |
08BEIJING975 | REPORTS 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 12:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF NP IN CH |
08BEIJING977 | CHINA: 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 12:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SU CH CD |
08BEIJING980 | TIBET: 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 13:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
08BEIJING981 | TIBET: 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 16:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
08BEIJING982 | TIBET: 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 16:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CH |
08BEIJING983 | ADDITIONAL 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 17:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PGOV KIRF PREL CH |
08BEIJING984 | XI 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 17:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
08BEIJING999 | TIBET: 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 14:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF ASEC CH |
08SECTIO04OF07BEIJING3049 | BEIJING 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 08:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC CH CMGT ECON KOLY OVIP PREL PTER |
09BEIJING10 | MEDIA 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 09:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING1010 | MEDIA 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 08:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1012 | DEMARCHE 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 09:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | UNSC PARM KN CH KNNP |
09BEIJING1013 | APRIL 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 22:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PARM KNNP KWBG IAEA EFIN AMED CH KS KN |
09BEIJING1014 | CHINA/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 02:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND KIPR ECON CH |
09BEIJING102 | MEDIA 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 09:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING1024 | PRC/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 08:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP OVIP KS CH |
09BEIJING1025 | MEDIA 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 08:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1026 | CHINESE 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 08:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | UNSC 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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH |
09BEIJING103 | JANUARY 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 09:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH TW IS XG RW UG BR KN MI SF CB |
09BEIJING1032 | CHINESE 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 10:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR CH PK AF IN |
09BEIJING1044 | MEDIA 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 08:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1046 | SRAP HOLBROOKE'S APRIL 15 DINNER WITH CHINESE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-20 09:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER EAID NATO MOPS MARR CH PK AF |
09BEIJING1047 | DEMARCHE 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 09:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC UN CH |
09BEIJING1050 | Kenyan Ambassador on Growing China [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-21 02:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD PREL SENV CH KE |
09BEIJING1055 | XINJIANG: 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 06:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PREL PGOV KIRF CH |
09BEIJING1058 | China/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 06:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON SENV CH |
09BEIJING1063 | MEDIA 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 09:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1064 | BEIJING-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 09:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK |
09BEIJING1066 | GLOBAL 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 11:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PGOV PREL PHUM CH |
09BEIJING1067 | APRIL 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 22:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG KPAL IAEA SENV CH EG IS JA RS |
09BEIJING1075 | MEDIA 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 09:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1076 | CHINA 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 09:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
09BEIJING1080 | CROSS-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 03:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH |
09BEIJING1083 | INNER 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 04:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EPET PGOV CH |
09BEIJING1092 | MEDIA 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 09:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1094 | APRIL 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 09:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH JA FR KN KS |
09BEIJING1095 | CNO 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 09:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PBTS PHSA CH KN |
09BEIJING1096 | FOREIGN 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 10:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PGOV PREL PHUM CH |
09BEIJING1097 | CHINA'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 22:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI CH |
09BEIJING11 | PRC VFM HE YAFEI IN PAKISTAN: SEEKING TO REDUCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-05 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSCA PTER PK IN CH |
09BEIJING1107 | MEDIA 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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1110 | MFA 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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH PK AF |
09BEIJING1113 | IRANIAN 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 11:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH IS |
09BEIJING1115 | AUSTR 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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EIND WTRO CH |
09BEIJING1120 | U.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 06:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC IAEA CH IR NK |
09BEIJING1125 | MEDIA 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 08:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1126 | PRC 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 10:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC UN CH |
09BEIJING113 | MEDIA 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 09:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING1131 | AGENDA 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 06:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER MNUC KGIC KNNP CH RS NL |
09BEIJING1133 | CHINA/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 08:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS AF |
09BEIJING1134 | MEDIA 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 08:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 09:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1136 | APRIL 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 22:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM CH JA FR MX |
09BEIJING1147 | MEDIA 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 08:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1148 | PRC-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 09:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EAID PTER ZK CH |
09BEIJING1149 | CHINA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER OCTG AND TIRES TRADE CASES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-29 09:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND EMIN KFPC CH |
09BEIJING1162 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--U.S. DEMONSTRATES SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-30 08:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CH |
09BEIJING1165 | MEDIA 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 08:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1168 | SOMALIA: 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 09:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH MARR MOPS PGOV PHSA PREL SO |
09BEIJING1169 | PRC 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 09:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CG CH MARR MOPS PGOV PREL SO EINV |
09BEIJING1170 | APRIL 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 09:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL 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 09:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1172 | PRC: 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 10:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KUNR UN CH JA RS |
09BEIJING1173 | EDITOR 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 10:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PHUM PGOV KDEM CH |
09BEIJING1174 | BEIJING 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 11:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EFIN ETRD PREL TW CH |
09BEIJING1176 | XXXXXXXXXXXXDISCUSSES 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 13:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL 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 22:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV WTRO PGOV CH |
09BEIJING1179 | NASA 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 22:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA TSPL TPHY PREL CH |
09BEIJING118 | PRC 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 08:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID CH ZI SF |
09BEIJING1189 | MEDIA 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 08:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1191 | TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 3 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 10:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1192 | TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 3 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 10:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1196 | MEDIA 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 08:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 09:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1198 | PRC/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 11:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS SY EG IR |
09BEIJING1199 | MAY 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 22:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH MX CE CA AS KU JP |
09BEIJING1204 | SHIELD 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 07:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC CH IR |
09BEIJING1206 | INCREASED 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 08:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PROP SCUL SOCI CH TW EINT |
09BEIJING1207 | MEDIA 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 08:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1209 | REPORTS 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 08:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID 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 10:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1211 | PRC "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 11:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PARM PM CH |
09BEIJING1221 | MEDIA 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 08:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1223 | TFFLU01: H1N1 INFLUENZA OUTBREAK - CHINA SITREP # 5 - [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-07 10:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU 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 10:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1227 | MAY 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 23:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH MX CE CA AS KU JP |
09BEIJING1230 | CHINA 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 03:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EAGR EAID ECON ENRG KPWR PREL AF CH |
09BEIJING124 | MEDIA 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 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 08:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1242 | China'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 08:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI CH |
09BEIJING1244 | PRC: 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 09:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL 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 09:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1246 | CHINA - 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 09:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD EWWT IMO KTIA PREL SENV CH |
09BEIJING1247 | BEIJING-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 10:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK |
09BEIJING1249 | WORLD 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 12:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PHUM PGOV PREL KFLU CH JA |
09BEIJING1253 | SHIELD 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 02:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC CH IR |
09BEIJING1261 | CHINA/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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS AF |
09BEIJING1263 | MEDIA 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 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 11:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1271 | MEDIA 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 09:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1272 | EMBASSY 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 09:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP 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 10:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1275 | MAY 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 13:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH KN |
09BEIJING1280 | SOMALI 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 06:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO |
09BEIJING1282 | MEDIA 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 09:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 11:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1285 | MAY 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 23:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ECON ETRD CH TW |
09BEIJING1294 | MEDIA 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 08:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1295 | PRC: 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC |
09BEIJING1296 | CHINA 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 09:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL 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 10:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD 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 10:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1299 | MAY 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 23:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CH FR AS KN PK BR CA MX |
09BEIJING1310 | MEDIA 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 08:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1311 | China'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 08:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID EINV CH |
09BEIJING1314 | SCENESETTER 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 09:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH |
09BEIJING1315 | SCENESETTER 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 09:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP 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 10:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1318 | DASH 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 12:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KPAO CH |
09BEIJING1329 | DEMARCHE 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 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC PHUM BM CH |
09BEIJING1330 | MEDIA 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 08:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1333 | LESSONS 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 09:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON 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 10:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1336 | XXXXXXXXXXXXX [...] (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 23:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD 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 04:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND OTRA SENV CH |
