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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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07HONGKONG1447HONG KONG DEMOCRATIC PARTY INVESTIGATES PRC
[...] (S) Summary: Democratic Party (DP) legislator James To (strictly protect),who is chair of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (Legco) Security Panel, warned us in early February 2007 that infiltrators from Beijing had successfully penetrated the DP and put it in a "dangerous position" (ref). [...]
2007-05-30 08:24:00Consulate Hong KongSECRETPGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI CH HK MC
07HONGKONG1510SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: MACAU'S PRESSING NEED FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: As Macau's economy booms, local authorities confront the dual challenges of modernizing the territory's infrastructure, while ameliorating the adverse effects of this rapid development. Macau,s air quality is worsening due to manufacturing in Guangdong province, emissions from [...]
2007-06-05 09:40:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDCH HK MK SENV PGOV ENRG
07HONGKONG1600HONG KONG COMPANIES REGISTRY: STARTING TO FEEL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Alan Fong, Assistant Principal Solicitor at the Hong Kong Companies Registry, acknowledged to EconOff that Hong Kong's quick and efficient corporate registration procedures -- heretofore believed by the Registrar to be plus -- is bringing unwanted attention on the Hong Kong gove [...]
2007-06-14 11:00:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON ETRD HK KIPR
07HONGKONG1661CLIMATE CHANGE DEMARCHE: ENGAGING HONG KONG AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: AmConGen Hong Kong has actively engaged the governments and the general public of the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions on U.S. climate change, renewable energy and other environmental programs. Post developed and actively promoted the Pollution Prevention and [...]
2007-06-21 06:19:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENGR SOCI EAID EPET TRGY KPAO CH HK MC
07HONGKONG1689U.S.-CHINA COMMISSION VISIT TO HONG KONG: MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary: On April 30, a visiting delegation from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) discussed Hong Kong political developments with Hong Kong Chief Executive's Office Director John Tsang and Secretary for Constitutional Affairs Stephen Lam. Lam, while noting th [...]
2007-06-25 06:04:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR CH HK
07HONGKONG1691U.S.-CHINA COMMISSION VISIT TO HONG KONG:
[...] (C) Summary: During April 29-30 meetings in Hong Kong, Civic Party legislator and March 2007 candidate for Chief Executive Alan Leong told a visiting delegation of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) that his campaign had laid the groundwork for the Hong Kong people [...]
2007-06-25 06:48:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR CH HK
07HONGKONG1692U.S.-CHINA COMMISSION VISIT TO HONG KONG: AMCHAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) representatives discussed IPR issues in Hong Kong and mainland China with a visiting delegation from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) on April 30. One AmCham representative observed that there was "very little le [...]
2007-06-25 07:13:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KIPR SENV CH HK
07HONGKONG1698HONG KONG'S NEXT CABINET APPROVED
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Central Government, on the nomination of Hong Kong's Chief Executive (CE),Donald Tsang, approved the appointments of principal officials for the third term of the HKSAR Government, as well as five officials who will head HK's disciplined services. Biographies for each new [...]
2007-06-25 23:31:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PINR CH HK
07HONGKONG1773MACAU HEALTH CARE: RESPONDING TO NEW REALITIES
[...] (SBU) Macau's health care system is coping wth the territory's quick economic expansion, rapd population growth, and large influx of tourist. A system that was created to care for 400,000residents now provides health care services to oer 500,000 people and approximaely 21 million tourists (a [...]
2007-07-03 07:07:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON TBIO SENV EAGR AMED KFLU HK CH
07HONGKONG1777HONG KONG COMMEMORATES TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH
[...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Hong Kong celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Special Administration Region's (SAR) reversion to the PRC with a mixture of official celebrations and the annual pro-democracy demonstration. PRC President Hu Jintao helped mark the anniversary by personally swearing in [...]
2007-07-03 09:46:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
07HONGKONG1779SENIOR IPR ATTACHE MARK COHEN DISCUSSES PRC AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Legislative Councilor Sin Chung Kai told visiting Beijing Intellectual Property Senior Attache Mark Cohen and ConGen Hong Kong staff that Hong Kong's amended copyright law should generally please copyright owners, including U.S. companies, although he noted that a statutory "fa [...]
2007-07-05 03:44:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON ETRD HK KIPR KJUST PINR PGOV
07HONGKONG1800HONG KONG SCENESETTER FOR HUD SECRETARY JACKSON
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong warmly welcomes to your visit next week. U.S. trade, investment, and business with Hong Kong flourish in a largely open environment. Hong Kong is our 15th largest export market, and the United States enjoyed a USD 9.8 billion trade surplus [...]
2007-07-09 00:40:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PTER EINV KIPR HK CH SENV MC
07HONGKONG1801MACAU SCENESETTER FOR HUD SECRETARY JACKSON
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong warmly welcomes your visit to Macau next week. U.S. interests in Macau have increased tremendously since 2002, when Macau liberalized its gaming market. The U.S. is now one of the largest investors, behind only Hong Kong and mainland China [...]
2007-07-09 00:40:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PTER EINV KIPR HK CH MC SENV
07HONGKONG1832GOVERNMENT RELEASES GREEN PAPER ON CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] (C) Hong Kong Government Chief Secretary Henry Tang unveiled the details of the much anticipated "green paper" on constitutional reform, in a presentation to the Legislative Council (Legco) at 3:00 PM today. CS Tang's presentation officially launched a three-month consultation period, lastin [...]
2007-07-11 11:16:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI CH HK MC
07HONGKONG1853HONG KONG GOVERNMENT KICKS OFF PUBLIC DEBATE ON
[...] (C) Summary: The Hong Kong Government released a "green paper" on July 11 to kick off a three-month public consultation period on the timeframe and roadmap for the implementation of universal suffrage for future Chief Executive (CE) and Legislative Council (Legco) elections. The HKG's propos [...]
2007-07-13 12:23:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL CH HK
07HONGKONG1854PRC MFA COMMISSIONER DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC REFORM,
[...] (C) Summary: Beijing's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Commissioner to Hong Kong Lu Xinhua told the Consul General on July 11 that U.S.-China relations were "the best they've ever been" and that Beijing was "very satisfied" with the latest round of the Senior Dialogue meetings in Washington. Durin [...]
2007-07-13 12:39:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
07HONGKONG1866G/TIP DIRECTOR VISITS MACAU
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),and his Senior Coordinator for Reports, Mark Taylor, visited Macau on June 27 to discuss with Macau cabinet officials actions the Macau Special Administrative Region government (MSARG) s [...]
2007-07-16 08:29:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM HK CH MC MG
07HONGKONG1881HONG KONG UNIVERSITY'S GUAN YI ON RECENT TRENDS IN
[...] (C) Summary: AmConGen Economic Officer and Regional Medical Officer met with Guan Yi, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at Hong Kong University (HKU),and Gavin Smith, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at HKU, to discuss general trends in avian influenza i [...]
2007-07-17 23:50:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON TBIO SENV EAGR AMED KFLU HK CH
07HONGKONG1889POPE'S LETTER CLARIFIES CATHOLIC DOCTRINE IN CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, told us that Pope Benedict's long-awaited letter to Chinese Catholics was intended to clarify the relationship between the underground Catholic and the PRC's "official" Catholic communities. After the ordinations of [...]
2007-07-18 10:17:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
07HONGKONG1931HK ECONOMISTS ADVISE CHINA AGAINST SOVEREIGN
[...] (SBU) Summary: A senior Hong Kong private-sector economist has been advising the Chinese government that a high degree of transparency is not in the best interest of China's State Foreign Exchange Investment Corporation (SIC),as it will subject the fund to political pressure and media second [...]
2007-07-23 08:10:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN HK CH
07HONGKONG1951HONG KONG DISTRICT COUNCIL ELECTION: A TRIAL RUN
[...] (C) Summary: On November 18, Hong Kong will choose 529 District Councillors, 80 percent of them directly elected by universal suffrage. The District Councils are subordinate to the Legislative Council, but play an increasingly important advisory role to the government on grass-roots issues. W [...]
2007-07-25 10:15:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07HONGKONG2022PRIORITIES OF HONG KONG'S NEW ENVIRONMENT BUREAU:
[...] (SBU) During a July 19 meeting with local legislators, Hong Kong's new Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau detailed the environmental agenda for Chief Executive Donald Tsang's second administration. Yau said that Hong Kong SIPDIS Government (HKG) will strive to better regulate emission [...]
2007-08-03 00:47:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ENRG HK SENV PGOV
07HONGKONG2055U.S. CASINO EXECUTIVES NOT PRESSURED TO HIRE LOCAL
[...] (SBU) On August 5, Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" (SCMP) carried a story and an editorial citing rumors that "senior Macau government officials" have pressured executives in the U.S.-owned Venetian Macau hotel and casino, currently under construction and due to open on August 28, 2007, [...]
2007-08-07 23:22:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN ELAB PREL CH HK MC
07HONGKONG2067DEATH OF HONG KONG DAB CHAIRMAN MA LIK
[...] (C) Summary: Ma Lik, Legislative Councilor and Chairman of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB),died on August 8 in a Guangzhou hospital at age 55. His passing creates vacancies in both the Legislative Council (Legco) and the DAB leadership t [...]
2007-08-08 10:35:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR CH HK
07HONGKONG21HONG KONG HEALTH OFFICIALS PROBE DEATH OF PIG
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) is investigating the June and December 2006 deaths of two Hong Kong pig farmers from a pneumonia-type illness. The Hong Kong government (HKG) reported that both men had traveled to mainland China's Guangdong province a few weeks [...]
2007-01-04 08:59:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON TBIO SENV EAGR AMED KFLU HK CH
07HONGKONG2127HONG KONG ECONOMISTS: CHINA'S SOVEREIGN WEALTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Hong Kong-based economists believe China,s recently announced Sovereign Wealth Fund will face significant difficulties and is unlikely to achieve positive returns in the near term. Although details of how the fund will be managed have yet to emerge, analysts expect the fund w [...]
2007-08-15 10:47:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN CH HK
07HONGKONG2128HONG KONG BAR-BENDER STRIKE TURNS POLITICAL
[...] (C) More than 1,000 Hong Kong "bar-benders" (metal workers) went on strike August 8, demanding higher pay and shorter work hours. Over the weekend they scuffled with police while conducting an unauthorized demonstration. Since then, the labor dispute has escalated into a conflict between Hon [...]
2007-08-15 11:00:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNELAB PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2170HONG KONG'S GREEN PAPER: PATH TO DEMOCRACY OR
[...] (C) Summary: The Hong Kong Government (HKG) released its "Green Paper" listing various options for electoral reform on July 11, hoping it would spark a three-month public debate and build consensus for implementation of universal suffrage for future Chief Executive (CE) and Legislative Council [...]
2007-08-20 10:06:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG218HONG KONG'S WAIT AND SEE APPROACH ON ACTA:
[...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong government (HKG) officials expressed initial reticence about joining the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) during a digital video conference (DVC) held on January 12. The HKG queried officials from the USTR and the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) [...]
2007-01-23 06:44:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCH ECON ETRD HK KIPR TW
07HONGKONG2183PRC TO ALLOW RMB INVESTMENT IN HONG KONG MARKET,
[...] The Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) announced August 20 that it would allow mainland Chinese citizens to invest in the Hong Kong Stock Market. Chinese investors will be required to open a special account through the Bank of China (BOC),Tianjin, but will then be able t [...]
2007-08-22 02:37:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON HK CH
07HONGKONG2202FUNERAL POLITICS IN HONG KONG
[...] (C) Summary: Most of Hong Kong's political elite, including central government representatives, will attend the August 24 funeral of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) Chairman and Legislative Councilor Ma Lik. After the funeral, the DAB Central Committee [...]
2007-08-23 08:26:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2217HONG KONG TOY MANUFACTURERS RESPOND TO U.S.
[...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Hong Kong Toys Council and The Toy Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong told Econoffs that the U.S. recalls of China- produced toys in August served as a wake-up call for Hong Kong toy companies to immediately review their entire supply and production systems. [...]
2007-08-24 09:27:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PREL CH HK
07HONGKONG2244RULE OF LAW IN HONG KONG
[...] (C) Summary: Since its 1997 reversion to the PRC, Hong Kong has retained its common law system and strong rule of law under the "one country two systems" principle enshrined in the Basic Law. All ordinances, rules of equity, subordinate legislation, and customary law previously enforced by th [...]
2007-08-28 09:52:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PINR SOCI CH HK KJUS
07HONGKONG2250HONG KONG VIEWS ON PRC LEGAL REFORM (C-AL7-00894)
[...] (C) Summary: Contacts and cooperative arrangements between Hong Kong law schools, academics, and executive and judiciary branch officials and their mainland counterparts have accelerated in recent years. The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) has provided a similar boost for Hong K [...]
2007-08-29 09:38:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR KJUS SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2251HONG KONG'S GREEN PAPER: NO SIGN OF PROGRESS
[...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong's "Green Paper" process to develop a broad consensus on how to implement universal suffrage has stalled. The key players, including the Hong Kong Government (HKG),the pro-Beijing and pro-HKG political parties, the pro-democratization parties, and the central government i [...]
2007-08-29 10:05:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI HK CH
07HONGKONG2263BANK OF CHINA TAKES CREDIT FOR TIANJIN/HONG KONG
[...] (C) Summary: The August 20 announcement by the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) that it would allow Chinese investors to open Hong Kong investment accounts through Bank of China (BOC),Tianjin - Binhai branch helped Hong Kong stocks overcome the fallout from the U.S. sub [...]
2007-08-30 09:02:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON HK CH
07HONGKONG232 CBP'S LABUDA URGES HKG TO IMPROVE TEXTILE ENFORCEMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Janet Labuda, Director of Textile Enforcement and Operations Division, Office of International Trade at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),and Scott Quesenberry, USTR Special Textile Negotiator, met with Hong Kong government (HKG) officials to discuss the Memorandum of Un [...]
2007-01-24 08:46:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTEX HK CH
07HONGKONG2333HONG KONG BY-ELECTION: DEARTH OF POLITICAL TALENT
[...] (C) Summary: Interest in the December 2 by-election to fill the Legislative Council (Legco) seat vacated by the death of DAB Chairman Ma Lik has intensified since his August 24 funeral. The various pan-democratic parties have agreed on a mechanism to select a single candidate, although the po [...]
2007-09-07 09:44:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI HK CH
07HONGKONG2359ANSON CHAN TO CONTEST LEGCO BY-ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: On September 11, former Hong Kong Government (HKG) Chief Secretary Anson Chan formally announced her candidacy for the December 2 by-election for the Legislative Council (Legco) seat vacated by the death of DAB Chairman Ma Lik. Chan apparently was convinced by several pan-democrat [...]
2007-09-11 10:00:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI HK CH
07HONGKONG2360MACAU GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES COMMITTEE TO COMBAT
[...] (C) The Macau government, clearly making good on some of the commitments expressed by Chief Executive (CE) Ho to G/TIP director Ambassador Lagon in June (reftel),gazetted a directive yesterday to set up a "concern committee" on deterring human trafficking. The committee will consist of up t [...]
2007-09-11 10:35:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALKCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM HK CH MC MG
07HONGKONG2391HKG LOOKS TO INTEGRATE HONG KONG, MAINLAND STOCK
[...] Summary: The Hong Kong Government (HKG) announced late September 7 that it had acquired additional shares in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) through the Hong Kong Exchange Fund, sufficient to increase its holdings to 5.88% of total shares. Financial Secretary John Tsang said the acquisi [...]
2007-09-13 09:32:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV HK CH
07HONGKONG2413PEARL RIVER DELTA AIR POLLUTION FEASIBILITY
[...] (C) The Hong Kong government will announce the commencement of two precedent-setting regional air pollution feasibility studies at the end of September. These studies, sponsored by the Hong Kong and Guangdong Provincial Governments, are focused on the Pearl River Delta of Southern China. The [...]
2007-09-17 01:29:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNENRG SENV PGOV HK CH
07HONGKONG2414STAFFDEL NELSON PURSUES FOOD/TOY SAFETY AND TRADE
[...] (SBU) Summary: House Energy and Commerce Committee Staff Delegation Nelson visited Hong Kong and Macau at the end of August to investigate import food and product safety, intellectual property rights and unfair trade practices. Meetings with Hong Kong and Macau government officials and private [...]
2007-09-17 01:29:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD PREL TBIO HK CH
07HONGKONG244U/S HUGHES 1/23 MEETING WITH HONG KONG HOME
[...] (SBU) During the otherwise informal and largely unscripted meeting between visiting U/S Karen P. Hughes and Hong Kong Home Affairs Secretary Patrick Ho on January 23 (report on visit septel),Ho pulled out a prepared text when Hughes alluded to China,s "one country, two systems" approach to Ho [...]
2007-01-25 07:36:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSCUL PHUM PREL PGOV KPAO CH HK
07HONGKONG2443HONG KONG RESTRICTS POULTRY IMPORTS FOLLOWING
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HKSARG) suspended all imports of live poultry and birds, chicks, eggs, and meat originating from the Panyu District, Guangdong Province, Southern China following the confirmation of an H5N1 virus outbreak in Panyu duck fa [...]
2007-09-19 09:06:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR KFLU CH HK
07HONGKONG2465BEIJING OFFICIAL VISITS HONG KONG FOR FUNERAL,
[...] (C) Summary: Director Liao Hui of the PRC Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) visited Hong Kong September 18 for the funeral of journalist and veteran Beijing loyalist Xu Simin. Following the funeral, attended by numerous high-level political and business figures, Liao moved to Shenzhe [...]
2007-09-21 09:31:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR CH HK SOCI
07HONGKONG2466HONG KONG IS WORKING TO IMPROVE CHINA PRODUCT
[...] (SBU) Summary: A series of recalls of potentially dangerous "Made in China" toys and defective consumer goods has resulted in intense international scrutiny of Hong Kong-invested China industries. Hong Kong companies operate some 80,000 production facilities in mainland China, employing app [...]
2007-09-21 10:16:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD PREL TBIO HK CH
07HONGKONG2587HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE'S POLICY ADDRESS:
[...] (C) Summary: In his third annual Policy Address on October 10, Hong Kong Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang touched on all the major issues of concern to the people of Hong Kong. He described a concept of "progressive development" to achieve three major goals: economic development through inf [...]
2007-10-10 10:42:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR ECON EFIN SENV SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2596MARTIN LEE TO VISIT WASHINGTON AS HONG KONG
[...] (C) Summary: Democratic Party founder and legislator Martin Lee will visit Washington October 18-19 for discussions at State and the NSC (requested) on the political state of play in Hong Kong. His visit comes during an unusually busy Hong Kong political season, which this year includes the C [...]
2007-10-11 10:40:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2597MACAU LABOR SQUEEZE EXACERBATES POLITICAL TENSIONS
[...] (C) Summary: A bill to overhaul Macau's outdated labor laws remains stalled in the legislative process. Exacerbated by a politically disengaged public and weak political party structure, labor woes are increasingly straining the livelihood of many Macau citizens. Several thousand Macau cit [...]
2007-10-11 10:40:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PINR CH HK MC
07HONGKONG2598INFLATION, OVER-INVESTMENT KEY CHINESE RISKS HK
[...] (U) Summary: Hong Kong-based China analysts warned U.S. Treasury representatives that unproductive investment was a disturbing trend that threatened to derail Chinese economic growth and stability, but that the risk to the Chinese economy from a U.S. slowdown was minimal. Analysts differed i [...]
2007-10-11 10:41:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN HK CH
07HONGKONG2640MACAU WOMEN'S COMMISSION SEEKS TO ANSWER THE CALL
[...] (SBU) Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho chaired a meeting of the Consultative Commission on Women's Affairs (CCWA) on October 10, wherein the Commission briefed the Chief Executive on recent activities, including its meeting in August to study ways to improve efforts to combat trafficking in pe [...]
2007-10-18 07:58:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALKCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM HK CH MC MG
07HONGKONG2696HONG KONG CATHOLIC DIOCESE ON SINO-VATICAN
[...] (C) Summary: According to Hong Kong papal representative Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the Holy See had been consulted on and approved the September selection of Father Joseph Li Shan to replace the late Michael Fu Tieshan as Bishop of the Beijing diocese. Because the issue was "sensitive," howeve [...]
2007-10-26 04:37:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PINR CH HK VT
07HONGKONG2751HONG KONG BY-ELECTION: ANSON CHAN TOUGHENS STANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Nine candidates have registered to contest the December 2 Legislative Council (Legco) by-election to fill the seat vacated by the death of Ma Lik. The clear front-runners remain former senior civil servants Anson Chan of the pan-democratic camp and her pro-Beijing opponent Regin [...]
2007-11-02 09:19:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2790CONSUL GENERAL AND TRANSPORT SECRETARY CHENG
[...] (SBU) Summary: Transport and Housing Secretary Eva Cheng told CG Cunningham that the Transport Bureau is focused on six-large scale infrastructure projects that will strategically shape Hong Kong's future competitiveness, while expanding land, sea and air links to mainland China. She stated t [...]
2007-11-08 09:28:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR EWWT ELTN CH HK
07HONGKONG2806ALLEGATIONS OF U.S. "INTERFERENCE" IN HONG KONG
[...] (C) Summary: With the approach of Hong Kong local elections on November 18 and December 2, public criticism of pro-democracy legislator Martin Lee has abated, possibly due to fear of a voter backlash against the harsh commentary. Even before the Lee controversy, however, anti-foreign and anti- [...]
2007-11-09 08:46:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2807PREMIER WEN TOPS ALIBABA AS HK STOCK EXCHANGE
[...] Summary: Comments by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on preconditions for Chinese investors to purchase individual Hong Kong stocks drove the benchmark Hang Seng index down 1526 points on Monday, November 5, the largest one-day drop in the history of the Hong Kong exchange. Local observers were m [...]
2007-11-09 08:53:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN HK CH
07HONGKONG2934HONG KONG DECEMBER 2 BY-ELECTION: VOTER TURNOUT IS
[...] (C) Summary: On December 2, Hong Kong will hold a by-election to fill the Legislative Council (Legco) seat vacated by the death of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) leader Ma Lik last August. Only two of the eight contestants - pro-democracy leader Anson [...]
2007-11-30 08:49:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2949HONG KONG VOTERS ELECT PRO-DEMOCRACY LEGISLATOR
[...] (C) Summary: Former Hong Kong Government Chief Secretary and pan-democratic leader Anson Chan won the December 2 Legislative Council (Legco) by-election, defeating her equally high-profile pro-government opponent Regina Ip by a 55 to 43 percent margin. After the election, Chan said the poll r [...]
2007-12-03 09:39:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR SOCI HK CH
07HONGKONG3103NPC STANDING COMMITTEE AUTHORIZES HONG KONG TO
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: On December 29, Commissioner Lu Xinhua of the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong briefed the Consul General, the U.K. Consul General, and a representative from the Office of the European Commission on the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) [...]
2007-12-29 06:22:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR PHUM CH HK
07HONGKONG45BIRD TESTS POSITIVE FOR H5 VIRUS IN HONG KONG
[...] (SBU) Hong Kong government (HKG) officials announced that a fast test reveals a dead bird tested positive for the H5 virus in Hong Kong on January 4. The bird, a Scaly-breasted Munia, was one of six dead birds found on the street near an urban shopping area on December 31. Additional tests wi [...]
2007-01-05 11:03:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON TBIO SENV EAGR AMED KFLU HK CH
07HONGKONG465HONG KONG CUSTOMS INCREASES COUNTERFEIT RAIDS FOR
[...] (U) Summary: Hong Kong Customs and Excise (CED) officers recently broke up a multi-million dollar counterfeit pharmaceutical ring and a separate triad syndicate that sold pirated optical disks. In the first case from late January, CED officers arrested the 37-year old leader of the counterfe [...]
2007-02-16 09:22:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDCH ECON ETRD HK KIPR
07HONGKONG603HONG KONG'S FIRST TELEVISED CHIEF EXECUTIVE
[...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong's first Chief Executive (CE) debate, televised live on March 1, included some unexpectedly lively exchanges over political reform, air pollution, education, and poverty alleviation. Incumbent CE Donald Tsang appeared restrained but also denigrated his opponent's SIPDI [...]
2007-03-02 09:49:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG647HONG KONG ECONOMISTS HIGHLIGHT CHINA'S ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Comments from Hong Kong-based economists made in a series of meetings with visiting Beijing Finance Attache and Econoff suggest the following: Chinese economic policy makers understand the negative byproducts of the current macroeconomic policy mix: including overcapacity in some industr [...]
2007-03-07 06:12:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV HK CH
07HONGKONG837HONG KONG GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO SOUTHERN OCEANS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: AmConGen Hong Kong Economic Officer and Deputy Agricultural Section Chief delivered reftel message to Dr. S.F. Leung, the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department's (AFCD) Assistant Director (Fisheries),and Dr. Albert Leung, Senior Fisheries Officer at AFCD. [...]
2007-03-23 11:03:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDCH EFIS HK KTIA PHSA SENV
07JAKARTA1326Indonesia - East Java/China Trade Growing, Investment
[...] SUMMARY: China's legal exports to East Java were close to $1 billion in 2006; illegal imports may have been double that amount. East Java shoe and garment industries have taken a beating from illegal imports, with over 500 small and medium sized firms closing in the past two years. So far, fou [...]
2007-05-11 05:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV ECON KIPR KCOR ID CH
07JAKARTA1424Indonesia/East Java: PRC Consulate Offers
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The recently established PRC Consulate General in Surabaya (ConGen China) is actively promoting Chinese interest in infrastructure and natural resource investment projects in Eastern Indonesia. Chinese Consul General Fu Shuigen (CG Fu) has worked hard to connect Chinese investo [...]
2007-05-21 07:32:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PNAT PINR KISL EINV ID CH TW
07JAKARTA3358DEFENSE COOPERATION -- DASD CLAD'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DASD Clad discussed U.S.-Indonesia mil-mil cooperation and East Asian regional security with MinDef Sudarsono on December 5. Sudarsono said Indonesia wanted an effective but low-visibility security relationship with the United States. He said the GOI was focusing its air capaci [...]
2007-12-10 09:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV ID IN CH XE
07JAKARTA3363INDONESIA -- SENATOR KERRY DISCUSSES BURMA WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Kerry expressed concern about the Burmese situation in a meeting with President Yudhoyono on December 10. Yudhoyono noted that he was also concerned and had urged the regime to take needed steps, but ASEAN had limited influence and needed U.S. help to push China and Indi [...]
2007-12-11 08:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ID BM CH IN
07JAKARTA3439SINO-INDONESIAN TIES -- CAUTIOUS BUT INCREASING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China is becoming an increasingly important player in Indonesia. It has incipient defense cooperation relations, and growing trade, investment and cultural ties with Indonesia. Taiwan and historical legacies complicate relations, while Indonesia's Chinese community offers a poi [...]
2007-12-19 08:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM ECON ID CH
07JAKARTA380DEMARCHE REGARDING MINUSTAH RENEWAL DELIVERED
[...] We delivered reftel demarche to Ramadansyah Hasan in the Directorate for International Security and Disarmament at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs. We did so in the absence of our usual contact for UN Haiti issues. Ramadansyah, whom we were meeting concerning UN Iran issues, soug [...]
2007-02-12 08:17:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KPKO HA CH FR SA RU PE ID
07JOHANNESBURG302SOUTH AFRICA: OPINIONS ON CHINA
[...] Summary: Consul General recently received his counterpart, newly-arrived Chinese Consul General FANG Li, and discussed US-China cooperation under the Strategic Economic Dialogue, as well as preparations for South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup Soccer. An October 18 discussion on Ch [...]
2007-10-24 08:37:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL ELAB SF CH
07JOHANNESBURG311SOUTH AFRICA: CHINA DEVELOPMENT BANK OUTLINES AFRICA
[...] Summary: At an October 31 seminar on emerging powers and their impact on global economic governance hosted by the South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA),the international advisor of the China Development Bank (CDB) provided a readout of the CDB's strategy and strengths in [...]
2007-11-02 14:07:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAGR ECON EINV SF CH
07KABUL1909AFGHANISTAN SUPPORTS U.S. ON SHANGHAI COOPERATION
[...] (C) A/PolCouns delivered reftel points to FM Spanta's Senior Policy Advisor Davood Moradian June 9. Moradian assured us the GOA was completely in agreement with U.S. points and supported U.S. goals for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),including continued U.S. and allied access to [...]
2007-06-10 10:54:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF RS CH
07KABUL3932AF: Aynak Copper: Details of winning Chinese bid remain
[...] (SBU) Summary: After a prolonged tender and evaluation process, on October 20, 2007, the state-owned China Metallurgical Group (CMG) was awarded the right to start negotiating a detailed contract for the Aynak Copper Mine project. By some accounts, the Chinese are expected to invest approximat [...]
2007-11-27 08:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF CH
07KABUL3933AF: Aynak Copper: Details of winning Chinese bid remain
[...] (SBU) Summary: After a prolonged tender and evaluation process, on October 20, 2007, the state-owned China Metallurgical Group (CMG) was awarded the right to start negotiatinQdetailed contract for the Aynak Copper Mine project. By some accounts, the Chinese are expected to invest approximately [...]
2007-11-27 08:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF CH
07KABUL3998AF: Afghans to fund Uzbek power line connection to NEPS.
[...] (SBU) Summary. Afghanistan's mission to Uzbekistan to reinvigorate negotiations for energy imports through the North East Power System (NEPS) project appears to have produced positive results. Delegation head Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Mir Sediq expects to lead a follow-on mission to [...]
2007-12-05 12:21:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF CH
07KAMPALA1187UGANDA: RESPONSE ON FOREIGN ACQUISITION OF NATURAL
[...] (C) Summary. Chinese interest in Uganda's natural resources consists largely in importing timber, copper, and cobalt. Currently, Chinese investment in these sectors is limited. Ugandan law contains a variety of legal statutes aimed at protecting biodiversity and natural resources, but natio [...]
2007-07-20 07:16:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIALECON CH PGOV PREL UG
07KATHMANDU1027UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES MEETS WITH CORE
[...] (C) On May 23, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres thanked the Core Group in Kathmandu for paving the way for third-country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. He had observed in his May 22 meetings that the Government of Nepal (GON) had accepted and endorsed a [...]
2007-05-23 12:17:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV CH BT NP
07KATHMANDU1033NEPAL: CHINESE AMBASSADOR AGREES MAOISTS HAVE NOT
[...] (C) The Maoists have not given up violence and intimidation, agreed Chinese Ambassador Zheng Xianglin in a May 23 meeting with the Ambassador. The two Ambassadors also discussed splinter ethnic groups in the Terai, their potential impact on elections, and the Maoist reaction to these groups. [...]
2007-05-24 12:43:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PREF PHUM KDEM CH NP
07KATHMANDU1314NEPAL: ARMY CHIEF OPPOSES INTEGRATION OF MAOISTS
[...] (C) Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Rookmangud Katawal told the Ambassador July 2 that he opposed integrating Maoist combatants into the Nepal Army for "five years." He estimated it would take that long for democracy to take root in Nepal. He said he had stressed to Prime Minister G.P. Koirala on [...]
2007-07-06 09:03:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PTER IN CH NP
07KATHMANDU1531NEPAL DEPORTS TIBETAN REFUGEE TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16 Tibetan refugee Tsering Wangchen was deported from Nepal to China in an apparent violation of the so-called &gentlemen,s agreement8 between the Government of Nepal (GON) and UNHCR whereby new Tibetan refugee arrivals are permitted to transit Nepal to India and are not [...]
2007-08-10 11:56:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL NP CH
07KATHMANDU1945AS SAUERBREY'S MEETINGS WITH PRIME MINISTER AND
[...] (C) In a meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration Sauerbrey November 3, Prime Minister Koirala expressed concern about four aspects of the resettlement program for Bhutanese refugees: the citizenship status of the refugees, speed of the resettlement program (he [...]
2007-11-06 07:01:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM CH BT IN NP
07KATHMANDU317NEPAL'S PRIME MINISTER AGREES TO RESETTLE
[...] (C) In a February 7 meeting with Ambassador Moriarty, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala agreed to allow third-country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees. On the ongoing violence in the Terai, the Ambassador encouraged the Prime Minister to both initiate a dialogue with all ethnic minoritie [...]
2007-02-07 12:13:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CH BT NP
07KATHMANDU447NEPAL: NO OBJECTION TO RESETTLEMENT OF BHUTANESE
[...] (C) In separate meetings on February 26, the Ambassador briefed Foreign Minister K.P. Oli and Home Minister K.P. Sitaula on Prime Minister Koirala's February 7 approval of U.S. plans to resettle Bhutanese refugees (reftel). Both ministers were noncommittal, but raised no objections to the U.S [...]
2007-02-28 11:16:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV CH BT NP
07KATHMANDU751TIBETAN REFUGEES: NANGPA-LA SURVIVOR TELLS HIS
[...] (C) According to Lhopsang Penjore, a Tibetan refugee who was present at the time, recently provided more details regarding the September 2006 murder of a Tibetan nun by PRC border guards. Penjore told RefCoord on April 10 that the 76-person group was ten days from Lhasa when Chinese armed pol [...]
2007-04-12 09:10:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM PGOV CH NP
07KATHMANDU855NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR WANTS COOPERATION ON NEPAL
[...] (C) Newly appointed Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zheng Xianglin told the Ambassador April 27 that he wanted to see more cooperation among China, India, and the U.S. to help Nepal's peace process succeed. The People's Republic of China (PRC) and the U.S. had a common interest in Nepal achieving [...]
2007-04-27 11:01:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PINR ELTN CH IN NP
07KATHMANDU988NEPAL: PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA FEISTY, FRUSTRATED
[...] (C) On May 17, Prime Minister Koirala expressed his frustration to the Ambassador with the Maoist failure to change their behavior since joining the Interim Government. Koirala said he was determined to enforce law and order and to crack down on the criminal activities of the Maoist Young Comm [...]
2007-05-17 11:36:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER KDEM MARR UN CH IN NP
07KHARTOUM1102DARFUR: S/E NATSIOS DISCUSSES POLITICAL PROCESS
[...] (SBU) In a July 13 meeting in Khartoum with ambassadors representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Special Envoy Natsios provided a concise analysis of the challenges facing the Darfur political process and exchanged views on the role of the African Union (AU),civil s [...]
2007-07-15 13:58:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UN AU SU UK FR CH
07KHARTOUM119CHINA IN SUDAN: RISING DRAGON OR PAPER TIGER?
[...] (C) Summary: China has quickly become Sudan's most important market, absorbing nearly 70 percent of its total exports in 2004, and 96 percent of its oil exports in 2005. Chinese investment and immigration have risen sharply in the past five years, especially in Khartoum, creating a kind of Ch [...]
2007-01-26 11:11:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV SOCI SU CH
07KHARTOUM1337DARFUR: USG CAN SET THE STAGE FOR SUCCESSFUL UN/AU
[...] (SBU) The United Nations and African Union have developed a timetable for the Darfur political process that culminates in negotiations between the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatories and the Sudanese Government in early October. However, unrealistic expectations of the outcome of thes [...]
2007-08-23 13:44:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UN AU SU LY ER CD CH
07KHARTOUM171CHINA: LITTLE REVEALED ON DARFUR DISCUSSIONS
[...] (U) The February 2-3 visit to Khartoum of Chinese president Hu Jintao involved substantial pageantry, a variety of aid and trade agreements (septel),and a series of high-level meetings, but little new information on efforts to address a transition to UN peacekeeping in Darfur. The visit, the [...]
2007-02-05 15:26:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV UN CH SU
07KHARTOUM460US/SUDANESE RELATIONS AT THE DIVIDE
[...] (C) Summary. U.S./Sudanese relations are poised to pass from one watershed into another. From the U.S. perspective, Sudan's rejection of UN peace-keeping in Darfur pushes relations toward direct confrontation, just as Sudanese see the U.S. imposition of additional sanctions as proof of enduri [...]
2007-03-23 11:01:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU AL CH IN
07KHARTOUM859DARFUR DONORS CONCERNED ON HAAVISTO APPOINTMENT,
[...] (C) Meeting on May 30, the core group of Western donors in Khartoum expressed reservations over the appointment of former EU Special Envoy for Sudan Pekka Haavisto as UN Envoy Jan Eliasson's new representative for the Darfur political process. While Haavisto's terms of reference had not yet b [...]
2007-05-31 16:09:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AU UN SU ER CH
07KINGSTON299JAPAN/CARIBBEAN: TOKYO CONSIDERS OPENING ANOTHER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-01 20:17:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR EAID OFDP JA CH TW
07KINGSTON442JAMAICA: ELIMINATION OF FY-08 FMF WILL HAVE SEVERE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-29 20:54:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL PTER SNAR ASEC CASC MOPS OMB VZ CH
07KINSHASA1133DRC, CHINA ANNOUNCE FIVE BILLION DOLLAR LOAN FOR
[...] (U) China and the DRC signed an agreement on September 17 for a total USD five billion loan to finance three billion dollars in infrastructure construction projects and two billion dollars in mining sector partnerships. The GDRC Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Pierre Lumbi, said t [...]
2007-09-21 05:59:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV CH CG
07KINSHASA340PORT AUTHORITY CLAIMS CHINESE RAIL OFFER STILL ON
[...] (SBU) DRC's port authority, ONATRA, claims to be discussing plans with the Chinese government for rehabilitation of the Matadi-Kinshasa railroad system. ONATRA's CEO, Daniel Bikindu, shared these plans with EconOff and a visiting USTDA representative on March 6. 2. (SBU) During his four-day [...]
2007-03-21 12:26:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN EWWT EINV ECON PGOV CH CG
07KOLKATA171INDIAN MILITARY ENGAGING WITH BURMESE COUNTERPARTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: During April and May, Senior Indian military officials appear to have undertaken a concerted effort to increase engagement with their Burmese counterparts. Several meetings have taken place both at political and military levels between officials of the two neighboring countrie [...]
2007-05-22 13:53:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR PHUM PGOV IN BM CH
07KOLKATA30DALAI LAMA SPEAKS IN KOLKATA ON TIBETAN AUTONOMY
[...] (SBU) On January 15 in Kolkata, the Dalai Lama spoke at the 40th anniversary celebrations of the of non-governmental organization Young Men's Welfare Society (YMWS). He made remarks on "Ethics in Human Development." During the question and answer period following his remarks, the Dalai Lama [...]
2007-01-29 10:06:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV SENV CH IN
07KOLKATA376CHINA AND INDIA DISPUTE BHUTAN BORDER: INDIAN SOLDIERS MOVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Against the backdrop of efforts to improve bilateral relations, India and China continue to jostle over territory along India's northeast border with China. On December 12, India relocated 6,000 soldiers of the 27th Mountain Division (units of the 164 Mountain Brigade) from Jam [...]
2007-12-14 13:46:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR CH IN
07KOLKATA56CHINA AND RUSSIA MAKING THEIR PITCH TO EAST INDIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DEMONSTRATING GREATER CHINESE EFFORT AT PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN EAST INDIA, ON FEBRUARY 12, FOREIGN MINISTER LI XHAOXING TRAVELED TO BIHAR TO INAUGURATE A NEW MEMORIAL HALL AT THE HISTORIC SITE OF THE ANCIENT NALANDA UNIVERSITY. A WEEK EARLIER, CHINA'S AMBASSADOR TO INDIA USED THE [...]
2007-02-15 12:10:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD PGOV EINV RS CH IN
07KUALALUMPUR1580EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S OCTOBER 17 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Ministerial Political Secretary Vincent Lim told visiting EAP DAS Christensen on October 17 that there is a perception in Malaysia and ASEAN that the United States is not heavily engaged in the region. He further commented that U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan have neg [...]
2007-11-02 00:37:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH MY
07KUWAIT1745DOW'S BILLION-DOLLAR PETROCHEMICAL JOINT VENTURE:
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 16 meeting with econoff, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) CEO Saad Al-Shuwaib told econoff that a newly announced joint venture between state-owned KPC subsidiary Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) and U.S.-based Dow Chemical Company represents Kuwait's lar [...]
2007-12-18 13:10:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EINV ETRD KU CH IN
07KUWAIT481KUWAIT GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SANCHEZ (APRIL
[...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for CODEL Sanchez to travel to post April 7-8, 2007. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor w [...]
2007-04-04 11:50:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KS VM CH JA IT QA TH KU
07KYIV1064(S) UKRAINE/MTCR: TRAINING TO CHINA FOURTH ACADEMY
[...] (S) We relayed reftel points May 4 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Although we were prepared with if-asked guidance to respond to possible arguments that MTCR was not intended to impede space development or that the RD-120 preparation [...]
2007-05-07 14:34:00Embassy KyivSECRETETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC TSPA CH UP
07KYIV2491(S) UKRAINE/MTCR/NSG: CENTRIFUGAL CHARGING PUMPS
[...] (S) On September 27, MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos provided us with a non-paper regarding delivery to China of centrifugal charging pumps to China from the Ukrainian company, Sumy Frunze Machine Building Scientific Production Associatio [...]
2007-09-28 10:49:00Embassy KyivSECRETETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC TSPA PK CH UP
07KYIV2928(S) UKRAINE: ARSENAL DESIGN BUREAU AND CHINESE
[...] (S) We relayed reftel information November 30 regarding Ukrainian Arsenal Design Bureau's potential business with the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Control Devices and with affiliates of the China Sanjiang Space Group to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor [...]