09BEIJING1346 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ECOSOC NGO COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-19 09:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC PHUM NGO SOCI UN CH |
09BEIJING1347 | MEDIA 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 09:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1348 | CHINA 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 09:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV CH IN |
09BEIJING1349 | DEMARCHE 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 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PREF PHUM UN CH PK |
09BEIJING1350 | BURMA: 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 10:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL 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 10:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1353 | MAY 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 11:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH FR AS KN PK BR IN KS XG BM RS |
09BEIJING1361 | MEDIA 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 08:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 10:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING137 | CHINA 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 06:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC IR CH |
09BEIJING1376 | MEDIA 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 08:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 10:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU 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 11:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PGOV PREL PHUM CN |
09BEIJING1379 | MAY 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 23:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CH DA BM CB LA VM |
09BEIJING1383 | UN 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 09:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN UNGA |
09BEIJING1384 | SINO-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 09:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PBTS PHSA IN NP PK CH |
09BEIJING1386 | SOMALI 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 10:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO |
09BEIJING1387 | TIANANMEN: 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 12:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PROP CH |
09BEIJING1388 | PRC/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 12:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU LY |
09BEIJING1389 | PRC/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 12:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU |
09BEIJING1390 | TIANANMEN: 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 12:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PROP CH |
09BEIJING1391 | MEDIA 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 01:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1395 | MEDIA 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 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 11:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1397 | MAY 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 11:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH BM TT MY PK KN KS LT NP |
09BEIJING1398 | PRC/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 13:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP MOPS KN KS CH |
09BEIJING1404 | HUMAN 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 05:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
09BEIJING1414 | PRC/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 08:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU |
09BEIJING1416 | PRC/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 08:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM CH SU |
09BEIJING1417 | MEDIA 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 09:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING142 | TERRORISM 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 08:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH PK IR |
09BEIJING1424 | SENATOR KERRY DISCUSSES U.S.-CHINA CLIMATE CHANGE COOPERATION ON COPENHAGEN WITH CHINA'S VICE PREMIER LI KEQIANG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-29 08:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ENRG KHGH SENV |
09BEIJING1428 | CODEL 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 09:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PARM MNUC PBTS PTER PGOV CH KN |
09BEIJING1429 | CODEL 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 09:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG CH KN KS |
09BEIJING1432 | CODEL 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 09:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG CH KN KS |
09BEIJING1433 | MEDIA 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 10:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1434 | PRC/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 13:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP MOPS KN KS CH |
09BEIJING1435 | PRC/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 00:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ENRG EPET SOCI KDEM CH SU |
09BEIJING1440 | MEDIA 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 09:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1446 | SPEAKER 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 05:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OREP MARR MOPS PARM MNUC PBTS PTER PGOV |
09BEIJING145 | TAIWAN: 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 08:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MOPS CH TW |
09BEIJING146 | CHINA-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 08:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSCA PTER SNAR ETRD PK IN AF CH |
09BEIJING1463 | CHINA 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 09:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND KIPR ECON CH |
09BEIJING1464 | MEDIA 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 09:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 09:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1467 | BEIJING 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 10:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
09BEIJING1468 | JUNE 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 23:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH KN KS JP BR |
09BEIJING147 | CHINA'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 09:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR EFIN PK IN KN KS TW IR |
09BEIJING1474 | MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 23:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV SENV CH |
09BEIJING148 | MEDIA 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 09:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING1482 | CONGRESSMEN MARK KIRK AND RICK LARSEN'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 04:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EAGR ECON PREL MCAP WTRO CH |
09BEIJING149 | REPORTED 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 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EINV PREL PARM PTER MNUC POL |
09BEIJING1490 | PELOSI 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 07:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EIND ENRG CH |
09BEIJING1492 | MEDIA 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 09:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1493 | CHINA 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 10:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AORC CH SU |
09BEIJING1494 | TIANANMEN 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 11:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
09BEIJING1495 | JUNE 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 23:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ETRD SENV CH KN KS JP BR IN |
09BEIJING150 | CHINESE 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 11:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV 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 04:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD 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 11:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EMIN ECON SENV CH |
09BEIJING1515 | CHINA 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 08:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL AORC ENRG KNNP IAEA CH |
09BEIJING1516 | IAEA 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 08:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA CH |
09BEIJING1518 | DIRECTOR 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 09:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT ECON KIPR CH |
09BEIJING1519 | MEDIA 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 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING152 | CHINA 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 11:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG 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 11:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD 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 22:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV SENV CH |
09BEIJING1522 | Brazilian 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 01:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV EIND PREL EFIN EPET |
09BEIJING1523 | CONGRESSMEN 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 02:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV CH |
09BEIJING1531 | S/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 07:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UNSC ECON EFIN EAID MNUC PTER JP AF PK KS |
09BEIJING1534 | MEDIA 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 08:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1535 | REPS KIRK-LARSEN MEET VICE PREMIER WANG QISHAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-08 09:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL ECIN CH |
09BEIJING1536 | FRANCE-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 09:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD PHUM AU CH |
09BEIJING1537 | TIBET: 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 10:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PHUM PGOV KIFR CH |
09BEIJING1538 | COMPUTER 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 12:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH |
09BEIJING154 | DALIAN 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 02:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM 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 06:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EIND ETRD CH RS |
09BEIJING1546 | MEDIA 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 08:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1547 | CDA 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 09:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL 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 10:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1549 | JUNE 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 23:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL 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 07:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EDEV CH |
09BEIJING1557 | MEDIA 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 08:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1559 | UPDATE 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 09:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV CVIS ASEC KHLS KVPR CH |
09BEIJING1571 | Secretary 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 05:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL CH |
09BEIJING1578 | MEDIA 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 08:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1579 | JUNE 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 09:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AF CH GJ JA KN KS SENV |
09BEIJING1582 | UK-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 02:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD PHUM AU-1 CH |
09BEIJING1586 | SECRETARY 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 08:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP ECON EFIN PREL CH |
09BEIJING1587 | MEDIA 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 09:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1588 | APPLE 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 09:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS EIND ECON CH |
09BEIJING1589 | SCO: 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 11:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR |
09BEIJING1592 | Peru-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 01:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV EIND PREL EFIN CH PE |
09BEIJING1596 | CHINESE 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 08:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | KFLU KFLO KSAF KPAO AEMR ASEC CASC TBIO PREL |
09BEIJING1597 | PRC: 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 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PBTS UNGA CH GG RS |
09BEIJING1598 | MEDIA 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 23:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING160 | MEDIA 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 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 23:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EIND EFIN EAGR ENRG EDEV SENV CH |
09BEIJING161 | CHINA 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 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM CH SU |
09BEIJING1620 | PRC: 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 08:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KAWC KISL KPAO CH |
09BEIJING1621 | MEDIA 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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1626 | JUNE 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 09:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AF CH GJ JA KN KS SENV |
09BEIJING1627 | JUNE 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 10:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
09BEIJING1630 | GICNT: 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 03:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL KGIC |
09BEIJING1631 | CHINA -- 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 03:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAM KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG |
09BEIJING1634 | CDA 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 06:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV CH KN KS |
09BEIJING1635 | TREASURY 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 06:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON 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 07:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1638 | MEDIA 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 08:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING164 | January 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 10:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KS KN CH SZ UK SP GM EU TW |
09BEIJING1649 | CHINESE 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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EINT CH IR |
09BEIJING165 | PRC 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 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS |
09BEIJING1650 | PRC: 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 23:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KAWC KISL KPAO CH PS UK |
09BEIJING1654 | CHINA'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 04:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH |
09BEIJING1657 | INTERNATIONAL 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 08:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL CH |
09BEIJING1658 | PRC: 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 08:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNGA CH |
09BEIJING1659 | MEDIA 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 08:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1660 | PUBLIC 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 10:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PHUM PGOV CH |
09BEIJING1661 | CHINA/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 10:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS |
09BEIJING1662 | PRC/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 14:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH |
09BEIJING1663 | JUNE 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 23:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EINT CH CN KN KS TX UZ IR IN |
09BEIJING1675 | REPS 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 08:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL ECIN CH |
09BEIJING1677 | MEDIA 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 08:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1679 | PRC/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 08:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD CH FI AS NZ |
09BEIJING1680 | PRC: 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 08:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID EINV CH AF |
09BEIJING1682 | GREEN 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 10:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH |
09BEIJING1693 | MEDIA 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1695 | CONGRESSMEN 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 09:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CH |
09BEIJING1698 | PRC: 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 10:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID CH PK AF |
09BEIJING1703 | Congressmen 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 08:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON EINV ETRD KIPR CH |
09BEIJING1704 | MEDIA 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 08:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 09:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1708 | MALAY 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 09:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD MARR MY CH KS |
09BEIJING1710 | JUNE 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 11:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHSA AO BM CH JA IR KN KS SW TW |
09BEIJING1711 | SWEDISH 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 13:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF SW CH |
09BEIJING1720 | CHINA/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 05:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN CH |
09BEIJING1727 | Food 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 08:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON WTRO EAGR EAID PREL CH |
09BEIJING1728 | MEDIA 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 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1734 | LIU 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 10:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CH |
09BEIJING174 | CHINA: 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 09:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT CVIS OEXC ECON ENRG EINV TRGY KNNP KSCA CH |
09BEIJING1747 | JAPANESE 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 06:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD CH JA KS PK |
09BEIJING1752 | PRC 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 08:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH PK AF |
09BEIJING1753 | MEDIA 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 08:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1754 | INDUSTRY 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 09:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH |
09BEIJING1757 | JUNE 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 11:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PHUM PGOV PHSA PBTS EINT EPET ETRD BM CE |
09BEIJING176 | PROSPECTS 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF XG EZ CH |
09BEIJING1761 | PRC/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 07:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM KNNP MOPS EFIN KN KS CH |
09BEIJING177 | EU'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 09:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF XG EZ TW CH |
09BEIJING1777 | PRC: 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 09:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | AGS BM CH ENRG ETRD PHUM PREL |
09BEIJING1778 | MEDIA 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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING178 | MEDIA 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 09:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING1801 | MEDIA 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 09:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1802 | PRC 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 10:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH |
09BEIJING1803 | PRC/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 11:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH |
09BEIJING1804 | JUNE 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 23:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR PHSA AO BM CH JA IR KN KS SW |
09BEIJING1814 | MEDIA 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 08:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 11:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1817 | CHINA 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 23:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH |
09BEIJING1818 | CHINA 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 23:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH |
09BEIJING1819 | CHINA 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 23:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH |
09BEIJING1820 | China 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 23:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH |
09BEIJING1821 | 2009 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 00:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MOPS CH TW |
09BEIJING1822 | 2009 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 00:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MOPS CH TW |
09BEIJING1823 | 2009 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 00:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PARM MOPS CH TW |
09BEIJING1826 | 2009 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 01:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MOPS CH TW |
09BEIJING1827 | 2009 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 01:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PARM MOPS CH TW |
09BEIJING1834 | MEDIA 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 05:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1835 | 2009 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 06:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MOPS EAID IR AF PK |
09BEIJING1838 | JULY 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 10:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PARM ECIN CH JA KN KS ZI RS IT TW |
09BEIJING1839 | WFP 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 12:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID PREL CH KN |
09BEIJING1843 | WFP 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 23:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID PREL CH KN |
09BEIJING1844 | SCO 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 02:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR |
09BEIJING1845 | INTERAGENCY 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 02:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS |
09BEIJING1847 | INTERAGENCY UNSCR 1874 MEETING WITH CHINESE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-05 02:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS |
09BEIJING1848 | INTERAGENCY UNSCR 1874 MEETING WITH CHINESE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-05 02:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS |
09BEIJING1850 | CHINA WEIGHS LEADERSHIP ROLE AS ECONOMY TAKES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-05 03:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR |
09BEIJING1851 | SOMALI 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 03:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO |
09BEIJING186 | LAND 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 03:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI |
09BEIJING1867 | MEDIA 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 08:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1868 | 140 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 11:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PROP CH |
09BEIJING1874 | MEDIA 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 08:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1876 | MFA 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 11:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CH |
09BEIJING1877 | JULY 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 11:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CH RS |
09BEIJING1878 | UNREST 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 11:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV 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 03:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09BEIJING1906 | MEDIA 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 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1910 | China/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 23:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV EPET EFIN CH |
09BEIJING1911 | SCENESETTER 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 23:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING1923 | MEDIA 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 09:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1924 | SCENESETTER 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 09:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING1927 | JULY 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 10:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU |
09BEIJING1928 | CHINESE 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 10:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM EINT CH |
09BEIJING1929 | TENSIONS 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 11:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CH |
09BEIJING1945 | EMBASSY 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 07:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV CASC KGHG TRGY ENRG PREL CH |
09BEIJING1947 | DEMARCHE 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 07:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL RS CH |
09BEIJING1951 | PRC: 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 08:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER CH |
09BEIJING1952 | MEDIA 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 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1953 | INFORMAL 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 10:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC CH CT |
09BEIJING1954 | XINJIANG 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 11:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC CH |
09BEIJING1957 | GOOGLE 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 23:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PHUM PGOV ECON CH |
09BEIJING1967 | MEDIA 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 09:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1969 | PRC 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 10:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID CH PK AF |
09BEIJING197 | MEDIA 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 08:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING1970 | RISE 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 10:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC CH |
09BEIJING1971 | China'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 10:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EFIN CH |
09BEIJING1972 | URUMQI 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 10:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PROP CH |
09BEIJING1973 | INDONESIAN 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 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL 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 03:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL |
09BEIJING198 | CHINA 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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID CH ZI SF |
09BEIJING1988 | MEDIA 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 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING1989 | PRC: 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 10:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER MOPS MARR EAID CH IN |
09BEIJING1990 | SHOOTING 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 11:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PROP TU CH |
09BEIJING1992 | JULY 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 12:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU |
09BEIJING1994 | PROPOSED 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 03:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | KNNP PARM CH |
09BEIJING200 | January 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 10:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD CH KN FR IR XF BM |
09BEIJING2003 | MEDIA 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 09:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING2004 | TRAFFIC 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 10:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PROP PTER CH |
09BEIJING2009 | STATE 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 06:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
09BEIJING201 | CHINA 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 10:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL MTCRE ETTC SY KN CH |
09BEIJING2013 | STATE 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 07:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
09BEIJING202 | CHINA 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 10:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC ETTC TSPA SY CH |
09BEIJING2021 | MFA 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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EINV CH HK |
09BEIJING2022 | ONE 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 11:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM EINT CH |
09BEIJING2023 | URUMQI 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 11:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PROP CH |
09BEIJING2024 | MEDIA 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 12:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING2025 | JULY 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 23:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU |
09BEIJING203 | TIBETAN "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 12:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF CH |
09BEIJING2034 | MEDIA 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 08:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING2038 | CHINA 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 10:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PROP PHUM CH |
09BEIJING204 | PRC/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 12:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS XF |
09BEIJING2040 | PREMIER 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 10:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM EFIN CH |
09BEIJING2041 | XINJIANG: 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 11:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL CH ID EG TU |
09BEIJING2044 | SECRETARY 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 01:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON CH |
09BEIJING2053 | CHU 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 06:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2054 | DOE 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 07:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2061 | MEDIA 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 09:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING2062 | BEIJING-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 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK |
09BEIJING2063 | PRC 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 10:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV 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 10:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR EIND EINT BEXP CH |
09BEIJING2065 | URUMQI 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 10:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH |
09BEIJING2066 | JULY 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 11:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH |
09BEIJING207 | CHINA 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 10:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM 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 06:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2072 | SECRETARY CHU MEETS WITH VICE PREMIER LI KEQIANG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 06:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG 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 06:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2079 | MEDIA 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 08:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING2080 | CHINA 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 09:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC CH IR KN |
09BEIJING2083 | JULY 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 10:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2084 | CHINA 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 10:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH |
09BEIJING2085 | ISRAELI 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 10:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL ECON MCAP MARR IS IR CH |
09BEIJING2086 | CHINA 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 11:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV 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 06:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG 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 06:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO PREL CH |
09BEIJING2094 | MEDIA 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 07:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING2097 | JULY 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 11:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PROP CH |
09BEIJING21 | MEDIA 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 08:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2107 | MEDIA 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 08:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR PREL ECON CH |
09BEIJING2109 | PRC 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 09:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH SY IR PK |
09BEIJING2110 | PRC 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 10:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER CH AF |
09BEIJING2111 | DETAILS 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 10:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID CH |
09BEIJING2112 | TOP 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 10:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2118 | MEDIA 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 07:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 09:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV 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 10:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS CH |
09BEIJING2123 | HIGH-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 12:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PROP SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2124 | SECRETARIES 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 23:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING2125 | DOE 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 23:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING2126 | Senior 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 23:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING2127 | COMMERCE 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 00:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2137 | TERRORISM 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 06:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PGOV KTFN ECON PTER CH |
09BEIJING2141 | MEDIA 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 08:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR PREL ECON CH |
09BEIJING2142 | SHANDONG 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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB 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 09:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON EINV CH AS |
09BEIJING2149 | CHINA/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 06:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | EFIN PGOV PREL KTFN PTER CH KN |
09BEIJING2152 | MEDIA 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 08:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2155 | SCENESETTER 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 10:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH |
09BEIJING2156 | PRC: 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 23:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL 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 05:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2160 | MEDIA 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 08:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2170 | SHIELD 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 08:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM ETTC CH IR |
09BEIJING2173 | CHINA 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 09:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH PK |
09BEIJING2174 | MEDIA 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 09:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2177 | PRC/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 10:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS |
09BEIJING2183 | THE 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 09:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PROP CH |
09BEIJING2184 | MEDIA 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 09:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2185 | XINJIANG: 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 12:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CH EG TU |
09BEIJING2187 | NATIONAL 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 23:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KPAO KPOP PHUM CH |
09BEIJING2194 | CHINA 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 06:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC OPCW CH JP |
09BEIJING2196 | CHINA 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 08:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV |
09BEIJING2198 | MEDIA 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 08:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING22 | LOOKING 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 08:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MARR MASS CH |
09BEIJING2212 | NATIONAL 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 07:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KPAO KPOP PHUM CH |
09BEIJING2214 | MEDIA 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 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2217 | MFA 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 00:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PROP KPAL PGOV OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2223 | MEDIA 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 08:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2224 | PRC:"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 11:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER EAID KPKO SO |
09BEIJING224 | MEDIA 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 08:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2247 | MEDIA 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 08:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL 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 09:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV KIPR CH |
09BEIJING2249 | SCENESETTER 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 09:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PREL PHUM PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH TW |
09BEIJING2262 | MEDIA 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 09:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2263 | PRC/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 10:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID ENRG SENV CH |
09BEIJING2273 | MEDIA 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2295 | MEDIA 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 08:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2298 | INTERNET 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 10:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PROP SCUL CH |
09BEIJING2317 | MEDIA 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 08:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2318 | PRC: 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 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN 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 09:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2331 | PRC: 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 10:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM CH |
09BEIJING2337 | MFA 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 07:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PROP KPAL PGOV OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2339 | REQUEST 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 08:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFIN ASEC CH EAID KCRM PTER SNAR TH |
09BEIJING2340 | MEDIA 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 09:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2341 | PRC 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 09:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH |
09BEIJING2342 | CHINA 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 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2343 | CHINA: 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 10:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRAD KSEP SENV CH |
09BEIJING2355 | DEMARCHE 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 07:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNESCO CH |
09BEIJING2360 | CHINA 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 08:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH |
09BEIJING2361 | MEDIA 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 08:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2362 | CHINA: 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 09:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM EIND ETRD SOCI CH |
09BEIJING237 | MEDIA 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 07:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2372 | MEDIA 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 08:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2374 | REQUEST 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 22:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MNUC PREL CH |
09BEIJING2382 | MEDIA 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 09:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2383 | RELIGIOUS 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 12:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL CH |
09BEIJING2391 | MEDIA 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 09:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON |
09BEIJING2398 | SEOUL 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 03:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV ETRD JA KS CH |
09BEIJING2402 | REQUEST 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 08:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AFIN PTER KCRM SNAR TH CH EAID |
09BEIJING2403 | MEDIA 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 08:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2404 | AFGHANISTAN - 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 09:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF CH |
09BEIJING2408 | CHINA 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 05:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM SO CH |
09BEIJING2410 | SHIELD: 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 07:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC CH IR |
09BEIJING2412 | MEDIA 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2414 | PRC: 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 09:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH IN PK |
09BEIJING2416 | NOAA 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 23:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL SENV TSPA PGOV PREL MARR CH |
09BEIJING2418 | CHINA/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 00:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV ECON AS CH |
09BEIJING2425 | MEDIA 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 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2428 | PRC 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 10:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL KCOR CH |
09BEIJING2429 | PRC 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 10:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PROP SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2437 | MEDIA 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 09:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2438 | PRC/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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH |
09BEIJING2441 | AMBASSADOR 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 11:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH |
09BEIJING2447 | AFRICAN 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 07:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAID ECON PREL XA EINV |
09BEIJING2453 | MEDIA 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 09:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2454 | PRC 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 09:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ARF EAID MARR CH |
09BEIJING2456 | PRC 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 11:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM EAID MARR NATO PTER CH PK AF |
09BEIJING2460 | MEDIA 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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2461 | REQUEST 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 10:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFIN ASEC CH EAID KCRM PTER SNAR TH |
09BEIJING2462 | OBSTACLES 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 23:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL KCOR CH |
09BEIJING2464 | CHINA 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 05:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CH |
09BEIJING2465 | MEDIA 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 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2467 | China 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 09:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EMIN EIND SENV CH AS |
09BEIJING2468 | DEMARCHE 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 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PARM MNUC KSUM UNSC KNNP CH |
09BEIJING2477 | MEDIA 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 09:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2478 | AMBASSADOR 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 09:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ODIP OVIP KOLY CH |
09BEIJING2479 | SUGGESTED 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 09:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER CH |
09BEIJING248 | MEDIA 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 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2480 | PRC 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 10:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EINV EMIN PREL PGOV AF CH PK |
09BEIJING2481 | PRC 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 23:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH |
09BEIJING2489 | MEDIA 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 09:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2490 | SEPTEMBER 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 10:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS CO KN TU |
09BEIJING2491 | PRC 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 10:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT KCRM PHSA PHUM SO XA XW UNSC |
09BEIJING2492 | XINJIANG: 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 11:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER PREL KIRF CH |
09BEIJING2493 | BURMA/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 11:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH |
09BEIJING2494 | PRC/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 12:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL 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 08:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN CH JA KS |
09BEIJING2522 | MEDIA 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 09:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2525 | CHINA/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 10:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN CH |
09BEIJING2526 | AMBASSADOR'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 10:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EFIN MARR SENV CH KN IR |
09BEIJING2527 | PRC 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 01:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON CH EINV EIND ECIN ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL |
09BEIJING253 | MEDIA 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 09:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2533 | THE 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 11:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
09BEIJING2534 | BEIJING 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 11:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF CH TW |
09BEIJING2535 | SEPTEMBER 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 12:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS CO KN TU |