2007-11-30 11:48:00Embassy KyivSECRETETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC CH UP
07KYIV758(S) UKRAINE: YUZHNOYE LIQUID FUEL ROCKET
[...] (S) We relayed reftel points March 30 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov regarding U.S. concerns about Ukrainian Yuzhnoye company's cooperation with Chinese 11 Institute on development of the RD-120 liquid-fuel rocket engine. Counselor [...]
2007-03-30 15:00:00Embassy KyivSECRETETTC MNUC PARM PREL MTCRE CH UP
07LIMA2429EXPORTS TO CHINA GROW, FTA BY LATE 2008
[...] Summary: Peru's exports to China have surpassed those to the United States for two of the first five months in 2007, making China an increasingly important factor in Peru's economy. Mined metals and fishmeal accounted for 90% of Peru's exports to input-hungry China. By the end of July, Peru [...]
2007-07-16 21:38:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL USTR APECO CH PE
07LIMA330PERU-CHINA TRADE DIVERSIFIES, BUT INVESTMENT STRUGGLES
[...] Summary: With a bilateral trade relationship growing stronger, the GOP is trying to attract increased Chinese investment to Peru. Since 2004, China has overtaken the United Kingdom and Chile to become Peru's second largest export market and second largest import market (behind the U.S.). Peru [...]
2007-02-05 20:55:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV EFIN PREL TBIO PE CH
07LIMA826PERU'S FERVOUR FOR GLOBAL TRADE MARCHES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Peru waits for the US Congress to consider the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA),the GOP continues to discuss and engage in trade negotiations with numerous other countries. Peru recently completed an expanded trade agreement with Chile in October 2006; will fi [...]
2007-03-19 23:18:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECIN EINV APECO PE BL CA CI CH CO EC
07LISBON2960EU-ASIA (ASEAN, CHINA, INDIA) SUMMITS: MORE THALK THAN SUBSTANCE
[...] (C) November ends in a flurry of EU-Asia Summits for Portugal's EU Presidency, with the EU-ASEAN Summit on November 22 in Singapore, EU-China Summit on November 28 in Beijing, and EU-India Summit on November 30 in New Delhi. Although agendas include everything from human rights to climate change, [...]
2007-11-20 19:47:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PO TW IN CH EUN
07LJUBLJANA584SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF SEPTEMBER INFORMAL GYMNICH
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see para. 3. 2. (C) PolEcon Chief delivered reftel points to MFA Office of EU Affairs representative Aljaz Arih on September 5. He said that he expected that most of the Gymnich would focus on Russia, rather than on other strategic partnerships with In [...]
2007-09-06 10:24:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEUN PGOV PREL YI RS CH IN SI
07LJUBLJANA717SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF THE NOVEMBER 19-20 FOREIGN
[...] (C) Emboff delivered reftel's non-paper to the MFA's EU Correspondent Aljaz Arih on November 15. Arih remarked that we were on the "same line" on most issues, including Bosnia, Iran, and Pakistan. He requested that the U.S. consider inviting Slovenia to the Annapolis meeting. EU-China Sum [...]
2007-11-15 15:53:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV BK BM CH IR IS IZ KV LE PK
07LUANDA1015ANGOLA -- BENGUELA RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Benguela Railway is one of three strategic railroads linking Angola with its neighbors to the north and south. Although the China International Fund (CIF) won a contract to the restore the Benguela line in January 2006, the company has yet to lay down rails. The Chinese [...]
2007-10-03 12:55:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV AO CH
07LUANDA1069THE ROAD TO BENGUELA
[...] (U) Summary. The road connecting Luanda with Benguela-Lobito, a priority infrastructure project for the GRA, appears near completion, but the road has not been rebuilt, only resurfaced. End Summary. New-Old Road ------------ 2. (U) Most of the two-lane coastal highway from Luanda t [...]
2007-10-23 16:13:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDELTN ECON EFIN AO CH
07LUANDA1082MOCAMEDES RR STALLED FOR DEMINING
[...] (U) Summary. Work on Angola's southernmost railway line, the Mocamedes Railway (CFM),is not progressing, according to its Director, Julio Bango Joaquim. Bango said work will begin as soon as landmines are removed from the line east of Lubango. He added the railway should prosper when the i [...]
2007-10-24 15:33:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN EMIN ETRD AO CH
07LUANDA171CHINESE IN ANGOLA: DOING BUSINESS AND SETTLING IN
[...] (U) This is one in a series of cables on the Chinese business community in Angola. Previous cables have examined the Chinese line of credit. 2. (SBU) Summary: Chinese businesses, especially construction companies, are highly evident in Luanda. The Chinese are having an impact on the land [...]
2007-02-22 15:01:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV PINR CH AO
07LUANDA287CLOTHESPINS TO CEMENT - PORTRAIT OF A CHINESE
[...] (U) This is one in a series of cables on the Chinese business community in Angola. Previous cables have looked at the social impact of Chinese expatriates in Luanda and the Chinese line of credit. Angola ) Land of Golden Opportunity ----------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Working in [...]
2007-03-21 17:14:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV AO CH
07LUANDA621ANGOLA: OIL BOOM FUELING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Aguinaldo Jaime described Angola,s efforts to manage its exceptionally high economic growth to A/S Jendayi Frazer, noting the creation of a stabilization fund to manage oil price fluctuations on the budgetary process; programs to increase Central Bank and Fin [...]
2007-06-21 13:44:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EPET PGOV OVIP CH AO
07LUANDA648ANGOLA: WORK STOPS ON THE MALANJE RAILROAD
[...] (C) Summary. Work has apparently stopped along the railroad line linking Luanda and Malanje with Chinese railroad workers claiming they have not been paid for eight months. At the root of the problem is the nature of the deal between China International Fund (CIF) a private Hong Kong corpora [...]
2007-06-27 10:55:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALELTN ETRD EFIN EPET PINR CH AO
07LUANDA923CHINESE ASSISTANCE TO ANGOLA FOCUSED ON HEALTH
[...] (SBU) Summary. During an initial call on Counselor Ding Shan at the Chinese Embassy, the USAID Mission Director and Ding compared the U.S. and Chinese assistance efforts in Angola, which both emphasize health. Ding also disclosed China will soon start sending "barefoot doctors" to work in [...]
2007-09-11 08:01:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV EINV AO CH
07MANILA1020THE CHINESE ARE COMING...WELL MAYBE NOT QUITE YET
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Filipinos predicted that the economic rise of the People's Republic of China would benefit the provinces of north Luzon, which, thanks to mineral resources, agricultural potential, gambling, and beaches, should be a natural draw for Chinese tourists and investors. However, no [...]
2007-03-29 09:25:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EINV ETRD CH RP
07MANILA104 COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KAREN P. HUGHES, UNDER SECRETARY FOR
[...] Embassy Manila warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Karen P. Hughes, Under Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy; Col. Christopher Krisinger, Senior Advisor; and Ms. Katherine D. Balls, Special Assistant, for their January 24-27, 2007 visit to the Philippines. 2. Le [...]
2007-01-10 09:21:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDOVIP OTRA KPAO CH RP
07MANILA105PHILIPPINES WELCOMES ASEAN-RELATED SUMMITS ANEW
[...] (C) In a discussion with Charge on January 8, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo reiterated the Philippine Government's determination to host successful ASEAN-related summits, including the East Asia Summit, in Cebu January 13-15 following their postponement from the original December dates d [...]
2007-01-10 09:33:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN PTER ASEAN RU XE CH JA KN KS BM
07MANILA1153CHINESE OPEN SECOND CONSULATE IN PHILIPPINES
[...] (SBU) The People's Republic of China officially opened its consulate in San Nicholas/Laoag City (reftel) in the north Luzon province of Ilocos Norte on April 11. The PRC also has an existing consulate in Cebu City (Central Visayas),as well as consular property (inherited from Taiwan) in D [...]
2007-04-12 09:00:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH RP
07MANILA1336PRESIDENT ARROYO "BULLISH" ON ASIA AT BOAO FORUM
[...] (U) President Arroyo made a 12-hour trip to Hainan Island, China, on April 21, to attend the 2007 Boao Forum for Asia. She delivered an address on regional economic integration and development, proclaiming that she was "bullish on Asia and our ability to help drive positive change in the wor [...]
2007-04-26 08:28:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PK CH RP
07MANILA170 China vs. U.S. (and Italy) For TransCo Concession
[...] (U) Please see para. 15 for ACTION REQUEST. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Three consortia have pre-qualified to bid for the concession to run the $2.6 billion Philippine electric grid. The Chinese have teamed up with local investors close to relatives of the President and her political allies. U.S. i [...]
2007-01-16 05:34:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ECON CH IT RP
07MANILA179SUCCESSFUL ASEAN-RELATED SUMMITS IN CEBU
[...] (U) Summary. The 12th ASEAN Summit, 2nd East Asia Summit, and related leaders' meetings concluded in Cebu on January 15. Participants appeared highly satisfied with the outcomes, which included a new ASEAN convention on terrorism, tough language to North Korea, a pledge for greater East As [...]
2007-01-16 08:41:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER ECIN XE CH JA KS KN RP
07MANILA1991NEXT STEP IN THE TRIPARTITE SEISMIC SURVEY IN
[...] (C) Summary: Phase II should begin in July for the tripartite Marine Seismic Undertaking in the South China Sea. Philippine authorities had temporarily delayed authorization as the government decided whether to approve a Service Contract with a UK-based oil company in an area within the bo [...]
2007-06-15 06:10:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS EPET CH VM RP
07MANILA212VISIT OF CHINA PREMIER WEN JIABAO HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary. During a January 15-16 official visit to Manila, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his delegation signed about 30 bilateral agreements with a value of over US$6 billion, focusing on agriculture, ethanol production, development assistance, and on economic and technical cooperation. [...]
2007-01-18 08:59:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CH RP
07MANILA2418PHILIPPINES TO CONSIDER U.S. POINTS ON COMMUNITY
[...] (SBU) In a meeting on July 18 regarding U.S. priorities for the Community of Democracies Ministerial preparatory meeting (reftel),Director Leah Ruiz of the Department of Foreign Affairs' Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) said that the Philippines "had no proble [...]
2007-07-19 05:38:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM UNGA CH TW RP
07MANILA2645COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL REYES, AUGUST 23-25,
[...] (U) Embassy Manila welcomes and grants country clearance to the Congressional Delegation (CODEL) led by U.S. Representative Silverstre Reyes of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, for an August 23-25 visit to the Philippines. Control officer is Political Counselor Tom Gibbon [...]
2007-08-06 09:41:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN CH TH VM RP
07MANILA2705THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] (C) Summary: During August 1 bilateral discussions at the ASEAN Reg Forum (ARF),Deputy Secretary Negroponte noted China's role in the rece passage of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution 1769 r peacekeeping in Darfur, but encouraged China to move forward with a res on Iran's [...]
2007-08-10 06:59:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALASEAN ETRD PREL EXBS CH
07MANILA2931STAFFDEL LUSE VISIT TO THE PHILIPPINES
[...] (U) Summary: Mr. Keith Luse, Senior Professional Staff, visited the Philippines from August 14-18 as part of a three-nation Asian visit that also included Indonesia and Mongolia. The purpose of Mr. Luse's visit was to conduct a field-based study on bilateral U.S. foreign assistance, and also [...]
2007-08-29 23:12:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN ID RP CH MD
07MANILA854PHILIPPINES' CHINESE SCHOOLS: A BATTLEGROUND FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The People's Republic of China is playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting Chinese language/cultural education in the Philippines, primarily by engaging with Filipino-Chinese schools - historically pro-Taiwan institutions. Since 2003, the PRC has sent over 100 stude [...]
2007-03-15 09:41:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL SCUL SOCI XE CH TW RP
07MAPUTO1207China in Mozambique: Illegally Logged Timber.
[...] Q(C) SUMMARY: Below is a response to the request for a report on the environmental impact of Chinese trade or investment in the forest and forest products sector, keyed to the topic areas in reftel. Chinese purchase of illegally harvested Mozambican timber has a significant negative impact on [...]
2007-10-11 14:46:00Embassy MaputoCONFIDENTIALSENV EAGR KCOR PGOV MZ CH
07MAPUTO191Chinese President Hu Makes 24-hour Visit to
[...] (U) Summary: Chinese President Hu Jintao stopped by for an overnight in Maputo February 8/9 before departing for the Seychelles, the final leg of his two-week Africa tour. In remarks to government officials, both Hu and Mozambican President Guebuza praised the two countries' "profound friends [...]
2007-02-13 14:26:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CH MZ
07MASERU112LESOTHO: INPUT FOR US/CHINA DIALOG ON AFRICA
[...] (U) Per REFTEL request, Embassy Maseru provides the following information on the relationship between the Kingdom of Lesotho and the People's Republic of China. ----------------- Lesotho and China ----------------- 2. (SBU) Relationship: Cordial and deepening. Public Perception: M [...]
2007-03-02 12:32:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PGOV PREL EINV CH LT
07MASERU549LESOTHO SEPTEMBER 2007 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: ARRESTS, ANALYSIS,
[...] SUMMARY: - Fitch Puts Lesotho's Economy Under Microscope - Article IV Consultations: Good Numbers, No Poverty Impact - Principal Secretary of Justice Arrested - High-level Chinese Trade Delegation Visits Lesotho - "One Stop Shop" to Simplify Trade - Promise in the Mining Sect [...]
2007-10-01 12:13:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EMIN EFIN PGOV CH LT
07MEXICO2219UPDATE ON MEXICO IPR ISSUES - SOME ENCOURAGING
[...] (SBU) Mexican officials responded positively to Post's 301 demarche, reflecting a growing sense of commitment to taking IPR infringement more seriously. In recent weeks, President Calderon reiterated his government's determination to combat piracy, the Mexican Senate passed a bill that would g [...]
2007-05-04 21:34:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD PINS MX CH
07MEXICO2858MEXICAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY LOSING JOBS TO CONTRABAND
[...] SUMMARY: According to representatives of the Mexican Textile and Clothing Industries, as well as leaders of various Textile Workers Unions, their segment of the economy has lost some 318,000 jobs since 2000, with another 500,000 jobs currently at risk. Both the industry and the unions attrib [...]
2007-06-04 15:26:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ETRD KTEX PGOV PINR ECON MX CH
07MEXICO306MEXICO'S NEW ECONOMY SECRETARY MEETS WITH
[...] (SBU) Mexico's top trade and industry official wants to deepen North American economic integration and improve the country's investment climate to counter growing competition from China and elsewhere. After a short briefing on the Mexican government's (GOM) approach to dealing with the recent [...]
2007-01-23 14:48:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR ECON BEXP WTRO MX CH
07MEXICO3297JUNE 2007 PRE-CANCUN IPR UPDATE
[...] (SBU) President Calderon's National Development Plan included a paragraph on the importance of IPR protection. Calderon had IPR talking points for his meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the G-8, but told the press he didn't have time to raise the issue. The Chairman of the lower hous [...]
2007-06-22 21:23:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR PINS ECON ETRD MX CH
07MEXICO4246THE LABOR SITUATION OF THE MEXICAN TEXTILE AND
[...] SUMMARY: Beginning on July 31, the Mexico office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) foundation, a German non-profit organization, and the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF) held a two day seminar on the &Future of the Textile Industry in Mexico.8 The se [...]
2007-08-09 18:24:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON ETRD KTEX PGOV PINR CH MX
07MEXICO5323MEXICO REVIEWING ANTIDUMPING DUTIES ON CHINA,
[...] (SBU) Mexican trade officials have begun to review many of the anti-dumping (AD) duties currently in place versus Chinese imports, with an eye to starting reviews of the rest before the December 11 expiration of Mexico's immunity from Chinese WTO litigation. Mexico believes it will be able to [...]
2007-10-04 22:22:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KTEX WTO ELAB MX CH
07MONROVIA282LIBERIA: FEBRUARY 1 VISIT OF CHINESE PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary. Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Liberia for a one-day visit February 1. According to Chinese Embassy Political Counselor Gou Hao Dong, it was the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Liberia since the two countries first established diplomatic relations in 1977. Gou to [...]
2007-03-01 10:37:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL LI CH
07MONROVIA289LIBERIA: US/CHINA DIALOGUE ON AFRICA
[...] (C) In general, Chinese assistance to Liberia tends to be well-publicized one-off contributions of goods, technical assistance, infrastructure, and exchanges, rather than sustained donor engagement in strengthening specific institutions or sectors. Since 2003, China has provided peacekeepers [...]
2007-03-02 13:28:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN PREL CH LI
07MONROVIA469LIBERIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM: SUPPORT BY RADIO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: John Langlois, Senior Media Advisor for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) visited Liberia from February 28 - March 21, 2007. The purpose of his visit was to follow up on OTI media-related activities and to assess OTI's media strategy in light of new Chinese involvem [...]
2007-04-20 17:19:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV SCUL PINR LI PREL CH
07MONTEVIDEO1053MERCOSUR SUMMIT: POLITICAL ATMOSPHERICS IMPROVE,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Presidents from the four Mercosur countries plus Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela met in Montevideo on December 18 at Mercosur%s 34th Common Market Council. Unlike in previous meetings, and contrary to pre-Summit expectations, the gathering was diplomatic and pleasant. Uruguayan Pre [...]
2007-12-19 21:37:00Embassy MontevideoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN ECON ETRD AR BOL BR CH PY VZ XR UY
07MOSCOW1287RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 1
[...] (C) President Hu's upcoming visit to Russia March 26-29 will showcase a thriving bilateral relationship, with the launching of the much-hyped "Year of China" in Russia, a publicity stop at Kazan, and the decision to open another Russian consulate in Guangzhou. Moscow's China experts differ i [...]
2007-03-23 19:47:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1288RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 2
[...] (C) Despite the positive official rhetoric from Moscow and Beijing, Russian fears of a rising China will shape the future of their relationship. Continuing areas of concern to the Russians include the lopsided trade relationship (Russia's raw materials for China's finished products),real an [...]
2007-03-23 19:48:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1291RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 1
[...] (C) President Hu's upcoming visit to Russia March 26-29 will showcase a thriving bilateral relationship, with the launching of the much-hyped "Year of China" in Russia, a publicity stop at Kazan, and the decision to open another Russian consulate in Guangzhou. Moscow's China experts differ i [...]
2007-03-26 02:57:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1292RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 2
[...] (C) Despite the positive official rhetoric from Moscow and Beijing, Russian fears of a rising China will shape the future of their relationship. Continuing areas of concern to the Russians include the lopsided trade relationship (Russia's raw materials for China's finished products),real an [...]
2007-03-26 02:57:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW2693RUSSIA SUPPORTS CLUSTER MUNITIONS DISCUSSION IN
[...] (C) Andrey Malov, Counselor in the Multilateral Disarmament Section of the Foreign Ministry's Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs, told us June 5 that Russia shared the US view that discussion of cluster munitions (CM) should remain in the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). [...]
2007-06-06 14:31:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALMOPS NATO PARM PREL CH PK RS
07MOSCOW3494RUSSIANS ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND CCW
[...] (C) The Russians acknowledge that we have similar positions on cluster munitions and share the aim of keeping their discussion within the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). They also share our aim of trying to coordinate positions on cluster munitions well in advance of the November m [...]
2007-07-17 13:38:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALMOPS NATO PARM PREL CH PK RS
07MOSCOW3797NON-PAPER ON DPRK NUCLEAR PROGRAMS DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-02 12:47:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KNNP KN KS CH JP RS
07MOSCOW3979DPRK NUCLEAR PROGRAMS: GOR REACTION TO NON-PAPER
[...] (C) Grigoriy Berdennikov, the GOR's representative to the Six-Party First Working Group -- Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula -- told us that the GOR, in principle, agrees with reftel non-paper. However, Berdennikov underlined that the paper should serve not as the starting point, but [...]
2007-08-14 16:46:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KNNP KN KS CH JP RS
07MOSCOW3996"PEACE MISSION 2007": SHANGHAI COOPERATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 9-17 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) anti-terrorist exercise -- Peace Mission 2007 -- is the largest in the history of the SCO. Approximately 6,500 troops are participating, the bulk from Russia and China. SCO Heads of State, including Chinese President Hu, ar [...]
2007-08-15 11:34:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PTER RS CH
07MOSCOW4141"PEACE MISSION 2007": SCO MILITARY LINKS GROWING,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Experts told us that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) Peace Mission 2007 anti-terrorist exercises, while deemed a success by many Russians, do not necessarily point to increased integration among SCO member states. The 6,500 soldiers involved in the exercises repor [...]
2007-08-24 02:44:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PTER RS CH
07MOSCOW4533COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CLAYTON HAYS TO ATTEND ECONOMIC
[...] Embassy Moscow requests country clearance for Economic Officer Clayton Hays to attend the China Economic Reporting Officers' Conference in Beijing September 18-19, 2007. 2. Information for Clayton Hays: Date of Birth: March 8, 1971 Passport Number: 900461607 Passport Issuance Date: May [...]
2007-09-14 13:52:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON OTRA AMGT RS CH
07MOSCOW4669(C) RUSSIA ENERGY: EXXONMOBIL OPTIMISTIC ON SAKH 1
[...] (C) ExxonMobil Russia claims to be closing in on a deal to sell China gas from the Sakhalin 1 project it operates. However, Gazprom publicly and privately remains opposed and can block the deal regardless of what ExxonMobil,s contract says. We would not be surprised to see a compromise emerge [...]
2007-09-21 13:14:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ECON PREL RS CH
07MOSCOW522RUSSIA'S SILENT CONCERN OVER CHINESE ASAT TEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Moscow's relatively muted reaction to Beijing's test of an anti-satellite missile last month belies its deep concern about a pending arms race in space. Caught offguard by Beijing's action and unprepared to meet the challenge, Russian officials have publicly downplayed the sign [...]
2007-02-06 15:50:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPARM MCAP PREL RS CH
07MOSCOW5221THE EASTERN FRONT OF RUSSIA'S DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS
[...] (U) This is a joint message from Consulate General Vladivostok and Embassy Moscow. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The population in the Russian Far East (RFE) and Siberia is continuing to decline, due both to a long-term trend of "Western Drift" (internal migration from east to west within Russia) and [...]
2007-10-31 13:19:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SCUL PREL SOCI CH RS
07MOSCOW5429CHINESE PREMIER WEN VISITS MOSCOW; FOCUS ON
[...] (C) Summary. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Moscow November 5-6 to close the "Year of China" in Russia. His visit focused on trade and energy. While the Russian MFA portrayed the visit as a successful expression of flourishing economic relations, the Chinese Embassy cautioned that the agreem [...]
2007-11-16 15:10:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW5899RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary. The pragmatic pursuit of economic growth and political stability, and a determined effort to avoid "interfering" with each other's domestic political developments have brought an improvement in ties between Russia and China. The conclusion of two "national years" created a stro [...]
2007-12-20 15:24:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ENRG CH RS
07NAHA49WEATHER GIVES OKINAWA GOVERNOR OPTION OF SIDE-STEPPING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-16 04:01:00Consulate NahaCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL JA CH TW
07NAIROBI1002China in Kenya: No Appetite for Investment, But a Thirst
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese companies appear to have little appetite for making significant investments in Kenya. One reason: Kenya's investment climate still leaves a lot to be desired. Another: Chinese companies probably figure it's easier to export goods efficiently made in China than it is to [...]
2007-03-02 08:02:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EPET EINV ENRG KE CH
07NAIROBI1009U.S./CHINA DIALOGUE - KENYA RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) In response to ref B, Embassy Nairobi directs Washington to refs A, C, and D. Ref D is a baseline cable on the economic dimensions of the China-Kenya relationship. Refs A and C contain additional new information on the same topic, and in so doing responds to many of the issues raised r [...]
2007-03-02 09:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ENRG EFIN PREL PGOV KE CH
07NAIROBI4246KENYA - DOING BUSINESS THE CHINESE WAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese firms selling into Kenya's information and communications technologies (ICT) sector are throwing a lot of money around, according to industry contacts. Indeed, Chinese influence may be so great that it is distorting important investment decisions in the country. Puttin [...]
2007-10-30 08:13:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EFIN KCOR CH KE
07NAIROBI75Kenya and China: Stronger Economic Ties Driven by Growing
[...] (SBU) Summary: Economic ties between Kenya and China are growing stronger, a trend being driven primarily by greater bilateral trade and, more precisely, by a rapid increase in Chinese exports to Kenya. While trade with China is increasingly important to Kenya, it still accounts for only 3% o [...]
2007-01-05 07:43:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR KE CH
07NASSAU413DELAYS IN BUILDING OF NEW CHINESE EMBASSY AND
[...] (C) During Ambassador Rood's farewell call with Chinese Ambassador Li March 27, Poloff met with Dong Sheng, Cultural and Protocol Officer for the Chinese Embassy to The Bahamas. Asked about plans for a new Chinese embassy building in Nassau, Sheng said that a site had been purchased on Village [...]
2007-03-30 20:52:00Embassy NassauCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR CH BF
07NASSAU523EMBATTLED FOREIGN MINISTER ACCUSED OF CHINESE VISA
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Bahamian Consular Affairs Chief Dorothea Lafleur in a private lunch with Embassy's Consular Chief accused Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell of complicity in pressuring consular officers to issue visas to patently ineligible applicants. She further alleged that Mitchell was involve [...]
2007-04-24 21:35:00Embassy NassauSECRETPGOV PREL KCOR CH BF
07NDJAMENA477CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTER ON REBELS AND PEACEKEEPING
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador June 7, Foreign Minister Allam-Mi said that both Sudan and Chad were adequately abiding by the Riyadh accord's requirement to rein in each other's rebels. Greater calm had prevailed in eastern Chad as a result. Allam-mi hardened his verbiage op [...]
2007-06-07 15:56:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH SU
07NDJAMENA666CHINA'S RETURN TO CHAD: ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a nine-year hiatus, China (PRC) and Chad renewed diplomatic relations in 2006. According to the Chinese Embassy's Economic and Commercial Counselor, China is adhering to all Chinese and Chadian environmental and social laws as it enters the energy and agricultural sectors [...]
2007-08-15 08:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD CH ECON EINV SENV PHUM
07NDJAMENA676CHINA IN CHAD: AN ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mr. Huang Mingyuan, Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Chinese (PRC) Embassy in Chad, provided an overview of the current state of China's activities here. Since reopening its embassy in N'djamena in 2006, China has responded to a variety of needs expressed by the Chad [...]
2007-08-17 10:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD CH ECON ETRD PREL ENRG EPET
07NEWDELHI1248US PARTICIPATION IN AMAN 07 "SURPRISES" AND
[...] (C) PolCouns was summoned to the Ministry of External Affairs by Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar on 12 March for an urgent meeting to discuss the USG's participation in the multinational joint naval exercise "Aman 07." Kumar delivered the non-paper in para. 4 to Polcouns as directed [...]
2007-03-14 12:48:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS CH PK IN
07NEWDELHI1325INDIA FALLING SHORT OF POTENTIAL IN AFRICA,
[...] (C) Summary. Indian strategic thinkers agree that China is leading India in involvement with Africa by almost all economic and political measures. Not only does China have a greater volume of bilateral trade with Africa, but China is also pouring development aid and concessional loans into [...]
2007-03-19 12:53:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR IN CH ECON ENRG EPET EAGR
07NEWDELHI1424BJP MEMBER CLAIMS THE RSS IS ACTIVE IN NEPAL - CORRECTED
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Bharataya Janata Party (BJP) member and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist Seshadiri Chari (PROTECT),claimed March 19 that the RSS is involved with the Madhesi movement in Nepal's southern Terai region. This is the first RSS confirmation Post has had. Chari claimed the [...]
2007-03-23 10:03:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV PINR MOPS KISL NP PK CH IN
07NEWDELHI1971GOI JOINT SECRETARY (EAST ASIA): CHINA BORDER
[...] (C) Summary. In an April 25 discussion, new MEA JS (East Asia) Vijay Gokhale: -- briefed PolCouns on the latest round of India-China border talks, saying little progress was made; -- downplayed the May 1 visit by North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Hyong Jun, stating such a meeting was a [...]
2007-04-25 12:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH KN JA IN
07NEWDELHI2460DELHI DIARY, MAY 18-23
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 18-23, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Crude Bombs in UP Point to Internal Politics -- India Gives the Green Light for Civil Servants to Visit China -- Indian Army Chief Begins [...]
2007-05-23 12:48:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MOPS MARR PHUM BT PK CH IN
07NEWDELHI2664DELHI DIARY, MAY 31-JUNE 6
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 31-June 6, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Mayawati Escapes the Noose -- Bhutan Now Has Four Political Parties -- Bhutan Reaffirms Support for "One China" Policy Mayawati Esc [...]
2007-06-06 11:51:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF KDEM PHUM BT CH TW KS IN
07NEWDELHI2711DEMARCHE ON SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-11 10:32:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS AF CH IN IR MG PK RS ZK
07NEWDELHI2836INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS PART ONE - BUDDING MIL-MIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Army Chief General and Chairman of Staffs Committee (COSC) J.J. Singh led a delegation of army, navy, and air force officers on a five-day visit to China in an effort to expand military relations. Highlights of the visit included: -an agreement to conduct periodic joint [...]
2007-06-19 03:47:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH IN
07NEWDELHI3521INDIAN VIEWS ON CENTRAL ASIA: AIRBASE HOPES AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs Deputy Secretary for Eurasia L. Savithri denied that India was SIPDIS establishing a military base in Ayni, Tajikistan, as had been reported in the press, insisting that the Government of India (GOI) was only involved in a civilian project of runwa [...]
2007-08-03 10:08:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS MOPS MARR KISL SNAR AF KZ CH
07NEWDELHI362INDIAN AND CHINESE OFFICIALS MUM ON BORDER TALKS
[...] SUMMARY: (C) Indian and Chinese officials are adhering to a joint "gag rule" regarding their ninth round of border talks held on 17-18 January, probably exercising understandable caution after Chinese Ambassador Sun Yaxi's brash claims to the state of Arunachal Pradesh cast a pall over Pre [...]
2007-01-23 11:58:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PBTS IN CH
07NEWDELHI3905SCO SUMMIT: INDIA "WATCHING AND WAITING" ON THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Director for Eurasia Sandeep Arya and Under Secretary L. Savithri told PolOff Aug. 23 that the Government SIPDIS of India (GOI) was not interested in seeking full membe [...]
2007-08-27 12:10:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS ENRG MARR CH KZ KG TX TI UZ
07NEWDELHI4493NEPAL ELECTIONS - NOW OR NEVER ACCORDING TO THE MEA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Nepal and Bhutan Preeti Saran told PolCouns October 3 that it would be difficult for the Government of Nepal to switch to a proportional representation system now, as the Maoists are demanding, but that the Interim Parliament might [...]
2007-10-04 10:49:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS NP CH IN
07NEWDELHI4758DELHI DIARY, OCT 23-26
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for October 23-26, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India, China and Russia Jointly Oppose Further Burma Sanctions -- Bhutanese Election Dates Announced India, China and Russia Jointl [...]
2007-10-26 11:50:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ENRG MARR CH RS BT BM IN
07NEWDELHI4767MEA INSISTS INDIAN POLICY ON U.S.-LED MISSILE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the October 24 trilateral meeting in Harbin, China, reporters asked Indian Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee if India was going to join a U.S.-led missile defense system. Mukherjee dismissed the idea as "groundless." Despite press reports here signaling an [...]
2007-10-29 01:07:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MCAP MARR IN RS CH
07NEWDELHI4989DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 3-15
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi, in coordination with Consulate Chennai, for November 3-15, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Indo-Japan Relations Expected to Continue Positive Trend, But On Hold While Fukuda Gets Settl [...]
2007-11-15 12:16:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CH JA IN
07NEWDELHI5047DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 16-21
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for November 16-21, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Concerns about Negotiating with the Taliban -- PM Singh Uses ASEAN to Urge Burma to Expedite the Reconciliation Process -- Three [...]
2007-11-21 09:41:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR IR PK AF CH SN KS JP
07NEWDELHI5157DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 22-30
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for November 22-30,2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India Freezes Arms sales to Burma -- India votes against the UN's draft resolution on Burma -- PM Singh to Visit China -- Indian is Fi [...]
2007-11-30 13:50:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER SENV ECON CH BM IN
07NEWDELHI5334DALAI LAMA OUTFLANKS PRC ON SUCCESSION
[...] (C) SUMARY: In response to China's State Administration of Religious Affairs' August 2007 decree declaring that tulkas (living Buddhas) must be approved by the state, the Dalai Lama announced on November 28 that he may call for a public referendum to decide the fate of the institution of the [...]
2007-12-17 12:29:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CH IN
07NEWDELHI5380DELHI DIARY, DEC 17-21
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for Decemebr 17-21, 2007, that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Court Orders Reopening Riots Case Against Congress Leader Jagdish Tytler -- Rajasthan Gujjars Threaten Warpath Again -- India-China [...]
2007-12-20 12:39:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALKIRF CVIS PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM SOCI NP VM CH
07NEWDELHI816INDIA, RUSSIA, AND CHINA TRILATERAL MEETING
[...] (C) Summary. In their seventh trilateral meeting, the foreign ministers of India, Russia, and China discussed substantive issues including cooperation on terrorism, crime, trade, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and UN reform. Deliverables were few; however, the meetings have served to institutional [...]
2007-02-16 12:22:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS CH IN
07NEWDELHI916WITH AN EYE ON CHINA, JAPAN AND INDIA KICK OFF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The governments of India and Japan are hoping to commence a new economic partnership with round one of negotiations on the Japan-India Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA),followed by the visit of a high-level Japanese business delegation to India. The Economic Minister of the [...]
2007-02-23 12:35:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ECIN EINV JP CH IN
07NIAMEY1359A BRIDGE FROM CHINA TO NIGER
[...] Summary. The November 5, 2007 groundbreaking and laying of the first stone for a long-awaited second bridge in the capital city of Niamey symbolizes an increasingly closer relationship between two friends, the Republic of Niger (RON) and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Exchanges between [...]
2007-11-08 15:40:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ENRG EPET SOCI NG CH
07NICOSIA435CYPRUS TO SUPPORT PRC RESOLUTION AT OIE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-21 04:24:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAGR AORG TW CH CY
07OTTAWA213CANADIAN GOVERNMENT INCREASINGLY FOCUSED ON CHINA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and International Trade Minister David Emerson recently returned to Canada from separate, overlapping trade and economic trips to China. Both trips were described in the press and by government officials in positive terms. Excluding an ag [...]
2007-02-05 22:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD CA CH
07PANAMA279DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO PANAMA: NEXT STEPS ON BURMA
[...] (SBU) POLCHIEF delivered reftel demarche to Panamanian MFA Senior Advisor Nils Castro on February 26. Castro, who heads the MFA's UNSC team, said that it was important to sustain the international focus on the situation in Burma and agreed full-heartedly with efforts to address the situation i [...]
2007-02-26 16:13:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM UNSC BM CH EUN IN KS RS PM
07PARAMARIBO165CHINESE HIGH OFFICIAL VISITS: POPULAR WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, arrived in Suriname on March 27 for a two-day visit. In a striking display of warm relations by the government of Suriname (GOS),Li was met by Vice Presi [...]
2007-04-03 18:06:00Embassy ParamariboCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV NS CH ECON
07PARAMARIBO297TAIWAN STRIKES AT CHINA IN SURINAME
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Responding to a charm-and-funding offensive (ref A) by the government of the People,s Republic of China (GOC),the Government of Taiwan (GOT) offered more than U.S. $100 million in loans and grant assistance to Suriname through a "Friendship Foundation" in April. Select governm [...]
2007-06-12 11:32:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV NS CH TW
07PARAMARIBO315CHINA/TAIWAN: MUZZLING THE FREE MEDIA IN SURINAME
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Government of Suriname (GOS) Vice President Ramdien Sardjoe "requested" that a local news show leave out parts of its programming dealing with the China-Taiwan controversy as debate raged in May as to whether China or Taiwan would be the better partner for Suriname. Local and r [...]
2007-06-21 18:22:00Embassy ParamariboCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV NS CH TW PHUM
07PARAMARIBO346GOING TO TAIWAN: SURINAMESE PARLIMENTARY VISIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the latest attempt by the Government of Taiwan (GOT) to butter up the Surinamese for eventual diplomatic recognition (ref A),several parliamentarians from the Government of Suriname (GOS) were invited to Taiwan for a "familiarization" visit. The Deputy Speaker of Parliamen [...]
2007-07-06 19:12:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV NS CH TW
07PARAMARIBO441TAIWAN AID PROPOSAL "IN THE GARBAGE?"
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Surinamese delegation including four parliamentarians traveled to Taiwan from July 16-20 on their "personal title," and returned to Suriname with an "official" offer of aid from the government of Taiwan (GOT). However, the government of Suriname (GOS) has never acknowledged [...]
2007-08-20 18:58:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV NS CH TW
07PARAMARIBO460SURINAME AND CHINA SLOW DANCE--BUT NOT TOO CLOSELY
[...] SUMMARY (C) Despite mutual commitment of Suriname and China to their bilateral relationship, progress in achieving tangible results is slow. China's hopes of tapping into Suriname's riches have been tempered by bureaucratic processes, ill-conceived projects, environmental concerns, and publ [...]
2007-08-28 19:53:00Embassy ParamariboCONFIDENTIALSENV CH NS
07PARAMARIBO610CHINESE UNPOPULAR WITH SURINAME PRESS: "CHINESE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Surinamese media is severely biased against Chinese immigrants to Suriname, Chinese products, and China as a political presence. Privately editors and journalists commented bluntly, "I don't like the Chinese." The newspapers are to a degree beholden to the Chinese, howeve [...]
2007-11-29 19:14:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV NS CH TW
07PARAMARIBO624CHINA UNPOPULAR WITH THE SURINAMESE PUBLIC: "DIRTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Surinamese public is biased against recent immigrants from China. These "new Chinese" are accused of entering Suriname illegally, and receiving preferential treatment in obtaining residency permits and business licenses. Their economic competition is feared, and viewed by [...]
2007-12-04 20:23:00Embassy ParamariboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH NS
07PARIS1707FRANCE DRAWS FIRE FOR HONORING CHINESE CENSOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French MFA defended its decision to award the Legion of Honor to Long Xinmin, former head of the Chinese agency that controls and censors the press, against complaints from a French NGO and the media that such an honor compromises France's stated commitment to freedom of the p [...]
2007-04-27 16:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL CH FR
07PARIS2136FRANCE ON CHINA/TAIWAN OIE DISPUTE: POSTPONEMENT
[...] (U) POL Deputy delivered ref A demarche May 23 to MFA Bureau of International Organizations Affairs PDAS-equivalent Marc Giacomini, stressing the U.S. preference for delaying a vote on a China-sponsored resolution pending negotiation between China and Taiwan of a mutually acceptable solution [...]
2007-05-23 15:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAGR AORG TW CH FR EUN
07PARIS3737GYMNICH: FRENCH VIEWS GENERALLY IN STEP WITH U.S.
[...] (C) On September 6, PolOff delivered ref A demarche to MFA CFSP Deputy Emmanuel Cohet, who indicated general agreement between U.S. views and French positions in advance of the informal Gymnich meeting of EU foreign ministers. Approaches converge most on Kosovo and Iran. Cohet said France vie [...]
2007-09-10 05:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEUN PGOV PREL RS YI CH FR
07PARIS3738GYMNICH: FRENCH VIEWS GENERALLY IN STEP WITH U.S.
[...] (C) On September 6, PolOff delivered ref A demarche to MFA CFSP Deputy Emmanuel Cohet, who indicated general agreement between U.S. views and French positions in advance of the informal Gymnich meeting of EU foreign ministers. Approaches converge most on Kosovo and Iran. Cohet said France vie [...]
2007-09-10 05:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEUN PGOV PREL RS YI CH FR
07PARIS4516GAERC DEMARCHE: FRENCH RESPONSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 15, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to MFA CFSP Deputy (DAS-equivalent) Emmanuel Cohet, who provided the following responses in advance of the November 19-20 GAERC meeting of EU foreign ministers: A. EU-CHINA SUMMIT: The GOF agrees with the USG position on worki [...]
2007-11-16 15:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN BK BM CH IR IS IZ KV LE PK
07PARIS4637SARKOZY RACKS UP SALES, BOLSTERS ROLE FOR ACTIVIST
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a November 25-27 visit to China French President Sarkozy highlighted to Chinese leaders the global responsibilities that come with being a global power, according to the MFA. Using this broad theme, Sarkozy addressed economic, political and environmental issues while at t [...]
2007-12-04 18:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETRD SENV EFIN FR CH TW
07PARIS4750FRENCH PRESIDENCY STRATEGIC ADVISER RICHIER
[...] (C) We passed reftel points to French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf States Franck Gellet on December 13. PolMinCouns and poloff also passed these points on December 13 to French Presidency strategic affairs adviser Francois Richier. Richier commented that the points were [...]
2007-12-20 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNUP FR IR EU RU CH
07PARIS542GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMABT NUCLEAR TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche about plans for outreach regarding the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism to MFA Arms Control Department official Philippe Errera on February 9. Russian interlocutors were unavailable to deliver the demarche jointly. GoF officials provided no res [...]
2007-02-09 16:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KGIC MCAP PTER KNNP RU CH
07PARIS661FRANCE READY TO PUSH FOR SPECIAL ENVOY BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French MFA maintains its longstanding position that the international community should pressure Burma to move toward democracy and a respect for human rights, but MFA desk officers Benoit Guidee and Jeremie Petit were skeptical, following the UNSC resolution's failure, that ac [...]