09BEIJING2536 | SERBIA 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 23:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EINV YI KV CH ICJ |
09BEIJING254 | CHINESE 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 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KN CH KS |
09BEIJING255 | FEBRUARY 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 09:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD CH KN XG IN PK KS RP UK SA |
09BEIJING2551 | SINO-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 09:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL EINV CH TU |
09BEIJING2552 | MEDIA 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 09:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2555 | ETHNIC 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 11:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PROP CH |
09BEIJING256 | CHINA: 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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWNM CH VM |
09BEIJING2564 | MEDIA 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 08:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING257 | AVIAN 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 23:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAGR PREL HHS CH |
09BEIJING2570 | XINJIANG 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 09:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC SENV CH KN KS JP IN IR AE IS PK TW |
09BEIJING2573 | GANSU 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 10:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
09BEIJING2574 | CROSS-STRAIT TRADE TALKS: THE VIEW FROM BEIJING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 11:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL EINV KIPR CM TW |
09BEIJING2576 | PRC: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 12:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM MNUC OVIP ECON ETRD AF |
09BEIJING2577 | PRC: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 23:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM MNUC OVIP ECON ETRD AF |
09BEIJING2584 | MEDIA 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 09:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING259 | Illicit 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 02:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL CH |
09BEIJING2592 | MEDIA 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 08:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2593 | CHINA: 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 09:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PGOV UNGA |
09BEIJING2594 | MPS 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 09:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
09BEIJING2595 | REAL 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 11:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
09BEIJING2596 | SEPTEMBER 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 23:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC CH AS KN IR IN JP LG UP MP YI |
09BEIJING2597 | SEPTEMBER 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 23:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MNUC CH AS KN IR IN JP LG UP MP YI |
09BEIJING26 | January 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 11:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM EWWT CH TW IS |
09BEIJING2609 | REACTION 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 08:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH ECON EFIN EINV ETRD OREP |
09BEIJING2612 | MEDIA 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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2615 | CHINA/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 09:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV CH IN |
09BEIJING2616 | PRC 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 10:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN UNHRC CH |
09BEIJING2617 | BEIJING-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 11:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK |
09BEIJING2618 | China'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 23:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM CH |
09BEIJING2626 | MEDIA 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 09:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2628 | Demarche 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 11:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EAGR EAID UNGA PREL CH |
09BEIJING2630 | PRC 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 12:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH |
09BEIJING2635 | CHINA/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 05:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG EPET PREL SENV PGOV CH KU |
09BEIJING2645 | MEDIA 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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2646 | SEPTEMBER 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 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS MNUC CH KN IR IN JP AF |
09BEIJING265 | CHINA 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 09:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA CH |
09BEIJING2651 | DEMARCHE 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 06:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF PK CH |
09BEIJING2653 | SENATOR 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 07:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH |
09BEIJING2656 | EU 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 09:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH |
09BEIJING2657 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. TARIFFS ON CHINESE TIRE IMPORTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-16 09:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2658 | RIO-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 09:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV PREL EMIN CH AS |
09BEIJING2660 | AMBASSADOR 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 15:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EFIN MARR SENV CH KN IR |
09BEIJING2669 | MEDIA 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 09:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2670 | SEPTEMBER 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 23:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS MNUC CH KN KS IR JP AF RS SF |
09BEIJING2671 | TIRE 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 23:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH |
09BEIJING2674 | DEMARCHE 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 23:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PHUM KWMN PREL CG CH |
09BEIJING2679 | P-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 03:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09BEIJING268 | MEDIA 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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2680 | COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST-BAN TREATY, ARTICLE XIV [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-18 04:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KTBT IN PK CH |
09BEIJING2681 | POTUS 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 04:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL MARR EZ CH |
09BEIJING2688 | MEDIA 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 07:45:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2690 | TIRE 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 09:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH |
09BEIJING2691 | ONLINE 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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV CH |
09BEIJING2692 | PRC 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 11:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PROP SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2693 | SCENESETTER 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 12:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH KN AF PK TW |
09BEIJING2697 | MEDIA 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 09:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2699 | PRC 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 10:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL 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 03:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV TBIO SOCI CH APER |
09BEIJING2716 | China/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 09:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV EFIN CH |
09BEIJING2718 | MEDIA 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 09:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2719 | TA'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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL KIFR CH IN |
09BEIJING2720 | SEPTEMBER 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 23:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC PARM SENV CH KN KS JP RS |
09BEIJING2724 | MONGOLIA-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 06:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH MG NK MARR PBTS |
09BEIJING2727 | DEMARCHE 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 08:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA KPKO CH |
09BEIJING2728 | MEDIA 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 08:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2730 | REFCOORD 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 10:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PINR PHUM PREL CH KN KS |
09BEIJING2731 | FOURTH 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 11:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MARR KDEM CH |
09BEIJING2733 | PRE-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 06:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2734 | CHINA: 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 06:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2744 | China'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 08:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EAGR EAID PREL CH |
09BEIJING2746 | MEDIA 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 09:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2753 | UIGHUR 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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PHUM PGOV KIRF CH |
09BEIJING2754 | PRC 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 10:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS |
09BEIJING2755 | SEPTEMBER 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 23:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC PARM CH KS JP IR |
09BEIJING2769 | CHINESE 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 09:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | TSPA TSPL TPHY PREL CH |
09BEIJING2770 | CHINA/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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EINV ENRG ETRD PREL PGOV CH PK |
09BEIJING2771 | MEDIA 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 09:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL 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 10:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP AMGT CH KS JA |
09BEIJING2773 | POST 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 10:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM KFRD KJUS SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2785 | MEDIA 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 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2787 | DEMARCHE 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 10:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM CH IR |
09BEIJING2788 | PRC 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 11:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM CH |
09BEIJING2791 | PROGRESS 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 08:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON CH |
09BEIJING2792 | MEDIA 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 08:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2793 | PRC/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 13:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH |
09BEIJING2794 | SEPTEMBER 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 23:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC PARM CH KS KN RS IR ZK BM AF |
09BEIJING2795 | CHINESE 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 23:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KPAO KPOP PHUM TBIO UNFPA CH |
09BEIJING280 | ROKS 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 08:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH KN KS |
09BEIJING2802 | TIBET: 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 07:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
09BEIJING2805 | CHINA/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 07:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2806 | MEDIA 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 08:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2808 | CARROTS 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 08:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI KPAO KPOP TBIO CH |
09BEIJING2810 | AF/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 10:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MARR KDEM AF IN PK CH BM |
09BEIJING2811 | PARANOIA 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 11:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PROP CH |
09BEIJING2812 | NORTH 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 00:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR ECON PREL KN CH |
09BEIJING2813 | AUSPICIOUS 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 00:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV 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 23:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV TBIO SOCI CH GT KE EG TH KZ |
09BEIJING2824 | MEDIA 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 08:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2825 | MEDIA 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 08:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2826 | ACTION 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 09:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV EINV WTRO CH |
09BEIJING2836 | PRC/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 09:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM KE CH |
09BEIJING2837 | MEDIA 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 09:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING284 | MEDIA 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 09:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING2845 | US-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 09:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV CH |
09BEIJING2847 | OCTOBER 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 11:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM CH KS KN RS IR AF IN PK UK |
09BEIJING2849 | APEC: 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 23:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON PGOV ETRD APECO CH |
09BEIJING285 | PRO-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 10:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI KDEM TW CH |
09BEIJING2850 | MEDIA 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 02:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING286 | TWO 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 10:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID CH NI RW |
09BEIJING2863 | MEDIA 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 09:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2864 | SUBJECT: 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 09:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHUM PGOV CASC SENV CH TW BM |
09BEIJING2865 | China/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 09:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ELTN EIND SENV CH |
09BEIJING2866 | SUBJECT: 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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CH EZ LO GE SCUL |
09BEIJING2867 | PRC 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 09:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SCUL PGOV CVIS SOCI CASC CH ED |
09BEIJING2868 | PRC/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 10:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PHUM PGOV PARM BM KN CH |
09BEIJING2869 | PRC 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 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER IS CH KPAL |
09BEIJING287 | FEBRUARY 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 23:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM SENV CH CA IR KN |
09BEIJING2870 | PRC: 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 11:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR KNNP MNUC SENV APEC KN KS CH |
09BEIJING2872 | A/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 11:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PGOV NK SK JP RU IN CH |