2007-02-21 14:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM CH FR
07PARIS688JAPAN/AFRICA: JAPANESE EMBOFF DISCUSSES WEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chie Kinumaki, an Africa Watcher at Japan's Embassy in Paris, on February 21 discussed efforts to assist 30 Japanese nationals in leaving Guinea; the impasse in Cote d'Ivoire; concerns about China's lack of interest in promoting democracy, human rights, and sound business pract [...]
2007-02-23 09:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR CONS ASEC XY GV IV CH JA FR
07PHNOMPENH1189 DAMMING THE MEKONG: HYDROPOWER'S HIGH PRICE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Existing and planned hydropower projects along the world's eighth largest river reflect the development dilemma of cheaper, low-polluting power vs. healthy fisheries and the interests of downstream communities. Villagers along eastern Mekong tributaries in Cambodia complained [...]
2007-09-17 10:12:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ENRG EIND SENV VM LA CH CB
07PHNOMPENH1575 INVESTOR INTEREST IN CAMBODIA SURGES DESPITE CHALLENGES
[...] (U) Summary: A dramatic surge in investor interest in Cambodia was evident during a recent investment conference held in Phnom Penh. Presenters emphasized a realistic view of Cambodia--a country with tremendous business opportunities, but where operating challenges such as corruption, poor in [...]
2007-12-31 10:42:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD KCOR EAGR EAID CB CH
07PHNOMPENH926ENCOURAGING CHINESE ENGAGEMENT WITH CAMBODIA'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: China's economic influence in Cambodia is immense and growing. Already Cambodia's largest donor and foreign investor, China's aid comes with no overt conditions and often serves to build infrastructure used to shi [...]
2007-07-10 07:05:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL ECON PGOV CB CH
07PORTAUPRINCE37GOH OFFICIALS: DO NOT WORRY ABOUT MANDATE RENEWAL;
[...] (C) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Jean Raynald Clerisme January 9 (the day President Rene Preval departed for Nicaragua) to discuss the Haiti/Taiwan/China issue, which threatens to affect the renewal of MINUSTAH's UNSC mandate in February. Citing her previous conversations with Chine [...]
2007-01-10 19:52:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KPKO HA CH
07PORTAUPRINCE52PREVAL-TAIWAN RELATIONSHIP: THE LOVE CONNECTION
[...] (C) Summary: The personal relationship between Preval and the Taiwanese started during Preval's first presidency from 1996-2001, with agricultural projects in Marmalade, Preval's hometown. The foreign ministry's director of political affairs Weiner Jean Baptiste told Poloff January 11 that th [...]
2007-01-12 19:33:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KPKO HA CH
07PRAGUE1027CZECH COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF EU FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) In a meeting with Pol-Econ Counselor Sept 5 to discuss the upcoming Gymnich meeting, Vaclav Balek, Director of the Czech MFA's Common Foreign Security Policy Department offered the following assessment of Czech views and goals for the meeting: Russia and the Portuguese EU Presidency --- [...]
2007-09-06 15:19:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALCH EUN EZ IN PGOV PREL RS
07PRETORIA554SOUTH AFRICA/CHINA TRADE IS BOOMING
[...] (U) Summary: China continues to expand its economic ties with South Africa. South Africa/China trade has more than doubled since 2003, and China is today South Africa's fourth largest trading partner. South Africa is one of the few mineral-rich African countries that runs a trade deficit wit [...]
2007-02-14 13:21:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EFIN PREL CH SF
07PRETORIA569SA STRUGGLES TO FORM TRADE AGENDA WITH CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: South Africa has not devised a comprehensive strategy to promote and govern trade with China, despite a booming bilateral trade relationship. SAG policy on China trade tends to be reactive and ad hoc, and framed in response to "emergencies" such as surges of Chinese textile impor [...]
2007-02-16 04:52:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EFIN PREL CH SF
07RANGOON105BURMA XXXXXXXXXXXX REPORT SENSITIVE SHIPMENT
[...] (S) Summary: Embassy contacts XXXXXXXXXXXX shared with us on XXXXXXXXXXXX documents for 112 metric tons of "mixed ore" shipped on January 25 from Burma to China via Singapore. XXXXXXXXXXXX noticed that authorities treated the shipment as highly sensitive, and suspect it may have included uranium. O [...]
2007-01-30 10:23:00Embassy RangoonSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MNUC BM CH
07RANGOON135INDIA'S RELATIONS WITH BURMA'S MILITARY REGIME
[...] (C) Summary: In the interest of national security and economic growth, India has taken what it views as a practical and realistic approach in its relations with Burma's military regime. Number 2 General Maung Aye is their main interlocutor, although he has expressed frustration with the slow [...]
2007-02-08 10:30:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM PINR CH IN KS
07RANGOON166PREPARING FOR CHANGE IN BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: China's Ambassador to Burma provided a readout of Gen. Thura Shwe Mann's recent visit to China as well as senior military plans to move forward on its Seven Point Roadmap. He said Burma's number three general was most interested in ideas to get the Burmese economy moving. The C [...]
2007-02-20 06:22:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM CH
07RIGA661GYMNICH POINTS DELIVERED TO LATVIA'S MFA
[...] PolEconOff delivered reftel talking points on September 5 to Anda Orchard, Deputy Director, EU Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Orchard did not have any substantive response, but said that she would forward the points to Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and to the MFA's Politi [...]
2007-09-06 07:30:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV YI RS CH IN LG
07ROME1106OIE CHINA/TAIWAN: ITALY SUPPORTS EU POSITION TO
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Office Director for East Asia Giuseppe Mistretta May 21, emphasizing the need to work for consensus and delay a vote on the PRC resolution in the absence of consensus. May 22, Mistretta responded that Italy fully supported the EU position: --The World [...]
2007-05-23 14:40:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL EAGR AORG TW CH IT
07ROME140ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT WITH CHINA
[...] (U) Trade and investment between Italy and China will reach record levels in 2006, likely surpassing 2005's 18.7 billion euro in trade. The countries made a concerted effort to increase bilateral trade and investment in 2006, including the largest-ever Italian trade delegation to China and c [...]
2007-01-23 12:23:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV ETRD CH IT
07ROME20722006 ITALIAN TEXTILES AND APPAREL PRODUCTION DATA
[...] (U) Italy is the EU's largest manufacturer of textiles and apparel, accounting for almost a quarter of total EU textiles and apparel production. Italian industrial production in fiscal year 2006 was valued at 345.1 billion dollars. Textiles and apparel production made up 22.4 billion doll [...]
2007-09-25 16:33:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTEX CH IT
07ROME2487ITALIAN EMBASSY IN TEHRAN TO INQUIRE ABOUT MISSING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-18 17:49:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALAS CA CASC CH EU EZ PHUM PREL IR IT
07ROME318ITALY: ETHIOPIA-ERITREA AT AN IMPASSE, REGIONAL
[...] (C) Poloff met with Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli and Ethiopia-Eritrea Desk Officer Alberto La Bella February 9 to discuss the role the GOI intends to play in the Ethiopia-Eritrea boundary dispute, as per Ref A. Pignatelli and La Bella reported that Italy sees the situatio [...]
2007-02-15 10:19:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ER ET AF AL AU BE CH EU JA NO
07SANJOSE132CHINESE ALIEN SMUGGLING RING SMASHED IN COSTA RICA
[...] SUMMARY: In a powerful display of honesty and courage, Costa Rican Immigration Director Mario Zamora refused a USD 2.5 million bribe from Chinese alien smugglers and instead assisted in a sting operation which caught the ringleader and six others on January 12, 2007. Most of the arrested are [...]
2007-01-24 22:34:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM SMIG KJUS KFRD CVIS PINR CS CH
07SANJOSE868MORE CHINESE MIGRANTS RESCUED IN COSTA RICAN WATERS
[...] (SBU) On April 21, the Costa Rica Coast Guard (SNGC) again rescued a large number of Chinese migrants adrift in Costa Rican territorial waters. Three Ecuadorians and two Peruvians were also apprehended, and charged with human trafficking under Costa Rica,s new immigration law. The governmen [...]
2007-05-09 16:59:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PREL KCRM CO CH CS
07SANTIAGO95MEDIA REACTION -EAST ASIA: CHINA, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-18 16:30:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI CH
07SANTODOMINGO1692REQUEST FOR 212(F) VISA REVOCATION FOR CORRUPT DOMINICAN CONSUL IN HONG KONG
[...] (SBU) This is an advisory opinion requesting the revocation of the B1/B2 nonimmigrant visas issued to Casilda Teonilde CASADO DE CHEUNG; her husband, Pak Shing CHEUNG; her brother, Roger CASADO ALCANTARA; and her children, Yin Mey, Yin Ney, Sheung Leung, and Jean Ney CHEUNG CASADO, under the Presid [...]
2007-07-13 11:01:00Embassy Santo DomingoSECRETCVIS OPRC PHUM KCRM KCOR CH DR
07SANTODOMINGO733SENIOR DOMINICAN OFFICIALS IMPLICATED IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: High-level officials in the Dominican Ministries of Foreign Relations and Migration use their positions to facilitate human trafficking and alien smuggling schemes, according to media reports, DHS investigations and Embassy contacts. Those implicated include the Assistant Secreta [...]
2007-03-30 23:06:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALCVIS PGOV PHUM SMIG KCOR KCRM CH DR HA HK
07SAOPAULO718DESPITE CHALLENGES, PRC,S INTEREST AND INFLUENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-22 18:29:00Consulate Sao PauloCONFIDENTIALPREL SENV ETRD EINV ECON PGOV EMIN KNNP BR CH
07SECTION02OF03EIJING483U/S HUGHES URGES INCREASED EXCHANGES, MEDIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-22 12:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SCUL PHUM KOLY KPAO KIRF CH
07SEOUL1211THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (1 OF 3)
[...] (C) SUMMARY OF CABLE SERIES: This report, the first in a series of three on the U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) Alliance, examines South Korean perceptions of their security environment. The second looks at what role the ROK sees for the Alliance in its security. The final report addresses how [...]
2007-04-26 07:20:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA
07SEOUL1215THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (2 OF 3)
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the second in a series of cables on the politics of U.S.-ROK Alliance relations. Reftel A explored how the ROK perceives its security environment, concluding that the Korean public and their policy makers are heavily conflicted when it comes to relations with their neig [...]
2007-04-26 07:54:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA
07SEOUL1216THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (3 OF 3)
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the third and final cable in a series reporting on the politics of U.S.-ROK Alliance relations. Reftel A explored how the Republic of Korea views its security environment. Reftel B looked at how the U.S.-ROK Alliance fits with ROK security perspectives. This final rep [...]
2007-04-26 08:19:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA
07SEOUL136AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH FORMER PRESIDENT KIM
[...] (C) Summary: On January 16, Ambassador and Mrs. Vershbow hosted former President Kim Dae-jung and his wife Lee Hee-Ho to lunch at the Ambassador's Residence. While professing to avoid interfering in politics, the 83-year old Kim -- who said his health had improved recently -- offered his vie [...]
2007-01-17 07:04:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MNUC ETRD ECON KS KN CH
07SEOUL1463ROK-JAPAN-CHINA TO HOLD DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 15, MOFAT's Asian and Pacific Affairs Deputy Director-General, Cho Yong-chun, told POL M/C that China will host a Deputy Foreign Minister trilateral with ROK and Japanese counterparts on May 19 in Beijing. Cho said this meeting, the first Foreign Ministry senior officials [...]
2007-05-15 09:02:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KS CH JA
07SEOUL1546ROK HOPES FOR CHINA-TAWAIN CONSENSUS AT OIE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-21 05:22:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAGR AORG KS CH TW
07SEOUL169ROKG DEMARCHES CHINESE EMBASSY ON ASAT TEST
[...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On January 19, Park Chul-min, Director of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) provided poloff with the ROKG response to the Ambassador's January 14 demarche regarding China's anti-satelli [...]
2007-01-19 08:17:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS MARR MNUC PARM PREL CH
07SEOUL1740ROK-JAPAN-PRC TRILATERAL BARELY MENTIONS DPRK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The June 3 trilateral foreign ministers' meeting focused on efforts to increase trilateral economic and civic cooperation, but glossed over security issues in Northeast Asia (including North Korea) and other regions, MOFAT contacts told poloffs on June 5. The host-ROK agenda had [...]
2007-06-07 08:54:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ENRG KS JA CH
07SEOUL2044DPRK DEFECTOR FILES: THE UNTAPPED SOURCE
[...] (S) The USG possesses an enormous trove of information about the DPRK that has been almost entirely untapped. The files contain over 9,180 Korean-language debriefs, spanning 1997 to the present, of North Korean citizens who escaped from the DPRK and were accepted by the ROKG for resettlement [...]
2007-07-09 07:53:00Embassy SeoulSECRETCH ECON ELAB KDEM KIRF KN KS KWMN PGOV PHUM
07SEOUL210ASAT: CHINESE RESPONSE TO ROK DEMARCHE
[...] (C) In response to the ROKG's demarche objecting to China's anti-satellite test (Ref A),the Chinese Foreign Ministry contacted the ROK Embassy in Beijing to convey the following points: -- China confirms that it had conducted a test in space on January 11; -- The test was not aimed at [...]
2007-01-23 05:41:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC MARR KS CH
07SEOUL221POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 3: CHINA AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: S/P Krasner discussed China, India and East Asian architecture with ROK Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations Park In-kook and Japanese Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy Masaharu Kono during U.S.-Japan-ROK Trilateral Policy Planning Talks on J [...]
2007-01-23 08:30:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMNUC PREL PARM CH IN
07SEOUL2271(S) ROKG NEXT STEPS ON SEIZED SYRIA-BOUND STEEL
[...] (S) On July 27, poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Kim said that the ROKG, through the ROK Embassy in Beijing, had requested that the Chinese government investigate t [...]
2007-07-27 08:30:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC KS SY CH
07SEOUL2675(S) ROKG PLANS TO ALLOW SYRIA-BOUND STEEL
[...] (S) On August 31, Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, informed poloff that the ROKG had decided to allow the transshipment of Syria-bound steel that had been seized by ROK authorities in June. Kim said that the [...]
2007-09-04 08:09:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC KS SY CH
07SEOUL3256PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MOON KUK-HYUN FOCUSES ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 1 independent presidential candidate Moon Kuk-hyun outlined his platform during breakfast with the Ambassador. Moon's support rate has been hovering just below 10 percent, but he is still optimistic these rates will reach 20 percent by the end of November. Moon's ove [...]
2007-11-05 01:39:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALCH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3269CANDIDATE RHEE IN-JAE: STILL RUNNING
[...] (C) Summary: Over a November 2 lunch with the Ambassador, Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Rhee In-jae explained that if he were elected president, U.S.-ROK relations would improve, he would institute policies that encouraged reform in North Korea, and he would create many quality [...]
2007-11-06 07:43:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALCH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3285THE LEE HOI-CHANG EFFECT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Conservative Lee Hoi-chang's November 7 entry into the 2007 presidential race changes the election dynamics. What many clearly saw as the inevitable landslide win of Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak has been cast into doubt. Simply put, the majority of votes for [...]
2007-11-08 06:29:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL RS CH KN KS
07SEOUL3331CANDIDATES OFFER NO GOOD SOLUTION TO EDUCATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Education, more specifically the need to get one's child into college, is of great concern to South Korean parents, who spend more than four times the OECD average on education, most of which goes toward private tutoring. The cost and stress of this system make educational reform [...]
2007-11-16 06:46:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL CH KN KS RS
07SEOUL3408NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SAVES TOUGH ISSUES FOR FUTURE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the National Assembly (NA) session, which ended on November 23, Korea's parliament approved several controversial bills, but left the KORUS FTA and the Iraq troop deployment extension for later sessions. Possibly the most controversial of the bills passed was a proposal -- ve [...]
2007-11-28 05:50:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALCH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3410UNDP CHUNG DONG-YOUNG'S CAMP FACING UPHILL BATTLE
[...] (C) Summary: In designing his campaign leadership team and strategies, United New Democratic Party (UNDP) candidate Chung Dong-young has tried to integrate creative new outreach programs to directly involve the public. Chung's advisors are mainly former staff members from Chung's days in th [...]
2007-11-28 06:38:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALCH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3428DPRK ECONOMY: THE CHINESE "GRAB" FOR MINERAL
[...] (C) Generating significant press 'buzz' between the North/South Prime Ministerial and Defense Ministers meetings this November, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) recently issued a report urging the ROKG to adopt new policies promoting natural resource development in the DPRK. [...]
2007-11-30 08:39:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALECON EMIN ETRD PREL PGOV KN KS CH
07SEOUL3465REGIONALISM ALIVE AND KICKING IN SWING PROVINCE OF
[...] (C) Summary: Insistence among pundits in Seoul that regionalism is declining falls on deaf ears in the swing provinces of the Chungcheong region. The region is divided into two provinces, North and South Chungcheong, in which Daejeon, with its population of about 1.5 million people, is the l [...]
2007-12-05 07:28:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL RS CH KN KS
07SEOUL382EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S CONSULTATIONS ON CHINA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Christensen met with ROKG officials and academics January 26-27 to discuss North Korean asylum seekers, Six Party Talks (6PT),and China. The DAS told his ROKG interlocutors that the USG appreciated Seoul's cooperation with efforts to resett [...]
2007-02-08 04:56:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MNUC PREF KS KN CH
07SHANGHAI101PRE-PARTY CONGRESS INFIGHTING OVER PERSONNEL INTENSIFIES
[...] (S) Summary. According to multiple East China contacts, the central party leadership was increasingly split over personnel issues and would only become more fractured with the approach of the 2007 Party Congress. Vice President Zeng Qinghong was trying to work out a compromise that would all [...]
2007-02-14 07:22:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI102KUNSHAN'S TAIWAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY
[...] (C) Summary: Taiwan business people (Taishang) appeared to be thriving during a February 6 visit by Congenoffs to the Taiwan enclave of Kunshan, located 50 kilometers west of Shanghai. Although some local governments in China were corrupt, the Kunshan government had been very supportive of T [...]
2007-02-14 08:22:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALEINV PGOV ELAB ECON EFIN CH TW
07SHANGHAI105CAN 300 MILLION CHINESE BELIEVERS BE WRONG?
[...] (C) Summary: One of the authors of a new government-sponsored survey on spirituality in China downplayed the reported findings that the number of religious believers in China could be as high as 300 million. Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Vice President Tong Shijun told Poloff in [...]
2007-02-15 04:13:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI110POLICY PLANNING STAFFER GREEN SHANGHAI MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary: During his meetings with Shanghai Academics on January 17, Policy Planning Staffer James Green engaged academics on East Asian security issues, including North Korea and Taiwan. Academics were pessimistic that there would be any progress on North Korea in the near future. Academ [...]
2007-02-16 05:23:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH KN TW
07SHANGHAI117IPR ATTACHI ENGAGES SHANGHAI CULTURAL TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 19, Senior IPR Attachi Mark Cohen met with the Director of Shanghai Culture Task Force (SCTF) Zhou Jianmin to discuss Shanghai's efforts on copyright enforcement. Cohen engaged Zhou on SCTF's authority over copyright infringement matters vis-`-vis the Shanghai Copyri [...]
2007-02-16 10:11:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR EFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI133SHANGHAI STOCK MARKET DECLINES: DID THE BUBBLE POP?
[...] (SBU) Summary: The 8.8 percent fall in the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) composite index on February 27 that stunned international markets was a much-needed and overdue correction according to Consulate contacts. Market volatility, speculative retail investors, profit-taking by institutional i [...]
2007-02-28 08:42:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI141CONTACTS DISCUSS RECENT SHANGHAI PERSONNEL MOVES
[...] (C) Summary: According to one contact, more than half of Shanghai's vice mayors have been or are rumored to soon be removed and several high-level officials have been reshuffled in a bid to pave the way for an outsider to come to Shanghai in one of the top leadership positions. At least one [...]
2007-03-07 08:43:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI142CORRECTED COPY--CONTACTS DISCUSS RECENT SHANGHAI PERSONNEL
[...] (C) Summary: According to one contact, more than half of Shanghai's vice mayors have been or are rumored to soon be removed and several high-level officials have been reshuffled in a bid to pave the way for an outsider to come to Shanghai in one of the top leadership positions. At least one [...]
2007-03-07 09:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI155SHANGHAI LEGAL EXPERTS ON LUO GAN SPEECH
[...] (C) Summary: Three of Shanghai legal experts said they were not surprised by Politburo Standing Committee member Luo Gan's abrasive rule of law speech published in a Party journal on February 2 (reftel). In the speech, Luo talked about the need to guard against "unfavorable" Western influence [...]
2007-03-16 05:44:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI158SHANGHAI THINK TANK ON CROSS-STRAITS RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary. During a March 21 lunch with DPO, Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) Director Zhang Nianchi said Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian now frequently crossed the Mainland's "red lines" without penalty, making cross-strait relations more dangerou [...]
2007-03-22 09:00:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI161CITIBANK'S STANLEY ON GDB AND CHINA BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 8 meeting with Beijing Financial Attache David Loevinger, Treasury Asia DAS Robert Dohner, Asia Director Mathew Haarsager and Congenoffs, Citigroup China CEO Richard Stanley expressed great appreciation for USG support which facilitated its December acquisition of [...]
2007-03-23 08:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI163XI JINPING TAKES THE REINS IN SHANGHAI
[...] (C) Summary. After months of speculation and waiting, Xi Jinping was named the new Shanghai Party Secretary on March 24. One contact assessed that Xi's transfer would also likely entail a position on the Politburo at the upcoming 17th Party Congress. Xi, a princeling with broad connections, [...]
2007-03-25 09:44:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON EINV CH
07SHANGHAI166SHANGHAI RELIGIOUS CONTACTS DISCUSS NGOS, THEOLOGICAL
[...] (C) Summary: During her February 26-27 visit to Shanghai, DRL/IRF Officer Emilie Kao explored ways to expand religious freedom in China with academics, officials from the Communist Party-approved China Christian Council/Three Self Patriotic Movement (CCC/TSPM),Shanghai YMCA leaders, a represe [...]
2007-03-26 03:31:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI167FORMER DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK SHANGHAI VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick delivered a well-received speech at the third annual Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture in Shanghai on March 21. Zoellick called for China to play a more cooperative role on Korea, Iran, Sudan and energy security. The text of the speech [...]
2007-03-26 08:42:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CH
07SHANGHAI174SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE EVP ON CAPITAL MARKET REFORMS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 8 meeting with Beijing Financial Attache David Loevinger, Treasury DAS Robert Dohner, Asia Office Director Mathew Haarsager and Congenoffs, Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Executive Vice President Liu Xiaodong (aka James Liu) shared his views on necessary reforms to Chi [...]
2007-03-28 03:30:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI177LOCAL REACTIONS TO XI JINPING'S APPOINTMENT AS SHANGHAI
[...] (C) Summary. The appointment of Xi Jingping as Party Secretary has been heralded in the Shanghai official media, but SIPDIS business and academic contacts are taking a "wait and see" attitude. Official newspapers and internet postings have emphasized Xi's coastal experience and "rich socia [...]
2007-03-29 02:58:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI178JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONS BACK ON TRACK IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to Japanese contacts in Shanghai, Japanese Prime Minister Abe's October 2006 breakthrough visit to Beijing has dramatically improved the climate for Japanese investment in Shanghai, as well as led to an overall increase in cultural exchanges. The number of Japanese Ch [...]
2007-03-29 05:38:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PREL CH JA
07SHANGHAI181EAST CHINA STUDENT LEADERS HOPEFUL ABOUT THE FUTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Recent discussions with East China student leaders as part of the selection process for a USG-funded student leadership institute indicated that many students were satisfied with Chinese government policies and goals and optimistic that China would continue to develop economica [...]
2007-03-30 06:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR SOCI CH
07SHANGHAI193LABOR COMPLAINT: A VISIT TO KAISI HARDWARE IN SOUTH CHINA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kaisi Hardware Company Ltd., one of China's largest furniture parts manufacturers and exporters appears to be addressing problems - including underpaying workers and providing poor working conditions - documented in a February report by the New York-based National Labor Committee [...]
2007-04-05 09:52:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI195FUZHOU ACADEMIC SEES DPP PUSHING INDEPENDENCE BUTTON IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A renowned scholar of Taiwan believes that the upcoming presidential election will see Chen Shui-bian and other Democratic Progress Party (DPP) candidates continue to advocate independence and consciously stir up ethnic confrontation on the island during their campaigns. Voters i [...]
2007-04-06 02:23:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH
07SHANGHAI211SHANGHAI'S FUTURE AS LEADING FINANCIAL CENTER
[...] (C) Summary: During a March 23 meeting with the Consul General and Econoff, Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) CEO Yang Maijun and Shanghai Office for Financial Services Deputy Director-General Fang Xinghai said Shanghai's role as China's leading financial center was secure; Hong Kong and Tianjin [...]
2007-04-11 08:28:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON CH
07SHANGHAI213EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON LEADERSHIP GOSSIP
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping, Jiangsu Party Secretary Li Yuanchao, Liaoning Party Secretary Li Keiqang, and Trade Minister Bo Xilai are emerging as the public face of the Fifth Generation of the Chinese leadership. Two East China contacts believed that of the four, Li Yua [...]
2007-04-16 07:45:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI214SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON CHINA-VATICAN TIES
[...] (C) Summary: During a Consul General hosted lunch on April 13, Shanghai Bishop Jin said that Catholics in China were anxiously awaiting the Pope's letter (ref A). He hoped that the letter would not be too strident as this would lead to a strong reaction from Beijing and push the Vatican-China [...]
2007-04-16 07:48:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KIRF CH VT
07SHANGHAI215ZHEJIANG COURT BROADCASTS TRIAL ONLINE
[...] (SBU) In a move to increase transparency in its judicial system, the Zhejiang High Court carried a simulcast of the proceedings of a commercial dispute trial on its website on April 12. According to Zhejiang High Court Foreign Affairs Office Director Chen Zhongping, this was the first time a [...]
2007-04-17 00:27:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI22HANGZHOU HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS
[...] (C) Poloff met with Hangzhou-based human rights activist Zan Aizong and house church member Lin Tongqiang on January 8 to discuss the situation of house churches in Hangzhou. Zan confirmed reports that eight house church Christians were convicted for inciting protests against the government o [...]
2007-01-10 08:29:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI220DOT SECRETARY PETER'S APRIL 11-12 VISIT TO SHANGHAI
[...] (U) Summary. During her April 11-12 visit to Shanghai, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters attended a signing ceremony for the creation of the United Parcel Service (UPS) International Air Hub at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) (to be reported septel); expressed concerns of U. [...]
2007-04-18 03:00:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ELTN ECPS ETRD OVIP CH
07SHANGHAI221DOT SECRETARY PETERS ATTENDS UPS CARGO HUB OPENING IN
[...] (U) Summary. During her April 11-12 visit to Shanghai (reftel),Transportation Secretary Mary Peters attended a signing ceremony for the creation of the United Parcel Service (UPS) International Air Hub at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG),with an initial investment of USD 20 mi [...]
2007-04-18 05:52:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ELTN ECPS ETRD OVIP CH
07SHANGHAI225EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON CHINA'S SUPERVISION SYSTEM
[...] (C) Summary. East China contacts described a multilayered but relatively ineffective supervision system that did little to end rampant corruption among Chinese officials. One contact with the Shanghai People's Congress claimed the problem was systemic and due to lack of rule of law. Another [...]
2007-04-19 07:00:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI229CHINA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT CAO MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 18 luncheon hosted by the Consul General, China Christian Council (CCC) President Cao Shengjie confirmed that all Protestant churches must go through the China Christian Council/Three-Self Patriotic Movement (CCC/TSPM) in order to register, although these churches did n [...]
2007-04-19 08:16:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF PINR CH
07SHANGHAI23SHANGHAI CORRUPTION SCANDAL AND LEADERSHIP GOSSIP
[...] (S) Summary. Two well-connected Shanghai contacts claimed that President Hu Jintao had offered the job of Shanghai Party Secretary to several people, none of whom were willing to take SIPDIS it because of the headaches associated with the continuing Chen Liangyu investigation. The one per [...]
2007-01-10 09:09:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI24HANGZHOU HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS
[...] (C) Poloff met with Hangzhou-based human rights activist Zan Aizong and house church member Lin Tongqiang on January 8 to discuss the situation of house churches in Hangzhou. Zan confirmed reports that eight house church Christians were convicted for inciting protests against the government o [...]
2007-01-11 03:37:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI247CFETS UPDATE ON FX AND BOND MARKET DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: China Foreign Exchange Trading System (CFETS) President Xie Duo told Embassy ECON M/C Robert Luke on April 19 that CFETS continued to carry out policies to make China's foreign exchange (FX) trading system more market-based and efficient, including: increasing the number of over [...]
2007-04-25 06:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI25SHANGHAI STOCK MARKET: UP, UP, AND AWAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Investor confidence in the Chinese economy, the near-conclusion of the China's non-tradable reforms and large amounts of capital sitting relatively idly in savings accounts combined to push the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) into record territory during 2006. The SSE closed 130 p [...]
2007-01-11 10:24:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI250CSRC ISSUES DRAFT REGS FOR NYSE/NASDAQ REP OFFICES
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 25, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) published draft rules to allow foreign stock exchanges, such as NYSE or NASDAQ, to open representative offices in China as had been promised during the initial Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) talks in December 2006 [...]
2007-04-26 09:02:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PREL CH
07SHANGHAI251CHINA FINANCIAL FUTURES EXCHANGE NOT YET READY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 19 meeting with Embassy Econ M/C, China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) Deputy General Manager Hu Zheng and CFFEX Head of R&D Zhang Xiaogang provided a briefing on the status of CFFEX, obstacles it had overcome to date, and prospects for becoming operational. Sinc [...]
2007-04-26 09:06:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI253CONTINENTAL MAY SEEK SHANGHAI-GUAM ROUTE
[...] (SBU) Stymied in its recent attempt to win approval for a New York to Shanghai route, Continental Airlines is considering starting a twice-weekly Guam to Shanghai route as early as October 2007, according to Continental Airlines Chief Representative & China Country Director H.C. Kwok. On April [...]
2007-04-27 07:26:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ETRD CVIS CH
07SHANGHAI259SHANGHAI RELEASES 2007 IPR WHITEPAPER
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration (SIPA) held its annual meeting with foreign Consulates and Chambers of Commerce on April 24 to mark the publication of its annual White Paper on intellectual property (IP) protection accomplishments in 2006. With its closing down [...]
2007-04-30 08:48:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR EFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI26FRB TOLD: NO OVERHEATING AND BUSINESS GOOD
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) delegation led by Governor Kevin Warsh met with economic analysts, U.S. business leaders, and equity market analysts during a December visit to Shanghai. Economic analysts offered the contrarian view that China's economy was not overheated, and, in t [...]
2007-01-12 02:12:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI260WITH "SURVEY OF CHINESE PEASANTS" AUTHORS
[...] (C) Summary. In a conversation with Poloff on April 20, "Survey of Chinese Peasants" (Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha) authors said conditions in the countryside had improved in recent years as a result of increased central government attention. However, conditions for peasants were still difficult [...]
2007-04-30 08:54:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI268WORLD'S TALLEST PAGODA IN CHANGZHOU
[...] (U) With great pageantry, Tianning Temple opened its newly refurbished pagoda in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, at the auspicious time of 9:08 AM on April 30. The pagoda is reported to be the tallest pagoda in the world and stands at 153.79 meters (505 feet). According to press reports, the te [...]
2007-05-07 03:18:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KIRF PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI269DOD GENERAL COUNSEL'S RULE OF LAW MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary: During DOD General Counsel William J. Haynes April 20-22 visit to Shanghai, he discussed rule of law issues with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Institute of Law Academics, expatriate and Chinese legal experts at a Consul General-hosted dinner, and at the New York Unive [...]
2007-05-07 08:38:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ETRD EINV PHUM PINR CH
07SHANGHAI277SHANGHAI PEACE MUSEUM
[...] (C) Summary. During an April 24 visit to the Shanghai Peace Museum, Poloff received a glimpse of some of the limitations faced by private citizens interested in politics. The museum houses a collection of letters and autographs from world leaders supporting peace and has been treated with sus [...]
2007-05-10 02:46:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI279INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION CONFERENCE HELD IN JIANGSU
[...] (SBU) Summary: On the margins of an April 14-18 American Bar Association(ABA)-sponsored administrative law conference in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Supreme People's Court (SPC) Administrative Court Chief Judge Zhao Daguang told FSN Rule of Law Coordinator (ROLC) that the SPC soon would issue a [...]
2007-05-10 08:06:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KJUS PINR CH
07SHANGHAI280EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON RECENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (C) Summary. Several East China contacts commented on recent leadership developments at both the national and local level. Despite media rumors that Executive Vice Premier Huang Ju had died, one well-connected contact assured us that Huang was still alive although his health was failing. Lo [...]
2007-05-11 04:00:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI283EAST CHINA DISPATCHES, MAY 14, 2007
[...] (SBU) Summary: In this Dispatch, we learn that Shanghai loves luxury cars, anti-Japanese sentiment still simmers, Internet rumors spread quickly in Shanghai, even migrants dream of making it big on the stock market, information on IPR continues to be welcomed, and some Shanghai youth are passi [...]
2007-05-14 07:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EINV SOCI OEXC OIIP KPAO CH
07SHANGHAI286SHANGHAI EDITORS INCREASE U.S. NEWS COVERAGE AS RESULT OF IV
[...] (SBU) Summary. During an April 18 lunch hosted by the President of the Shanghai Youth Daily, four senior editors from the paper who had recently returned from an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) reported that they came back from their IVLP trip with overwhelmingly positive views [...]
2007-05-15 07:50:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI ECON OEXC OIIP KPAO CH
07SHANGHAI288SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ON BEIJING'S TAIWAN POLICY
[...] (C) During a discussion with Deputy Principal Officer (DPO) and Poloff on May 15, Shanghai Center for RimPac Strategic and International Studies Vice Director Zhuang Jianzhong said that there had been a slight shift in Beijing's policy towards Taiwan that supported opening unofficial channels o [...]
2007-05-15 08:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI291CHINA HOSTS AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK MEETING
[...] (C) Summary. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the African Development Bank (AFDB) 2007 Annual Meetings in Shanghai on May 16 with a speech that stressed China's sincere commitment to helping Africa develop and acknowledged that China needed to further implement its own financial sector reforms [...]
2007-05-16 09:14:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CH XA
07SHANGHAI297YANGTZE RIVER DELTA ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting on April 19, Shanghai scholars told visiting Embassy ECON M/C that local and central Government plans called for further integration of the Yangtze River Delta's (YRD) transportation and communications infrastructure and greater coordination of environmental controls [...]
2007-05-18 10:02:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI306EAST CHINA VIEWS ON FOREIGN MINISTER APPOINTMENT
[...] (C) Summary. XXXXXXXXXXXX, a well-known U.S.-China specialist at XXXXXXXXXXXX, claimed the sudden removal of former Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing was due to President Hu´s increasing dissatisfaction with the MFA. XXXXXXXXXXXX linked this to Hu´s lingering anger about the handling of his visit [...]
2007-05-24 07:01:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI307SHANGHAI LABOR INSPECTION WORKSHOP
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 17-18 labor inspection workshop in Shanghai, Chinese government officials and academics attributed weaknesses in China's labor inspection system to a lack of resources, lack of training for inspectors and inadequate enforcement authority. They urged that the const [...]
2007-05-24 09:07:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI308SHANGHAI PARTY SECRETARY XI JINPING OPENS NINTH PARTY
[...] (SBU) The Ninth Shanghai Party Congress opened on May 24 at the Shanghai Exhibition Center; the meeting will run through May 28. In addition to the 810 delegates elected at the previous day's preparatory session, representatives from China's minority parties, a delegation from the Organizatio [...]
2007-05-24 10:23:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI314SHANGHAI ACADEMIC HUANG RENWEI ON POLITICS, FOREIGN AND
[...] (C) Summary. On May 25, Consul General met with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Vice President Huang Renwei, one of Shanghai's leading Americanologists. Huang had a positive appraisal of Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping thus far; in another six months, he will have mastered his brief s [...]
2007-05-25 09:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CH TW
07SHANGHAI315MORE EAST CHINA LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVES
[...] (C) Summary. In our latest round of discussions, East China contacts reported that the Politburo Standing Committee would be shrinking from nine members to seven with several members retiring while the Politburo itself would also undergo a major shake up. Unclear, however, was the fate of Vi [...]
2007-05-25 09:56:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PNR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI316EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON EAST CHINA LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary. During a series of recent meetings, East China contacts commented on top leaders in Shanghai and Jiangsu. With his recent appointment as Shanghai Party Secretary, Xi Jinping was likely out of the running for a top-level job for the next 5-10 years. Meanwhile, Shanghai Mayor Han [...]
2007-05-25 10:03:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI318SHANGHAI'S GAY COMMUNITY
[...] (U) Summary: In a series of meetings with Poloff in April 2007, gay individuals in Shanghai said their identity and lifestyle continued to be shaped by family and social pressures to conform, which had different impacts on male and female homosexuals. Maintaining a gay identity tended to be l [...]
2007-05-29 06:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI TBIO CH
07SHANGHAI319INFIGHTING AT FUDAN UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
[...] (C) Summary. During a May 21 discussion with Consul General, Fudan Center for American Studies (CAS) Director Shen Dingli in addition to sharing his views on Chinese leadership issues (reftels),spent a great deal of time discussing infighting at the Center. We share a summary of Shen's lam [...]
2007-05-29 07:52:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI324HIV/AIDS IN SHANGHAI'S GAY COMMUNITY
[...] (U) Summary: While most members of the Shanghai gay community believed that they were not at great risk for becoming infected with HIV/AIDS, researchers and health specialists said HIV/AIDS was spreading faster in Eastern cities such as Shanghai than through drug usage. According to health wo [...]
2007-05-30 09:48:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KHIV SOCI TBIO CH
07SHANGHAI325STOCK MARKET TOO HOT, SO CHINA RAISES TAXES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced on May 29 that the stamp tax charged on every stock trade would rise from .1 percent to .3 percent of the total value of that trade, effective May 30. Consulate contacts and industry analysts said this was a further attempt to cool down C [...]
2007-05-30 10:39:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PREL CH
07SHANGHAI326GAY SHANGHAI: AMBIGUOUS STATUS CREATES VULNERABILITY
[...] (C) Summary: According to contacts in Shanghai's gay community, sexual discrimination in Shanghai was rife, but because few Shanghainese were openly gay and lesbian in a way that countered social expectations to fulfill family duties, such as to marry and reproduce, discrimination was less di [...]
2007-05-31 01:29:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TBIO KCRM CH
07SHANGHAI330CHINA'S BANKING REFORMS FAST ENOUGH FOR HSBC
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a meeting with visiting Embassy Finatt on May 16, HSBC China Deputy CEO Bryan Stiles and Global Markets Managing Director David Liao said HSBC's local incorporation had gone smoothly. HSBC believed that Chinese regulators would soon allow foreign banks to offer retail RMB cu [...]
2007-05-31 15:20:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI331SUPER GIRL MAKES SHANGHAI LOOK TWICE
[...] (U) Summary: According to contacts in Shanghai's gay community, the Internet had provided this once isolated community with a private and safe space to organize and communicate among themselves. In addition, the Super Girl and Good Man TV shows, singing talent competitions similar to America [...]
2007-06-01 02:22:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI TBIO CH
07SHANGHAI332A FUND MANAGER'S VIEW ON THE CHINA MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary: Lombarda China Fund Manager Ian Midgely told visiting Embassy Finatt, on May 16, that the Chinese government was attempting to rein in an overvalued stock market without an overly heavy-handed approach that would undermine the market reforms put in place to promote capital marke [...]
2007-06-01 02:36:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI333GOLDMAN SACH'S GAOHUA SECURITIES: AN ONLY CHILD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Goldman Sachs' venture in China, Gaohua Securities, has both benefited and suffered from being the only foreign-controlled, full service securities firm in China. Goldman's method of obtaining control of a Chinese licensed securities firm by giving unsecured loans to trusted Chin [...]
2007-06-01 02:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI334HAITONG SECURITIES ON CHINA'S STOCK MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from Haitong Securities Company told visiting Embassy Financial Attache (Finatt) on May 16 that competition from foreign companies would ultimately strengthen China's securities industry. Haitong has struggled to accurately value China's listed companies and mana [...]
2007-06-01 02:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI335SHANGHAI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIEWS ON
[...] (C) Summary. During a May 29 luncheon with the Consul General, Shanghai Institute For International Studies (SIIS) Vice President Yang Jiemian said China would be responsive to U.S. requests conveyed via the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) process. He predicted that China would gradually ta [...]
2007-06-01 03:09:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CH TW XA XK XR XD
07SHANGHAI337PROBLEMS LOOMING FOR M&A AND VENTURE CAPITALISTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: International private equity (PE) and venture capitalist (VC) representatives told visiting Embassy Finatt, on May 16, that Chinese regulations which took effect in September 2006 have effectively shut them out from doing business in China. Since the "Provisions for Foreign Inv [...]
2007-06-01 11:39:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV PREL CH
07SHANGHAI344JOURNALISTS ON SOCIAL CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. A May 18 Consulate-sponsored roundtable between visiting Western and Asian journalists participating in the East-West Center-organized Jefferson Fellowship Program, Chinese journalists, and Shanghai-based U.S. journalists sparked lively debate on China's rich-poor gap, the one- [...]
2007-06-05 08:27:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR SOCI ECON ELAB CH
07SHANGHAI35SHANGHAI STRIVING FOR TRANSPARENCY THROUGH OPENING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Two years into the implementation of Shanghai's Open Government Information Act (OGIA)--one of the few in China--local officials claimed that the act had had broadened residents' access to government information and improved overall government transparency. They said that a fo [...]
2007-01-17 08:31:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI357DRL OFFICER CHANG EAST CHINA VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary. During his May 21-24 visit to Shanghai and Hefei, Anhui Province, DRL Program Officer met with DRL grantee organizations International Bridges for Justice (IBJ) and SE Consortium for International Development/Global Suppliers Institute (SECID/GSI),as well as academics and stud [...]
2007-06-08 07:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI36TOP SHANGHAI JOB UP IN THE AIR, PROBABLY NOT LIU YANDONG
[...] (C) Summary: The husband of United Front Work Department head and Hu Jintao protigi Liu Yandong said that Liu was not under consideration for the job of Shanghai Party Secretary. He said that people currently rumored to be under consideration for the position included the current Shanghai May [...]
2007-01-17 08:48:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI370FRB SENIOR ECONOMIST AHMED'S VISIT TO SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary: During his June 6-7 visit to Shanghai, visiting Federal Reserve Board (FRB) Division of International Finance Emerging Market Economies Section Senior Economist Shaghil Ahmed met with a cross-section of Shanghai economic experts and officials in the banking, securities, and real [...]
2007-06-18 04:39:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI374THE SCIENCE OF HARMONY--VIEWS FROM EAST CHINA
[...] (C) Summary. According to several East China contacts, the "Scientific Development Concept" [kexue fazhan guan] (SDC) now is the core guiding ideology for the Communist Party, building on and supplanting the "Three Represents." The SDC takes as its goal the building of a Harmonious Society w [...]
2007-06-19 09:30:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI379EAST CHINA--ZENG QINGHONG STEPPING DOWN, WU YI RISING?
[...] (C) Summary. One of our better-connected political contacts said that the current word among Beijing princelings was that all but the top three members of the Politburo Standing Committee would retire at the upcoming Party Congress as President Hu Jintao tried to consolidate his power and pur [...]
2007-06-21 10:06:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI380CARLYLE, XUGONG, AND BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary: Central government officials promised a resolution to Carlyle Group's effort to purchase a 45 percent stake--down from its initial 85 percent bid--in Xugong Machine Group by the end of July. The current hang-up was the result of bureaucratic infighting between the Ministry of Com [...]
2007-06-21 10:12:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI400DEMOCRACY FROM HARMONIOUS SCIENCE--VIEWS FROM EAST CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: A number of East China contacts associate the current Scientific Development Concept and Harmonious Society ideological formulations with democratization, political reform and civil society. Some believe that President Hu Jintao is feeling the pressure of his second term and is c [...]
2007-06-27 09:46:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI412SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON PAPAL LETTER
[...] (C) During a conversation with Poloff during Consulate's Independence Day reception on July 3, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian said he was pleased by Pope Benedict XVI's June 30 letter to Chinese Catholics, which he said was the Pope's way of "extending his hand" to the Chinese government. [...]
2007-07-05 04:47:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV CH VT
07SHANGHAI413EAST CHINA DISPATCHES, JULY 5, 2007
[...] (SBU) Summary: In this Dispatch, we learn that Shanghai Party Secretary Xi enjoys the opera, SOE executives have unlimited expense accounts for domestic trips, Chinese millionaires love conventions, Ferrari training for beginners is available at a price, visa applicants are getting younger and [...]
2007-07-05 07:42:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR CVIS SOCI CH ECON
07SHANGHAI414ZHENG ENCHONG UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary. During a conversation with Poloff on June 10, Shanghai Lawyer Zheng Enchong, who was jailed for three years after he advised more than 500 families involved in housing disputes, said that police continued to closely monitor his movements and had made it impossible for him to find [...]
2007-07-05 07:49:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI415GETTING TOUGH ON THE ENVIRONMENT
[...] (C) Summary: During a June 28 luncheon with the Consul General and the Pol/Econ Section Chief, three of our more astute business contacts assessed that Beijing was starting to get serious about environmental protection. Beijing had begun to tell local leaders to accept lower growth for a clea [...]
2007-07-05 08:20:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SENV EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI416SHANGHAI ACADEMIC VIEWS ON NORTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA
[...] (C) Summary: In meetings with Poloffs in mid-June and early July, four Shanghai academics specializing in Korea studies predicted that there would be a long and difficult path of negotiations ahead for the Six-Party talks. Two other academics said, however, that North Korea would react positi [...]
2007-07-05 08:39:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KS KN CH
07SHANGHAI420A BLEAK SPRING FOR LAKE TAI
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since mid-May, Lake Tai, the third-largest freshwater lake in China, has experienced a massive outbreak of blue-green algae. In a series of recent meetings with Congenoffs, government officials and academics in Jiangsu Province discussed the enormous challenges confronting Lak [...]
2007-07-06 08:53:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PREL PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI422EAST CHINA--MORE POLITBURO RUMORS AND LEADERSHIP TIDBITS
[...] (C) Summary: East China contacts reported that Vice President Zeng Qinghong had submitted his resignation to the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC). Current speculation was that not only would Zeng step down, but that all but two or three of the current nine PBSC members would retire, possib [...]
2007-07-09 03:30:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI43SHANGHAI SCHOLARS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 19 lunch with PDAS Stephens, Shanghai scholars were pessimistic that there would be progress on North Korea in the near term. One scholar said that while North Korea would continue to participate in the Six-Party Talks, it would never give up its nuclear program. [...]
2007-01-23 02:53:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW JA KN
07SHANGHAI44WENZHOU - AN ENTREPRENEURS TOWN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sitting far from Beijing on the East coast of China, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province is known for both its vibrant, fast-growing economy and its many Christian churches. Many people with whom Congenoffs spoke during a recent visit to the city attribute Wenzhou's economic growth to t [...]
2007-01-23 07:24:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EINV PINR KIPR ELAB CH
07SHANGHAI440SHANGHAI BLACKOUTS, A THING OF THE PAST?
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 16 meeting with Congenoffs, Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company (SMEPC) representatives were optimistic about Shanghai's power situation and predicted that there would be few blackouts this summer. The city has secured power from other provinces to meet energy [...]
2007-07-17 07:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV EIND CH
07SHANGHAI444TREASURY'S DAN WRIGHT VISITS NANJING, DISCUSSES ECONOMY,
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with Treasury's Managing Director for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) Dan Wright on June 25, Jiangsu academics and officials said the province had adopted a "One Two Three Four Five" development framework that relied on the Scientific Development Co [...]
2007-07-18 00:14:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI45WENZHOU'S CHINT - A MODEL ENTERPRISE
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a visit to Wenzhou on December 14-15, Congenoffs' toured the CHINT company, one of Wenzhou's leading enterprises. According to CHINT executives, the company's success was due to its President's leadership and its close relations with the local government. CHINT is the t [...]
2007-01-23 08:14:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EINV PINR KIPR ELAB CH
07SHANGHAI450VANUATU OPENS A CONSULATE IN SHANGHAI
[...] (C) Summary: During the opening of the Vanuatu Consulate in Shanghai on July 17, Vanuatu officials emphasized their strong commitment to the One China Policy and encouraged more Chinese investment, trade and tourism to the pacific island country. The opening of the consulate comes on the heels [...]
2007-07-18 05:00:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL CH XV
07SHANGHAI452TREASURY DAN WRIGHT'S SHANGHAI ACADEMIC MEETINGS
[...] (SBU) Summary. During Treasury Managing Director for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) Dan Wright's June 26-27 visit to Shanghai, Shanghai academics agreed with Wright that the talks needed to be focused and institutionalized to be sustainable. Two academics urged more low-leve [...]
2007-07-18 06:52:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI457BIOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON ZHAO HONGZHU
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador's July 9 call on newly-appointed Zhejiang Party Secretary Zhao Hongzhu and a subsequent July 13 dinner hosted by Zhao (see Septel) provided post with an opportunity to collect biographical information on Zhao. Zhao came across as friendly and was described by subor [...]
2007-07-20 08:15:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI458AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO CHINA'S FIRST MEGACHURCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 9-13 visit to Hangzhou, Ambassador Randt discussed religion and religious freedom with the leadership of China's only Protestant "megachurch". During the church visit, church leaders discussed the growth of Protestantism in China and Zhejiang, noting that there ar [...]
2007-07-20 08:20:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI459AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ZHEJIANG PARTY SECRETARY ZHAO
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Randt met with Zhejiang's new Party Secretary, Zhao Hongzhu, in Hangzhou on July 9 and was hosted by SIPDIS Zhao for dinner on July 13. Zhao noted that, while relatively small in size and population, Zhejiang contributes more than its fair share to national GDP grow [...]
2007-07-20 08:27:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI46WENZHOU - AN ENTREPRENEURS TOWN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sitting far from Beijing on the East coast of China, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province is known for both its vibrant, fast-growing economy and its many Christian churches. Many people with whom Congenoffs spoke during a recent visit to the city attribute Wenzhou's economic growth to t [...]
2007-01-23 08:24:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EINV PINR KIPR ELAB CH
07SHANGHAI464SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL TRADE UNION COUNCIL: PROTECTING ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 16 meeting, Shanghai Municipal Trade Union Council (SMTUC) Deputy Director Huang Qi called the new Labor Contract Law (LCL) a positive development because of its emphasis on the role of the trade union in labor contracts. Although SMTUC's primary responsibility was to [...]
2007-07-24 03:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI47WENZHOU: CHINA'S "JERUSALEUM"
[...] (C) Summary: During a December 14-15 visit to the coastal city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province, Congenoffs visited three official churches in the city and discussed religious issues with a few local citizens. Congenoff also discussed Wenzhou's religious situation with a researcher in Shanghai [...]
2007-01-23 08:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI470DEMOCRATIC OR SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM--XIE TAO AND THE EAST
[...] (S) Summary: An internal poll showed that average people and scholars were almost evenly divided in their support for an article written by retired scholar Xie Tao, which advocated that China adopt a democratic socialism model that included multi-party democracy. Contacts who followed this d [...]
2007-07-27 10:00:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI474EAST CHINA'S SOUTH KOREAN COMMUNITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in August 1992, South Koreans have flocked to Shanghai in search of economic and educational opportunities. More than 110,000 South Koreans live in east China (Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and Shanghai),with some 70,000 [...]
2007-07-30 06:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD EINV KIRF CH KS KN
07SHANGHAI478SHANGHAI STOCK MARKET: UNCOMFORTABLY GOOD
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Executive Vice President James Liu, Shanghai's stock market is "on a rocket" with 60 percent gains so far in 2007. Huge numbers of new retail investors who most likely lack an understanding of the risks inherent in the market have been [...]
2007-07-31 03:05:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI481HAITONG'S BACKDOOR LAUNCH INTO THE MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary: Haitong Securities became the first securities company to list via a backdoor listing in China, on July 31, after it completed a reverse takeover of Shanghai Urban Agro-Business. It was forced to use a backdoor listing since, on its own, it did not meet Chinese listing requireme [...]
2007-08-01 09:54:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI482ANHUI CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU DISCUSSES JULY FLOODS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Anhui Civil Affairs officials in a meeting with Poloff on July 26 described the current flooding as the most severe in 50 years. While the worst was likely over, the disaster had impacted 16 million people, displaced over half a million, destroyed 90,000 homes, and caused almo [...]
2007-08-01 10:25:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PREL PHUM ECON CH
07SHANGHAI483WUXI EAGER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL COLLABORATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 19 meeting, Wuxi Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) officials were eager to discuss the Lake Tai crisis and opportunities for cooperation; however, they were much less eager for Congenoffs to actually see Lake Tai. Wuxi EPB officials vented their frustrations [...]
2007-08-02 04:51:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PREL PHUM EIND CH
07SHANGHAI484SHANGHAI NGO ENVIRONMENT WORSENING
[...] (S) Summary: Roots and Shoots General Manager Zhong Zhenxi provided a unique glimpse into NGO-Government relations, reporting that the operating environment for NGOs in Shanghai had gone from bad to worse. On a regular basis, local NGOs were forced to report their contacts, especially with f [...]
2007-08-02 08:08:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PHUM PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI504CITIBANK'S LOCAL INCORPORATION PROBLEMS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Federal Deposit Insurance Chairman (FDIC) Sheila Bair on July 26, Citibank (China) Chief Executive Officer Richard Stanley opined that the China Banking Regulatory Commission was "making it up as they went along" with regard to the treatment of newly locally-i [...]
2007-08-09 06:07:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI508BEIDAIHE ENDS WITHOUT RESOLUTION
[...] (S) Summary: According to a well-connected contact who just returned from Beidaihe, the Work Conference that had been convened to sort out the Politburo name list for the 17th Party Congress has ended without resolution as different factions found it difficult to compromise on candidates. Unw [...]
2007-08-10 13:08:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI511NYSE-NASDAQ: REP OFFICES PENDING, PROBLEMS LOOMING
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to NASDAQ and NYSE representatives, it was unlikely that their applications to open representative offices would be approved soon. Although the applications were submitted at the beginning of July, CSRC contacts told NASDAQ and NYSE that approval was several months awa [...]
2007-08-14 21:13:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI512NYSE-NASDAQ: REP OFFICES PENDING, PROBLEMS LOOMING
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to NASDAQ and NYSE representatives, it was unlikely that their applications to open representative offices would be approved soon. Although the applications were submitted at the beginning of July, CSRC contacts told NASDAQ and NYSE that approval was several months awa [...]
2007-08-14 21:14:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI518ACADEMICS, LEGAL PROFESSIONALS AND OFFICIALS DEBATE PROPERTY
[...] (C) Summary: During the August 6-8 National Administrative Law Society Annual Conference in Nanjing, Chinese legal experts and officials had lively exchanges on the role of the government in property disputes. Academics argued for less government intervention in property dispute cases and mor [...]
2007-08-17 06:10:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR KJUS ECON CH
07SHANGHAI527BEIDAIHE CONCLUDES, JIANG ON THE ROPES
[...] (C) Summary: In another of our ongoing discussions about the upcoming Party Congress, a long-time Consulate contact said that the Work Conference at Beidaihe recently concluded and a new Poliburo Standing Committee (PBSC) line-up had all but been finalized. Only President Hu Jintao and Premie [...]
2007-08-21 09:24:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI529SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ON SCO, RUSSIA, IRAN AND NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Summary: In a lunch discussion with DPO on August 20, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Academic Pan Guang noted Russia's increased interest in energy coordination at the recent SCO Summit in Bishkek and asserted that this represented a slight shift in Russian policy towards the SC [...]
2007-08-22 07:13:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG CH RS TI TX UZ KZ IR KN
07SHANGHAI530DINNER WITH JIANGSU PARTY SECRETARY LI YUANCHAO
[...] (C) Summary: During an August 9 dinner, Jiangsu Party Secretary Li Yuanchao said that he had been ordered by Vice SIPDIS Premier Wu Yi to increase his province's imports. He also discussed his views on democracy, noting significant pressure on the party from the people to move forward with [...]
2007-08-23 08:43:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ETRD ECON CH
07SHANGHAI531DPO CALLS ON SHANGHAI AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 8, DPO and Poloff met with Shanghai Agricultural Commission Chairman Xu Lin. According to Xu, although agriculture only occupied a small percentage of Shanghai's overall GDP, it remained a critical segment. Local residents were especially concerned about this segment [...]
2007-08-23 08:48:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EAGR ECON CH
07SHANGHAI532SHANGHAI TAIWAN SCHOLARS WARN NEXT TWELVE MONTHS CRITICAL,
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai Institute for Taiwan Studies researchers expressed strong concerns about political developments in Taiwan through May 2008 and about potential United States actions or reactions in response to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's plans for a Taiwan referendum on United Na [...]
2007-08-23 09:28:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI534SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE BREAKS THROUGH 5,000
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Shanghai Stock Exchange's Composite Index (SCI) rose above the "psychologically significant" 5,000 point level for the first time on August 23, closing at 5,032. The market has risen 80 percent since the beginning of 2007, adding to the 130 percent gain in 2006. The SCI end [...]
2007-08-24 08:35:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI535CODEL HASTERT VISITS SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 10- 12, Representative Dennis Hastert (R-IL),Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) and two staff members from the House Committee on Energy & Commerce visited Shanghai to engage U.S. businesses energy, environment and business climate issues. Representatives from GE sh [...]
2007-08-27 01:39:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ETRD EFIN SENV PREL CH
07SHANGHAI541SHANGHAI ASKS DOE FOR HELP CUTTING ENERGY USE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Department of Energy delegation led by PDAS John Mizroch met with municipal officials, academics, and U.S. businesses during its August 16-17 visit to Shanghai. Shanghai's inefficient energy consumption limits its economic growth and contributes to its pollution problems. Sha [...]
2007-08-27 08:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV EINV EIND CH
07SHANGHAI546CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN'S AUGUST 22 BREAKFAST WITH SHANGHAI
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai scholars of strategic and American studies urged the United States to suspend arms sales to Taiwan through the May 2008 Presidential election in an August 22 meeting with United States Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen. Chen Shui-bian was described as a [...]
2007-08-29 02:39:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MCAP MARR OVIP CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN CH TW
07SHANGHAI549MORE DETAILS ON BEIDAIHE MEETINGS
[...] (S) Summary: According to a well-connected contact, informal meetings have continued at Beidaihe since the close of the first Work Conference on August 10. A second Work Conference to begin finalizing the name list for the Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) would likely tak [...]
2007-08-29 10:10:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI55SHANGHAI ACTIVIST MAO HENGFENG SENTENCED
[...] (C) In a meeting with Poloff on January 25, Shanghai civil activist Wu Xuewei confirmed that his wife and civil activist, Mao Hengfeng, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on charges of destroying property. The Yangpu People's court convicted Mao of damaging two lamps valued at 6, [...]
2007-01-25 07:32:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI550BIO REPORTING ON JIANGSU GOVERNOR LIANG AND AUDITOR LI
[...] (C) Summary: During an August 26 dinner in honor of Comptroller General of the United States David Walker, head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO),Walker met with Jiangsu Governor Liang Baohua, accompanied by Auditor General of the National Auditing Administration Li Jinhua. [...]
2007-08-30 01:29:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI553INFLATION WATCH: FOOD PRICES UP IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai's consumer price index increased 2.7 percent in July as food prices here joined prices nationwide in rising (Ref A). According to Standard Chartered's Stephen Green, food-price inflation was starting to "hurt" low-income earners such as migrants and pensioners. A non- [...]
2007-08-31 08:44:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB EFIN EAGR SOCI CH
07SHANGHAI557SHANGHAI FINANCIAL LEADERS DISCUSS SED
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to Chinese financial service company executives, the Strategic EcoQic Dialogue (SED) plays an important and positive role in advancing U.S.-Chinese relations and understanding. While foreign investments in the financial services sector, and the technology, products, a [...]
2007-08-31 11:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL ECON PINR KPAO CH
07SHANGHAI570FUDAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN AND NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Summary: During an August 30 lunch discussion with Fudan Center for American Studies Director Shen Dingli and Deputy Director Xin Qiang, the academics predicted that Beijing would not take any military measures in reaction to the referendum on UN membership in Taiwan. However, anger was bu [...]
2007-09-05 09:19:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR CH TW KN
07SHANGHAI573AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS WITH SHANGHAI
[...] (C) Summary: During a September 3 breakfast hosted by the Ambassador, five leading Shanghai academics spoke positively about U.S.-China relations, which one described as stable and predictable. Shanghai Institute for International Studies Vice President Yang Jiemian expressed concern, however, [...]
2007-09-06 06:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD CH TW KN
07SHANGHAI575AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on September 5, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Luxian Jin was pessimistic about the prospects of reconciliation between the Vatican and Beijing. Talks were moving at a "marathon" pace and reconciliation would likely not occur in time for the 2008 Olympics [...]
2007-09-06 06:55:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KIRF CH VT
07SHANGHAI580COMMENTS ON FORMER SHANGHAI PARTY SECRETARY CHEN LIANGYU'S
[...] (C) Summary: A Shanghai legal expert told us that Chen Liangyu's corruption case represented a serious loss of face for Shanghai. Politically, Shanghai was too important to be allowed to differ from Beijing. Our interlocutor predicted that Chen would be sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, and [...]
2007-09-07 04:59:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CH
07SHANGHAI581AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SHANGHAI ENTREPRENEURS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai-based Chinese entrepreneurs told the Ambassador that China is looking to U.S. leadership on addressing the problems of global climate change. Ongoing RMB appreciation hurts their export businesses and because China feels it needs to continue to control the flow of capit [...]
2007-09-07 07:59:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAIR CVIS SENV KIPR PINR CH
07SHANGHAI586BUILDING VALUES IN BACKWATER SCHOOLS--ONE NGO'S APPROACH
[...] (C) Summary: The Changjiang Civilian Education Foundation (CCEF) is a homegrown NGO that is trying to build values and teach self-sufficiency to poor students in backwater towns in Anhui Province. CCEF runs two schools aimed at poor deserving students. The first is an elementary school and th [...]
2007-09-10 03:28:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI589CHEMICAL SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WORKSHOP IN
[...] Summary: Over 100 Jiangsu Province Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) officials, representing both the provincial and local EPBs, attended a Chemical Safety and Emergency Preparedness Workshop in Nanjing on August 21-22. At the workshop, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) train [...]
2007-09-10 07:36:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PREL PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI6CODEL BARTLETT'S VISIT TO SHANGHAI: JANUARY 1-2
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 1 meeting with Zhou Muyao, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, CODEL Bartlett discussed China's efforts to address energy issues, especially in the rural sector. Zhou highlighted the strong ties between the United States and Shanghai and gave [...]
2007-01-04 03:16:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL ENRG CH
07SHANGHAI601SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in late August, Shanghai cross-Strait experts expressed concerns about Taiwan's referendum on UN membership, which they believed touched on the redline of the Anti-Secession Law and created a basis for Taiwan independence. While there were many voices in Ch [...]
2007-09-11 03:25:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI603AMBASSADOR MEETS SHANGHAI MAYOR AND ATTENDS AMCHAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 6, the Ambassador, together with former Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, met with Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng. Following the meeting, the three officials offered remarks at AmCham Shanghai's 7th Annual Government Appreciation Dinner attended by 120 Shanghai and provinc [...]
2007-09-12 00:29:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV EFIN PINR PGOV PREL KIPR ELTN CH
07SHANGHAI615INTRA-PARTY DEMOCRACY AT THE PARTY CONGRESS?
[...] (C) Summary: According to a long-time Consulate contact, there would be more candidates for the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) than there were slots, reflecting a greater focus on intra-party democracy. Meanwhile, separate contacts reported differing accounts of the party's commitment to [...]
2007-09-14 11:04:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI ECON CH
07SHANGHAI620NODEL LARSEN DISCUSSES FOOD SAFETY IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary. Shanghai-based U.S. businessmen told visiting Congressmen Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) that concerns about China's food and product safety were "legitimate." While China's laws and regulations were adequate, the inability of the Central Government to implement these [...]
2007-09-19 07:14:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP ECON PREL ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI622XXXXXXXXXXXX ON LEADERSHIP ISSUES
[...] (S) Summary: According to a well-placed contact, there will not likely to be any surprises in the line-up of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC). In part, this means that President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, and National People´s Congress (NPC) Chairman Wu Bangguo will all be staying and [...]
2007-09-20 21:25:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR SOCI ECON CH
07SHANGHAI631DISCUSSION OF FOOD SAFETY ISSUES WITH SHANGHAI'S CIQ
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Consul General and ATO Chief met September 20 with China Inspection and Quarantine (CIQ) Shanghai Director General Xu Jinji to discuss recent problems with U.S. food products entering East China ports. Xu said the United States and China must deepen the understanding of re [...]
2007-09-27 03:16:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD TBIO PGOV ECON BEXP EAGR CH
07SHANGHAI636UPDATE ON ZHEJIANG DISSIDENT LU GENGSONG
[...] (C) On September 26, Poloff received an update on detained Zhejiang dissident Lu Gengsong's case from Lu's wife, Wang Xue'e, and Hangzhou activist and freelance journalist Wink Ho. Ho is one of the organizers of a letter signed by more than 1,000 Chinese intellectuals and activists calling for [...]
2007-09-27 10:26:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI637SHANGHAI GOVERNMENT PROMISES TO PUBLISH ALL DRAFT LAWS FOR
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 19 lunch discussion, Shanghai Municipal People's Congress officials confirmed news reports that the Shanghai Government will publish all of its draft laws on the Internet for public comment and hold public hearings on drafts that it considered affected people's dail [...]
2007-09-27 10:38:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHSA PHUM KJUS SOCI ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI640VISIT OF AFRICA BUREAU SENIOR ADVISOR, AMBASSADOR RUTH A.
[...] (SBU) Summary: In Shanghai from September 8-14, Ambassador Ruth A. Davis participated in the Vital Voices symposium for Chinese and African women business leaders, met with Chinese Africa experts, visited two Chinese companies investing in Africa and delivered a lecture on U.S.-African policy [...]
2007-09-30 00:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON CH XA
07SHANGHAI641PBSC UNRESOLVED; HU FLEXING HIS POLITICAL MUSCLES
[...] (C) Reflecting the rapidly shifting trends on the ground, Shanghai contacts present differing accounts of top-level decision making on Communist Party personnel issues four and three weeks before the 17th Party Congress. Our contacts are divided over whether Vice President Zeng Qinghong, Prem [...]
2007-09-30 03:26:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR ECON SOCI CH
07SHANGHAI642POLITBURO MEETS, PERSONNEL WRANGLING CONTINUES
[...] (S) Readouts from a recent Politburo meeting during the week of September 16 initially suggested that President Hu Jintao had sustained serious political losses in personnel maneuvering. However, more recent information suggests that Hu has since recovered at least some ground, although he may [...]
2007-09-30 03:33:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR ECON SOCI CH
07SHANGHAI643SUZHOU LABOR EXPERT VIEWS ON LABOR CONTRACT LAW, ACFTU, AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a September 20 meeting, Suzhou University Law School Professor and labor expert Shen Tongxian downplayed the importance of the new Labor Contract Law (LCL) and said that the law could actually have an adverse affect on workers as companies find ways to circumvent it. Shen a [...]
2007-10-04 00:36:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI644ZHEJIANG DISSIDENT LU GENGSONG OFFICIALLY ARRESTED
[...] (C) On September 30, Poloff received a phonecall from a woman claiming to be a relative of Lu Gengsong. She reported that local authorities had notified the family that day that Lu was officially charged with "inciting subversion." The charge of "illegally obtaining state secrets" was droppe [...]
2007-10-04 01:14:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI647EDUCATION SECRETARY SPELLINGS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary. On October 2, the U.S. Special Olympics Delegation, headed by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, met with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Secretary Spellings expressed appreciation for China's support for the Special Olympics and delivered a letter from President Bush to Presid [...]
2007-10-04 07:02:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI PREL CH
07SHANGHAI652007 SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The work reports delivered at the opening sessions of 2007 Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (SMPC) and Shanghai Municipal Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on January 28 and 27, respectively, emphasized the need to fight corruption and improve trans [...]
2007-01-29 08:56:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON CH
07SHANGHAI653(C) EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION? ACADEMICS ON CHANGING CHINA'S
[...] (C) Summary: We offer the views of several local experts on China's political development. While the consensus view is that the Central Government has a firm hold on power, and that economic growth dulls popular demand for political change, there is also a strong undercurrent that unrest at [...]
2007-10-05 09:20:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR SOCI ECON CH
07SHANGHAI654SHANGHAI BANKERS ON RMB, PROTECTIONISM AND THE FUTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's weak and rigid exchange rate is increasing costs and inhibiting innovation in China's financial sector. Shanghai officials and banking leaders told a visiting Treasury delegation that growing protectionism in the financial services sector would make increased foreign pe [...]
2007-10-05 09:29:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI655(C) NANJING ACADEMIC'S SUGGESTIONS FOR BACKCHANNELS TO
[...] (S) Summary: During a September 28 discussion, Nanjing University Professor Gu Su (strictly protect) gave his assessment of who might make good "back-door" conduits for U.S. officials to pass information to more senior leaders. Gu believes that former President Jiang Zemin's eldest son has [...]
2007-10-05 09:47:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR SOCI ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI656(C) A NANJING ACADEMIC'S VIEW ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN
[...] (S) Summary: According to Nanjing University Professor Gu Su (strictly protect) political assassinations and violence occur in Chinese politics, even occasionally touching top leaders. Gu said that in January 2007, for instance, Central Disciplinary Inspection Commission Chairman (CDIC) Wu [...]
2007-10-05 10:18:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR PHUM SOCI CH
07SHANGHAI657SHANGHAI FUND MANAGERS ON JV'S AND COMPETITION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Joint venture securities firms in China only succeed when the foreign partner has explicit management control and can avoid cultural and managerial conflicts, according to managers at two such joint ventures. Chinese security firms, fearing their inability to compete, have aske [...]
2007-10-09 02:20:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ELAB PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI663(C) HU GAINING TRACTION IN MILITARY WITH RECENT
[...] (S) Summary: During a September 28 discussion, Nanjing University Professor Gu Su (strictly protect) said that President Hu Jintao was actively promoting officers coming out of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Nanjing Military Region (MR) as part of his overall strategy to gain control of th [...]
2007-10-10 09:34:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR SOCI ECON MARR CH TW
07SHANGHAI677SPECIAL OLYMPICS POLICY SUMMIT CONVENES, SECRETARY SPELLINGS
[...] (U) Summary. On October 3, U.S. Secretary for Education Margaret Spellings, Shanghai and Central Government officials, scholars from around the world and China, and famous entertainment and political figures met in the Shanghai Convention Center to convene the Special Olympics Global Policy [...]
2007-10-22 07:10:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI SCUL CH
07SHANGHAI678EDUCATION SECRETARY SPELLING'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT OF
[...] (SBU) On October 3, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings held a short bilateral exchange with President of the Republic of Iceland Olafur Grimsson on the margins of the Special Olympics Global Policy Summit on the Well-being of People with Intellectual Disabilities. The meeting was [...]
2007-10-22 07:10:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI CH US
07SHANGHAI679SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE UP 300 PERCENT IN TWO YEARS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index topped 6,000 points on October 15 bringing gains over the past two years up to 300 percent. This growth is "good" according to a Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) official and the government should not attempt to set limits on where the in [...]
2007-10-22 12:13:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI690SHANGHAI INVESTS USD 175 MILLION IN AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: In conjunction with the United States-China Science and Technology Executive Secretaries Meeting (ESM),the U.S. delegation visited a high-tech park and two high-tech projects in Shanghai on October 12. Interlocutors reported that the Shanghai municipal government aims to build [...]
2007-10-26 04:14:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV EINV ELTN EIND CH
07SHANGHAI70NYSE/NASDAQ: NO OFFICES, BUT STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Seeing China as the next great frontier for emerging markets, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ have been engaging in a "Great Game" to persuade Chinese companies to list on their respective exchanges. Chinese entrepreneurs view being listed on U.S. markets as the si [...]
2007-01-31 08:20:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI71SHANGHAI POPULATION TRENDS: RETIREE NEEDS CONTINUE TO BURDEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a series of meetings with Congenoffs over the last three months, Shanghai population experts agreed that Shanghai continued to be a rapidly-aging city that faced problems of pension obligations and services to the elderly. They also noted that Shanghai had reversed its de [...]
2007-01-31 11:38:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV SOCI CH
07SHANGHAI736HANGZHOU: GOING GREEN, FOR FUN AND PROFIT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Renowned within China for its natural beauty, Hangzhou is beginning to attract international attention for its economic growth and high quality of life. While Hangzhou's government claims that these successes are due to its commitment to preserving the environment, there is no qu [...]
2007-11-16 09:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PGOV EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI737TAIZHOU - CHINA'S MOTOR CITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 5-6 visit to Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, Deputy Principal Officer (DPO) and econoff engaged Taizhou officials and Chinese automotive industry representatives on the area's booming automotive sector. Vice Director Wang Haiping from Geely Auto, one of China's [...]
2007-11-19 08:35:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EINV ETRD PINR KIPR ELAB CH
07SHANGHAI756PROMOTING ANHUI TOURISM TO AMERICANS: A HARD SELL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Anhui Province, the poorest province in Shanghai's consular district, hopes to jump-start its economy by promoting tourism. Although home to many beautiful natural and historical sights, Anhui is finding it difficult to attract mass numbers of Western tourists, and Americans in p [...]
2007-11-23 05:47:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND PGOV EINV ELTN EAIR ECON CH KS
07SHANGHAI759SFRC STAFFER JANUZZI READ-OUT OF NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese, South Korean and United States academics and officials agreed that North Korea (DPRK) has not yet decided if it will give up its nuclear weapons according to a read-out provided by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Member Frank Januzzi on a November 27 [...]
2007-11-28 06:00:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KNNP KS KN CH
07SHANGHAI7622ND CHINA-U.S. MARITIME CONSULTATIVE MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On November 28 and 29, members of the U.S. Maritime Administration delegation led by Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton met with the Chinese Ministry of Communications delegation led by Vice Minister Xu Zuyuan in Shanghai. The two sides discussed a wide range of bilateral [...]
2007-11-29 11:13:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT ELTN CVIS EINV ETRD OVIP CH
07SHANGHAI769SHANGHAI ACADEMICS, BUSINESSMEN TO AMBASSADOR HOLMER: KEEP
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai-based academics and businessmen stressed the importance of having the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) focus on long-term policy issues between the two countries in order to insure its relevance and sustainability beyond 2009 in meetings with Treasury Department SED Speci [...]
2007-12-04 06:49:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI77CG VISITS YANGZHOU; DISCUSSES NEW SOCIALIST COUNTRYSIDE AND
[...] (C) Summary. The Consul General visited Yangzhou City in the northern section of Jiangsu Province from January 29-30. During a visit to a model "new socialist countryside" village, local officials showcased the progress being made in the municipality's rural areas and successes in moving labo [...]
2007-02-05 09:46:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI770EAST CHINA LEGAL CONTACTS ON NEW LAWYER LAW
[...] (C) Summary: East China legal contacts are cautiously optimistic that the new Lawyer Law passed on October 28 and scheduled to be implemented on June 1, 2008 will increase legal protections for Chinese lawyers. The law expands the rights of lawyers to meet clients in criminal cases without su [...]
2007-12-04 08:20:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM KJUS PGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI771EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON LEADERSHIP CHANGES
[...] (S) Summary: East China academic and business contacts who closely follow national political developments say that the size and selection of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) at the 17th Party Congress in October reflected institutionalization of power and power transfer. Vice President [...]
2007-12-04 09:30:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINR PREL ECON CH
07SHANGHAI773SHANGHAI PETITIONERS UPDATE
[...] (C) Shanghai petitioner leaders Chen Enquan, Fu Yuxia, and Wu Xuewei provided Poloff with an update on the political atmosphere for petitioners in Shanghai during a meeting on December 4. According to Chen, Fu, and Wu, local authorities continue to harass and closely monitor petitioners in Sh [...]
2007-12-05 03:33:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI777FRB GOVERNOR WARSH TOLD RMB APPRECIATION GRADUAL, NO STOCK
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to the Shanghai branch of the People's Bank of China (PBOC),RMB appreciation will continue at a gradual pace without any dramatic revaluations in the near future. Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh, in Shanghai November 18-20, was also told that the PBOC is closely [...]
2007-12-07 08:31:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI783MAKING LIGHT: SHANGHAI SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY FULLY
[...] (SBU) Summary: A National Science Foundation (NSF) delegation led by NSF Assistant Director Tony Chan visited Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) on October 26, 2007. Approximately USD 200 million has been spent building the SSRF's light source. The Central Government, the Shanghai [...]
2007-12-11 00:18:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY TPHY ETTC CH
07SHANGHAI784CITI'S STANLEY ON BANKING, ECONOMY, REFORMS, POLITICIANS IN
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese banks are afraid of Citibank becoming too strong. This has led the Chinese Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) to conduct an extraordinarily hostile and intrusive audit of Citi's six-month-old locally incorporated subsidiary. The CBRC's goal appears to be forcing Citi t [...]
2007-12-11 07:55:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI785LEADING INDIAN IT COMPANIES BULLISH ON CHINA MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with high level managers of three Indian information technology (IT) companies operating in Shanghai -- Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, Satyam Computer Services -- to discuss their current operations and future outlook for the China market. They expla [...]
2007-12-11 09:05:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV PREL CH IN
07SHANGHAI787NASDAQ MIGHT HAVE LOOPHOLE TO RESTRICTIONS ON OVERSEAS
[...] (C) Summary: NASDAQ China's Chief Representative believes that there might be a legal loophole to the restrictions on Chinese companies listing overseas that have been in place since September 2006. The first test of this "back door" will be in March 2008. The Ministry of Commerce is very opp [...]
2007-12-12 04:35:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI789SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in mid-November to discuss China-India relations, Shanghai's leading South Asia academic experts provided differing views on a variety of issues including border disputes, United Nations Security Council reform, energy competition, and regional dynamics. T [...]
2007-12-13 01:06:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG PARM CH IN RS
07SHANGHAI790CHINA-RUSSIA RELATIONS: VIEWS FROM SHANGHAI ACADEMICS
[...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in early December on China-Russia relations, Shanghai's leading academic experts on Russia characterized the bilateral relationship as "very good." They noted the excellent personal relationship between the two countries' leaders, which, they claim, ensures [...]
2007-12-13 08:44:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG PARM MCAP CH RS
07SHANGHAI791SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ZHANG NIANCHI ON TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary. During a December 11 lunch, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) President Zhang Nianchi warned that the 2008 referendum on Taiwan's UN membership would have serious consequences for cross-Straits relations. The referendum has a good chance of passing, especially if [...]
2007-12-13 09:00:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
07SHANGHAI792UP, UP AND AWAY: SHANGHAI'S FY-07 VISA NUMBERS GO THROUGH
[...] (U) Consular officers in Shanghai adjudicated 16 percent more NIV applications in FY-07 than in FY-06. This follows a 19 percent increase in FY-06 over the FY-05 NIV workload, which in turn was up 20 percent over FY-04. This cable not only reports the quantitative increases but also provides [...]
2007-12-13 09:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS CMGT CH
07SHANGHAI797JIANGSU ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICIALS HOLD SOME OPTIMISM ABOUT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Congenoffs met with Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Environmental Sciences Senior Engineer and Vice Director Wang Hua and Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department Vice Director Zhu Deming on November 28 to discuss Lake Tai (Tai Hu) pollution clean-up prospects and [...]
2007-12-20 02:16:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PGOV ECON EIND CH
07SHANGHAI801SHANGHAI LEADERSHIP AND BIOGRAPHICAL POTPOURRI
[...] (S) Summary: Yang Yuanxing, husband of a new Politburo member, describes Shanghai Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng as a capable and clean leader whose style of seeking out problems rather than latest accomplishments in discussions with subordinates often discomfits those officials. Yu is dismiss [...]
2007-12-20 06:41:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINR PREL ECON CH
07SHANGHAI802NANJING PARTY SCHOOL ON PARTY SCHOOLS AND ORGANIZATION
[...] (C) Summary: Officials at the Nanjing Party School (NPS) explained how the Party School system in China is set out, with central, provincial, municipal, county, and district level schools in place. Schools are typically run by one of the Deputy Party Secretaries at their respective levels, al [...]
2007-12-21 00:32:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV CH
07SHANGHAI804NANJING: 70 YEARS AFTER THE MASSACRE
[...] (C) Summary: A day after Nanjing commemorated the 70th Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, Poloff met with students, an academic, an official from the local Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) and visited the Nanjing Massacre Museum to discuss Japan and Sino-Japanese relations. Although the FAO off [...]
2007-12-21 07:29:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL SOCI CH JA
07SHANGHAI83NYSE SAYS REP OFFICES NOT LIKELY SOON
[...] (C) Summary: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Executive Director for Asia Pacific Yeeli Zheng updated Econoff on NYSE's efforts to open a representational office on February 8. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Chairman Shang Fulin appeared resistant to timely progress on this issue [...]
2007-02-08 03:58:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV PREL CH
07SHENYANG101PRC/DPRK: BORDER TRADE AND SOME NEW FRICTIONS (MAY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There continue to be differences between Jilin and Liaoning Provinces in the volume and scrutiny of their trade with North Korea. PRC-DPRK frictions have recently emerged in Ji'an, where Chinese officials have taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing neighboring North Korea [...]
2007-05-31 02:33:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ECON KN KS CH
07SHENYANG102PRC/DPRK: SCARLET FEVER, SMUGGLING, BORDER-
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC authorities in Jilin recently claimed they have taken measures to prevent a scarlet fever outbreak in the DPRK from making its way into China. Though officials would not confirm the outbreak, they privately stressed that they are prepared. South Koreans appear to be playing b [...]
2007-05-31 02:34:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PINR KN KS CH
07SHENYANG108DPRK NUKE AFTERMATH, UNSCR 1718 ENFORCEMENT IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Hours after Pyongyang's October 9, 2006 nuclear test, the PLA dispatched a team to Changbai--the PRC border locality closest to the site of the explosion-- to test for contamination, according to Changbai County Communist Party Secretary Miao Chunxiu. Miao said he learned about [...]
2007-06-05 04:31:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ECON KN KS CH
07SHENYANG115DPRK-INTERNAL: RASON TURBINES, MORE PUST DELAYS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DPRK and ROK officials are expected to meet soon in Shenyang to discuss a humanitarian group's proposal to privately finance and install a 750 KW wind turbine in Rason. The opening of Pyongyang's first private university has been pushed back until 2008 as a result of export licen [...]