09BEIJING2873 | CHINA: 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 02:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW CH AL JA |
09BEIJING288 | PROMOTING 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 01:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EAID ECON ETRD UNDP CH |
09BEIJING2882 | MEDIA 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 07:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2883 | CHINA: 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 08:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC CH RU |
09BEIJING2884 | OCTOBER 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 09:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PARM CH IR AF UK |
09BEIJING2895 | MEDIA 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2897 | READOUT 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 09:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC SENV CH JA KN KS |
09BEIJING2898 | CAIJING'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 10:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV EFIN SOCI CH |
09BEIJING2899 | CHINA 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 10:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH |
09BEIJING2904 | MEDIA 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2908 | BANK 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 09:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PREL ECON CH |
09BEIJING2910 | MEDIA 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 10:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2911 | PRC 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 10:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID SENV ECON CH JA XC CN VM LA BM CB |
09BEIJING2912 | OCTOBER 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 23:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM CH KS KN RS IR AF IN PK UK |
09BEIJING2914 | EAP 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 06:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PHUM PBTS PHSA PINS TW CH |
09BEIJING2917 | China/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 08:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD EFIN PREL RS CH |
09BEIJING2918 | PRC/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 08:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EINV EMIN ENRG PREL AF CH |
09BEIJING2919 | MEDIA 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2923 | DEPUTY 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 00:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL MNUC ETRD ECON |
09BEIJING2924 | DEPUTY 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 03:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | OVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL PGOV MNUC CH KN |
09BEIJING2930 | MEDIA 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 08:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2932 | PRC/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 12:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH |
09BEIJING2933 | PRC/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 12:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH |
09BEIJING2934 | OCTOBER 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 00:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM CH IR IS AF IN JA |
09BEIJING2945 | MEDIA 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 08:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2946 | XINJIANG: 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 09:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL PTER CH |
09BEIJING2948 | PRC: 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 09:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA KCRM KCOR CH |
09BEIJING2951 | MFA 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 10:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL PGOV PTER AF CH PK |
09BEIJING2952 | CHINA/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 10:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN CH |
09BEIJING2958 | MEDIA 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 08:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2961 | PRC: 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 09:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EFIN KTFN PREL UNSC CH |
09BEIJING2962 | PRC 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 09:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH PHUM PREL |
09BEIJING2963 | DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S MEETING WITH VICE FOREIGN MINISTER HE YAFEI, SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-26 00:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | ECON PARM PGOV PREL OVIP |
09BEIJING2964 | DEPUTY 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 00:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | OVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL MNUC SN CH KN |
09BEIJING2965 | PRC: 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 00:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | OVIP STEINBERG JAMES B. PREL PGOV PARM MNUC |
09BEIJING2968 | DEPUTY 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 00:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL MNUC ECON KS KN |
09BEIJING297 | POST 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 08:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECIN ASEAN CH |
09BEIJING2978 | DOE 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 09:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | ENERG ECON ETTC TRGY KNNP IAEA KTIA CVIS CH |
09BEIJING2979 | MEDIA 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 10:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2980 | OCTOBER 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 22:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM EAID CH IR IS AF IN JA |
09BEIJING2982 | PRC/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 09:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SU CH |
09BEIJING2984 | MEDIA 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 09:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING299 | PRC 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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH IN PK |
09BEIJING2994 | MEDIA 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 09:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING2995 | PRC/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 09:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ECON ETRD ENRG EINV AR XM CH |
09BEIJING2996 | CHINA/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 10:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL PGOV PTER CH |
09BEIJING2997 | OCTOBER 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 23:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM SOCI CH PK NK UK IR IZ CA |
09BEIJING2999 | CHINA/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 08:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EAID PREL CH |
09BEIJING300 | REQUEST 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 11:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM CH |
09BEIJING3000 | NSC'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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC OVIP PGOV MARR CH KN IR |
09BEIJING3001 | CHINESE 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 10:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC OVIP ENRG PGOV CH IR IS |
09BEIJING3003 | MEDIA 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 10:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3005 | PRC/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 11:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ETRD PREL CH IN |
09BEIJING301 | PRC 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 11:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KCRM SNAR CH |
09BEIJING3018 | MEDIA 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 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3019 | PRC/IRAN: CHINA URGED TO FOLLOW UK IN REFUSING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-02 09:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM EFIN EWWT IR CN |
09BEIJING302 | ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON CCP OFFICIAL WANG JIARUI'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-06 12:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH KN JA KS |
09BEIJING3024 | REQUEST 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 01:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AFIN PTER KCRM SNAR TH CH |
09BEIJING3025 | REQUEST 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 01:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AFIN PTER KCRM SNAR TH CH |
09BEIJING303 | CHARTER 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 12:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CH |
09BEIJING3035 | MEDIA 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 09:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3036 | PRC 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 10:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS CH |
09BEIJING3037 | NOVEMBER 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 11:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PARM SOCI CH PK IN UK RS EG MY |
09BEIJING3040 | PRC 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 06:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KAWC KJUS KUNR UNGA CH |
09BEIJING3043 | MEDIA 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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3046 | WHEN 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 11:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR SOCI CH |
09BEIJING3052 | FROM 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 05:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV EAGR CH |
09BEIJING3056 | MEDIA 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 08:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3057 | PRC: 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 09:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER CH |
09BEIJING3059 | PRC: 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 09:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER PREL KIRF CH |
09BEIJING3060 | SCENESETTER 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 11:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH ECON IR KN MARR MNUC OVIP PARM PHUM |
09BEIJING3061 | NOVEMBER 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 23:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV 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 06:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN CH |
09BEIJING3066 | MEDIA 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 08:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3071 | MEDIA 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 08:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3072 | PRC/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 11:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER NATO MARR EAID CH PK AF IR |
09BEIJING3073 | PRC: 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 11:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM 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 03:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | APECO 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 03:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | APECO ECON ECIN PGOV PREL ETRD OVIP CN |
09BEIJING3081 | PRC: 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 11:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CASC CH |
09BEIJING3082 | MEDIA 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 23:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3083 | NOVEMBER 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 23:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ECON PHSA ABUD IN XA TW SY |
09BEIJING3090 | U/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 08:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV OVIP ETRD ECON PREL APEC CH |
09BEIJING3091 | NOVEMBER 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 08:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PHSA CH |
09BEIJING3092 | MEDIA 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 08:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3094 | MFA 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 11:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV CH |
09BEIJING3095 | DOE 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 23:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | ENERG ECON ETTC TRGY KNNP IAEA KTIA CVIS CH |
09BEIJING3096 | GNEP 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 00:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ETTC TRGY KNNP IAEA KTIA CVIS CH |
09BEIJING3097 | TRACK-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 01:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PGOV MARR MNUC MASS CH |
09BEIJING3102 | Under 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 03:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PREL CH |
09BEIJING3105 | BEIJING: 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 07:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN PARM IR CH |
09BEIJING3108 | PRC 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 08:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA CH |
09BEIJING3110 | THE 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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SENV EPET CH |
09BEIJING3113 | NATO 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 09:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS MNUC PHSA MOPS AF PK IR |
09BEIJING3115 | CHINA'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 09:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV ETRD KIPR CH |
09BEIJING3117 | ISRAELI 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 11:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL MASS MARR PARM CH IS |
09BEIJING3118 | MEDIA 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 11:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3121 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO JAPAN AND CHINA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3122 | U/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 09:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP ECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV CH |
09BEIJING3123 | MIXED 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 10:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD KSCA CH |
09BEIJING3124 | BEIJING 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 10:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
09BEIJING3126 | PRC 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 11:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CH |
09BEIJING3127 | XINJIANG 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 11:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
09BEIJING3128 | PORTRAIT 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 12:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL CH TW |
09BEIJING3130 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO CHINA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 10:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3132 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO CHINA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-18 09:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3137 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VISIT TO CHINA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 09:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3138 | NOVEMBER 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 11:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PHSA CH IS KN AF IN VM JA |
09BEIJING3141 | IAEA: 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 00:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC TRGY ENRG KNNP IAEA CH |
09BEIJING3142 | IAEA: 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 00:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IAEA KNNP CH SY |
09BEIJING3147 | CHINA 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 05:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV UNGA AORC CDG KNNP ENRG MNUC |
09BEIJING3148 | CHINA 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 07:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM MTCR PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC CH IR |
09BEIJING315 | MEDIA 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 08:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING3150 | TIBET: 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 10:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SENV PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
09BEIJING3152 | MEDIA 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 23:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3159 | MEDIA 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 09:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3160 | THE 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 11:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI |
09BEIJING3162 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 09:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3163 | NOVEMBER 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 10:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SENV PHSA CH IN KN RP |
09BEIJING3168 | CHINA/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 06:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ELAB ESOC ECON EFIN CH |
09BEIJING3172 | SCENESETTER 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 08:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MNUC PARM PHUM CH AF PK IR |
09BEIJING3174 | MEDIA 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 06:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3179 | HAZARDOUS 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 08:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV CASC KGHG TRGY ENRG PREL CH |
09BEIJING3180 | DOE 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 08:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING3182 | ENERGY 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 09:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING3186 | BILATERAL 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 04:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING3188 | SECRETARY 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 07:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING3190 | DOE 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 09:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH |
09BEIJING3191 | CHINA 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 10:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN CH |
09BEIJING3192 | MEDIA 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 10:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3205 | MEDIA 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 09:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3209 | CHINA 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 10:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH |
09BEIJING3210 | PREVIEW 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 11:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AF PK CH |
09BEIJING3211 | DECEMBER 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 11:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SENV PHSA CH EUN KN RP XK |
09BEIJING3212 | CCTV 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 12:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM 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 15:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO |
09BEIJING3214 | CHINA 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 15:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
09BEIJING3221 | PRC/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 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET EINV ENRG ETTC PREL IR CH |
09BEIJING3222 | MEDIA 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 09:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3223 | Read-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 10:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV EAID PREL |
09BEIJING3226 | CHINESE 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 04:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC PGOV MARR CH |
09BEIJING3234 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENTIAL AFGHANISTAN SPEECH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 09:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3235 | LABOR 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 09:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | CH ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI |
09BEIJING3237 | DECEMBER 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 11:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MNUC MARR SENV CH AF IR CA RS |
09BEIJING3238 | PRC/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 01:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETRD PREL XC CH |
09BEIJING3239 | DECEMBER 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 03:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MNUC MARR SENV CH AF IR CA RS |
09BEIJING3240 | PRC: 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 05:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EFIN CH |
09BEIJING3241 | CHINA: 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 06:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC CH |
09BEIJING3243 | BEIJING WELCOMES U/S WILLIAM BURNS AND DELEGATION, [...] (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 07:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OVIP |
09BEIJING3250 | MEDIA 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 09:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3252 | PRC 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 10:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH AF IR |
09BEIJING3253 | BEIJING 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 10:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT ASEC CH OREP |
09BEIJING3254 | PRC: 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 01:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH 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 07:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KTEX ETRD EIND CH |
09BEIJING3263 | CHINA 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 09:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV EAGR ETRD ECON CH VN |
09BEIJING3264 | MEDIA 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 10:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3269 | CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S ACTIONS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-08 07:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM MTCR PREL ETTC KSCA CH PK |
09BEIJING3272 | ASSISTANT 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 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD EINV PREL CN |
09BEIJING3274 | MEDIA 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 10:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3276 | DECEMBER 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 23:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PARM MNUC KNNP SENV CH CB RS KN DA |
09BEIJING3277 | PRC: 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 00:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV EIND CH |
09BEIJING3286 | MEDIA REACTION: COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-09 09:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3287 | COMPETING 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 14:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | AF CH EAID MARR NATO PARM PK PREL PTER |
09BEIJING3288 | PRC: 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 15:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER NATO MARR EAID CH PK AF |
09BEIJING329 | MFA: 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 09:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON CH PK AF IN |
09BEIJING3290 | DIALOGUE ON TRADE REMEDIES: USTR GENERAL COUNSEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-10 08:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH |
09BEIJING3293 | MEDIA 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 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3294 | NORTH 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 10:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR ECON PREL KN CH |
09BEIJING3295 | CHINESE 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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EINV EMIN ENRG MASS PREL PGOV PTER |
09BEIJING3296 | INITIAL 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 12:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CM ECON ETRD PGOV SCUL SOCI |
09BEIJING3297 | DECEMBER 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 00:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PARM MNUC KNNP SENV CH CB RS KN DA |
09BEIJING330 | MEDIA 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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING3306 | VPP 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 06:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN KPAO SCUL CH |
09BEIJING3307 | U.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 07:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL CH |
09BEIJING331 | CHINA 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 09:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV EAGR CH |
09BEIJING3311 | MEDIA 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 09:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3312 | UNDER 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 10:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP BURNS WILLIAM PREL MNUC SENV PARM CASC |
09BEIJING3313 | UNDER 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 10:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC PGOV KN IR CH |
09BEIJING3314 | MINORITY 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 11:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
09BEIJING3315 | XINJIANG'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 11:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
09BEIJING332 | FEBRUARY 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 23:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM SENV CH CA FR IR XF IT SA |
09BEIJING3321 | PRC 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 07:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
09BEIJING3323 | DAS 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 09:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER NATO MARR EAID CH PK AF |
09BEIJING3325 | MEDIA 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 09:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3326 | PRC: 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 22:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EINV PREL KZ TX CH |
09BEIJING3327 | U/S BURNS MEETS WITH CHINESE SCHOLARS, DISCUSS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 22:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP BURNS WILLIAM PREL PGOV PHUM ECON |
09BEIJING3330 | U/S BURNS MEETS WITH CHINESE SCHOLARS, DISCUSS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 03:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP BURNS WILLIAM PREL PGOV PHUM ECON |
09BEIJING3331 | AFGHANISTAN 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 03:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SNAR EINV PARM PTER ECON MASS |
09BEIJING3332 | U.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 03:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SNAR EINV PARM PTER ECON MASS |
09BEIJING3335 | CHINA: 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 06:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASCE CH |
09BEIJING3336 | CHINA 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 07:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA TSPL TPHY PREL CH |
09BEIJING3337 | MEDIA 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 08:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3338 | DECEMBER 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 08:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PARM MNUC KNNP SENV CH KN CB TH JP CA |
09BEIJING3347 | AF/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 09:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL SNAR EINV PARM PTER ECON MASS |
09BEIJING3349 | CHINA/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 09:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN EU CH |
09BEIJING3351 | PRC/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 03:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH EAID ECON EMIN ETRD MG PREL |
09BEIJING3357 | ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN CHINA STILL ELUSIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-16 08:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH PGOV PHUM SOCI |
09BEIJING3361 | MEDIA 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 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3373 | CHARGE'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 07:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI CH |
09BEIJING3376 | MEDIA 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 09:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3377 | DRC 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 09:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA CH UNSC KPKO |
09BEIJING3379 | INDIGENOUS 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 09:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV SCUL SOCI CH |
09BEIJING3380 | DECEMBER 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 11:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SENV ETRD CH KS KN CB |
09BEIJING3381 | WOMEN'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 23:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KWMN CH |
09BEIJING3392 | U/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 08:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BURNS WILLIAM PREL PGOV PHUM ECON |
09BEIJING3393 | 8th 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 08:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV EAGR ETRD ECON CH |
09BEIJING3394 | 6th 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 08:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV EAGR ETRD ECON CH |
09BEIJING3395 | INDIGENOUS 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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV EINV CH |
09BEIJING3396 | DAS 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 09:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KPKO CH |
09BEIJING3397 | TENSE 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 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PINR PHUM PREL CH KN KS CB |
09BEIJING3398 | MEDIA 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 09:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3399 | China/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 10:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM CH |
09BEIJING3401 | SMUGGLING 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 03:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV EAGR ETRD ECON CH VN |
09BEIJING3411 | MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-21 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3414 | SCENESETTER 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 10:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON CH TW IR NK |
09BEIJING3415 | CHINA 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 10:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC CH |
09BEIJING3416 | PRC 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 11:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM 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 03:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV ETRD KIPR CH |
09BEIJING3419 | PRC 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 05:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | KTFN PTER PINR PREL CH YM UN |
09BEIJING3420 | INDIGENOUS 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 07:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV EINV CH |
09BEIJING3421 | CHINA 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 09:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL PGOV CH |
09BEIJING3422 | DECEMBER 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 09:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PARM MNUC KNNP SENV CH EUN JA NP CB |
09BEIJING3425 | MEDIA 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 09:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3433 | EMBASSY 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 08:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD CH |
09BEIJING344 | UNSYG 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 07:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV CH BM IN UN |
09BEIJING3441 | MEDIA 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 08:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3442 | CHINA 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 09:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN KIPR SENV EINV ETRD PHUM |
09BEIJING3443 | CHARGE'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 10:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CH CB |
09BEIJING3449 | DRC 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 01:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA CH UNSC KPKO |
09BEIJING3467 | CANADIAN 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 06:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EMIN EINV PHUM CH CA HK KS |
09BEIJING3473 | MEDIA 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 09:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3474 | CHARGE 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 10:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CH |
09BEIJING3475 | CHINA: 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 10:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC MNUC CH |