2007-06-25 08:32:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH
07SHENYANG126PRC-DPRK: BORDER INSPECTIONS AND TRADE ISSUES IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Official Chinese scrutiny of land-based PRC-DPRK cargo/passenger traffic continues to range along the border into mid-2007. Land ports in Nanping (conduit for the many tons of iron ore extracted from North Korea's Musan mine) and Dandong are sites of significant levels of activit [...]
2007-07-09 02:21:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH
07SHENYANG127PRC-ROK KOGURYO SPARRING CONTINUES, QUIETLY, IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly two years after an August 2005 agreement aimed at shelving their neuralgic political dispute over Koguryo--the kingdom that at various points between 37 BC and 668 AD subsumed parts of modern-day northeast China, North Korea and South Korea--PRC-ROK dueling over ancient hi [...]
2007-07-09 03:24:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR CH KN KS
07SHENYANG128PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS; DRUGS; NEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post contacts report that, at least anecdotally, the numbers of North Korean border-crossers encountered this year are fewer than last, though the overall numbers and reasons for the decline are unclear. Jilin Province's ongoing anti-drug campaign is netting more seizures of illeg [...]
2007-07-09 03:25:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PINR PGOV KWMN KN KS CH
07SHENYANG131Taiwan's Kuomintang Representative Given Warm Reception in Harbin
[...] Summary: The 18th Harbin International Fair for Trade and Economic Cooperation attracted participants from all over the world, showing that what was once largely a Sino-Russian event has become truly international. Event organizers claimed two hundred of the world's five hundred largest corpor [...]
2007-07-11 09:12:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH TW
07SHENYANG133NORTH KOREAN "NEOVIAGRA," MINERALS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A visit to Dandong's second DPRK Import- Export Commodity Fair in late June highlighted China's interest in North Korean natural resources and the comparatively low wage rates on the North Korean side of the border. But contacts point out that further down the proverbial line, th [...]
2007-07-13 03:24:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH
07SHENYANG145PRC-DPRK: BORDER OFFICIALS ON MUSAN MINE, RAJIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC imports of North Korean iron ore from Musan are fueling a surge in activity at China's Nanping Land Port; Chinese truckers collecting the ore comprised over ninety percent of the 50,000 passengers that transited the port last year, local Chinese officials say. Plans to link n [...]
2007-07-27 07:26:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV ECON PREL KN KS CH
07SHENYANG147HIV/AIDS AND AVIAN FLU IN NORTHEAST CHINA: STATUS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Health officials in Liaoning Province claim remarkably few official HIV/AIDS cases, though they acknowledge a nexus between the virus, the province's growing drug problem and its seedy sex industry. Liaoning's Center for Disease Control (CDC) is "not worried" about an imminent avi [...]
2007-08-01 06:04:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALKFLU KHIV TBIO PGOV SOCI EAGR CH
07SHENYANG152ANGANG STEEL HOPES TO GROW AT HOME AND ABROAD
[...] Summary: Zhang Xiaogang, Chairman of Anshan Iron and Steel Corporation (AnSteel),recently discussed an impending meeting with John Surma, President of International Iron and Steel Institute and potential cooperation with U.S. Steel Executive Committee of the IISI in New York on July 12 and 13, [...]
2007-08-03 08:46:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH
07SHENYANG153THEY "WON'T LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK": PRESS CONTROL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Conservative propaganda officials in northeast China continue to gag, muffle or otherwise "manage" perceived negative news, according to Liaoning journalists and Party sources, who note that media freedom generally tends to be more restricted here than in other parts of China. Pr [...]
2007-08-06 08:46:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH
07SHENYANG155China's Brilliance Automotive to Enter U.S. Market in
[...] Summary. Liu Xuemin, General Office Vice-Director of Huachen Group told Econoff recently that, contrary to some trade reports about delays, China's Brilliance Automotive -- the publicly traded arm of state-owned Huachen Group -- will begin exports to the United States in early September of thi [...]
2007-08-07 08:39:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH
07SHENYANG171SHENYANG'S AVIATION ECONOMIC ZONE BRING'S MAJOR
[...] (C) Summary: City officials and business representatives confirmed that Shenyang will establish an aviation economic zone in the area south of the Hunnan Development Zone and north of Taoxian International Airport and that Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) will establish a new company made u [...]
2007-09-07 10:06:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH EAIR ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PREL
07SHENYANG174CHINA/SOE REFORM: A DALIAN PERSPECTIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Dalian's State Assets Supervisory and Administration Commission (SASAC) is, like other SASAC entities throughout China, seeking to reform its thirty-eight state-owned enterprises (SOE),by improving internal management, reducing the overall number of companies, and changing own [...]
2007-09-12 09:10:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV EPIT EFIN CH
07SHENYANG175LATE AUGUST TRIP TO THE DPRK/CHINA/RUSSIA BORDER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-12 10:07:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PINR PGOV KS KN CH
07SHENYANG178PRC/DPRK: NEW NK BORDER FENCING; INSPECTIONS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent PRC inspections of cross-border PRC- DPRK traffic through Dandong show no change. One Western NGO recently shipping flood-related medical aid to North Korea encountered rather "strict" PRC customs requirements that slowed the shipment by several days. North Korea has star [...]
2007-09-14 11:06:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR ECON PREF KN KS CH
07SHENYANG184AIDING NORTH KOREAN PATIENTS (AND BORDER-
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A Dandong-based, Korean-American NGO focused on North Korea continues to ship medical aid into the DPRK, but headaches abound as the group seeks to refine its aid strategy. In a modest hospital near the PRC-DPRK border, the group also discreetly tends to North Korean border-cross [...]
2007-09-28 08:35:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PINR KWMN KN KS CH
07SHENYANG205PRC-DPRK: NK BORDER-CROSSERS, HUMAN SMUGGLING,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The number of North Korean border-crossers entering China in 2007 thus far looks to be roughly on par with 2005/2006 levels despite the DPRK's agricultural difficulties and natural disasters earlier this year, according to a Liaoning scholar engaged in internal, state- sponsored r [...]
2007-10-29 05:46:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PINR KWMN KN KS CH
07SHENYANG216PYONGYANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
[...] (C) Summary: Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST) President and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) founding President Dr. Kim Chin Kyong, PUST Executive Vice President David Kim, and YUST Director Norma Nichols provided updates on PUST construction progress and [...]
2007-11-19 07:58:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PINR KWMN KN KS CH SPILL
07SHENYANG220INVESTOR PROTESTS ROCK SHENYANG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A relatively small group of protestors assembled outside Consulate General Shenyang early in the afternoon of 21 November to protest the failure of ant-farming health-product company Yilishen to pay dividends. The protests were not directed at the United States, but rather at the [...]
2007-11-21 10:05:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PINS SOCI CH
07SHENYANG222CHINA: AMBASSADOR HOLMER MEETS WITH SHENYANG AMERICAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a lunch meeting with Ambassador Alan Holmer, American business leaders in Shenyang expressed worry about the appreciation of the Renminbi and the weakness of the dollar, while admitting that the lower dollar did offer some competitive advantages, especially against European c [...]
2007-11-23 07:45:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SENV EIND CH
07SHENYANG223BRILLIANCE SLOWS APPROACH TO U.S. MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary. Brilliance Automotive plans to delay its entry into the United States market while it resolves safety and environmental standards issues for its line of high-end sedans. The company cites a return to profitability and a desire to make its market debut a clear success as the ma [...]
2007-11-26 07:46:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EPIT EFIN PROV WTRO CH
07SHENYANG229(S) NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS: PRC THINKING ON
[...] (S) SUMMARY: One of China's leading state-sponsored specialists on North Korean border-crossers foresees no near-term evolution in PRC thinking on the UNHCR and its possible role in northeast China. On a separate issue, the specialist also claimed that foreign activists publicizing their effo [...]
2007-11-28 04:19:00Consulate ShenyangSECRETPREF KWMN PINR KN KS CH
07SHENYANG244PRC-DPRK: UPDATE ON NK REPATRIATIONS/ASYLUM-
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC border officials in Baishan tell us that they continue to apprehend and repatriate North Korean border-crossers in their jurisdiction. Japan's Shenyang Consulate is now home to seven North Korean asylum-seekers, including two young children. North Korean authorities near Si [...]
2007-12-13 03:56:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PINR KN KS CH
07SHENYANG245"ANT POWER" PROTESTS LEAVE LIAONING SIMMERING IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The political fallout from days of protests over a collapsed pyramid scheme involving hundreds of thousands of northeastern Chinese has put authorities in conservative Liaoning Province, and perhaps some in Beijing, in an uncomfortable political corner. Underreported in the Wester [...]
2007-12-18 05:36:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PINS SOCI ECON CH
07SHENYANG248ARE CHINA'S INFLATION NUMBERS DEFLATED
[...] Summary. Recent press and government reports put China's inflation rate at around six percent per year and attribute most of the rise to food prices, which constitute one third of the core index. However, a recent visit to local markets indicates that the real rate of consumer price inflatio [...]
2007-12-19 08:16:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV CH
07SHENYANG250CESSNA HOPES TO OPEN CHINA TO PRIVATE AVIATION
[...] (U) Cessna Aircraft Corporation, as part of successful negotiations to contract with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) to manufacture Cessna's new 162 Skycatcher Light Sport Aircraft (LSA),received assurances from Chinese officials that, by the time the aircraft rolls off the production lin [...]
2007-12-20 07:39:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH EAIR ECON PREL
07SHENYANG251EXCESS DOMESTIC DEMAND DRIVES CHINA'S GRAIN MARKET
[...] (C) Summary. China will not allow any exports of corn or soybeans during 2008 and will radically curtail wheat exports, according to Wang Haisheng, Director of state-owned Jilin Grain Group and General Manager of Jilin Grain Group Export and Import Company. Wang,s company, which accounts for [...]
2007-12-26 07:37:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON EIND EINT ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV
07SHENYANG78NORTH KOREA/CHINA: SMALLER-SCALE SMUGGLING ACROSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a recent crackdown by PRC and DPRK authorities, Chinese smugglers--often partnering with local North Korean military contacts--reportedly continue to operate near Dandong. A fair amount of smuggling in the area appears to be smaller-scale in nature, though profits can nev [...]
2007-04-30 10:27:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KN KS CH
07SHENYANG79NORTH KOREA ROUNDUP: PROPAGANDA, REMITTANCES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is a roundup of North Korea-related information collected by Post in recent weeks. Contacts report that nuclear propaganda has recently started disappearing in North Korea's major cities, including Pyongyang. Pyongyang's private university, PUST, appears to be back on track [...]
2007-04-30 10:29:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH
07SHENYANG95PRC HUMAN RIGHTS--YAO FUXIN UPDATE: HEALTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The health of Yao Fuxin, the imprisoned Liaoning labor leader whose case gained international and high-level USG attention in 2003, has declined considerably since 2005, according to his family. Yao's daughter is surveilled by PRC security services, some authorities refuse to acc [...]
2007-05-22 09:37:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PINS SOCI CH
07SINGAPORE1455(C) SINGAPORE'S VIEWS ON APEC AND SOVEREIGN WEALTH
[...] (C) Summary: Singapore officials told Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia Robert Dohner that they generally supported Treasury's proposed APEC Capital Market Technical Assistance program as well as Treasury's key priorities for the APEC Finance Ministerial in August 2-3 in Australia. [...]
2007-08-07 06:11:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV ECON PGOV SN CH
07SINGAPORE1932LEE KUAN YEW ON BURMA'S "STUPID" GENERALS AND THE
[...] (C) Summary: ASEAN should not have admitted Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam into the organization in the 1990's, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told visiting EAP DAS Christensen and the Ambassador October 16. Expressing his scorn for Burma's leaders, MM Lee called them "dense" and "stupid." A [...]
2007-10-19 08:41:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON CH TW BM SN
07SINGAPORE2184U/S BURNS' 12/3 MEETING WITH SINGAPORE PM LEE
[...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns urged in a December 3 meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that Singapore and ASEAN do more to put pressure on the Burmese regime to engage in genuine dialogue. PM Lee said ASEAN would do its part, but claimed the real leverage lay with Ch [...]
2007-12-12 05:21:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPREL SN BM CH IN AF JA
07SINGAPORE2194AMBASSADOR'S CHINA-FOCUSED ROUNDTABLE WITH
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador joined academics from the East Asian Institute (EAI) in a roundtable discussion of China's relationship with Singapore and ASEAN. EAI researchers noted that a Singapore-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would be particularly helpful for Singapore's services sector, [...]
2007-12-13 07:34:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD MARR PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON ASEAN CH
07SINGAPORE803(S) GOS RELEASES DETAINED STEEL PLATES TO SHIPPER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-24 11:01:00Embassy SingaporeSECRET//NOFORNCH ETTC IR KN KNNP MTCRE PARM PK PREL SN
07SKOPJE616MACEDONIA: MTAG: MIKROSAM EXPORTS OF FILAMENT
[...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 4. 2. (S) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel points on Mikrosam's export of filament winding machines to MinEcon State Counselor for Trade Krum Efremov on July 25. Efremov was pleased to hear that the USG had no objections to the GOM issuing [...]
2007-07-26 16:12:00Embassy SkopjeSECRETETTC PARM PREL CH MK
07SKOPJE667MACEDONIA: MTAG ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK PROVIDED TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-14 10:26:00Embassy SkopjeSECRETETTC PARM PREL CH MK
07STATE111099CONTINUED ASSISTANCE TO IRAN'S MISSILE PROGRAM
[...] This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Since February 2006, we have repeatedly discussed with China our concerns regarding the proliferation-related trading activities of the Chinese firm Dalian Sunny Industry, which is also know [...]
2007-08-08 21:11:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
07STATE130635ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON EFFORTS BY PAKISTAN TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background and Purpose/Objective: Since March 2006, the U.S. has provided PRC officials with information on efforts by an entity affiliated with Pakistan's missile program to procure a ring-rolling machine and [...]
2007-09-17 21:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
07STATE131595(S) CHINESE-ORIGIN STEEL BEING SHIPPED TO SYRIA'S
[...] This is an Action Request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) BACKGROUND (FOR POST ONLY): On July 6, 2007, South Korean officials informed the USG that on June 19, the ROK had intercepted a shipment of Chinese-origin steel en route to Syria. The ROK had taken this action in [...]
2007-09-18 23:00:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH KS SY
07STATE142040IRAN SANCTIONS ACT (ISA, FORMERLY ILSA): APPARENT
[...] (U) This is an action message; please see paragraphs 2 through 4 below. 2. (C) Department appreciates Embassy,s continuing close attention to this matter. Ref. C conveys disturbing news of apparent progress toward a firm agreement on Yadavaran. The seriousness of this issue calls for furt [...]
2007-10-09 23:50:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL ENRG EPET IR CH
07STATE148514(S) MILITARY-RELATED GOODS FROM DPRK TO IRAN VIA
[...] (S) ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to approach appropriate Chinese officials and deliver talking points below regarding a shipment of military-related goods from North Korea to Iran via Beijing, China. Post should draw from background and objectives below as appropriate. Post is requeste [...]
2007-10-24 22:12:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL KNNP ETTC EWWT KN CH
07STATE155885CHINESE EMBASSY PROTESTS ANNOUNCED PATRIOT
[...] (C) Reinforcing Vice Minister Zhang Yesui's demarche to Charg, Piccuta (REFTEL),Chinese DCM Zheng Zeguang met with EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Christensen to lodge a &strong protest8 of the November 9 announced sale of PATRIOT missile system technology upgrades to Taiwan. Such a sa [...]
2007-11-13 22:38:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALCH TW PREL MARR
07STATE156474APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE NOVEMBER 19-20
[...] (U) Classified by William Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 17. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on November 19-2 [...]
2007-11-15 03:17:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PREL PGOV BK BM CH IR IS IZ KV LE PK SY ZI
07STATE160243TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMIC COUNCIL LUNCHEON
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-26 20:32:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALECIN EINV ETRD EUN CH
07STATE161304(S) DEMARCHE ON POTENTIAL COOPERATION BETWEEN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Kyiv please see para 6. 2. (S) Background/Objective: The United States has information indicating that as of late August 2007, Ukraine's Arsenal Design Bureau was planning to host a delegation from the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Control Device [...]
2007-11-28 21:50:00Secretary of StateSECRETETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP CH
07STATE163398COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: A/S HILL TO BEIJING
[...] Department requests country clearance for EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill and his delegation, listed in SIPDIS para 3, to travel to Beijing and Tokyo for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks from December 5-7. Assistant Secretary Hill will not/not overnight in Tokyo. [...]
2007-12-04 23:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
07STATE166406DEMARCHE REQUEST - MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 8. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S) The United States has reason to believe Iranian security services may have targeted and detained private investigator and retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson on March 8, 2007, during a t [...]
2007-12-13 03:27:00Secretary of StateSECRETAS CA CASC CH EU EZ FR GM IN IR IT JA JO KDEM
07STATE166902IRAN SANCTIONS ACT (ISA, FORMERLY ILSA):
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-13 23:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PREL ENRG EPET IR CH
07STATE167247(C) COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: DEC 18-23 TO
[...] (C) Department requests country clearance for Office of Korean Affairs Director Sung Kim and NSC Asia Director of Chinese Affairs Paul Haenle to travel to Seoul en route to Pyongyang for consultations related to disablement activities from December 18-23. Travelers will arrive Seoul December [...]
2007-12-14 19:55:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH
07STATE18700ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON PROCUREMENT EFFORTS BY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background and Purpose/Objective: In March 2006 and January 2007, the U.S. provided PRC officials with information indicating that an entity affiliated with Pakistan's missile program was working to procure a [...]
2007-02-14 22:13:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
07STATE28429FOLLOWING-UP WITH CHINA ON MISSILE PROLIFERATION
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Background: Over the last 18 months, the U.S. has raised several specific cases of missile-related cooperation between Chinese firms and Iran's missile program. In particular, we have repeatedly discussed spe [...]
2007-03-07 14:54:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PREL PARM MCAP ETTC CH IR
07STATE28998DEMARCHE CONCERNING ISNA SANCTIONS ON CHINESE
[...] (S/NF) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. We want to inform the Chinese government that, under the Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act (ISNA),sanctions may be imposed on two Chinese companies, NORINCO and China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC),for providing Wassen [...]
2007-03-07 23:36:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PARM ETTC CH IR SY
07STATE36889DEMARCHE: URGING TO CHINA TO NOT OPPOSE ON EU
[...] Department requests that the Embassy urge China to support, or at least not to oppose, a European Union- sponsored Sudan resolution at the UN Human Rights Council. The Embassy is also requested to voice U.S. opposition to an Algerian-sponsored resolution text that would protect Sudan from cr [...]
2007-03-22 21:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYHUMAN PREL PHUM CH SU DARFR
07STATE48928(C) IRAN AND SYRIA NONPROLIFERATION ACT --
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Background: The Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act (ISNA) requires periodic reports to Congress identifying foreign entities for which there is credible information indicating that they have transferred to o [...]
2007-04-12 22:46:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC CH IR
07STATE49749(S) SHIPMENT OF SODIUM PERCHLORATE, AMMUNITION,
[...] (S) ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to approach appropriate Chinese officials regarding the transfer of subject items to Iran by Chinese entities. Post may draw from background, objectives, or talking points/non-paper below. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S) We have received in [...]
2007-04-14 02:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL MNUC IR CH
07STATE65749(S) NIAG 7011/7015/7016: EFFORTS BY AN
[...] ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to approach appropriate Chinese officials regarding ongoing attempts by an unsafeguarded nuclear program to obtain technology for the program from Chinese entities. Post should provide new information about continued activities by this program to seek enric [...]
2007-05-14 22:35:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL MNUC PK CH HK
07STATE68969(S) MULTIPLE SHIPMENTS OF SODIUM PERCHLORATE FROM
[...] ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to approach appropriate Chinese officials regarding shipments of sodium perchlorate by Chinese entities to Iranian entities with links to Iran's ballistic missile program. Sodium perchlorate can be used to produce ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer for solid- [...]
2007-05-18 22:47:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL MNUC IR CH
07STATE8579REQUESTING PRC INVESTIGATE MISSILE-RELATED
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background and Purpose/Objective: In March 2006, the U.S. provided PRC officials with information indicating that a Chinese firm was working to supply a ring rolling machine to Pakistan's missile program (Ref [...]
2007-01-23 22:44:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK IR
07STOCKHOLM1091DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER ON SEPTEMBER 7-8 INFORMAL EU
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-05 14:56:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN PGOV PREL YI RS CH IN SW
07STOCKHOLM1389SWEDEN ON NOVEMBER 19-20 FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-16 17:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN PK SW CH BM IS LE KV SY ZI
07SURABAYA65EAST JAVA'S CHINESE MUSLIMS: IN THE MOSQUE, ON THE STUMP AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Surabaya Principal Officer and Pol/Econ officer attended the fifth anniversary ceremony of the construction of the Cheng Hoo Mosque in downtown Surabaya on 28 October. The event went well beyond simple ceremony and demonstrated the importance of the audience to business, poli [...]
2007-10-31 09:13:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ID PGOV PHUM
07SUVA15FIJI UPDATE 1/5: PRESIDENT NAMES BAINIMARAMA
[...] (C) Fiji President Iloilo swore in Commodore Bainimarama and interim Prime Minister on Dec. 5. Bainimarama, still clearly in charge, then urged Fiji citizens and the international community to help bring good government and true democratic values. Iloilo's doctor reports the President is sen [...]
2007-01-04 20:42:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM ASEC CASC CH TW FJ
07SUVA224EAP DAS DAVIES IN TONGA URGES RAPID DEMOCRATIC
[...] (C) During EAP DAS Davies' April 13-14 visit to Tonga, Prime Minister Sevele reiterated that he and the King are committed to reform. In conversations across the political spectrum, Davies heard various views about the appropriate pace, though most all agreed last November's riot in Nuku'alof [...]
2007-04-17 13:54:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM CH TN
07SUVA30CHINESE AID TO FIJI - NOTHING NEW IN THE PIPELINE;
[...] (C) PRC Embassy officials in Fiji downplay Commander Bainimarama's comments that Fiji can count on China for military and other assistance. China has not received any new requests for assistance since the coup and has made almost no progress in implementing the projects promised during Prem [...]
2007-01-11 21:23:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MARR FJ TW CH
07SUVA372FIJI "LOOKING NORTH" TO CHINA - DOES THE REALITY
[...] (C) The appointment of Sir James Ah Koy to be Fiji's next Ambassador to China has fueled renewed discussion about attempts by the Fiji interim government (IG) to gain assistance from China in place of aid from Australia, New Zealand and other donors. Ah Koy says Fiji hopes to borrow up to U [...]
2007-07-26 16:17:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD MARR FJ CH
07SUVA402TAIWAN AND CHINA RELATIONS IN THE PACIFIC --
[...] (C) Competition between China and Taiwan for allegiance from small Pacific states remains intense. In Tuvalu, Taiwan is a very visible donor, which Tuvaluans appreciate. However, the Taiwan ambassador to Tuvalu was PNGed after meddling in 2006 post-election politics. The current ambassador c [...]
2007-08-09 15:33:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR MARR PGOV EFIS XV CH TW
07SUVA53FIJI UPDATE 1/23/17: BAINIMARAMA LOOKING NORTH;
[...] (C) In reaction to aid and visa restrictions imposed by Western governments, particularly Australia and New Zealand, Commodore Bainimarama announced plans to send a delegation of ministers, senior officials and businessmen to China, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia in order to diversify sources [...]
2007-01-22 21:53:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM PINR ASEC UN EU CH IN MY ID
07SUVA554Tonga Update: elections in 2008; reforms postponed to 2010;
[...] (SBU) The final session of Tonga's three-year Legislative Assembly concluded November 1, with elections now slated for April 2008. PM Sevele, as a royal appointee, will not have to face election. Pro-democracy People's Representatives, who had doggedly argued for the 2008 election to take pl [...]
2007-11-29 15:27:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID TN CH
07SUVA57MILITARY AND INTERIM GOVERNMENT ASK TAIWAN MISSION
[...] (C) The Taiwan Trade Mission in Fiji has been approached separately by the Fiji military and the Prime Minister's Office with requests for aid. A high-ranking military officer asked the Trade Mission to pass to Taipei a request for arms and military equipment. The Prime Minister's Office as [...]
2007-01-23 20:46:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR EAID FJ TW CH
07SUVA577IMF GIVES FIJI INTERIM GOVERNMENT MIXED MARKS FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. A visiting IMF Article IV mission said Fiji's Reserve Bank and interim government (IG) have done a fairly good job over the last 12 months managing a very troubled economy, although it noted that many of the troubles were brought on by 2006 coup that brought the IG to power. [...]
2007-12-20 13:54:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON MARR FJ CH
07SUVA59FIJI UPDATE 1/24/07: RFMF DETAINS CRITICS; UNIONS
[...] (C) Prominent lawyer Richard Naidu was brought to the army barracks and "given the usual third degree" last night. He will "lay low" for a while but plans to resume public comment. The interim Attorney General suggested that instead of bringing critics up to QEB, the military should let pol [...]
2007-01-23 22:17:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM PINR ASEC FJ CH
07SUVA66TONGA AND THE FUTURE: RECONCILE; REFORM; AND
[...] (C) Two months after last November's riot, the Ambassador's Jan. 16-18 visit to Tonga found most everyone still licking their wounds. But many people realize they must look forward. A state of emergency may continue for several more months. The Tonga Defense Service (TDS) hopes to reduce it [...]
2007-01-25 18:28:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID PHUM ASEC CH TN
07SUVA80EMINENT PERSONS GROUP MEETING WITH FOREIGN MISSIONS IN
[...] (SBU) Representatives from many foreign missions resident in Fiji condemned the military takeover in a meeting with the Pacific Island Forum's Eminent Persons Group 1/31 and called for a rapid return of democracy. A notable exception was China, which hopes for a return of stability and contin [...]
2007-01-30 22:05:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR FJ CH EUN UK FR KS JA MY ID IN
07TAIPEI1042CROSS-STRAIT OPENING WILL BE TOP ECONOMIC PRIORITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: If the Kuomintang's (KMT) Ma Ying-jeou is elected President of Taiwan next year, cross-Strait liberalization measures will be the focus of his economic policies. He is likely to lift various restrictions on investment in China and continue cross-Strait discussions on charter fl [...]
2007-05-09 08:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV EAIR EINV CH TW
07TAIPEI1149TAIWAN DISMAYED OVER OIE RESOLUTION; SEES THIN
[...] (SBU) Taiwan MOFA International Organizations (IO) Director-General David Lin called in AIT Political Chief on May 22 to express Taiwan's dismay over the revised China-Taiwan resolution being circulated by World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) President Barry O'Neil. This resolution as r [...]
2007-05-22 10:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAGR AORG CH TW
07TAIPEI1202A HSIEH PRESIDENCY WOULD LIKELY ACCELERATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Economic scholars and a political advisor close to Frank Hsieh describe the Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate as "flexible" and "pragmatic" in his approach to cross-Strait economic relations. They believe that, as President, Hsieh would be more willing to open [...]
2007-05-31 09:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EAIR PGOV PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI1317PRC/TAIWAN JOINT VENTURE TO EXPLORE OIL IN TAIWAN
[...] SUMMARY. The PRC and Taiwan are both actively seeking new energy sources and compete for oil concessions in the same countries. However, the PRC and Taiwan are cooperating to explore for petroleum in the Taiwan Strait. This is part of an effort to triple energy exploration spending by Taiwa [...]
2007-06-12 02:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON CH TW
07TAIPEI133CROSS-STRAIT NEGOTIATIONS: STATE OF PLAY THROUGH
[...] (C) Summary. Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Joseph Wu told the Director that negotiations are going well on expanding PRC tourism to Taiwan, the next step in cross-Strait exchanges after last June's landmark festival charter flight agreement. Wu then expects the two sides to focus on dir [...]
2007-01-18 08:20:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW CH
07TAIPEI1440TAIWAN EPA: FOCUS ON EIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. USEPA Associate Program Manager for China/East Asia Kelly McAskill visited Taiwan on June 11-15 to discuss ongoing programs with Taiwan and to plan for the next Conference on Issues of Common Concern, which is planned for August 13-16 in Hawaii and will address transboundary p [...]
2007-06-25 06:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI1511TAIWAN APPROVES LIMITED CHIP TESTING INVESTMENT IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 28, Taiwan's Vice Minister of Economic Affairs chaired a joint committee meeting to give final approval to the applications of four of Taiwan's leading semiconductor packaging and testing firms to invest in China. The four companies' planned investment totals USD 99.6 m [...]
2007-07-03 08:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV KIPR PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI152CLOSING THE FINAL LINK - SHIPPING (PART 1 OF 2)
[...] (SBU) Summary: Measures to liberalize cross-Strait shipping have fallen well short of direct maritime links between Taiwan and Mainland China. Offshore transshipment at Taiwan's major harbors and traffic through the "mini-links," which connect Taiwan-controlled islands off the Fujian coast di [...]
2007-01-19 09:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALEWWT ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI1621MATSU MEETS THE 21ST CENTURY: "MINI THREE LINKS"
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-19 08:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD PREL TW CH
07TAIPEI1634TAIWAN PROMOTES MEDICAL TOURISM OVERSEAS
[...] (U) Summary. Taiwan has announced plans to allow entry of mainland Chinese for medical treatment, beginning August 1, 2007. Starting in 2002, Taiwan has permitted a limited number of mainland Chinese to visit the island each year, traveling to Taiwan via a transit location such as Hong Kong. [...]
2007-07-19 23:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI167NEW PRC REGULATIONS DO LITTLE FOR TAIWAN TRAVEL AGENTS
[...] As Taiwan's travel industry eagerly awaits a cross-Strait agreement on tourism, now expected to be finalized in spring 2007 (reftels),Beijing announced revised regulations making it easier for foreign travel agents to operate in China. The China National Tourism Administration Director Genera [...]
2007-01-23 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI1704TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES THRIVE, BUT LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Faced with rising fuel costs, some of Taiwan's airlines are struggling to stay in business. The two international carriers, China Airlines and EVA Airways, are expanding routes in Asia as a central component of their future growth, and the Taiwan to Hong Kong and Macau routes are extrem [...]
2007-07-31 09:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON PREL EINV ETRD TW CH
07TAIPEI173 CROSS-STRAIT NEGOTIATIONS: STATE OF PLAY THROUGH
[...] (C) Summary. Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Joseph Wu told the Director that negotiations are going well on expanding PRC tourism to Taiwan, the next step in cross-Strait exchanges after last June's landmark festival charter flight agreement. Wu then expects the two sides to focus on dir [...]
2007-01-24 00:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI174TAIWAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON FIJI AND SOLOMON ISLANDS
[...] (C REL AUS) Summary. The Director delivered reftel demarche on Fiji and Solomon Islands to Foreign Minister James Huang on January 23. Huang responded that Taiwan "suspended" its assistance to Fiji following the coup and has not been approached for assistance by the post-coup Fiji governmen [...]
2007-01-24 01:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID AS NZ BP FJ CH TW
07TAIPEI1790TAIPEI RESPONDS TO APEC DEMARCHE ON USDOL APEC CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-09 08:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB OTRA AS BX CA CI CH HK ID JA KS MY MX NZ
07TAIPEI1812WILL LABOR SHORTAGES HURT TAIWAN'S TECH SECTOR?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the latest attempt to forestall a predicted shortage of skilled labor that could disproportionately affect Taiwan's high technology industries, the Executive Yuan recently approved measures to attract more foreign professionals to Taiwan. The measures provide tax and non-tax [...]
2007-08-10 06:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINT ELAB ETRD TW CH
07TAIPEI1924FORMER CHEN ADVISOR ON CROSS-STRAIT AND US-TAIWAN
[...] (U) Summary. On August 16, Deputy Director Wang met with Chen Po-chih, chairman of the Taiwan Think Tank. Chen, known to be a 'deep green' supporter of and former advisor to President Chen Shui-bian, frankly expressed his personal views on the economic relations between Taiwan and China, ass [...]
2007-08-23 01:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON ETRD PGOV PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI1999U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Vice Premier Chiou I-jen told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission delegation that the cross-Strait military balance is increasingly favoring China. President Chen understands that U.S.-Taiwan military cooperation is essential to Taiwan's defense, Chiou added [...]
2007-08-31 04:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI2033PROTEST TO AIT REGARDING TAIWAN UN BID REFERENDUM
[...] During the small group demonstration outside AIT on Sept 4 (reftel),ADIR invited several Legislative Yuan and Taipei Council members (list provided below) to present their views inside AIT. Apart from reading their letters (translated below),several added their own views during the meeting. [...]
2007-09-06 09:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV PREL OPRC KMDR KPAO CH TW
07TAIPEI2074MAINLAND AFFAIRS COUNCIL BLAMES CHINA AND PUSHES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a recent meeting with U.S. Senate Budget Committee Staff Director Scott Gudes and Staff Economist Daniel Brandt, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Vice Chairman Tung Chen-yuan laid out the Chen administration's position on cross-Strait relations. China threatens Taiwan militar [...]
2007-09-10 03:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL ETRD PGOV PINR CH TW
07TAIPEI2094PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES' CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC
[...] (C) In the run-up to Taiwan's 2008 presidential election, KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou and DPP candidate Frank Hsieh continue gradually to unveil their prospective cross-Strait economic and trade policies. Both Ma and Hsieh support general liberalization of cross-Strait economic relations in th [...]
2007-09-12 08:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON ETRD PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI2123AIT EXPRESSES U.S. CONCERNS BEFORE PRESIDENT
[...] (S) In response to Ref A and after coordination with the Department, AIT Acting Director Robert Wang separately called Vice Premier Chiou I-Jen and NSC Secretary-General Mark Chen on Saturday morning, Sept 15, to inquire whether there would be any "surprises" in President Chen Shui-bian's spee [...]
2007-09-17 08:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRETPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI2139TAIWAN MOFA RESPONSE TO UN DEBATE DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary. AIT conveyed reftel demarche on UN Taiwan debate to MOFA on Sept 19 (AIT Director's separate presentation to Vice Premier Chiou I-jen reported septel). MOFA told AIT that Taiwan is hoping the General Committee (GC) Chairman will be able to arrange an open GC debate on the Taiwan [...]
2007-09-19 10:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALAALC PREL UNGA AORG CH TW
07TAIPEI2162TAIWAN REQUESTS US SUPPORT FOR "LIMITED" DEBATE IN
[...] (C) Summary: Taiwan Acting Foreign Minister Yang Tzu-pao called in the Director on September 21 to request U.S. support for a "limited" debate on the Taiwan issue in UNGA. Yang asserted that "closing" the debate to a two-plus-two format during the September 18 GC meeting was not "friendly" t [...]
2007-09-21 09:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALAALC PREL UNGA AORG CH TW
07TAIPEI2193KMT VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OUTLINES ECONOMIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 26 meeting with the Director, KMT Vice Presidential candidate Vincent Siew (Hsiao Wan-chang) previewed his October 3-5 visit to Washington, where he will articlulate KMT plans for Taiwan to play a "moderate and positive" regional role if they return to power next y [...]
2007-09-26 23:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ETRD EFIN PINR TW CH
07TAIPEI2244DPP PASSES SLIGHTLY LESS RADICAL "NORMAL COUNTRY"
[...] (C) Summary. A contentious DPP party congress on Sunday passed the less radical version of the "normal country" resolution that President Chen mediated last week, which pledges a non-specific "rectification" of the name Taiwan. Deep-Green supporters of former-DPP Chairman Yu Shyi-kun mounted [...]
2007-10-01 11:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI2279TAIWAN'S IMPORT INSPECTION REGIME FOCUSES ON CHINA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Global concern about Chinese product safety has focused Taiwan regulatory attention on imports from the PRC, especially food products. Recent conversations with agencies in charge of formulating policy, NGOs, and local and foreign importers give a better sense of how the regula [...]
2007-10-04 05:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI2333TAIWAN ANALYST COMMENTS ON PRC REACTION TO DPP UN
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan cross-Strait expert Lin Chong-pin told AIT that he assesses the PRC as very unlikely to "overreact" to the ruling DPP's UN referendum. He acknowledged, however, that Beijing is exerting direct and indirect pressures on Taiwan authorities in opposition to DPP the referend [...]
2007-10-15 09:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI2336LOOKING AHEAD AT CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC POLICY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During recent discussions of future cross-Strait economic policy with AIT economic chief, Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Chen Min-tong and prominent private analysts all predicted eventual progress on establishing direct passenger flights, easing investment restrictions, and in [...]
2007-10-16 06:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV EFIN PINR TW CH
07TAIPEI2343MIXED REACTIONS TO PRC PRESIDENT HU JINTAO'S 17TH
[...] (C) Summary: In response to PRC President Hu Jintao's proposal to negotiate a cross-Strait peace agreement (reftel),Taiwan's DPP government argues that such an agreement is impossible so long as Beijing insists that Taipei accept its "one China principle." While comments by most DPP leaders [...]
2007-10-16 12:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI2347MAINLAND AFFAIRS CHAIR ACKNOWLEDGES HU JINTAO
[...] (C) Summary. Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Chen Min-tong acknowledged to AIT that PRC President Hu Jintao's October 15 CCP Party Congress statement was somewhat more conciliatory than previous statements on Taiwan. He speculated, however, that this "softer" message was intended a [...]
2007-10-17 10:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI2351MA ECONOMIC PLAN ADDRESSES IMPLICATIONS OF
[...] (U) This cable is one in a series on the Taiwan presidential candidates' economic policies and advisors. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In an October 16 meeting with AIT economic chief, KMT Legislative Yuan (LY) member Su Chi said he is advising presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou on how to address the pr [...]
2007-10-18 00:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
07TAIPEI2406AIT DIRECTOR'S LUNCH WITH JAPANESE REPRESENTATIVE
[...] (C) Summary. During an October 25 lunch with my counterpart, Japanese Rep Tadashi Ikeda, he reported on an October 19 dinner with President Chen Shui-bian and an upcoming visit to Japan by KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou. Ikeda also made it clear that while Japan will maintain nomin [...]
2007-10-26 09:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI2408TAIWAN DEFENSE BUDGET MOVES ONE STEP FORWARD:
[...] (C) Summary. A Legislative Yuan (LY) joint committee has approved the 2008 defense budget and sent it to the full LY for action. The approved defense weapons systems include PAC-2 upgrades, PAC-3 missiles, P-3C aircraft, diesel submarines, and F-16 fighters, while reducing funds for Taiwan' [...]
2007-10-26 10:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP CH TW
07TAIPEI2416TAICHUNG MAYOR HU ON TAIWAN POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary: (KMT) Taichung Mayor Jason Hu told the Director on October 26 that he is confident the KMT will win the 2008 presidential election. Hu said KMT election strategy is to ignore DPP candidate Frank Hsieh and cast the election as a referendum on President Chen Shui-bian's tenure in [...]
2007-10-30 04:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW CH
07TAIPEI244SEMICONDUCTOR ENTREPRENEUR EXPLAINS TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: Powerchip Semiconductor Chairman Frank Huang told the AIT Director on January 30 that Taiwan semiconductor firms will keep their global competitive advantage of cost-effective production. He commented that Chinese competitors in the industry will not be the threat to Taiwan firm [...]
2007-01-31 09:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETTC PGOV PREL TW CH
07TAIPEI2445TAIWAN SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT IN WHO AND OTHER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 1, the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations DG David Lin requested a meeting with AIT to discuss access problems Taiwan is experiencing with WHO under the International Health Regulations (IHRs). In September, WHO sent a warning on tainted [...]
2007-11-06 05:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL AMED ETRD TBIO EAGR ECON WHO CH TW
07TAIPEI2459FM HUANG ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, CAMPAIGN RHETORIC,
[...] (C) Foreign Minister James Huang expressed general confidence over the state of Taiwan's relations with its 24 remaining diplomatic allies, which bear watching but evidence no major changes in the near term. At the same time, he expressed concern that Beijing might try to spring a surprise i [...]
2007-11-08 08:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI246CLOSING THE FINAL LINK - AVIATION (PART 2 OF 2)
[...] (C) Summary: The lack of direct air links between Taiwan and the Mainland causes considerable harm to Taiwan's economy. Inconvenient passenger routes change how Taiwan businessmen and foreign investors do business. More expensive air cargo makes Taiwan exporters less competitive. Direct air [...]
2007-02-01 02:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON PREL EINV ETRD TW CH
07TAIPEI25CROSS-STRAIT INVESTMENT: TAIWAN ANNOUNCES
[...] (C) Summary: On December 29, 2006, Taiwan announced that semiconductor manufacturers could apply for permission to produce chips with 0.18-micron feature size in the PRC. The move comes after years of lobbying from Taiwan firms. More delays are possible before any firms are actually approved [...]
2007-01-05 04:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALEINV ETTC ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI2518PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE SECRETARY GENERAL YEH CHU-LAN
[...] (C) Summary: Presidential Office Secretary General Yeh Chu-lan stressed to the Director on November 20 that, regardless of the outcome, President Chen Shui-bian will produce no "surprises" between the presidential election next March and the inauguration of the new president in May. Yeh said [...]
2007-11-21 10:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI2543FORMER PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI ON UN REFERENDUM,
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on November 27, former President Lee Teng-hui criticized the DPP for playing an "election game" with its UN referendum, which he characterized as "empty and meaningless." Lee dismissed the "1992 consensus" and "one China, separate interpretations" a [...]
2007-11-29 10:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL JA CH TW
07TAIPEI2547KMT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MA YING-JEOU ON
[...] (C) Summary. KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou met with the Director on November 29 to discuss upcoming legislative and presidential elections and election disputes. While Ma said he was not worried about President Chen's loose talk of martial law earlier this week, he is concerned th [...]
2007-11-30 09:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI257 KMT'S CROSS-STRAIT DIALOGUE: ECONOMICS NOW,
[...] (C) Summary: The KMT plans to continue focusing on economic issues in its engagement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the near term, hoping to benefit politically by serving as an intermediary between Taiwan's business and agricultural interests and Beijing. If KMT Chairman Ma wins [...]
2007-02-01 10:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI2591AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT AND FOREIGN MINISTER HUANG
[...] (C) Summary. In response to AIT Chairman Burghardt's expression of serious U.S. concern over the ruling DPP's UN referendum in their December 10 meeting, Foreign Minister James Huang insisted the referendum would not actually change anything. Explaining that he was carrying messages from Pr [...]
2007-12-11 10:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI267TAIWAN 2006 INVESTMENT IN CHINA REACHES NEW HIGH
[...] (U) Summary: Taiwan and PRC official data for planned Taiwan investment in Mainland China both reached new highs in 2006. Taiwan's approved investment in China grew 27.2 percent from 2005 to US$7.64 billion. The rise was due to a dramatic increase in the size of investment projects. End su [...]
2007-02-02 05:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ECON TW CH
07TAIPEI271CROSS-STRAIT CHARTERS COULD START IN MAY
[...] (C) The airline executive who nominally represents Taiwan in cross-Strait discussions on cargo and weekend passenger charter flights told AIT that nearly all outstanding technical issues had been resolved. However, he is not sure how the timing of an announcement will be affected by ongoing d [...]
2007-02-02 08:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI297MAC OFFICIAL DESCRIBES EXPANDED CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary: According to a Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) senior official, there has been a marked improvement in the cross-Strait dialogue since 2005. He credited U.S. pressure on Beijing in part for a change in Beijing's willingness to work with the Chen administration. The MAC of [...]
2007-02-07 09:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAIR ECON TW CH
07TAIPEI308Two State-Owned Enterprises to Drop "China" from Name
[...] (U) Summary: Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) and China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSBC) announced on February 1 that they would change their names to "CPC, Taiwan" and CSBC, Taiwan." CPC and CSBC have estimated the cost of the change at US$2 million and US$600,000, respectively. They are t [...]
2007-02-08 05:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EWWT PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI309PRC Announces Protection For Taiwan Geographic Indicators
[...] (U) Summary: For the first time, the PRC's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) announced that it would take action to protect certain Taiwan geographic indicators. End summary. 2. (U) The PRC's SAIC announced on January 16 that it would cancel any trademark registrations b [...]
2007-02-08 05:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR CH TW
07TAIPEI325TAIWAN NAME RECTIFICATION HITS POSTAGE STAMPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Chen announced February 8 that Taiwan's state-owned Chunghwa Post Co. would change its name to Taiwan Post Co. It will also change its postage stamps to read "Taiwan" instead of "Republic of China." A Chunghwa Post official told AIT that this will require Taiwan to r [...]
2007-02-09 06:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECPS ECON PREL TW CH
07TAIPEI378BIGGEST TAIWAN INVESTOR IN PRC SUSPICIOUS OF
[...] (C) Summary: Hon Hai Group Chairman Terry Gou expressed to the Director on February 14 reservations about the effects of democracy on economic performance, criticizing corruption in village-level elections in China and praising China's Communist Party leaders as concerned primarily with the in [...]
2007-02-15 00:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EFIN PREL TW CH
07TAIPEI403Taiwan Determined to Prevent PRC-Linked Investor from
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 9, the boards of two state-controlled shipping companies, Taiwan Navigation and Yang Ming Marine, voted to swap stocks in order to prevent privately held Chinese Maritime Transport from taking control of Taiwan Navigation's board. Chinese Maritime's chairman has clos [...]
2007-02-16 06:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT EINV ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI413CODEL CHABOT TAIWAN VISIT: MEETINGS WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary. In his meetings with Taiwan leaders on February 21, Congressman Steve Chabot urged Taiwan to approve its 2007 defense budget as soon as possible and pledged the U.S. will continue to be a strong friend of Taiwan. President Chen Shui-bian, Premier Su Tseng-chang, and Mainland A [...]
2007-02-23 08:06:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAIR CH TW
07TAIPEI490TAIWAN PETROCHEMICAL INVESTMENT PLANS FOR PRC
[...] (C) Summary: After seventeen years of planning, Formosa Plastics Corporation (FPC) is still waiting for Taiwan to lift restrictions on naptha cracker investment in the PRC. FPC's Chairman told AIT that its plan to build a naphtha cracker complex near Shanghai is necessary to compete in the ra [...]
2007-03-05 02:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALEINV ECON ETRD EPET CH TW
07TAIPEI516Taiwan Survey Shows Deeper Economic Integration
[...] Summary: Taiwan's Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI) latest survey of Taiwan investors in China suggests the scale of investment in the PRC is rising. Investors are increasingly focused on the domestic Mainland China market. The highest policy priority for firms surveyed is di [...]
2007-03-06 09:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON ETRD PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI545Another Taiwan Firm to Drop "China" from Name
[...] Summary: Another Taiwan firm has moved to drop references to China from its name. China Steel follows China Petroleum, China Shipbuilding and Chunghwa Post, which all changed names last month. China Steel's situation is more complicated because it has been privatized, and the Taiwan authoritie [...]
2007-03-09 07:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI547 TAIWAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MA YING-JEOU:
[...] (C) Summary. KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou told AIT Director March 8 that he is optimistic about his nomination and election chances. While noticeably more relaxed than in earlier meetings, Ma did express concern and uncertainty over how his indictment for misuse of funds will pla [...]
2007-03-09 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MASS MCAP CH TW
07TAIPEI565SEF CHAIRMAN SEES PROGRESS TOWARD RENEWED SEF-
[...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chang Chun-hsiung told AIT that Beijing's decision to allow an SEF official to travel to China is an important breakthrough. Although President Chen's "four wants" speech may slow progress temporarily, he believes the two sides are on tr [...]
2007-03-14 01:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EINV CH TW
07TAIPEI568Booming Cross-Strait Trade Benefits Taiwan Economy but
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's trade with China grew by 15.4 percent last year, faster than its overall trade. Imports from the PRC grew at even faster rate, up 23.3 percent. China was Taiwan's largest trade partner and export market. It passed the United States as Taiwan's second largest source o [...]
2007-03-14 02:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI605TAIWAN SLOWLY OPENING DOOR TO PRC EMPLOYEES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan has made gradual but notable progress in making it easier for firms in Taiwan, both foreign and local, to bring Mainland employees to Taiwan for business activities. Requirements have been lowered and processing times have been reduced. The next step will be to treat bu [...]
2007-03-16 07:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV CH TW
07TAIPEI609MAC CHAIRMAN SAYS "FOUR WANTS" HAVE NOT HURT
[...] (C) Summary: Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Joseph Wu told Director Young that President Chen Shui- bian's "four wants" speech had not set back MAC's work on cross-Strait relations. He described the private meeting between the PRC Taiwan Affairs Office Economics Director and his MAC [...]
2007-03-16 08:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EINV CH TW
07TAIPEI650TAIWAN WAITS FOR PRC RESPONSE ON SAND EXPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Effective March 1, the PRC banned sand exports, which supply nearly 25 percent of Taiwan's sand needs for construction. Taiwan has requested cross- Strait consultations to negotiate relaxation of the ban for Taiwan, but Beijing has not yet agreed to a meeting. In the meantime, [...]
2007-03-22 03:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI657DPP CHAIRMAN YU SHYI-KUN DISCUSSES U.S.-TAIWAN-PRC
[...] (C) Summary: During a March 21 meeting, the Director told DPP Chairman Yu Shyi-kun, a candidate for the party's presidential nomination, that Taiwan's current and future leaders need to avoid independence-related moves that could put at risk the democracy, prosperity, and strong U.S. support [...]
2007-03-22 10:25:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW PREL CH
07TAIPEI673MAC SAYS CROSS-STRAIT WINDOW OPEN NOW BUT WON'T
[...] (C) Summary: Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chief Secretary Jan Jyr-horng told AIT March 20 that the PRC SIPDIS was intentionally slowing the pace of cross-Strait discussions on tourism and charter flights. He said the PRC wanted to appear engaged but avoid any appearance of rewarding Pres [...]
2007-03-23 09:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EAIR ETRD CH TW
07TAIPEI704CROSS-STRAIT INVESTMENT - PACE OF LIBERALIZATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan has liberalized restrictions on investment in the PRC at a more rapid pace in 2006 after several years of little progress. This contributed to a 27 percent rise in approved China-bound investment last year. However, capital limits and industry-specific restrictions rema [...]
2007-03-28 08:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI768TAIWAN TO APPLY FOR WHO MEMBERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister James Huang informed the Acting Director on April 6 that Taiwan has decided to apply for WHO membership rather than WHA observership this year. President Chen Shui-bian will send a letter directly to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on April 12 applying for me [...]
2007-04-06 11:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL WHO TBIO TW CH
07TAIPEI838AIRLINE NEGOTIATOR BLAMES TAIWAN FOR SLOW
[...] (C) Summary: Taipei Airlines Association (TAA) Chairman Tony C.C. Fan blamed Taiwan delay tactics for the failure to reach an agreement on cross-Strait charter flights. He believes that the Chen administration might be trying to delay an agreement until after the presidential primary to pres [...]
2007-04-13 08:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI892 MA YING-JEOU OVER DINNER: HIS COURT CASE,
[...] (C) Summary. In a private dinner with the Director on April 18, KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou betrayed frustration over his corruption trial, but expressed confidence that he would be found innocent. He predicted that President Chen would continue pushing ethnic and other deep-Gre [...]
2007-04-23 08:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS MCAP PINR CH TW
07TAIPEI90CROSS-STRAIT TOURISM - INDUSTRY NEGOTIATOR HOPES
[...] (C) Summary: An industry contact involved in cross- Strait negotiations on tourism expressed hope that Taipei and Beijing will reach an agreement soon to open Taiwan to more China tourists as early as March or April. He denied recent reports that Taiwan has insisted PRC tourists be fingerprin [...]
2007-01-12 09:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL TW CH
07TAIPEI909KMT LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG: DEFENSE BUDGET
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng told the Director on April 23 that the KMT will continue to block passage of the annual and defense budgets until the DPP relinquishes control of the Central Election Commission (CEC). The KMT is locked in a "life or death" struggle with [...]
2007-04-24 10:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS MCAP PINR CH TW
07TAIPEI930NEW MAC CHAIRMAN CHEN MING-TONG DOWNBEAT ON
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 26 meeting with the AIT Director, the new Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman, Chen Ming-tong, argued the case for Taiwan to take action soon to preserve its sovereignty in the face changes in the cross-Strait status quo. The Director emphasized the benefits Taiw [...]
2007-04-26 10:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRETPREL PGOV EAIR ECON CH TW
07TAIPEI985MORE MAC PESSIMISM ON CROSS-STRAIT INITIATIVES
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 1, 2007 meeting with AIT, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chief Secretary Jan Jyh- horng expressed pessimism about the likelihood of cross- Strait agreements on charter flights and tourism during the remaining thirteen months of the Chen administration. He further told AIT [...]
2007-05-02 05:06:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV PINR EAIR CH TW
07TAIPEI998TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR FIRMS - FOCUSED ON CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Semiconductor industry executives described Taiwan's decision to permit investment in more advanced manufacturing technology in China as a small step in the right direction. They do not expect to see further liberalization of investment restrictions during the Chen administrati [...]
2007-05-03 01:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETTC PGOV PREL TW CH
07TALLINN329ESTONIA AGREES WITH U.S. ON OIE PARTICIPATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-21 09:41:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAGR AORG TW CH EN
07TASHKENT1022CHEAP CHINESE LOANS TO KEY UZBEK SECTORS
[...] (U) In April, the Chinese Eximbank extended by one year the validity of a $300 million export-financing credit line to the National Bank of Uzbekistan. This credit line was initially provided in 2004 to finance the purchase of Chinese-produced equipment for use in key sectors of the Uzbek eco [...]
2007-05-29 09:49:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEINV ECON PREL PGOV CH UZ
07TASHKENT1707CHINESE LOOK TO BUY UZBEK URANIUM
[...] (C) Nukem Inc. Head of Office, Yevgeny Onokhin, told econoff the Chinese have quietly started talks with Uzbekistan to purchase uranium. (Note: A Chinese congressional delegation reportedly was in Tashkent September 6-10. End note.) He said the Chinese want to sign a long-term contract to p [...]
2007-09-28 10:29:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEMIN KNNP ENRG ETRD ECON CH UZ
07TASHKENT1765KOKAND TV STATION CAREFULLY MAKES PROFIT
[...] (C) Summary. On October 3 poloff and visiting SCA/CEN desk officer visited the headquarters of Kokand TV, an independent television station that reaches an audience of one million in the densely populated Ferghana Valley. The owner noted that the station must compete with subsidized state ch [...]
2007-10-12 10:18:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL EAID ECON OEXC CH UZ
07TELAVIV3517ISRAEL PLEASED WITH PROGRESS IN RELATIONS WITH INDIA AND CHINA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 4, PolCouns and PolOff met with newly-appointed Deputy Director General for Asia and the Pacific (A/S EAP and SCA equivalent) Ruth Kahanoff to discuss Israel's relations with India and China. . . . ---------------------------------- China Has Great Respect for Israel - [...]
2007-12-13 17:41:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PARM MASS CH IN ID MY PK IS
07THEHAGUE1413CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): U.S.-CHINA
[...] (S) On June 25 and 28, chemical weapons (CW) experts from the United States and China held bilateral discussions on Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) compliance issues on the margins of the 49th Session of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Executive Council in The Ha [...]
2007-07-27 09:26:00Embassy The HagueSECRETPARM PREL CH CWC
07THEHAGUE1460NETHERLANDS/US NONPROLIFERATION INITIATIVE: DUTCH
[...] A GONL representative will attend the international meeting on October 22-23, 2007 in Spiez, Switzerland hosted by the US Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation. On August 6, poloff delivered the meeting invitation and r [...]
2007-08-06 14:25:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP ENRG PREL AR AS BR CA CI CH EZ
07THEHAGUE1840NETHERLANDS/BURMA: DUTCH KEEPING UP THE PRESSURE
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 2, 2007 POLOFF delivered reftel points to Mr. Karel Hartogh, Deputy Director for Asia and Oceania at the Dutch MFA. The Dutch support boosting pressure on Burma, including action at the UN, the EU, and the Human Rights Council. (A list of Dutch activities was sent in [...]
2007-10-03 14:54:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM NL CH BU
07THEHAGUE2000CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): U.S.- CHINA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S DeSutter requested a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador on November 6, on the margins of the Conference of the States Parties in The Hague, to discuss separating the CWC Article IX compliance dialogue and the CWC implementation dialogue that includes assistance on abandoned [...]
2007-11-20 14:57:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALCH PARM PREL CWC
07THEHAGUE246ILSA: DUTCH, SHELL ON SOUTH PARS GAS DEAL WITH IRAN
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Shell CEO van der Veer confirmed to the Ambassador on February 7 that no deal was expected on the South Pars LNG project until 2008 at the earliest. Van der Veer said his recent public comments on political concerns related t [...]
2007-02-09 12:00:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALETTC EPET ENRG PREL CH IR SP NL
07THEHAGUE964DUTCH ON PARTICIPATION BY CHINA AND TAIWAN IN THE
[...] (SBU) On May 22, Econoff and Poloff delivered reftel points to Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials Adrian Palm, Head of the East Asia Division, and Pim van Gemeren, China Policy Officer, East Asia Division. Palm said the GONL agreed that the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) [...]
2007-05-23 09:50:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR PREL AORG TW CH NL
07THEHAGUE971NETHERLANDS/CHINA: FM VERHAGEN'S MAY 16 VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: Dutch Foreign Minister Verhagen visited Beijing May 16 and met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo, and others. According to the Dutch MFA, discussions focused on Taiwan, Sudan and human rights [...]
2007-05-23 13:58:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL AORG EAGR ETRD EUN PHUM CH SU TW NL
07TOKYO100DPRK FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES: JAPAN AWARE OF POSSIBLE
[...] (C) Japan is aware that Chinese banks may be involved with North Korea, given their close geographic proximity to the DPRK, MOF International Bureau Legal Office official Shunichi Fukushima told Embassy financial attache January 9 in response to reftel demarche. Fukushima expressed thanks for [...]
2007-01-10 09:26:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEFIN PARM KNNP PREL PGOV KN CH JA
07TOKYO1025ANRE PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS DIRECTOR GIVES
[...] (C) Summary. In a meeting on March 2 Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) Petroleum and Natural Gas Division Director Shin Hosaka expressed only partial satisfaction with discussions between Japan and Russia that took place in late February. He appreciated assurances from Russian P [...]
2007-03-09 08:06:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG ECON JA CH RU
07TOKYO1147EAP/DAS CHRISTENSEN,S MARCH 2 TOKYO MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary: Japan's ties with China have warmed significantly since Prime Minister Abe's October visit to China and both sides are working to achieve a compromise on gas exploration in the East China Sea, MOFA officials, Diet members and academics told EAP/DAS Christensen during separate M [...]
2007-03-15 09:34:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL PGOV CH TW KN KS JA
07TOKYO1181JAPAN FOREIGN MINISTRY STILL SQUEAMISH ABOUT WTO
[...] (C) Summary: Japan remains hesitant to join U.S.- initiated dispute settlement cases against China in the World Trade Organization (WTO) largely over concerns about possible Chinese retaliation against Japanese companies that have invested in China, according to the director-general for eco [...]
2007-03-16 09:43:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD WTRO PGOV JA CH
07TOKYO1184METI REMAINS CAUTIOUS TOWARD U.S. APPROACH ON CHINA
[...] (C) Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Tim Stratford, in meetings with METI officials on March 9, stressed that the U.S. "two track" approach of intensified dialogue combined with a willingness to take China to dispute settlement in the WTO had shown substantial progress. The Japan [...]
2007-03-16 10:16:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD WTRO PGOV CH JA
07TOKYO1185EAP DIRECTOR RAPSON'S MARCH 12 MEETING WITH MOFA
[...] (C) Summary: Officials from MOFA's Southeast Asia Division told visiting EAP/MLS Director Robert Rapson March 12 that pressuring Burma to release political prisoners, promote dialogue on national reconciliation, improve access for international organizations, and end violence directed at eth [...]
2007-03-16 10:59:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH BM TH VM RO IN CB RP JA
07TOKYO1361COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL EOYANG AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 5 -7, 2007 visit to Japan by Staffdel Mieke Eoyang, Donald Viera, Fred Fleitz, and Laurence Hanauer. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Mary Wilson. She can be reached [...]
2007-03-28 08:51:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KS CH JA
07TOKYO1412PM ABE, OTHERS HAVE NOW "GOT THE MESSAGE" ON
[...] (C) Summary. PM Abe, DCCS Shimomura and other high-level Japanese officials will not speak out on the comfort women issue, at least until after the July Upper House election, according to MOFA Asian Regional Policy Division Director Aikawa. They will withhold comment for "tactical" domestic [...]
2007-03-30 09:05:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KS CH ID PH JA
07TOKYO1472NAKAGAWA GETS WARM BEIJING RECEPTION, PUSHES "NEW"
[...] (C) Summary: China and Japan will do all they can to reach an agreement on oil and gas exploration in the East China Sea before Premier Wen's April 11 visit to Japan, according to LDP Diet-member Kuniko Inoguchi. On March 22 Inoguchi briefed on her March 16-19 Beijing visit with a Diet dele [...]
2007-04-04 09:48:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CH JA
07TOKYO1518CHINESE AMBASSDOR ON PREMIER'S VISIT, HISTORY
[...] (C) Summary: China hopes the upcoming visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will help to stabilize its relations with Japan and to clarify Japanese thinking on the future nature of their bilateral relations, according to Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wang Yi. Wang stressed that joining the "con [...]
2007-04-06 07:53:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN JA CH
07TOKYO1524NO RESOLUTION TO EAST CHINA SEA DISPUTE
[...] (C) Summary. Despite positive reports in the press, the March 29 meeting in Tokyo between Japan and China to discuss the East China Sea dispute yielded no new proposal and failed to bring the two sides any closer to a resolution. A panel of experts from both countries likely will meet on Apri [...]
2007-04-06 08:28:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PREL PGOV JA CH
07TOKYO1555PREMIER WEN,S APRIL VISIT TO JAPAN
[...] (C) Summary: Premier Wen Jiabao's April 11-13 visit is an important step in further "warming" the bilateral relationship following the "cool" Koizumi years. Despite earlier press speculation to the contrary, the East China Sea dispute over energy resource development is unlikely to be resol [...]
2007-04-10 04:46:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON PREL CH JA
07TOKYO1679PM ABE ASSURES PACOM OF FULL SUPPORT FOR SECURITY
[...] (S) Summary. During an April 12 meeting, Prime Minister Abe assured Commander of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Timothy Keating, that he regards the US-Japan Alliance as critical to Japan's security. Abe stated that in view of China's rapid military build-up and the threat posed by North Ko [...]
2007-04-17 23:01:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPREL POL PGOV MARR CH JA
07TOKYO1743PREMIER WEN JIABAO'S JAPAN VISIT: GETTING BACK ON
[...] (C) Summary: Marked more by warm atmospherics rather than specific agreements, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's April 11-13 Japan visit is being characterized as a successful and important step forward in the relationship by Japanese diplomats and others. One disappointment, however, was the fa [...]
2007-04-19 09:33:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL CH TW KS JA
07TOKYO1744ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY MULL,S APRIL 11 MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: U.S.-Japan cooperation is critical to enhancing Japan's relationship with NATO and to preventing arms sales to China, DG Harada told A/S Mull April 11. Prime Minister Abe's speech to the North Atlantic Council earlier this year marked the beginning of a transformation of Japane [...]
2007-04-19 22:51:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR MASS MCAP PGOV CH EU JA
07TOKYO1764SCENESETTER FOR MICHAEL MASON, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
[...] (C) You visit as Japan contemplates major changes in its approach to our alliance and Japan's role in the region and the world. We have highlighted specific law enforcement issues separately. This message will identify the broader political and economic framework within which we are advancin [...]
2007-04-20 09:12:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KN CH JA
07TOKYO1771JAPAN TO JOIN CHINA/IPR WTO CASE AS THIRD PARTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Trade Minister Amari announced on April 20 that Japan will join the U.S. as a third party in a WTO complaint against China on IPR prosecutions. The GOJ is worried about the Chinese reaction and will be monitoring it closely. Chinese Customs and Copyright agency officials warne [...]
2007-04-22 22:54:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALKIPR ETRD ECON WTRO PGOV CH JP
07TOKYO1946METI OUTLINES ABE-WEN SUMMIT OUTCOMES
[...] (C) Summary: The recent meeting between the Japanese Prime Minister and the Chinese Premier produced few tangible economic results, according to an official of Japan's Ministry of Economic, Trade, and Industry (METI). Nevertheless, the summit meeting did signal political commitment for fur [...]
2007-05-01 07:29:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL PGOV JA CH
07TOKYO209COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR IO ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 24-28, 2006 visit to Japan by IO A/S Silverberg and Ray Hotz. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Scott Hansen. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5559 [...]
2007-01-17 08:32:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP OTRA CH JA
07TOKYO2104PM ABE,S YASUKUNI SHRINE DONATION
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Abe and the Japanese government are refusing to publicly confirm or deny reports that the Prime Minister made a 50,000 yen contribution to Yasukuni Shrine. Abe, according to an Embassy Tokyo MOFA contact, paid for the offering from personal funds, but added the ti [...]
2007-05-10 08:29:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL KS CH JA
07TOKYO2171COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID SEDNEY
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the May 15-16, 2007 visit to Japan by David Sedney. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Cynthia Carras. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5344 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6837 Mobile phone: 81-90-5430-0384 F [...]
2007-05-15 02:02:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL CH TW JA
07TOKYO2272EAST CHINA SEA DISPUTE DRAGS ON
[...] (C) Summary. The dispute over oil and gas exploration in an area in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China is no closer to resolution following a technical experts meeting in April, according to an Embassy contact at METI's Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE). China's [...]
2007-05-22 01:19:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PREL PGOV CH JA
07TOKYO2282PACOM COMMANDER KEATING AND DEFMIN KYUMA DISCUSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PACOM Commander Admiral Timothy Keating told Defense Minister Kyuma May 15 that his efforts to engage China's military leaders will not come at the expense of a strong U.S.-Japan alliance. Stopping in Tokyo on his return from Beijing, Keating said Chinese officials claimed their [...]
2007-05-22 05:31:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PINR PREL CH TW KS JA
07TOKYO230COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR A/S HILL AND DELEGATION
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 20-22, 2007 visit to Japan by A/S Christopher Hill, EAP Special Assistant Thomas Gibbons, and NSC Director Victor Cha. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer will be Keith Jordan. He can be r [...]
2007-01-18 08:53:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL CH KS JA
07TOKYO2462JAPAN'S INITIAL RESPONSE TO DOD CHINA REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-01 08:55:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL JA CH
07TOKYO2529ANRE'S HOSAKA "BORED" WITH EAST CHINA SEA
[...] (C) Summary. The eighth round of director- general level talks between Japan and China on May 25 over the disputed oil and natural gas deposits in the East China Sea broke no new ground. Japan expected a new proposal from China but none was proffered. The two sides will step up the frequency [...]
2007-06-06 08:20:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ENFR PREL PGOV CH JA
07TOKYO2532JAPAN, PRC, ROK TRILATERAL FOREIGN MINISTERS
[...] (C) Summary. During the June 3 trilateral foreign ministers' meeting attended by officials from Japan, South Korea and the PRC, all three parties agreed on the need for an early resolution to the Banco Delta Asia (BDA) issue, MOFA contacts told Embassy Tokyo Political Officer June 5. Japan F [...]
2007-06-06 08:38:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON KS CH JA
07TOKYO2619JAPAN, CHINA, PRESS FORWARD WITH MEETINGS, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: The importance of the Six-Party Talks, the need to resolve problems associated with the transfer of funds from the Banco Delta Asia to North Korea, and Chinese concerns over former President of Taiwan Lee Teng-hui's June visit to Japan topped the agenda during the June 3 meeting [...]
2007-06-11 09:37:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL SENV KTIA CH KS JA
07TOKYO2764PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE'S BILATERAL MEETINGS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bilateral meetings on the margins of the G-8 Summit were successful in building support for Japan's bid to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, according to MOFA sources. Abe also agreed to work together with the EU and other G-8 countr [...]
2007-06-19 08:03:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PREK SENV UNSC AF CH FR GM LE JA
07TOKYO2876PRC EMBASSY: WARMING TREND IN CHINA-JAPAN TIES TO
[...] (C) Summary: The warming trend in Sino-Japanese ties will continue even if Prime Minister Abe steps down after the July election, Chinese Embassy political officer Chen Zhiwen told Tokyo political officer during a June 18 meeting. Although the possibility of Abe resigning is slim, due to the [...]
2007-06-25 09:43:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL SENV CH TW JA
07TOKYO31COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR S/P DIRECTOR KRASNER AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 11-12, 2006 visit to Japan by S/P Director Stephen Krasner, Dr. William Inboden, and Mr. James Green. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the Tokyo portion of the visit will be Evan Read [...]
2007-01-05 08:09:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL CH KS JA
07TOKYO3360JAPAN OPPOSING TAIWAN UN BID
[...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Japanese officials in Taiwan informed the Taiwan Authority on July 20, 2007 that Tokyo will not support Taiwan membership in international organizations, including the United Nations, when statehood is a prerequisite, MOFA contacts [...]
2007-07-23 10:15:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPREL CH TW JA
07TOKYO355JAPAN RENEWS PUSH TO IMPROVE TIES WITH CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: MOFA Vice Foreign Minister Yachi's January 26-27 trip to China is intended to maintain the momentum in improving bilateral relations, according to MOFA China Division Principle Deputy Director Nomura. Yachi and his counterpart, Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, will sta [...]
2007-01-25 11:06:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ENRG CH JA
07TOKYO3600THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH VICE FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: The Abe Cabinet is committed to moving forward on extending the Anti-Terror Special Measure law despite the LDP's defeat in the Upper House election, Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi told Deputy Secretary Negroponte on August 3. The two agreed that the U.S.-Japan alliance w [...]
2007-08-06 22:47:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL AF PGOV AS CH TW KS KN RS PG JA
07TOKYO3601THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH VICE FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: The Abe Cabinet is committed to moving forward on extending the Anti-Terror Special Measures law despite the LDP's defeat in the Upper House election, Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi told Deputy Secretary Negroponte on August 3. The two agreed that the U.S.-Japan alliance [...]
2007-08-06 22:47:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL AF PGOV AS CH TW KS KN RS PG JA
07TOKYO3679DEFENSE MINISTER KOIKE COMMENTS ON ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Yuriko Koike, meeting with former U.S. Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert on August 6, said that opposition control of the Diet's Upper House would generate some "turmoil," particularly true with respect to the renewal of the antiterrorism legislation autho [...]
2007-08-10 06:34:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PINR ENRG JA CH
07TOKYO374S/P DIRECTOR KRASNER MEETS DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 12 meeting with S/P Director Krasner, Director General for North American Affairs Chikao Kawai (since elevated to Deputy Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Foreign Policy) explained that Japan cannot, for domestic reasons, provide humanitarian assistance to the D [...]
2007-01-26 07:54:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP ZK IN KN KS AS CH RS JA
07TOKYO3871PRC EMBASSY ON JAPAN-CHINA TIES, NEW CHINESE
[...] (C) Summary: Beijing is refraining from raising disputes on history with Tokyo in a bid to continue the warming trend in relations, Chinese Embassy Political Officer told an Embassy Tokyo Political Officer on August 17. Should Japan decide to "rewrite history," however, China would have no [...]
2007-08-22 02:40:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH JA
07TOKYO4280HIGH-LEVEL DIPLOMACY CONTINUES JAPAN-PRC WARMING
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Chinese President Hu Jintao twice on the sidelines of APEC to discuss ways to strengthen economic, environmental, and security ties. Marked more by warm atmospherics than progress on substantive issues, the informal talks signal the warming tren [...]
2007-09-13 07:18:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL CH TW JA
07TOKYO450JAPAN GINGERLY SEEKS NEW ECON TIES WITH CHINA,
[...] (C) Summary: Japan sees little prospect for substantial improvement in its official relations with South Korea in the near term because of the attitudes of the present Korean administration, according to a senior official of the Asia Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Th [...]
2007-02-01 01:53:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD PREL JA CH KS
07TOKYO475PM ABE'S MESSAGE TO EUROPE: WE SHARE YOUR VALUES,
[...] (C) Summary. During PM Abe's January 9-13 trip to London, Berlin, Brussels and Paris, Abe underscored his desire to strengthen Japan's ties with Europe, including NATO, based on a new values-focused foreign policy. Abe's interlocutors agreed with him that the DPRK nuclear issue must be addres [...]
2007-02-01 10:00:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UK FR GM BE KN CH JA
07TOKYO478ANRE'S HOSAKA DISCUSSES RUSSIA, CHINA ENERGY ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary. Agency of Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) Petroleum and Natural Gas Division Director Shin Hosaka accompanied ANRE Director General Harufumi Mochizuki on a visit to Moscow the week of January 29 to talk to Gazprom about Japanese companies aiding the construction of a gas in [...]
2007-02-01 23:25:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG ECON JA CH RU
07TOKYO486YACHI,S CHINA VISIT: NO SURPRISES
[...] (C) Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi's January 26-28 visit to China went smoothly and there were no surprises, MOFA China Division Principle Deputy Director Kosei Nomura told Embassy Tokyo Political Officer January 29. Yachi and his Chinese counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, [...]
2007-02-02 06:20:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH KN KS ENRG JA
07TOKYO4863LITTLE SUBSTANCE LIKELY IN JAPAN-CHINA ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary: The high-level economic dialogue between China and Japan, a product of former Prime Minister Abe's effort to improve relations with China, will likely take place in late November or early December, according to an official of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Th [...]
2007-10-18 09:23:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PREL ETTC KIPR JA CH
07TOKYO497COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP A/S HILL AND SPECIAL
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 05-07, 2007 visit to Japan by EAP A/S Christopher Hill and Special Assistant Thomas Gibbons. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Keith Jordan. He can be reached at: [...]
2007-02-02 08:37:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL CH KS JA
07TOKYO5073DAS CHRISTENSEN, DIET MEMBERS DISCUSS
[...] (C) Summary. Prospects for improved Japan-China ties under new Prime Minister Fukuda, the role of Japan against the backdrop of growing U.S-China cooperation, and contentious issues in Japan-China relations were the focus of EAP DAS Tom Christensen's discussions with senior lawmakers from Jap [...]
2007-11-01 08:33:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV JA CH
07TOKYO5074USMARFORPAC COMMANDER GOODMAN AND MOFA SHARE DPRI
[...] (C) The maturing U.S.-Japan security alliance is critical to peace and stability in the region, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) senior officials told Lieutenant General John F. Goodman, Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific and the Ambassador during October 30 office calls. MOFA V [...]
2007-11-01 08:51:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PINR PREL JA CH KN
07TOKYO5278SUBJECT: PRC EMBASSY ON BOOSTING JAPAN COOPERATION
[...] (C) Despite failure to make progress on the East China Sea energy dispute, Beijing and Tokyo are moving forward with plans for Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda to visit Beijing before year's end, Chinese Embassy Political Officer Zhiwen Chen told Embassy Tokyo on November 16. A significant brea [...]
2007-11-19 04:27:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL JA BM CH KN
07TOKYO5335FUKUDA-WEN SUMMIT SETS OUT HIGH-LEVEL DIPLOMACY,
[...] (C) During their November 20 meeting in Singapore, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda offered to Premier Wen Jiabao to visit China "as soon as possible," which could be late this year or early next year depending on the Diet's schedule. Chinese President Hu Jintao will also visit Japan next year, mos [...]
2007-11-26 08:43:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH JA
07TOKYO537JAPAN-CHINA JOINT HISTORY PROJECT: AN EFFORT TO
[...] (C) Summary. Historians from Japan and China will meet a second time in March to address differences in how they view their shared history. Neither side expects to resolve contentious issues, but hope to narrow gaps in understanding, according to Professor Shinichi Kitaoka, who chairs the J [...]
2007-02-06 04:03:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH KN KS JA
07TOKYO5451COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the December 7, 2007 visit to Japan by Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill and EAP Special Assistant Christopher Klein. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Scott Hansen. He can be reached at: Office pho [...]
2007-12-05 04:26:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
07TOKYO5457GOJ INFIGHTING HAMPERING EAST CHINA SEA TALKS
[...] (C) Summary. Achieving a resolution to the dispute between China and Japan over East China Sea gas fields before Prime Minister Fukuda's expected visit to China sometime in the near future, as called for by the two countries' foreign ministers on December 1, could force the Prime Minister to [...]
2007-12-05 07:43:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG JA PGOV CH
07TOKYO5477TAIWAN, EAST CHINA SEA MAJOR TOPICS DURING
[...] (C) The Taiwan UN referendum is an extremely "sensitive and serious issue," and Japan should not support it and must take care not to send the wrong message to Taiwan's independence forces, President Hu Jintao, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and other senior officials told FM Koumura during his [...]
2007-12-06 23:57:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG ECON CH JA
07TOKYO5532MISSING TEXT SOURS CHINA-JAPAN ECON DIALOGUE
[...] (C) Summary: Potentially exacerbating impressions many have here regarding the ability to work with China, Japanese media December 9 carried reports noting the Chinese text of the December 1 Japan-China High-level Economic Dialogue (HED) communique dropped language found in the Japanese ve [...]
2007-12-12 09:45:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL JA CH
07TOKYO5670PM FUKUDA'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's 27-30 December visit to China is expected to produce positive visuals, but little in terms of substantive deliverables. PM Fukuda will highlight the common cultural and economic interests between the two countries, visiting a Japanese factory in Tianj [...]
2007-12-27 10:04:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH JA
07TOKYO661JAPAN CONCERNED ABOUT PASSAGE OF "COMFORT WOMEN"
[...] (C) The Abe government is moving ahead on several fronts to counter the proposed sense of Congress resolution condemning Japan for its treatment of World War II "comfort women." MOFA Asian Bureau Regional Policy Division Director Aikawa told us February 13, he had been asked to relay that the [...]
2007-02-15 10:52:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KS CH JA
07TOKYO739CHINESE FM LI ZHAOXING VISITS JAPAN
[...] (C) Summary: China will "cooperate to the fullest extent possible" to help Japan resolve the abduction issue with the DPRK, Chinese FM Li Zhaoxing told the Japanese during a February 15-16 visit. According to MOFA China Division contacts, the two sides hope to reach general agreement on th [...]
2007-02-22 05:18:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG PGOV CH KS JA
07TOKYO788JAPAN'S RESPONSE ON NEXT STEPS ON BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-23 09:36:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC BM CH JA
07TOKYO978EAP/MLS DIRECTOR SCOT MARCIEL,S FEBRUARY 27
[...] (C) Summary: Japan is still studying the question of how best to increase collaboration with the United States on assistance to Southeast Asia, MOFA First Country Assistance Planning Division Director Maeda told EAP/Office of Maritime Southeast Asia Director Marciel, on February 27. Establish [...]
2007-03-07 22:45:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPHSA PREL CH ID RP PO AS JA
07ULAANBAATAR279Mongolian Court Convicts Boy Band Drug Smugglers
[...] (U) A Mongolian court convicted 13 persons accused of trafficking drugs smuggled in from China, sentencing three of the defendants to ten or more years in prison. The defendants included several Mongolian hip hop boy band stars, the son of a wealthy businessman, and several students. This is [...]
2007-05-14 03:57:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR ASEC PGOV SOCI MG CH
07ULAANBAATAR339DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS IRAQ ROTATION DECISION TO BE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 12 call on Defense Minister Sonompil, the Ambassador emphasized that there is great interest in Washington in Mongolia's formal approval of the 8th rotation of troops to Iraq. Minister of Defense Sonompil responded that the Mongolian National Security Council (NS [...]
2007-06-13 08:22:00Embassy UlaanbaatarCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PTER MG IZ PL CH RU
07ULAANBAATAR424VISIT OF CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER YANG TO MONGOLIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his first trip abroad since his appointment, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with Mongolian officials June 30 to July 2 to forge closer political, economic, and commercial ties between the two northeast Asian neighbors. Both sides viewed this visit as a favorable [...]
2007-07-20 05:25:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EMIN EINV MG CH
07USEUBRUSSELS1043U.S. - EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON DISARMAMENT AND
[...] (C) The U.S.-EU Troika disarmament and nonproliferation consultations under the German presidency demonstrated many common interests and a willingness to engage frankly but cordially. They did not hide, however, the well known divergence of views on how to approach these key issues. In parti [...]
2007-03-28 09:26:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKNNP PARM PREL EUN PTER KN IR IN CH
07USNATO147NATO-ASIA TIES STRENGTHENING THROUGH ISAF
[...] (C) Recent exchanges between NATO and Japan, Korea, and China illustrate the rapid enhancement of practical cooperation through the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. NATO's A/SYG Erdmann is visiting Tokyo the week of March 5, while NATO is expected to fin [...]
2007-03-06 18:09:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNNATO PREL JA KS CH XB
07USUNNEWYORK1019UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) Speaking Oct. 31 in the annual debate on promotion and protection of human rights in the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, Ambassador Khalilzad emphasized the value the United States places on human rights, described the important role these rights play in building societies, cited exa [...]
2007-11-15 14:27:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDUNGA PHUM BM CU KN SY CH
07USUNNEWYORK120962ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC
[...] (U) This cable was prepared by Ambassador Joan Plaisted, who served as Senior Area Adviser for East Asia and the Pacific to the 62nd United Nations General Assembly. 2. (U) Support from East Asian and Pacific Island (EAP) countries was essential for achieving U.S. objectives in this 62nd UN [...]
2007-12-26 16:13:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALBP BX CB CH ECON FJ FM ID JA KR KS LA MG
07USUNNEWYORK32CHINESE THREATEN VETO OF MINUSTAH MANDATE ABSENT
[...] (C) Following up on earlier conversations (ref A),Chinese PolMinCouns Li Junhua approached USUN PolMinCouns on January 16 to provide an update on PRC concerns about renewing the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) given Haiti's support for Taiwan at the UN. After notin [...]
2007-01-18 00:38:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KPKO CH TW HA
07USUNNEWYORK415U.S. BILATERALS AT THE UN COMMISSION ON
[...] (U) Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky took advantage of the ministerial segment of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development's 15th Session (CSD-15) May 9-11 to conduct a number of bilateral discussions with key states, with climate change, energy and economic dev [...]
2007-05-25 21:14:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDECON KGCC SENV EAID EAGR CH MD FI PK RS IN
07USUNNEWYORK748HAITIAN PERMREP PLEDGES HAITI WILL NOT PROVOKE
[...] (C) During a meeting on September 10, Haitian PermRep Leo Merores told Poloff he did not expect China to object to a one-year extension of the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) when it expires on October 15, 2007. (Note: China threatened to veto MINUSTAH's mandate in [...]