09BEIJING3476 | CHINA 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 10:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY |
09BEIJING3477 | CHINA 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 11:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM MTCR ETTC PREL CH KN |
09BEIJING3482 | POPULAR 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 05:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI CH TW |
09BEIJING3487 | MEDIA 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 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING3488 | PRC: 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 09:36:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PHUM PINR PROP PREL PARM PTER IR CH |
09BEIJING3489 | DECEMBER 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 10:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PARM PHSA PTER CH BM KN IS |
09BEIJING349 | SUBJECT: HUMAN RIGHTS CASE: ZENG JINYAN'S INTERNET COMMUNICATION RESTRICTED; SEEKS VISIT WITH HUSBAND HU JIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 08:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | CH PGOV PHUM PREL |
09BEIJING3490 | MONITORING G/TIP FY 08 GRANT PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 01:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
09BEIJING3498 | MEDIA 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 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH |
09BEIJING350 | SCENESETTER 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 09:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH TW |
09BEIJING3507 | PRC: 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 05:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG EAID ECON CH CB |
09BEIJING3509 | TRIAL 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 05:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CH |
09BEIJING351 | MEDIA 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 09:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING353 | GEORGIAN 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 09:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MARR RS CH GG |
09BEIJING354 | U.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 10:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL CH |
09BEIJING356 | THE ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN AND RURAL CHINA: BEIJING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 23:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI CH |
09BEIJING359 | THE 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 01:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI CH |
09BEIJING365 | MEDIA 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 09:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING366 | FEBRUARY 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 09:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH SU ZI FR |
09BEIJING374 | DEMARCHE 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 09:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC CH |
09BEIJING376 | MFA 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 09:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM PREL MTCRE ETTC MNUC TSPA CH IR |
09BEIJING379 | CHINESE 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 09:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AORC ICJ CH YI UN KV |
09BEIJING380 | MEDIA 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 10:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING381 | Talking 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 10:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA TSPL TPHY PREL KSCA CH |
09BEIJING382 | CHINA 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 10:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PGOV PTER CH KG |
09BEIJING383 | AUSTRALIA 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 11:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD CH FI AS NZ |
09BEIJING384 | MFA 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 11:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL MARR PGOV CH AF |
09BEIJING396 | TERRORISM 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 08:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH PK |
09BEIJING397 | CHINESE 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 08:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PREL CH HK |
09BEIJING398 | FEBRUARY 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 09:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH KS KN IN PK CB VM VT |
09BEIJING400 | SOCIAL 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 09:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON ELAB PHUM CH |
09BEIJING401 | MEDIA 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 09:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING402 | HUMAN 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 10:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM 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 04:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABLD AMGT CM |
09BEIJING41 | MEDIA 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 09:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING412 | NGO 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 07:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI CH KPAO |
09BEIJING416 | MEDIA 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 08:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING419 | TIBET: 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 12:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF IN CH |
09BEIJING422 | CHINA/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 03:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON 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 05:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EMIN ECON CH |
09BEIJING429 | MEDIA 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING431 | FEBRUARY 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 10:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM SENV CH KS PK |
09BEIJING432 | PRC: 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 10:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN EAID PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG CH IS |
09BEIJING433 | IS 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 10:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND CH |
09BEIJING434 | HUMAN 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 10:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CH |
09BEIJING439 | CHINA 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 08:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MNUC AORC DCG ENRG KNNP PREL PGOV UNGA |
09BEIJING440 | MEDIA 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 09:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING443 | CHINA 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 12:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH |
09BEIJING448 | Graduate 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 05:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
09BEIJING458 | MEDIA 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 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING460 | CHARGE 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 22:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABLD AMGT CH |
09BEIJING467 | MEDIA 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 09:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING469 | February 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 10:04:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KS KN EU RS JA SW PK IN CH |
09BEIJING470 | RUSSIA 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 10:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EWWT ETRD MARR PBTS CH RS |
09BEIJING471 | ChinaQs 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 00:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL CH |
09BEIJING477 | BEIJING-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 06:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK |
09BEIJING478 | CHINA 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 07:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PARM KNNP IAEA MNUC TRGY IR SY CH |
09BEIJING482 | MEDIA 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 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING483 | TIBET 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 10:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CASC PGOV PREL KIRF CH |
09BEIJING484 | PRESERVING 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 01:28:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM CH |
09BEIJING498 | MEDIA 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 09:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING499 | February 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 09:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KS KN EU RS JA SW PK IN CH |
09BEIJING509 | CHINA: 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 07:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
09BEIJING513 | CHINA: 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 08:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
09BEIJING514 | MEDIA 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 09:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING515 | CHINA 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 09:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV ECPS PGOV ASEC WTRO CH |
09BEIJING517 | PRC 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 09:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
09BEIJING518 | HUI 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 10:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID ETRD ENRG CH XM XL |
09BEIJING519 | ZARDARI 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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH PK AF IN |
09BEIJING520 | PRO-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 11:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
09BEIJING526 | AFM 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 07:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM PTER CH |
09BEIJING527 | PRC 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 07:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EINV ETRD AO CH KE MI ML MP |
09BEIJING529 | China/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 09:39:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV EPET EFIN CH |
09BEIJING530 | MEDIA 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 09:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING531 | NATIONAL 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 12:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
09BEIJING535 | PRC 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 04:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC UN CH |
09BEIJING544 | MEDIA 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 10:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING545 | March 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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KS KN AF FR EU IN CH |
09BEIJING548 | CHINA 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 06:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM EMIN TRGY ETTC MNUC KNNP PREL CH IR |
09BEIJING55 | MEDIA 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 09:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING552 | MEDIA 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 08:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 10:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN CH |
09BEIJING557 | CHINA/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 10:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN CH |
09BEIJING558 | CHINA/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 10:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN CH |
09BEIJING559 | PRESS 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 12:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN CH TW |
09BEIJING560 | PRC/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 12:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH |
09BEIJING57 | DASD 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 09:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS CH AF XD SO RS TW KN IZ XA |
09BEIJING570 | CHINA 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 06:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND KIPR ECON CH |
09BEIJING575 | March 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 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM SU AF CH |
09BEIJING576 | MEDIA 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 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC 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 09:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ETRD EFIN ECON CH |
09BEIJING579 | PRC: 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 09:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC |
09BEIJING58 | PRC: 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 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL MARR MASS PARM PTER CH TW IR PK IN KN |
09BEIJING580 | PREMIER 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 15:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN SOCI ELAB PREL CH TW |
09BEIJING583 | CHINA 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 09:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH |
09BEIJING585 | INDUSTRY 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 09:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ECON EAIR ELTN EWWT CH |
09BEIJING588 | MEDIA 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 09:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING589 | NPC 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 10:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL CH HK TW |
09BEIJING59 | CHINA 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 09:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF EAID AORG IR UN CH |
09BEIJING590 | CHINA--"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 10:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD CH |
09BEIJING592 | CHINA/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 02:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | AS CH ECON EINV EIND EMIN ETRD PGOV |
09BEIJING600 | CHARGE 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 09:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PHSA PBTS MOPS MARR KTIA CH |
09BEIJING601 | SAO 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 09:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT CVIS OEXC ECON EAIR CH |
09BEIJING602 | MEDIA 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 09:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING604 | PRC: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON CHINA'S PLEDGE AT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-09 10:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN EAID PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG CH IS |
09BEIJING605 | TIBET: 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 11:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIFR CH |
09BEIJING606 | CHINA 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 11:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KSCA PTER SNAR PARM ETRD PK IN AF CH |
09BEIJING607 | FOREIGN 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 12:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON ETRD EFIN PHUM ENRG CH TW XA RS KN KS |
09BEIJING612 | MEDIA 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 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING613 | BEIJING-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 10:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK |
09BEIJING614 | JILIN 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 11:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
09BEIJING615 | March 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 23:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MASS PHUM SU ZI CH |
09BEIJING623 | CHINA/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 07:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EINV EFIN CH RS |
09BEIJING625 | CHINA/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 07:35:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET EFIN CH RS |
09BEIJING628 | MEDIA 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 09:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR CH |
09BEIJING629 | CHINA/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 10:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KPKO CH SU |
09BEIJING631 | EMBASSY 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 11:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIRF PGOV CH |
09BEIJING632 | TIBET: 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 12:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CASC CH |
09BEIJING633 | CHINA 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 13:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI KCUL CH |