2007-09-13 14:51:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC KPKO CH TW HA
07USUNNEWYORK773UN DEBATE ON TAIWAN MEMBERSHIP
[...] (U) Summary: When determining the agenda for the 62nd UN General Assembly September 19, the General Committee considered whether to include the agenda item "Urging the Security Council to process Taiwan's membership application pursuant to provision rules of procedure 59 and 60." Following a [...]
2007-09-20 21:10:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA CH TW
07USUNNEWYORK78262ND UNGA ADOPTS THE REPORT OF THE GENERAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-21 17:36:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA PHUM CH TW
07USUNNEWYORK786UNGA KEEPS TAIWAN UN MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION OFF
[...] (U) Summary: The UN General Assembly met in plenary session September 21 to consider the report of the UN General Committee containing its recommendations for the agenda of the new (62nd) UNGA session which opened September 18. The General Committee had decided not to inscribe the agenda it [...]
2007-09-22 01:00:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA CH TW
07USUNNEWYORK90SECURITY COUNCIL WILL EXTEND MINUSTAH MANDATE, BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary. During UNSC consultations on January 29, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Edmund Mulet strongly defended recent joint operations between the UN and the Haitian National Police (HNP) against armed gangs i [...]
2007-02-01 23:08:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO UNSC CH TW HA
07USUNNEWYORK91SECURITY COUNCIL WILL EXTEND MINUSTAH MANDATE, BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary. During UNSC consultations on January 29, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Edmund Mulet strongly defended recent joint operations between the UN and the Haitian National Police (HNP) against armed gangs i [...]
2007-02-01 23:13:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO UNSC CH TW HA
07VATICAN103VATICAN APPOINTS IRAQ, CHINA EXPERT TO KEY SLOT
[...] (C) Pope Benedict has named Archbishop Fernando Filoni the Holy See's "Sostituto" or "Substitute", the number three position at the Vatican. Filoni will have regular access to the pope and will communicate closely with many of the Roman Curia offices. Filoni has extensive diplomatic experienc [...]
2007-07-03 12:34:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPHUM SOCI KIRF IZ CH VT
07VATICAN111VATICAN EXPECTS STRONG REACTION TO POPE'S LETTER TO CHINESE
[...] (C) Summary: According to Holy See MFA Country Director for PRC Rota Graziosi, the Pope's China Letter has undercut the standing of the Government of China in "administering" the Catholic Church in China and as a result, the Holy See expects a strong, but perhaps, moderated reaction sometime [...]
2007-07-12 16:10:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF SOCI PREL PGOV CH VT
07VATICAN157VATICAN EXPECTS REACTION TO POPE'S LETTER TO CHINESE
[...] (C) Summary: According to Holy See MFA Country Director for PRC Rota Graziosi, the Holy See still anticipates a reaction to the Pope's June 2007 letter to the Chinese faithful and will watch upcoming bishop ordinations for a sign of the GOC's mind-set. The Holy See does not expect the undergr [...]
2007-11-06 10:46:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI CH VT
07VATICAN193CHINA - HOLY SEE: NO AGREEMENT ON CATHOLIC BISHOP
[...] (C) Summary: According to Holy See MFA Country Director for China Rota-Graziosi, the Holy See and the Government of China did not reach an agreement on episcopal ordinations, nor on the normalization of relations, during their November 2007 talks in Beijing. Rota-Graziosi is pessimistic about [...]
2007-12-21 15:41:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI CH VT
07VATICAN30PRC - HOLY SEE RELATIONS IN FLUX; VATICAN CONVENES CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: The Vatican convened a two-day meeting on January 19 and 20 to address its China policy. The meeting, presided over by Cardinal Secretary of State Bertone, sought to formulate a unified policy toward China to address the continuing challenges presented by the GoC including a spa [...]
2007-01-29 16:39:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPHUM SOCI PREL PGOV CH VT
07VATICAN5DRL A/S LOWENKRON CONSULTS WITH HOLY SEE ON RELIGIOUS
[...] (C) Summary: DRL A/S Lowenkron's December 21 meeting with deputy FM Parolin focused largely on religious freedom matters in Vietnam, Lebanon, Turkey, Venezuela, and Cuba. Parolin explained the Holy See's strategy for increasing religious freedom in problem countries and provided details of th [...]
2007-01-05 12:26:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI CH CU LE TU VM VT
07VATICAN54CARITAS IN CHINA: QUIETLY GROWING
[...] (C) Summary: A March 6-7 Vatican-hosted Caritas Internationalis meeting on China revealed that Caritas is making small but significant strides in providing support to the Chinese poor with the tacit approval of some local Chinese officials. While there will be no immediate move to establish a [...]
2007-03-12 18:48:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF SOCI PREL PGOV CH VT
07VATICAN61CHINA: POPE'S EASTER LETTER ON HOLD?
[...] (C) Summary: According to Holy See MFA Country Director for PRC Rota-Graziosi, the Vatican will not release its much-anticipated Papal letter to Chinese Catholics at Easter time, as was expected. Rota-Graziosi could not say when it would be released. The letter will purportedly address the [...]
2007-03-21 18:18:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF SOCI PREL PGOV CH VT
07VATICAN86SANT'EGIDIO PESSIMISTIC REGARDING PRC --HOLY SEE RELATIONS
[...] (C) Valeria Martano of the Vatican-linked Sant'Egidio Community believes China-Holy See relations are stuck in neutral in the short to mid-term because the Chinese do not see a clear benefit to formalizing relations with the Holy See. China's economic clout on the international trade front tak [...]
2007-05-09 00:21:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH VT
07VIENTIANE257NAS VIENTIANE: UPDATE ON METHAMPHETAMINE IN LAOS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Almost everyone in the Lao lowlands, from the Prime Minister in Vientiane to street vendors in Pakse, is keenly aware that methamphetamine trafficking is on the increase and that the lives of thousands of Lao citizens have become more precarious as a result. Lao law enforcemen [...]
2007-03-29 08:17:00Embassy VientianeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM SNAR XC CH
07VIENTIANE525LAO GOVERNMENT CAUTIOUSLY WELCOMES U.S. ARRESTS
[...] (C) Summary: Lao government officials appear to have been pleased and surprised by the June 4 arrests of Hmong-American General Vang Pao and others on suspicion of plotting violent action aimed at overthrowing the Lao government. However, the Philippines Ambassador, who talked to Lao gover [...]
2007-06-25 09:23:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS ASEC CASC SCUL SNAR CH LA US
07VIENTIANE914PACOM ADMIRAL KEATING'S VISIT TO VIENTIANE
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a December 14 visit to Vientiane, Commander of the Pacific Command Admiral Timothy Keating met with senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, and National Assembly. At the Foreign Affairs Institute, he addressed students and took questions [...]
2007-12-19 07:15:00Embassy VientianeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKHDP LA MARR MASS OVIP PREL KFLU CH
07VILNIUS626LITHUANIA WILL FOCUS ON RUSSIA ISSUES AT GYMNICH
[...] (C) Summary. Lithuania plans to focus on Russia for the September 7 GYMNICH meeting. FM Vaitiekunas will argue that problems of individual EU member states with Russia should be approached as collective EU problems. He will also seek to take the agenda focus off of a Partnership and Cooperat [...]
2007-09-05 10:59:00Embassy VilniusCONFIDENTIALEUN PGOV PREL YI RS CH IN LH
07WELLINGTON391NEW ZEALAND ON WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL
[...] (C) This message contains an action request, at para 5. 2. (C) Summary: Until today (May 24),the GNZ had intended to abstain on the OIE resolution that would require Taiwan to participate under the name Taiwan, China. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) have now heard from t [...]
2007-05-24 06:01:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALPREL EAGR AORG TW CH NZ
07WELLINGTON560NEW ZEALAND REACTION - CORRECTING UN REFERENCES TO
[...] (C) Acting PolEcon Counselor Tom Walsh delivered demarche points (reftel) to Jo McLeod, Policy Officer in the North Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on August 2. 2. (C) The MFAT officials said that they have taken our recommendation under advisement but that they [...]
2007-08-05 20:03:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALPREL CH TW AS NZ UN
08ABIDJAN133CHINESE VIEWS ON COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (C) Summary. Chinese Embassy Political Counselor Fulin Ma told Pol/Econ section chief February 25 that he thinks elections will take place in 2008, most likely between August and October. Ma believes there is a real chance for President Gbagbo to win transparent elections due to the average [...]
2008-02-28 16:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IV CH
08ABUDHABI1003UAE MFA ON CHINA'S WEAK NONPROLIFERATION COOPERATION
[...] (S) During a September 4 meeting at which A/DCM and EconOff sought Emirati assistance with sensitive nonproliferation cases (interdictions),MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani expressed UAEG frustration with efforts to improve nonproliferation cooperation with China. [...]
2008-09-05 15:22:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPARM PTER PREL PGOV KNNP IR CH AE
08ADDISABABA1197CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN ETHIOPIA
[...] (SBU) Per Ref A, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is active in Ethiopia in a number of sectors, most notably infrastructure development and telecommunications. They are also developing several model farms to introduce techniques to increase yield and improve food security in Ethiopia. PRC [...]
2008-04-30 13:33:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAGR EFIN ET CH
08ADDISABABA194STRENGTHENING CHINA TIES, FOREIGN MINISTER YANG JIECHI IN
[...] (U) Summary: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi visited Ethiopia at the end of a four country tour of Africa. During a quick one-day stop, Yang met with Prime Minister Meles and Foreign Minister Seyoum on Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, bilateral programs, and China's outreach to Africa. The larg [...]
2008-01-25 06:23:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID EINV ET CH
08ADDISABABA2290ETHIOPIA: "WE'RE FOLLOWING CHINA'S MODEL"
[...] (C) At a hail and farewell on August 19 for Chinese Economic and Commercial Counselor Liu Yunbiao (reftel) and his replacement, Qian Zhaogang, Ethiopian State Minister for Trade and Industry Tadesse Haile extolled the close and growing commercial relationship between China and Ethiopia and sai [...]
2008-08-21 07:32:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ET CH
08ADDISABABA2541ETHIOPIA/CHINA: PRC COMPANIES FEEL FOREIGN
[...] (C) During a working lunch, newly arrived People's Republic of China (PRC) Ambassador to Ethiopia Gu Xiaojie and DCM Zhang Yuebang said that Ethiopia's foreign exchange crunch (septel) was "trouble" for Chinese companies, which have been unable to procure easily materials and supplies from int [...]
2008-09-16 08:49:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL PINR EAID CH ET
08ADDISABABA2749THE VIEW FROM INSIDE ETHIOPIA'S ERITREAN REFUGEE
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Acting RefCoord and PolOff visited the Eritrean refugee camps at Shimelba and My-Ayni from September 15 to September 19 in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, and met with Eritrean refugees, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials, Ethiopian Administration for Refugee/Return [...]
2008-10-06 13:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREF PREL PBTS MOPS ET ER CH
08ADDISABABA2837BEIJING OLYMPICS IMPRESS ETHIOPIA
[...] (U) Discussions with Ethiopian officials, political opposition leaders, and professional colleagues suggest that China impressed Ethiopia by hosting one of the most precisely orchestrated and technically impressive Olympic Games in memory. While news of pre-games demonstrations did reach the E [...]
2008-10-14 13:17:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ET CH
08ADDISABABA3142ETHIOPIA/CHINA: WU BANGGUO'S VISIT TO ETHIOPIA
[...] (C) People's Republic of China (PRC) Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) Wu Bangguo met separately with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Speaker of the House of Federation Degfie Bula, Speaker of the House of People's Representatives (Ambassador) Teshome Toga [...]
2008-11-18 10:21:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH ET
08ADDISABABA699PRC/ETHIOPIA: PRC OPEN TO TRADE AND AGRICULTURE
[...] (C) The Ambassador discussed with PRC Embassy counterparts opportunities for coordination and collaboration on trade and agriculture, particularly the participation of Chinese companies in the newly-formed American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia. PRC interlocutors explained that, despite a re [...]
2008-03-10 14:21:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KPKO CH ET
08AITTAIPEI1374TAIWAN INVESTIGATION OF EXPORT CONTROL CASES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 11, the EXBS Advisor met with officials of the Taiwan Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) to get an update on export control enforcement activities. MJIB officials stated that, since the beginning of 2008, they referred six (6) cases to the prosecutor's [...]
2008-09-18 23:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC KNNP KSTC TW IR KN MY CH
08AITTAIPEI1566HONG KONG UPGRADES ITS TAIWAN TRADE OFFICE
[...] (C) During a November 6 meeting with economic chief, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) Ltd. Taiwan Branch General Manager Perry Fung said his office has upgraded its status from "consultancy" to "limited company," reflecting the overall improvement in cross-Strait economic ties (reft [...]
2008-11-06 05:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL EINV TW HK CH
08AITTAIPEI1647TAIWAN MULLS ENHANCED CROSS-STRAIT FINANCIAL LINKS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In advance of the 14th Cross-Strait Financial Academic Research Conference slated to take place in Beijing this week, Taiwan financial sector contacts say preparations are underway for a cross-Strait MOU that would facilitate Taiwan banks' access to the Chinese market, and vice-ver [...]
2008-11-24 07:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
08AITTAIPEI1708MARKET ACCESS CONCERNS, NOT POLITICS, DRIVING
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As Taiwan and China discuss liberalizing cross-Strait financial service restrictions, there appear to be clear differences on market access. According to Taiwan officials, China wants to liberalize under the WTO framework. This, in the view of Taiwan officials, would give China [...]
2008-12-10 10:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW
08AITTAIPEI431(S) DEMARCHE TO TAIWAN ON MISTAKEN SHIPMENT OF
[...] (S) Director met with Defense Minister Michael Tsai at 1730 hours local (0530 EDT) to deliver reftel points and leave as a nonpaper. Chief of the General Staff General Huoh Shou-yeh and other senior advisers also attended the meeting. Minister Tsai expressed appreciation for our candid expla [...]
2008-03-25 10:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL TW CH
08AITTAIPEI786TAIWAN PREPARES FOR PROGRESS ON CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As Taiwan and China prepare to resume negotiations on cross-Strait issues, beginning with charter flights and tourism, Taiwan authorities and industry representatives agree that initial progress should be straightforward. Taiwan authorities believe that during their June 11-14 [...]
2008-06-06 11:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL TW CH
08AITTAIPEI808VICE PRESIDENT SIEW OUTLINES TAIWAN ECONOMIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 10 meeting with ADIR and visiting AIT/W Director for Trade and Commercial Policy, Vice President Vincent Siew said the Ma administration is now concentrating on inflation control, stimulating domestic demand, and expanding cross-Strait economic ties through implementing [...]
2008-06-10 07:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAGR PROG PREL TW CH
08AMMAN2770KING CONTINUES BROADENING JORDAN'S REACH WITH
[...] (SBU) Jordan's King Abdullah visited China on September 17-18, his sixth trip to the country, as part of his ongoing effort to broaden Jordan's ties with central Asia and beyond (Ref A). During meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other officials, the Jordanian delegation, including [...]
2008-09-29 07:10:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON JO CH
08AMMAN396CHAD: JORDAN CONCERNED ABOUT INSTABILITY, OUTSIDE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-06 17:07:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL CH JO
08AMSTERDAM71AMSTERDAM: VALIDATION STUDY INDICATES LOW INCIDENCE OF FRAUD
[...] SUMMARY. In October 2008, the U.S. Consulate in Amsterdam conducted a validation survey of B1/B2 visas issued by Post to citizens of the People's Republic of China (PRC). PRC citizens constitute the largest group of third country national (TCN) applicants at Post. Over half of all Chinese a [...]
2008-11-28 15:44:00Consulate AmsterdamUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD NL CH CVIS ASEC SMIG CFED
08ANKARA166TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP: January 2008
[...] Turkey launched air strikes against PKK terrorist positions in northern Iraq on December 16, 17, 22 and 26. Several of the air strikes were supported by artillery fire. During the same period, counterterrorism operations within Southeast Turkey and against PKK terrorists in several cities con [...]
2008-01-29 10:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL CH KZ GR TU
08ANTANANARIVO69 TURTLE SMUGGLERS CAPTURED
[...] A South African national was recently arrested in Madagascar for attempting to smuggle rare turtles out of the country. This incident follows a recent arrest in the French territory of Mayotte where smugglers were apprehended with 20 endangered turtles from Madagascar. Malagasy customs enfor [...]
2008-01-28 13:38:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO EAGR ECON EAID PGOV CH MA
08ASHGABAT1045TURKMENISTAN: ENJOYING THE BENEFITS OF ITS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Few would disagree that China's relationship with Turkmenistan centers almost exclusively on its expanding energy partnership and trade. Regular political and economic engagement between the two states during [...]
2008-08-12 10:24:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EPET EINV EIND CH TX
08ASHGABAT1075TURKMENISTAN: CABINET MEETING FOCUSES ON STATE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In addition to announcing that Turkmenistan's People's Congress will meet on September 26 to review and approve the draft constitution and talk briefly about the situation of South Ossetia, President Berdimuhame [...]
2008-08-18 11:36:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ELAB EPET CH JO TX
08ASHGABAT1130TURKMENISTAN: CNPC'S GROWING PRESENCE HAS IMPACT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An Emboff who spends a great deal of time in Lebap Province has been observing the impact of the growing Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) presence. Over the last few months, a growing number of Chinese workers have become visible in Turkmenabat, and the company's [...]
2008-08-27 11:43:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EPET EINV CH TX
08ASHGABAT1148TURKMENISTAN: CHINESE PRESIDENT'S VISIT SWIMMING
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Chinese president's second visit here in less than a year offered a strong indication that bilateral cooperation, in particular on the planned Turkmenistan-China pipeline, is proceeding very well. If they [...]
2008-09-02 20:43:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EINV EPET TX CH
08ASHGABAT173 TURKMENISTAN: UKRAINE STUMBLES AS IT SEEKS TO
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ukraine's representation in Turkmenistan is continuing to have a difficult time reviving its bilateral diplomatic and business relationship. Ukrainian diplomats are showing deep interest in the frequent arriva [...]
2008-02-05 07:06:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EPET UP CH IR TX
08ASHGABAT588TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON WANTS TO RACHET UP LEVEL OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recognizing that the competition for on-shore contracts for drilling in the Amu Darya basin in eastern Turkmenistan is increasing, Chevron is focusing on bringing Turkmen officials to the negotiation table soonest. After Deputy Premier for Oil and Gas Tagiyev and Executive Direc [...]
2008-05-07 10:21:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ENRG EPET TX CH
08ASHGABAT801 TURKMENISTAN: ENGAGE, ENGAGE, ENGAGE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the fundamentals of U.S. policy in Central Asia have remained consistent and on-target: to advocate political and economic reform as the keystone of America's strategic interests. After [...]
2008-06-27 04:01:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS CH TX
08ASHGABAT997TURKMENISTAN: GAZPROM REACHES AGREEMENT WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite much hype in the Russian media that Gazprom has locked in its monopoly on Turkmenistan's gas, it appears that, during a July 25 visit to Turkmenistan, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller reportedly reached agreement only on a pricing formula for Turkmenistan's natural gas exports i [...]
2008-07-31 12:22:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET RU CH TX
08ASMARA160CHINESE REPORTEDLY FUNDING CHADIAN OPPOSITION
[...] (C) On March 13, DCM met with Amar Najm Eddine al-Jak (Amar),a Khartoum spokesman for the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),who had been spirited from Sudan to Asmara by the SPLM after being arrested and tortured by Sudanese National Security services (reftel). In the meeting, Am [...]
2008-03-26 08:45:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SU CD CH ER
08ASMARA385CHINESE MOVE INTO ERITREA'S MINING SECTOR
[...] SUMMARY: Two Chinese mining companies have received exploration licenses from the government of Eritrea in the past eight months. One of these license areas is situated in the former Temporary Security Zone from which Eritrea forced UNMEE peacekeepers in February. Three Chinese companies ar [...]
2008-08-06 12:42:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEMIN ECON PREL ER CH
08ASTANA1648(S) KAZAKHSTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DPRK FLIGHT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-03 11:01:00Embassy AstanaSECRETPARM PREL MNUC AF CH KG KZ TI TX UZ
08ASTANA2042 KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL CALLS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador called on Chinese Ambassador Cheng Guoping on October 14 and joined Russian Ambassador Mikhail Nikolayevich Bocharnikov for lunch at his Embassy on October 15. Although both were rather formal on first meeting, Ambassador Cheng seemed the somewhat less guarded. Both [...]
2008-10-16 06:01:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RS CH KZ
08ASTANA2127KAZAKHSTAN: OPTIMISM IN EAST KAZAKHSTAN OBLAST
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff visited Ust-Kamenogorsk, the capital of East Kazakhstan oblast, September 10-13. In addition to attending a Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism exercise (see reftel),poloff also conducted a serie [...]
2008-10-28 09:07:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ECON EINV KWMN KCRM CH KZ
08ASTANA2349MANGYSTAU - KAZAKHSTAN'S OTHER OIL CENTER
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 6, DCM and poloff met with several oil companies to discuss the state of the energy industry in Kazakhstan,s Mangystau oblast. Oil companies in Mangystau noted the region,s untapped potential, good i [...]
2008-11-25 14:17:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EINV EPET CH IR KZ
08ASTANA2364CHINESE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CHINA'S WIDE-RANGING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 25, China's Ambassador to Kazakhstan Guoping Cheng called on the Ambassador to brief him on Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's visit to Kazakhstan for the October 29 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) ministerial meeting in Astana, and Cheng's views on the role [...]
2008-11-26 11:51:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV CH RS TX UZ KZ
08ASUNCION740PARAGUAY AND TAIWAN MAINTAIN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
[...] (C) Paraguay's new Lugo government redefined Paraguay's relationship with the Republic of China (Taiwan) when it announced August 31 that it would no longer actively support Taiwan's interests in the United Nations. Taiwan reacted by hinting September 11 that it might cut off financial aid to [...]
2008-11-03 19:09:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PA CH TW
08ATHENS1635GREECE/CHINA: GREEKS SEE PRC AS MORE "AGGRESSIVE"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese Embassy and Greek MFA readouts painted very different pictures of Chinese President Hu's recent visit to Athens. The Chinese saw the visit as fulfilling three goals: repaying Greece for President Papoulias' visit during the Olympics; cementing the Chinese-Greece "comprehe [...]
2008-12-05 14:57:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD GR PGOV PREL CH
08ATHENS458GOG RESPONSE TO U.S. POINTS ON MARCH GYMNICH AGENDA
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered subject demarche on March 25 to Ms. Antonia Katzourou in the MFA's A11 Directorate for Common Foreign and Security Policy. While Katzourou appreciated the opportunity to review U.S. positions, she emphasized that the March 28-29 Foreign Ministers' Gymnich meeting will be [...]
2008-03-27 13:09:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM IS SY GR EUN ZL LE RS CH
08BAGHDAD2915CHINESE EMBASSY ON WASIT OIL DEAL AND BUSINESS IN
[...] (C) Summary: Negotiations between the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and the China National Petroleum Company to develop the al-Ahdab oil field in Wasit province are not yet complete, despite an August signing ceremony in Beijing, said Chinese Embassy Economic and Trade Counselor Zhue Yuesheng on Sept [...]
2008-09-09 13:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEPET ECON EAID PREL PINR CH IZ
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN35CHINA TAKES DEFENSE CHARM CAMPAIGN TO BRUNEI
[...] (C) Chinese Defense Minister, General Cao Guanchuan, led the latest detachment from China's charm offensive to Brunei for an official visit January 14-16. While no new agreements or business deals were announced during the three day visit, the General scored points with Brunei officials for ta [...]
2008-01-24 07:14:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CH BX
08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN57MORE ON CHINA DEFENSE MINISTER VISIT TO BRUNEI
[...] (C) In follow up conversations subsequent to reftel, the Chinese Ambassador to Brunei told the Ambassador that the visit of Defense Minister General Cao Guanchuan had been very successful from the Chinese point of view. In addition to activities reported reftel, General Cao had also offered to [...]
2008-02-11 09:03:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL CH BX
08BANGKOK136RTG WAITING FOR DPKO ON WORD OF SUDANESE
[...] (C) POLOFF met January 14 with Cherdkiat Atthakor, Director of the Peace, Security and Disarmament Division at the MFA to confirm the RTG position on contributing to UNAMID. Cherdkiat said that the RTG considered its deployment to Sudan a multilateral issue not a bilateral issue with the gove [...]
2008-01-14 10:43:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV UNSC SU CH
08BANGKOK1425U.S. Wins Concessions on UNESCAP 64th Commission Session
[...] (SBU) Summary. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) held its 64th annual commission session in Bangkok April 22-30. This year's theme was "Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific." After several days (and nights) of n [...]
2008-05-09 09:33:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ENRG UN IR CH IN KS JA PK RS AS XB
08BANGKOK2269FALUN GONG IN THAILAND
[...] (C) Falun Gong (FLG) practitioners in Bangkok are a small mix of mainland Chinese seeking refugee status and resettlement to third countries, alongside a smattering of high-society Thais. Thai immigration authorities are strictly applying immigration law in cases involving FLG practitioners, [...]
2008-07-25 09:19:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL PGOV TH CH KIRF
08BANGKOK781THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR CODEL BOND
[...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to CODEL Bond from March 27-30, 2008. 2. Hotel reservations have been made at: -- Four Seasons Hotel, 155 Rajadamri Road Tel: 66-2-251-6127 Fax: 66-2-254-5390 Room rate is USD 146 (taxes and American breakfast included) and is wit [...]
2008-03-12 09:42:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDOREP ASEC AFIN CH JP TH
08BEIJIG3760CHINA MFA: CHAVEZ VISIT PRIMARILY ECONOMIC, NOT A
[...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's September 23-25 visit to China focused on economic development and energy cooperation. Contrary to press reports, the two sides did not set firm numerical targets for oil exports, according to the Chinese MFA. MFA and academic contacts alike e [...]
2008-09-26 10:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG ETRD VE CH
08BEIJING1SED SESSION IV: MANAGING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a discussion focused on managing the economic impact of energy choices, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said both the United States and China are affected by high oil prices and are vulnerable to potential supply disruptions. National Development and Reform Commission Ch [...]
2008-01-02 00:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ETRD SENV CH
08BEIJING1002NO MAJOR SURPRISES IN SENIOR LEADERSHIP DECISIONS,
[...] (C) There were no major surprises in the "elections" for Premier, Vice Premiers and other key State Council (Cabinet) positions at the March 16-17 plenary sessions of China's National People's Congress (NPC). Wen Jiabao was "reelected" Premier, Li Keqiang, Hui Liangyu, Zhang Dejiang and Wang [...]
2008-03-17 17:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
08BEIJING1020MARCH 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING:TIBET, SIX-PARTY TALKS,
[...] Key points at the March 18, 2008 regular MFA press briefing were: -- Situation in Tibet is now stable and the violence reveals the Dalai clique's "essence." -- China supports the meetings between U.S. and DPRK negotiators and emphasizes that the nuclear issue is not a bilateral issue but [...]
2008-03-18 09:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MARR KOLY ETRD CH JA KSKN MI
08BEIJING1021CHINA DEMARCHES EU NATIONS ON TIBET
[...] (C) Summary: EU Embassy contacts reported March 18 that the Chinese Government on March 17 urged EU members not to publicly support or have contact with the Dalai Lama. MFA officials also protested Tibet-related demonstrations throughout Europe, particularly those that resulted in damage to [...]
2008-03-18 10:30:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CH
08BEIJING1022TIBET: RESTORING ORDER IS PRC'S PRIMARY FOCUS;
[...] (C) Summary: China's leadership is focused on restoring order and preventing the Tibet-related unrest of the last week from spreading nationwide, a well-connected scholar told PolOff March 18. Although international reaction to Beijing's response is a consideration for China's rulers, partic [...]
2008-03-18 10:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI PREL PHUM KIRF CH
08BEIJING1023BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON JAPAN,
[...] (C) At the March 14 bi-weekly Beijing-based G-5 Chiefs of Mission gathering, Japanese DCM Kunio Umeda said that PRC President Hu Jintao's trip to Japan is scheduled for May 6, but the poisoned dumpling issue could make the visit "difficult." Participants were unimpressed by the National Peopl [...]
2008-03-18 11:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KOLY SENV SOCI PTER AF CM CH FR
08BEIJING1024NPC CLOSES MARCH 18; PREMIER HOLDS PRESS
[...] (C) In the March 18 final session of the National People's Congress (NPC),President Hu Jintao called for continued reforms, effective and clean government, a spirit of pragmatism and innovation and the raising of China's international stature. Premier Wen Jiabao, in an extended press confere [...]
2008-03-18 12:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON CH TW
08BEIJING1038TAIWAN: CONTACTS PREDICT KMT VICTORY, DEFEAT OF
[...] (C) Three days before Taiwan's March 22 presidential election and vote on competing referenda concerning Taiwan's participation in the UN, Embassy contacts continue to predict a victory for the KMT's Ma Ying-jeou and defeat of the two referenda. Opinions continue to diverge, however, over Bei [...]
2008-03-19 09:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS CH TW
08BEIJING1039CHINESE PRESS COVERAGE OF TIBET PROTESTS
[...] (C) China's media strategy in covering the Tibet protests appears aimed at offering a coordinated "official" version of events for domestic and international audiences. On the evening of March 15, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi provided a propaganda-heavy description of the protests to [...]
2008-03-19 10:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF ASEC CH
08BEIJING1045TIBET: JOURNALISTS CITE GOVERNMENT "RESTRAINT,"
[...] (C) Summary: China's leadership has ordered security forces to show "restraint" and not discharge their weapons in responding to Tibet-related unrest, according to two editors at official Chinese newspapers. One source said that despite these orders, "isolated shooting incidents" may have occ [...]
2008-03-20 10:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI PHUM PREL CH
08BEIJING1046PREMIER WEN AND PM BROWN TALK ABOUT DALAI LAMA;
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: UK PM Gordon Brown called Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao March 19 to inform the Chinese Government that Brown will meet the Dalai Lama in May, urge Chinese restraint in responding to protests and call for an end to the violence in Tibet. Brown also noted that the Dalai Lama had "me [...]
2008-03-20 10:37:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM CH UK
08BEIJING1047MARCH 20 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DALAI LAMA CLIQUE,
[...] Key points at the regular March 20 MFA press briefing: -- Wen Jiabao expressed grave concern to UK PM Gordon Brown over his plans to meet the Dalai Lama. Reports that Wen has agreed to meet the Dalai Lama are incorrect, as the Dalai Lama has not yet met the preconditions for dialogue. His [...]
2008-03-20 10:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI PHUM PREL CH KS JA
08BEIJING1049(S) PRC REQUESTED TO RECALL M/V SEVENTH OCEAN
[...] (S) PolMinCouns delivered reftel information to MFA Arms Control Department Counselor Li Song on March 19, urging China to recall a shipment of potassium perchlorate seized in Dubai from the M/V Seventh Ocean and to take appropriate steps to ensure PRC companies cease trade with Iranian entiti [...]
2008-03-20 10:59:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL AE IR CH
08BEIJING1050FOLLOW-UP ON CHINA NONPROLIFERATION COOPERATION
[...] (S) PolMinCouns and MFA Arms Control Counselor Li Song discussed our bilateral plan to enhance nonproliferation cooperation on March 19. Li said China was very pleased with the January export control workshop and noted that China is "ready for more" cooperation of this sort. PolMinCouns upda [...]
2008-03-20 11:06:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH
08BEIJING1069MAINLAND TAIWAN EXPERTS DISCUSS ELECTIONS, FUTURE
[...] (C) Two senior PRC Taiwan experts predicted this past week that Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Ma Ying-jeou will win Taiwan's March 22 presidential election with a margin of 5-10 percentage points because of his effective campaigning and widespread discontent over Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's [...]
2008-03-21 07:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08BEIJING107JANUARY 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: A/S HILL VISIT, SENIOR
[...] Key points at the January 10 MFA Press Briefing: -- The MFA announced that EAP A/S Hill was to meet with VFM Wu Dawei that afternoon in Beijing and stated that, regarding the Six-Party Talks, Second-Phase Actions are "moving along smoothly." -- The Fifth U.S.-China Senior Dialogue will take [...]
2008-01-10 09:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KOLY CH TW XY XW ZU XI RM SZ MI IN KN
08BEIJING1075TAIWAN: EMBASSY CONTACTS DOWNPLAY POTENTIAL FOR
[...] (C) On the eve of Taiwan's March 22 presidential election and vote on UN referenda, three Embassy contacts tell us they are "not worried" about the upcoming vote leading to a cross-Strait crisis. While both referenda on Taiwan's UN membership are expected to fail, even if one were to pass, Be [...]
2008-03-21 10:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS CH TW
08BEIJING1076CHINA INFORMED OF DESIGNATION OF FUTURE BANK,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-21 10:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC IR BA CH
08BEIJING1081HUMAN RIGHTS: MFA PROPOSES "FRAMEWORK AGENDA" FOR
[...] (C) MFA IO Human Rights Division Acting Director Yan Jiarong on March 21 conveyed China's proposal for the next round of human rights dialogue with the United States. China proposes holding the next dialogue meeting during the last ten days of May, in Beijing, at the DRL Assistant Secretary a [...]
2008-03-21 11:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING1083AMBASSADOR URGES PRC TO SEIZE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK
[...] (C) Summary: In light of the March 22 election results in Taiwan, the Ambassador urged China to seize the opportunity to work with the newly elected leaders in Taiwan to improve cross-Strait relations. In a lengthy prepared response, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi said that China's com [...]
2008-03-23 15:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS CH TW
08BEIJING1111PRC/IRAN: CHINESE OBSERVERS SAY LITTLE ROOM LEFT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese foreign policy experts say there is little room left for more sanctions against Iran that China can support because current UN Security Council resolutions come close to the PRC red line of jeopardizing China-Iran energy cooperation. Domestically, China's leaders feel in [...]
2008-03-24 09:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
08BEIJING1113CHINA SUPPORTIVE OF TAFT GOODS PROPOSAL
[...] (SBU) In a March 18 meeting between Assistant United States Trade Representative Tim Stratford and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) WTO Director General Zhang Xiangchen, DG Zhang referenced the February 15 meeting with Econ Minister Counselor Robert Luke and EU Counselor for Trade and Investment [...]
2008-03-25 00:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD WTRO ECON CH
08BEIJING1123March 25 MFA Press Briefing: Selected Journalists To Lhasa,
[...] Key points at the March 25 MFA Press Briefing: -- Selected foreign journalists will participate in a reporting trip to Lhasa. -- China is open to dialogue with the Dalai Lama as long as he gives up separatist activities. -- China will continue to follow the One China policy to further d [...]
2008-03-25 12:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER CH TW
08BEIJING1128CORRECTED COPY (PARA 4: Ganzi Prefecture) - March 25 MFA
[...] Key points at the March 25 MFA Press Briefing: -- Selected foreign journalists will participate in a reporting trip to Lhasa. -- China is open to dialogue with the Dalai Lama as long as he gives up separatist activities. -- China will continue to follow the One China policy to further d [...]
2008-03-26 01:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER CH TW
08BEIJING1141STAFFDEL JANUZZI DISCUSSES NONPROLIFERATION, IRAN,
[...] (C) Current bilateral cooperation on arms control, nonproliferation and export control is "remarkable," MFA Department of Arms Control Director General Cheng Jingye told Staffdel Januzzi March 24. Nevertheless, there is a "perception" that the United States counts on China's support on nonprolifera [...]
2008-03-26 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM KNNP MNUC KN CH IR
08BEIJING1142AFM HE YAFEI DISCUSSES SIX-PARTY TALKS, TIBET,
[...] (C) Senate Staffel members urged Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei to help convince DPRK leaders that if they fulfill their obligations under the Six-Party Talks framework, the United States stands ready to do the same. The DPRK must disclose information on its uranium enrichment program and [...]
2008-03-26 09:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM IN KS KN RS JA TW CH PK
08BEIJING1143SCO: MFA COY, SECRETARIAT POSITIVE ON IRAN'S BID
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A contact at the Chinese Foreign Ministry declined to comment on whether China would support Iran's bid to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),but said there are "ample reasons" for Iran's admission to the organization, including the potential for energy cooperation [...]
2008-03-26 11:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETRD ENRG MARR ZK XD CH RS IR
08BEIJING1144STAFFDEL JANUZZI DISCUSSES NONPROLIFERATION, IRAN,
[...] (C) Current bilateral cooperation on arms control, nonproliferation and export control is "remarkable," MFA Department of Arms Control Director General Cheng Jingye told Staffdel Januzzi March 24. Nevertheless, there is a "perception" that the United States counts on China's support on nonpro [...]
2008-03-26 11:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM KNNP MNUC KN CH IR
08BEIJING11452007 KITTY HAWK PORT CALL REFUSAL SHEDS LIGHT ON
[...] (C) The PRC's refusal of the USS Kitty Hawk port visit to Hong Kong for Thanksgiving in November 2007 was a last-minute decision by the Central Military Commission (CMC) made in anger over the November 9, 2007 announcement of further U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan, according to a majority of scho [...]
2008-03-26 11:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CH TW
08BEIJING1159U.S.-CHINA COUNTERTERRORISM DIALOGUE: BILATERAL
[...] (C) U.S. Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism Dell Dailey and MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Director General Wu Hailong shared proposals for enhancing bilateral counterterrorism cooperation during the March 25 U.S.-China Counterterrorism Dialogue in Beijing. A [...]
2008-03-27 08:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KOLY CVIS CH
08BEIJING1160U.S.-CHINA COUNTERTERRORISM DIALOGUE: CSI,
[...] (C) At the March 25 U.S.-China Counterterrorism Dialogue in Beijing, the U.S. and Chinese delegations, led respectively by U.S. Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism Dell Dailey and MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Director General Wu Hailong, agreed that the Unite [...]
2008-03-27 09:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL EFIN ECON ENRG KNNP ASEC TW CH
08BEIJING1164CHINA CONCERNED ABOUT SECURITY FOR SAN FRANCISCO
[...] (C) China is "gravely concerned" about security for the April 9 San Francisco Torch Relay participants and their charter plane, said MFA Director General Zheng Zeguang, during a March 26 meeting with the Charge. China expects "anti-China forces" to step up their efforts to sabotage the event [...]
2008-03-27 09:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KOLY ASEC CH
08BEIJING1166U.S.-CHINA COUNTERTERRORISM DIALOGUE: MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: At a March 26 meeting with Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi at the conclusion of the U.S.-China Counterterrorism Dialogue, U.S. Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism Dell Dailey urged the PRC to put concrete pressure on Syria to shore up its borders and prevent the flow of [...]
2008-03-27 09:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KOLY CH
08BEIJING1169CHINA "REINFORCES" ITS CONCERN ABOUT
[...] (C) China wants to "reinforce" its concern about the Sinopec-Yadavaran deal and urged the United States to keep in mind that Sinopec is "not just a company," said Director General of the MFA's North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Zheng Zeguang, during a March 26 meeting with the Char [...]
2008-03-27 09:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL ECON PGOV EINV CH IR
08BEIJING1170CHINESE ACADEMIC VIEWS ON A NORTHEAST ASIA PEACE
[...] (C) Many Chinese academics view the eventual establishment of a North East Asia Peace and Security Mechanism (NEAPSM) as a "natural outgrowth" of the Six-Party Talks. While there is no agreement among scholars on what a future NEAPSM will look like, many believe that it will start with the Six [...]
2008-03-27 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KN CH
08BEIJING1171PERSONNEL CHANGES AT MOFCOM MAY AFFECT EXPORT
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In an informal off-the-record meeting, a working-level official provided hints of imminent personnel changes at the Minstry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and opined on the possible impact of these changes on export control cooperation with the U.S., including implementation of the Vali [...]
2008-03-27 09:55:00Embassy BeijingSECRET//NOFORNBEXP CH ETRD ETTC PARM PREL
08BEIJING119BEIJING AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: REPORTED OUTBREAK IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Chinese authorities confirmed in the domestic and international media that there had been an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza amongst poultry in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region beginning December 29, 2007. Reports indicated a die-off of about 5,000 birds and control measures culling [...]
2008-01-11 09:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAGR CH
08BEIJING1201NORINCO BRIEFS EMBASSY ON ITS EXPORT CONTROL
[...] (C) NORINCO management wants to end the "distorted image" of the firm and become a "decent member of the international community," NORINCO Vice President Zhi Yulin told the Charge in a March 27 meeting. Zhi believes the firm's experience building infrastructure projects creates an opportunity [...]
2008-03-31 07:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM ETTC PREL CH
08BEIJING1203VISITING STAFFDEL MEETS NORINCO OFFICIALS
[...] (C) NORINCO Vice President He Xiaodong told Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff members Frank Januzzi and Puneet Talwar that NORINCO can serve as an educator and lobbyist on the subject of export control compliance. VP He said NORINCO unilaterally stopped exporting "explosives" to Syria a [...]
2008-03-31 08:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM PHSA PREL CH IR SY
08BEIJING1209CHINA HAS FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS REGARDING A HONG
[...] (U) This is an action request; please paragraph 3. 2. (S) MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Third Secretary He Yi asked PolOff on March 31 if the United States can provide additional information to assist China with its investigation of a possible delivery of Chin [...]
2008-03-31 10:45:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR HK
08BEIJING1225U.S.-CHINA DIALOGUE ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: YOUR
[...] (SBU) Your meeting with Ministry of Commerce Vice Minister (VM) Yi Xiaozhun in Tokyo will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the launch of the U.S.-China Dialogue on Foreign Assistance, which was proposed by Deputy Secretary Negroponte during his January meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao. We [...]
2008-04-01 05:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ETRD PREL PGOV EFIN CH
08BEIJING123CHINA URGED TO EXPLAIN JANUARY 2007 ANTI-SATELLITE
[...] (S) China has explained many times its position on its January 2007 anti-satellite test and wishes the United States would put this issue behind us, MFA North American Affairs Department Deputy Director General Deng Hongbo told us January 11 in response to our expression of continued concern o [...]
2008-01-11 10:44:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR CH
08BEIJING1237April 1 MFA Press Briefing: Tibet Protests, Olympics, Hu
[...] Key points at the April 1 MFA Press Briefing were: -- The Dalai Lama continues to incite unrest and undermine the Olympic Games. -- Foreign officials who boycott the Olympic Games are "flattering themselves" and undermining their country's interest. -- China blocks websites which contain [...]
2008-04-01 11:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER KOLY CH TW JP KS EK TC NZ
08BEIJING124SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-CHINA SENIOR DIALOGUE,
[...] (C) The upcoming 5th round of the U.S.-China Senior Dialogue kicks off an important year for China and for bilateral relations. Taiwan's presidential and UN referenda votes in March and the PRC's hosting of the Olympics in August are the focus of Chinese concerns, and the Chinese believe the [...]
2008-01-11 11:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM MARR CH TW
08BEIJING1247CHINA IMPLEMENTING IRAN TRAVEL BAN
[...] (C) PolOff on April 2 delivered to MFA reftel points on travel-related provisions in UN Security Council Resolutions 1803, 1737 and 1747 and sought details about the status of China's implementation of these provisions. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division De [...]
2008-04-02 06:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALMNUC KNNP UNSC IR CH
08BEIJING1248CORRECTED COPY (PARA 11: NIMITZ) April 1 MFA Press
[...] Key points at the April 1 MFA Press Briefing were: -- The Dalai Lama continues to incite unrest and undermine the Olympic Games. -- Foreign officials who boycott the Olympic Games are "flattering themselves" and undermining their country's interest. -- China blocks websites which contain [...]
2008-04-02 09:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER KOLY CH TW JP KS EK TC NZ
08BEIJING125MFA AND SCHOLARS DESCRIBE CHINA’S EFFORTS ON BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: China has made great efforts to improve the situation in Burma, stretching the boundaries of its policy of non-interference, MFA and Chinese think tank interlocutors told HFAC and SFRC staff members January 10-11. MFA says China is contemplating next steps to address the current "stand [...]
2008-01-11 11:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH BM
08BEIJING1252CHINA'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (C) Minister Counselor for Financial Affairs delivered points in reftel March 27 to Tang Xu, Director General of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) Anti-Money Laundering Bureau. Tang responded that over the past two years, the PBOC has increased its attention to interactions between Chinese bank [...]
2008-04-02 09:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD PARM EINV CH IR
08BEIJING1253CHINA'S RESPONSE TO DESIGNATION OF FUTURE BANK,
[...] (C) Minister Counselor for Financial Affairs delivered points and non-paper in reftel March 27 to Tang Xu, Director General of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) Anti-Money Laundering Bureau. Tang responded that over the past two years, the PBOC has increased its attention to interactions betw [...]
2008-04-02 09:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN PARM KNNP MNUC CH BA IR
08BEIJING1263(S) SHIELD S06-08/S18-05/S26-06: CHINA URGED TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-03 09:16:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH KN
08BEIJING1264(S) PRC INFORMED OF UPDATED SCHEDULE OF AIR KORYO
[...] (S) PolOff informed MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Acting Deputy Director He Yi on April 3 of the scheduled change from March 11 to April 11 of a planned Air Koryo charter flight from North Korea to Syria with a stop in Iran. PolOff reminded He Yi that we suspect [...]
2008-04-03 09:22:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL KNNP KN XB XG ZK ZL XD XF CH IR
08BEIJING1265HUMAN RIGHTS: HU JIA SENTENCED TO THREE AND A HALF
[...] (C) Summary: Amid tight security, a Beijing court on April 3 sentenced rights activist Hu Jia to three and a half years in prison, with deprivation of political rights for an additional year. PolOff and nearly a dozen third-country diplomats were denied entry into the court to observe the tr [...]
2008-04-03 10:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING1267 April 3 MFA Press Briefing: Hu Jia Case, Olympic Boycott,
[...] Key points at the April 3 MFA Press Briefing were: -- China has handled the Hu Jia case according to law and will not accept criticism. -- The IOC is right to reject calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics and the torch relay should not be disrupted. -- Reports China supplied the IAEA with [...]
2008-04-03 11:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER CH PK TN TZ CI QA KZ AS SW
08BEIJING128MFA and Scholars Describe China's Efforts on Burma
[...] (C) Summary: China has made great efforts to improve the situation in Burma, stretching the boundaries of its policy of non-interference, MFA and Chinese think tank interlocutors told HFAC and SFRC staff members January 10-11. MFA says China is contemplating next steps to address the current [...]
2008-01-12 04:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH BM
08BEIJING1280COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR A/S HILL TO BEIJING APRIL 9
[...] (SBU) Embassy Beijing welcomes and grants country clearance for EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill and his delegation to Beijing on April 9 for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks. 2. (SBU) Control Officer: Nancy Leou, Political Officer Tel: (86-10)6532-3831 x6040 Cell: [...]
2008-04-07 08:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08BEIJING1284The United States-China Economic and Security Review
[...] (SBU) A "responsible government" would never "initiate, sponsor or support" cyber attacks on other countries, a scholar from the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences told United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission members on April 1. However, the scholar described cyber warfare [...]
2008-04-07 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PARM CH
08BEIJING1290UNITED STATES AND UK JOINTLY DEMARCHE CHINA ON
[...] (C) Summary: The Chinese MFA says deploying new helicopters to Darfur is not a priority while China focuses on deploying the remainder of its engineering contingent. The remainder of the Chinese engineering force should deploy in early April. MFA made no immediate response to PolOff's request [...]
2008-04-07 10:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR UNSC KPKO SU CH
08BEIJING1291FM YANG DEFENDS CHINA'S ACTIONS IN TIBET
[...] (C) China's actions in Tibet were prompted by violent crimes instigated by the Dalai Lama "clique," Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told Treasury Secretary Paulson April 2. Diplomats and journalists have been given access to Tibet, and China's actions have garnered broad international support, [...]
2008-04-07 11:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CH TW
08BEIJING1294MONGOLIAN FOREIGN MINISTER OYUN VISITS CHINA MARCH
[...] (C) Mongolian Foreign Minster Sanjaasuren Oyun's March 24-28 visit to China resulted in PRC assent to open a Mongolian consulate in Shanghai, transfer prisoners from southern China to Inner Mongolia and support Mongolia's inclusion in APEC. FM Oyun also sought China's support for Mongolia's i [...]
2008-04-07 11:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH MG
08BEIJING1308China Investment Corporation Meeting with
[...] (SBU) Summary: China Investment Corporation General Manager Gao Xiqing met with Commissioners of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on March 31, 2008. Gao suggested that U.S. officials be patient with CIC as it evolves relative to sovereign wealth fund (SWF) best practice [...]
2008-04-08 06:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL EINV CH
08BEIJING1309(S) SHIELD S05-08: PRC INFORMED OF IMMINENT
[...] (S) PolOff informed MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Director Wang Daxue on April 8 that China Northern Chemical and Minerals Company is planning to load 1000 metric tons of sodium sulfide flakes on the M/V Iran Teyfouri as early as April 10 for shipment to I [...]
2008-04-08 07:44:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
08BEIJING1311(S) CHINA URGED TO INVESTIGATE MISSILE-RELATED
[...] (S) PolOff urged China to take immediate steps to investigate the transfer of missile-related material by a Chinese company to Syria, including via a North Korean intermediary, in a meeting with MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Director Wang Daxue on April 8. [...]
2008-04-08 08:20:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH KN SY
08BEIJING1316 April 8 MFA Press Briefing: Dalai Lama, Olympic Torch,
[...] Key points at the April 8 MFA Press Briefing were: -- The Dalai Lama "lies for a living" and wants to bring emancipated Tibetans back to slavery. -- United States and Chinese officials have been in contact to ensure safe passage for the Olympic torch in San Francisco. -- China will hold [...]
2008-04-08 11:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER CH PK TN TZ CI QA KZ AS SW
08BEIJING1331CHINA NOW WILLING TO JOIN JOINT DEMARCHE ON
[...] (C) MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo told PolOff April 9 that "in light of recent developments" China has changed its position and would be willing to join a "joint P5 demarche" on Chad and Sudan (ref a) "if the P5 can agree on a [...]
2008-04-09 08:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO CD SU CH
08BEIJING1333MFA EXPRESSES "SERIOUS CONCERNS" OVER PROPOSED UN
[...] (C) PolOff on April 9 conveyed to MFA reftel points urging China to support a UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) on Burma. Noting that UN Special Advior Gambari has said a PRST would be helpful to his mission and that after a total of five Gambari visits the Burmese government [...]
2008-04-09 09:17:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC CH BM
08BEIJING1351SEARCHING FOR THE DALAI LAMA IN QINGHAI PROVINCE
[...] (C) During a February 24-25 trip taken prior to the Tibet-related unrest that began in mid-March, PolOff observed ethnic Tibetans in Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, displaying their reverence for the Dalai Lama in low-key, sometimes clandestine, ways to avoid confrontation with public [...]
2008-04-10 09:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF SCUL CH
08BEIJING1354M/V IRAN TEYFORUI: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SHARED
[...] (S) PolOff provided additional information on the shipment of sodium sulfide to Iran on board the M/V Iran Teyfouri (ref A) to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Director Wang Daxue on April 10. He urged China to investigate and prevent the transfer to Iran. W [...]
2008-04-10 10:00:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
08BEIJING1355April 10 MFA Press Briefing: Dalai Lama, Olympic Torch,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-10 11:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER CH AS FR IR TW IN
08BEIJING1373(S) M/V IRAN TEYFOURI: PRC SAYS INVESTIGATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-11 11:08:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
08BEIJING1374PRC/IRAQ: CHINA WANTS TO PLAY "POSITIVE" ROLE, BUT
[...] (C) As instructed reftel, Poloff delivered points on demonstrating support for the Iraqi government to Attache Wu Xiaofeng of the Iraq office at the MFA's West Asian and North African Affairs Department. Wu said that China would participate "in a positive way" in the up-coming Neighbor's Conf [...]
2008-04-11 12:02:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID EFIN IZ CH
08BEIJING1390DRAFT UNSCR ON REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
[...] (C) PolOff on April 14 conveyed to MFA reftel points on the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) proposed by South Africa on regional organizations, the April 16 open debate hosted by South African President Thabo Mbeki, and the April 17 joint UN Security Council-African Union (AU) Peace and [...]
2008-04-14 07:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KPKO SO SU ZI CH
08BEIJING1396BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON TIBET, THE
[...] (C) At the April 11 bi-weekly Beijing-based G-5 Chiefs of Mission gathering, French DCM Nicolas Chapuis noted that there is much confusion in Paris regarding Sarkozy's "conditions" or "elements" involved in his ultimate decision to attend or not attend the Beijing Olympics. President Hu Jinta [...]
2008-04-14 10:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KOLY SOCI SENV CH FR GM JA UK
08BEIJING1416APRIL 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TORCH RELAY, DALAI
[...] Key points at the regular April 15 MFA press briefing: -- Past successful legs of the Olympic Torch Relay have come about through cooperation with the relevant countries; any disruptions in future legs of the torch run will show the "true nature" of Tibetan separatist forces. China hopes th [...]
2008-04-15 10:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SOCI PHUM CH JA
08BEIJING1450APRIL 16 TAO PRESS BRIEFING: HU-SIEW MEETING, DIRECT
[...] Key points at the April 16 Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) press briefings were: -- The April 12 Hu-Siew meeting has "very important significance" for the improvement of cross-Strait relations under "new circumstances" (xin xingshi) and the promotion of cross-Strait economic cooperation. -- P [...]
2008-04-16 10:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD ECON KOLY CH TW
08BEIJING1454HU JINTAO IN CHARGE OF TIBET POLICY; LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) President Hu Jintao remains firmly in charge of China's policy on Tibet, with the leadership unified over Beijing's current hard-line stance and buoyed by rising PRC nationalist sentiment, xxxxx. Given Hu's background and experience in Tibet, as well as the "extremely sensitive" nature of the i [...]
2008-04-16 10:34:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KOLY CH
08BEIJING1462AFM LIU JIEYI EXPRESSES PRC OPPOSITION TO APRIL 21
[...] (C) In an April 16 conversation with the Ambassador, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi expressed China's "strong opposition" to an April 21 meeting between Under Secretary Dobriansky and the Dalai Lama. AFM Liu said the SIPDIS Dalai Lama was responsible for the recent "beating, smashing, [...]
2008-04-16 11:34:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CH
08BEIJING1463(S) PRC URGED TO INVESTIGATE A CHINESE FIRM'S
[...] (S) PolOff informed MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Director Wang Daxue on April 16 of recent efforts by the Shanghai Technical By-Products International Corporation (STBPI) to supply missile-useable aluminum, steel, wire and integrated circuits to Iran (ref [...]
2008-04-16 12:12:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR TW
08BEIJING1473CHINA INFORMED OF STEEL SHIPMENTS OF PROLIFERATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-17 05:25:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE KNNP CH KN
08BEIJING1488CHINA-JAPAN CONSULTATIONS ON UN REFORM
[...] (C) Summary. China declined to support Japan's bid for a permanent UN Security Council (UNSC) seat during April 14 consultations with visiting Japanese MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Kawai Chikao, according to the Chinese MFA. China refused even to endorse a statement similar to China [...]
2008-04-17 10:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PHUM JA CH
08BEIJING1489CORRECTED COPY: CHINA-JAPAN CONSULTATIONS ON UN
[...] (C) Summary. China declined to support Japan's bid for a permanent UN Security Council (UNSC) seat during April 14 consultations with visiting Japanese MFA Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy Kawai Chikao, according to the Chinese MFA. China refused even to endorse a statement similar to [...]
2008-04-17 11:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PHUM JA CH
08BEIJING1490APRIL 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TORCH RELAY, DALAI
[...] Key points at the regular April 17 MFA press briefing: -- The torch relay in Pakistan was "warm and grand," and the people of India have "shown their enthusiasm for the relay." -- The Beijing Olympic Committee will arrange a specific media group to cover the Mount Everest leg of the torch [...]
2008-04-17 11:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SOCI PHUM CH JA
08BEIJING1492TOY SAFETY IMPROVES, BUT OFFICIALS WARY OF IMPOSED CHANGE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Eight months after the spate of massive toy recalls in the United States, Chinese toy exporters are paying more attention to the safety of their products and compliance with U.S. toy safety standards. Conversations with industry representatives, standards experts, and other observ [...]
2008-04-18 01:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD BEXP CH
08BEIJING150JANUARY 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: MALAWI, TAIWAN, OLYMPICS,
[...] Key points at the January 15 MFA Press Briefing: -- China and Malawi on December 28 after "friendly consultations and negotiations" established diplomatic relations. -- Some organizations with "ulterior political motives" use the Olympics to "tarnish China's image" and "exert pressure" on t [...]
2008-01-15 22:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KOLY PHUM CH TW NL KS KN MI FJ IN FR
08BEIJING1506RURAL FINANCE INITIATIVES STILL STRUGGLING
[...] (SBU) New rural finance initiatives continue to struggle in China's countryside one year after their introduction because they are not commercially viable. Promoting private banks' involvement in the rural sector through the establishment of Village Banks is the right approach, by increasing c [...]
2008-04-18 09:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAGR PGOV SOCI CH
08BEIJING1507A FLURRY OF VISITS SETS THE STAGE FOR PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka visited Beijing April 14-15 to address three issues in advance of President Hu Jintao's May 6-10 visit to Japan: the poisoned dumpling case, the East China Sea dispute and Tibet. Japanese Embassy officials report that the dumpling investigati [...]
2008-04-18 09:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG CH JN
08BEIJING1511CONTACTS REPORT CONTINUED MONASTERY PROTESTS,
[...] (C) Summary: Demonstrations and arrests are continuing in Tibetan regions, according to Tibetan poet and blogger Wei Se (aka "Oser", strictly protect). Wei Se told PolOff she had learned of a recent demonstration at Lhasa's Drepung Monastery by monks protesting the lack of adequate food. Sh [...]
2008-04-18 11:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KIRF CH
08BEIJING1512CHINA CONFIRMS HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE WITH
[...] (C) Australian diplomat Nicholas Purtell told PolOff that China on April 17 confirmed its participation in the Sino-Australian human rights dialogue round already provisionally scheduled for May 1 in Canberra, with AFM Liu Jieyi serving as head of the Chinese delegation. China is willing to d [...]
2008-04-18 12:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV AS CH
08BEIJING1513OUTSIDERS BANNED FROM TIBETAN AREAS OF GANSU AND
[...] (C) Summary: During a March 16-21 trip to Gansu and Qinghai Provinces to investigate Tibetan area unrest reports, EmbOffs encountered well-coordinated government efforts to prevent foreigners from traveling to Tibetan regions of both provinces. In Lanzhou, capital of Gansu, EmbOffs saw a hea [...]
2008-04-18 12:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
08BEIJING1529MFA PLEDGES POSITIVE CONSIDERATION FOR HUMAN
[...] (C) While emphasizing that China's formal reply will come at a later date, MFA IO Human Rights Division Deputy Director Xu Jing on April 21 shared with PolOff her "preliminary reactions" to U.S. proposals for resuming the U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue (HRD). China will give "positive consi [...]
2008-04-21 11:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING1550APRIL 22 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HARASSMENT OF CHINESE STUDENT,
[...] Key points at the April 22 MFA press briefing were: -- Domestic and Overseas Chinese demonstrations are "spontaneous" expressions of patriotism that are "encouraging and touching." -- A "U.S. State Department official" ignored Chinese opposition, violated "basic norms of international relat [...]
2008-04-22 12:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER KOLY CH FR KS KN JA RS HK XG
08BEIJING1565CHINA STILL SUPPORTS MUSHARRAF; IS CONCERNED ABOUT
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese schoars downplayed the significance of Pakistan President Musharraf's April 10-15 visit to China in recent discussions with PolOff, but scholars and Chinese Government officials alike reaffirmed Chinese support for Musharraf despite his declining authority in the wake of [...]
2008-04-23 09:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PARM ENRG EPET MNUC CH PK
08BEIJING1568MFA: ARMS TO ZIMBABWE PART OF "NORMAL TRADE"
[...] (C) Summary: China's recent shipment of arms to Zimbabwe is part of the normal trade in arms between two sovereign nations and is not connected to the current political situation, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missiles and Conventional Weapons Division Director Zhang Jun'an told [...]
2008-04-23 09:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR CH ZI SADC
08BEIJING157CHINESE SCHOLARS' INITIAL TAKE ON PM SINGH VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Echoing adulatory press coverage of Indian PM Singh's January 13-15 visit to Beijing, several Chinese scholars told PolOff the visit significantly enhanced trust between Chinese and Indian senior leaders and between the two countries' militaries. China, the scholars said, was als [...]
2008-01-16 09:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PBTS ECON ETRD MARR CH IN
08BEIJING1570SINO-FRENCH RELATIONS: DESPITE OUTCRY, IT COULD BE
[...] (C) Summary: Despite recent well-publicized protests and calls for boycotts of French companies, Sino-French relations are not in a downward spiral, French Embassy Counselor Erkki Maillard told PolOff April 23. The Chinese Government appears to be taking a firm public line on France to assuag [...]
2008-04-23 10:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD KOLY FR CH
08BEIJING1598MFA: FINISH ZIMBABWE RECOUNT BEFORE FURTHER ACTION
[...] (C) Summary. The international community should wait for the election recount to be completed before taking any action on Zimbabwe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Africa Department Southern Africa Division Director He Meng said April 24. The crisis in Zimbabwe should be left to Africans to [...]
2008-04-24 09:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR CH ZI SADC
08BEIJING1600APRIL 24 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: ZIMBABWE ARMS SHIPMENT,
[...] Key points at the April 24 MFA press briefing were: -- A Chinese cargo ship will return to China with arms intended for Zimbabwe. -- An EU resolution critical of China's involvement in Africa is "irresponsible" and "groundless." -- The Syria-DPRK nuclear issue should not affect the Six-P [...]
2008-04-24 11:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KOLY CH FR KN JA SY PA XG ZI
08BEIJING1618GOVERNMENT REINS IN ANTI-FRENCH PROTESTS ON
[...] (C) Chinese authorities this past week have moved to curtail anti-French and anti-Western demonstrations in China. Official propaganda has tried to steer the public toward more "rational" displays of patriotism, with security and Party officials bluntly telling university students in Beijing t [...]
2008-04-25 11:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KIFR CH
08BEIJING1619CHINA'S MEDIA MESSAGE ON TIBET CONTROLLED BY HU
[...] (C) China's media guidance for the Tibet unrest story is coming directly from President Hu Jintao through the Central Propaganda Department (CPD),according to a range of contacts. The guidance is often conveyed informally and has shifted somewhat over time in response to events and the effec [...]
2008-04-25 15:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
08BEIJING1625SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE MERMOUD PUSHES FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. United States Department of State Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs J. Frank Mermoud met with Ministry of Housing Urban-Rural Construction (MHURC) officials and construction industry leaders on April 21 and 22 to follow-up on the March 4th United States [...]
2008-04-27 23:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV PREL ENRG EFIN BTIO IAEA CH
08BEIJING164BOHAI FUND TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HOME-GROWN STATUS
[...] (SBU) The establishment of the new renminbi (RMB) 20 billion (USD 2.7 billion) Tianjin-based Bohai Industrial Investment Fund, the first of a series of home-grown RMB-denominated private equity (PE) funds backed by state-owned entities, represents an effort by Chinese authorities to expand non [...]
2008-01-17 08:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCH ECON EFIN ENIV ETRD PGOV SOCI
08BEIJING1643HIZB UT-TAHRIR, MUSLIM MISSIONARIES AND ISLAMIC
[...] (C) Counterterrorism experts at the Ministry of State Security-affiliated China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) described to PolOffs on April 15 an ongoing Islamic "resurgence" in western China, encouraged by rising wealth among Chinese Muslims and increasing contac [...]
2008-04-28 09:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPTER PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF TI PK KG AF KZ CH
08BEIJING165JANUARY 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, SENIOR DIALOGUE,
[...] Key points at the January 17 MFA Press Briefing: -- Iran Chief Nuclear Negotiator Saeed Jalili is visiting Beijing January 17-18 for meetings with Chinese officials. -- During Senior Dialogue meetings this week, China will exchange views on important issues of bilateral interest with the Un [...]
2008-01-17 11:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH TW GM IR UK
08BEIJING1653PRC WILL INVESTIGATE DPRK MISSILE PARTS SHIPMENT
[...] (S) PolOff urged MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Third Secretary He Yi to investigate reftel shipment of missile parts transiting China from the DPRK to Syria. PolOff told He Yi that we believe the shipment is still in Ningbo, but is likely to depart for Syria ver [...]
2008-04-29 07:16:00Embassy BeijingSECRETKNNP PARM PREL MNUC CH KN SY
08BEIJING1656PRC TOLD TO REFRAIN FROM INTERFERING WITH U.S.
[...] (S) Summary: The continued harassment of U.S. vessels conducting lawful activities in China's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is "provocative and potentially dangerous," the Charge told MFA Treaty and Law Department Director General Duan Jielong on April 28. Duan called the surveys "very close" [...]
2008-04-29 07:32:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL KTIA MOPS PBTS PHSA CH
08BEIJING1660CHINA: UNSC SHOULD PROCEED "VERY CAUTIOUSLY" ON
[...] (C) PolOff on April 29 conveyed to MFA reftel points on the need for the international community to act decisively on Zimbabwe, on the need for an end to government-sponsored violence against opposition parties in Zimbabwe, on the urgent need for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to consider in a [...]
2008-04-29 09:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC ZI CH
08BEIJING1662APRIL 29 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Torch Relay, Dalai Lama,
[...] Key points at the April 29 MFA press briefing were: -- Chinese students who attended the torch relay in Seoul intended to defend the dignity of the torch. -- China's willingness to meet with the Dalai Lama's representatives shows China's "consistent policy" and "forgiveness." -- Seven Ch [...]
2008-04-29 11:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KOLY PTER CH KS KN JA PK GM BB
08BEIJING1671PRICES STILL RISING BUT PROVINCES REMAIN CALM
[...] (SBU) Commenting on inflationary trends in their respective localities, government officials and citizens in two provinces outside Beijing recently expressed optimism that prices are stabilizing and said their regions have not so far experienced widespread social unrest or hoarding. Their comm [...]
2008-04-30 02:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV EAGR SOCI CH
08BEIJING1681HU FIRMLY IN CHARGE OF TAIWAN POLICY, CONTACTS SAY
[...] (C) Summary: President Hu Jintao's position as the chief Taiwan policymaker has been strengthened as a result of Ma Ying-jeou's victory in the March 22 Taiwan presidential election, according to two Embassy contacts. Hu's decisions to break from former President Jiang Zemin's timeline for re [...]
2008-04-30 06:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08BEIJING1690RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES -- CHINA
[...] (U) INTRODUCTION: This report is Mission China's response to reftel, which requested input on the impact of food and commodity price increases. It is a composite of analysis and data compiled by Embassy Beijing as well as by Econoffs in Consulates General Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, and She [...]
2008-04-30 09:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV EAGR SOCI CH
08BEIJING1691NINGXIA MUSLIMS, PART 1: GOVERNMENT CONTROLS LIMIT
[...] (C) Ningxia is not fertile ground for the further spread of Islam, despite the substantial ethnic Muslim concentrations that live there. Government controls on religious education, the freedom of worship among Muslim CCP members and other aspects of religious life, as well as echoes of the de [...]
2008-04-30 09:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PTER KIRF PK CH SA EG
08BEIJING1692CHINA ADVISES BURMA TO RECONSIDER GAMBARI
[...] (C) Responding to reftel points delivered by PolOff, MFA Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Division Deputy Director Chen Chen on April 30 said that the Chinese Government has "advised" the Burmese Government to "positively reconsider" previous suggestions offered by UN Special Adviser Gambari t [...]
2008-04-30 09:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH BM
08BEIJING1695APRIL 30 TAO PRESS BRIEFING: MAC CHAIRPERSON-DESIGNATE,
[...] Key points at the April 30 Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) press briefing were: -- China does not have a position on Chairperson-designate Lai Shin-yuan's suitability as head of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council. -- Discussions in both the ARATS-SEF and KMT-CCP channels are useful. -- Aske [...]
2008-04-30 11:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD ECON KOLY CH TW
08BEIJING1696FRENCH EMBASSY HINTS THAT SARKOZY HAS STUMBLED
[...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Herve Ladsous told the Charge April 29 that the recent turbulence in Sino-French relations stemmed not from the protests during the Paris leg of the Olympic Touch Run, but from French President Sarkozy's linkage of his participation in the Olympics Opening Ceremo [...]
2008-04-30 11:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD KOLY FR CH
08BEIJING1697TIBET: SCHOLARS PRAISE DECISION TO RESTART CONTACT
[...] (C) China's decision to reopen talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives was largely a result of international pressure, Beijing University Sociology Professor Ma Rong (protect),a leading expert on Tibetan social issues, told PolOff. Both sides are under pressure to show some results at th [...]
2008-04-30 11:34:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KIFR CH
08BEIJING1698NINGXIA MUSLIMS, PART 2: BUDDING FUNDAMENTALISM
[...] (C) The Salafiyya movement, a Saudi Wahhabist import which promotes a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, has established a small but significant presence in Ningxia in recent years, according to scholars and imams in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Surprisingly, the Gove [...]
2008-05-01 05:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PTER KIRF PK CH SA EG
08BEIJING1699Ningxia Muslims, Part 3: The Sufi King of Tongxin County:
[...] (C) Hong Yang, a Peking University-educated imam in Ningxia's Tongxin County, heads a Sufi order which he says has over 2,000 imams, serving at 1,500 mosques with a total population of over one million Hui followers. An entourage of imams surrounded Hong as he entertained PolOff on an April vi [...]
2008-05-02 01:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PTER KIRF PK EG CH SA
08BEIJING1715TIBET: MFA SAYS TALKS WITH DALAI LAMA
[...] (C) The meeting between CCP Central Committee United Front Work Department Deputy Directors (Vice Minister equivalent) Zhu Weiqun and Sitar ("Si Ta" in Mandarin) and personal representatives of the Dalai Lama Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen "marks a new beginning," said Director General of the [...]
2008-05-05 08:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KIRF CH
08BEIJING1718AMBASSADOR AND PRC EVFM WANG DISCUSS TIBET,
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion during a lunch hosted by the Ambassador May 5, PRC Executive Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed that China is willing to continue talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives but that the success of the talks hinge on the Dalai Lama's "sincerity." [...]
2008-05-05 11:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KOLY KIRF ASEC PTER CH
08BEIJING1719MFA CONFIRMS HRD DIALOGUE DATES; REFUSES REQUEST
[...] (C) On May 5, MFA International Organizations Human Rights Division Director Yan Jiarong told PolOff that China "agrees" to move forward with one-half day of formal U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue (HRD) on May 26 and with related meetings on May 27, although she said China has "flexibility" to [...]
2008-05-05 12:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING1727DPRK FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO CHINA: BILATERAL
[...] (C) DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun's April 26-29 visit to Shanghai and Beijing was a reciprocal visit for PRC Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi's visit to North Korea last July, said MFA Asian Affairs Department Korea Division Deputy Director Fang Kun. Pak met with Vice President Xi Jinping, St [...]
2008-05-06 09:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KN CH
08BEIJING1729PRC/IRAQ: CHINA TO ATTEND STOCKHOLM ICI MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-06 10:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID EFIN IZ CH
08BEIJING1731MAY 6 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, TIBET, VISAS, BURMA,
[...] Key points at the May 6 MFA press briefing were: -- Iran enjoys the right to peaceful nuclear energy use, but also should show a sense of "responsibility." -- Central Government policy toward the Dalai Lama is "consistent and clear-cut" and the "door for contact is always open." -- China [...]
2008-05-06 22:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER KOLY MARR CVIS TW CH KS KN JA
08BEIJING1734UNSC RESOLUTION ON SOMALI PIRACY
[...] (C) PolOff on May 6 conveyed to MFA reftel points explaining the basis for the draft UN Security Council resolution on piracy off the coast of Somalia. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said China agrees in principle to a UNSC re [...]
2008-05-07 03:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO CH
08BEIJING1749AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES OLYMPIC PROTEST ZONES AND
[...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi May 7 and stressed the importance the USG places on the upcoming U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue. He told AFM Liu that he hopes the Dialogue will show tangible results. AFM Liu responded that the Chinese Government al [...]
2008-05-07 11:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KOLY CH
08BEIJING1760HUNAN'S RETURN MIGRATION?
[...] (SBU) Contacts in Hunan Province claim that rural-to-urban migrants who previously had worked in factories on the coast in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) appear to be returning home in greater numbers than before to Hunan's countryside. The trend is not necessarily a new one -- many temporary mig [...]
2008-05-08 08:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV EAGR SOCI CH
08BEIJING1768U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL ON UNSCR
[...] (C) PolOff on May 8 conveyed to MFA reftel points noting that the United States has submitted a 60-day report on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1803 and urging China to submit its own report. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Direc [...]
2008-05-08 09:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR CH
08BEIJING1777USITC IS AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY
[...] (SBU) Summary. On March 25, 2008, International Trade Commission (ITC) Chairman Daniel Pearson met with Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Vice Minister (V/M) Yi Xiaozhun and Director General (DG) Li Ling. V/M Yi proposed closer cooperation on information sharing and said China wants to work with [...]
2008-05-09 02:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON CH
08BEIJING178THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S DINNER WITH CHINESE
[...] (U) January 16, 2008; 7:45 p.m.; Beijing, Ambassador's Residence. 2. (U) Participants: UNITED STATES The Deputy Secretary Mrs. Diana Negroponte Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr. Mrs. Sarah Randt Dennis Wilder, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asian Affairs, NSC [...]
2008-01-18 05:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER CH TW KN KS IR IZ PK RS
08BEIJING1780AFM LIU JIEYI SUGGESTS BURMESE GOVERNMENT OPEN TO
[...] (C) Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi called the Ambassador May 9 to follow up on their May 7 and May 8 discussions (ref emails) regarding the U.S. offer, including by PACOM, to deliver disaster assistance to Burma and PACOM Commander Admiral Keating's request to place a telephone ca [...]
2008-05-09 04:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID MARR CH BM
08BEIJING179DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DIALOGUE PROPOSAL DELIVERED
[...] (C) Policy Planning (S/P) Director David Gordon met with Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Deputy Director General for American and Oceanian Affairs Wang Hongbo on January 17 to deliver the Director of Foreign Assistance's (DFA) proposal for a Development Assistance Dialogue with China. Wang prom [...]
2008-01-18 06:20:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON ETRD PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING1792PRC COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICIALS WANT TO VISIT THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) MFA External Security Affairs Department Director Xia Jingge told PolOffs May 8 that Chinese counterterrorism officials are interested in visiting the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Recalling the March 25 U.S.-Ch [...]
2008-05-09 09:40:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPTER PREL PINR CH
08BEIJING1799CHINA URGED TO SUPPORT FRENCH UNSC RESOLUTION ON
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Christensen urged China on May 10 to support a draft resolution prepared by France calling on Burma to remove obstacles preventing the delivery of humanitarian assistance. MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director [...]
2008-05-11 10:30:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC CH BM
08BEIJING1814TAO DIRECTOR CHEN YUNLIN MANAGES EXPECTATIONS FOR
[...] (C) Taiwan Affairs Office Director Chen Yunlin told visiting DAS Thomas Christensen that there has been a positive change in cross-Strait relations, but that the situation remains complex and sensitive. He said the two sides need time to rebuild mutual trust and the United States should neith [...]
2008-05-12 14:11:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM CH TW
08BEIJING1815MFA DG TALKS TAIWAN, NEAPSM, DALAI LAMA WITH EAP
[...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with visiting EAP DAS Thomas Christensen May 10, MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Director General Zheng Zeguang emphasized the importance President Hu places on his relationship with President Bush and China's willingness to work cooperatively with the [...]
2008-05-12 14:33:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PHUM KOLY CH TW IR KN
08BEIJING1840DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES BILATERAL DIALOGUES,
[...] (U) May 11, 2008; 3:00 p.m.; Beijing, Ministry of National Defense, Ba Yi Building. 2. (U) Participants: UNITED STATES The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr. Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Sedney, Deputy Ass [...]
2008-05-13 09:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR MASS MCAP CH TW BW
08BEIJING1843DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES BILATERAL DIALOGUES,
[...] (U) May 11, 2008; 3:00 p.m.; Beijing, Ministry of National Defense, Ba Yi Building. 2. (U) Participants: UNITED STATES The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr. Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Sedney, Deputy Ass [...]
2008-05-13 10:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR MASS MCAP CH TW BM
08BEIJING1860PRC REPORTS BURMA WILL ACCEPT RELIEF TEAMS FROM
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei told the Ambassador May 14 that Burma is inviting rescue teams from Bangladesh, China, India and Thailand to assist with relief efforts following Cyclone Nargis. Stressing the "positive change" in the attitude of the Burmese Government [...]
2008-05-14 08:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID MARR CH BM BG IN TH
08BEIJING1865MAY 14 TAO PRESS BRIEFING: SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE,
[...] The May 14 Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) press briefing was dominated by discussion of the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan: -- The spokesman addressed the fate of 2,897 Taiwan compatriots who were traveling in Sichuan at the time of the quake, stating that 588 were stranded in Jiuzhaigou, 13 were [...]
2008-05-14 10:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD ECON CH TW
08BEIJING1870STATE COUNCIL RESEARCHER SAYS APRIL CPI DATA WARRANTS
[...] (SBU) China's Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 8.5 percent year-on-year in April, fueling further concern about inflation in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. Food prices again accounted for most of the increase, led by surging pork and cooking oil prices. A leading researcher at China' [...]
2008-05-15 05:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV EAGR SOCI CH
08BEIJING1876CHINA TRIES TO ADJUST TO NEPAL'S NEW POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: Local scholars' and officials' assessments of the recent Nepali election's implications for China-Nepal relations reflect Chinese uncertainty about the effect of the rise of the Maoist Party in the Nepal's political mainstream. An MFA official told us frankly that the Chinese Gove [...]
2008-05-15 08:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH IN NP
08BEIJING1879CHINA: PROGRESS ON OLYMPIC SECURITY, BUT STILL
[...] (S) While progress has been made in some areas of Olympic security, some issues remain outstanding, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Ken Wainstein told Vice Minister for Public Security (VMPS) Liu Jing during a May 13 meeting. Outstanding issues include ve [...]
2008-05-15 08:28:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PHUM KOLY CH
08BEIJING188ADMIRAL KEATING'S JANUARY 14 MEETING WITH FM YANG
[...] (C) U.S.-China bilateral and military-to-military relations were strengthened in 2007, in part due to frequent high-level exchanges, FM Yang Jiechi told visiting PACOM Commander Timothy Keating on January 14. FM Yang said he hoped the U.S. presidential election would not affect bilateral ties [...]
2008-01-18 08:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CH TW
08BEIJING1880(S) PRC PROVIDED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 09:37:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH PK
08BEIJING1881MAY 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF, BURMA
[...] Key points at the May 15, 2008 MFA Press Briefing were: -- China appreciates international offers of assistance following the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan. -- With the exception of Japan, China is still considering offers from countries to provide rescue teams to earthquake affected areas. [...]
2008-05-15 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CASC SENV CH BM
08BEIJING1882CHINA URGED TO TERMINATE CONVENTIONAL ARMS
[...] (S/NF) Beijing should take immediate action to terminate all weapons-related transfers to Iran and should insist that Tehran provide an accounting of all Chinese-origin weapons, PolOff urged in a discussion with MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Deputy Director Wang Daxue on May 15. [...]
2008-05-15 09:45:00Embassy BeijingSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL CH IR
08BEIJING1883ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT WAINSTEIN URGES MFA TO
[...] (S) To reassure the United States that China is addressing threats to the Olympics, Beijing must share information gleaned from Chinese investigations based on U.S.-provided threat information, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Ken Wainstein told Assistant F [...]
2008-05-15 10:02:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PTER PGOV KOLY CH
08BEIJING1898DEMARCHE ON UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE
[...] (C) PolOff on May 16 conveyed reftel points concerning the mechanism for UN staff to bring employment-based grievances to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo and MFA Treaty and Law Department Treaties Division Officer Li Bingzhuo. N [...]
2008-05-16 08:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALAORC APER PREL UNGA CH
08BEIJING1905CHINA INFORMED OF FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-16 10:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR IZ CH
08BEIJING1927REQUEST TO SECURE CHINESE SUPPORT FOR UN 1267
[...] (C) PolOff on May 19 conveyed reftel points requesting China's support for adding the names of four operatives of Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) to the list of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Taliban or al-Qaida that are subject to UN Security Council (UNSC)-mandated san [...]
2008-05-19 08:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL EFIN KTFN UNSC CH
08BEIJING1930UNSC RESOLUTION ON SOMALI PIRACY
[...] (C) PolOff on May 6 conveyed to MFA reftel points explaining the basis for the draft UN Security Council resolution on piracy off the coast of Somalia. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said China agrees in principle to a UNSC re [...]
2008-05-19 08:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO CH
08BEIJING1938PRC INFORMED OF IRAN'S IR-2 CENTRIFUGE CRITICAL
[...] (U) MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Director Sun Lei told PolOff on May 19 that the PRC will closely examine reftel nonpaper and color photographs delineating Iran's critical equipment needs for their IR-2 centrifuge program. Sun asked several times if the [...]
2008-05-20 02:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY PREL PARM MNUC AORC IAEA UNSC CH IR
08BEIJING1970CHINESE GRATEFUL FOR U.S. EARTHQUAKE ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Th Ambassador spoke to Chinese Assistant Ministerof Foreign Affairs Liu Jieyi May 21. AFM Liu provided official thanks from the Chinese Government and people to President Bush, the First Lady, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Hadley and NSC Senior Director Wilder fo [...]
2008-05-21 09:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL CH
08BEIJING20JANUARY 3 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: India PM visit, China FM
[...] Key points at the January 3 MFA Press Briefing: -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit China January 13-15. -- China hopes all parties in the Six-Party Talks process will honor the commitments they have made. -- Relevant PRC authorities will handle the case of detained activ [...]
2008-01-03 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH
08BEIJING2009PRC OFFICIALS URGED TO FIND A BETTER
[...] (C) Chinese and foreign communications experts criticized the Chinese Government's handling of the negative publicity surrounding the Olympic torch relay at an off-the-record academic seminar attended by MFA and State Council Information Office officials (and PolOff) May 10. Participants cite [...]
2008-05-23 10:32:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PREL PGOV KOLY KS AS CH
08BEIJING2010BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON EARTHQUAKE
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 ambassadors in Beijing, the Japanese Ambassador reported that PRC President Hu Jintao has taken personal ownership of Sino-Japanese relations and made the final decision to travel to Japan over the opposition by some in the Chinese Government. Ambassador Miya [...]
2008-05-23 11:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PHUM PGOV MARR KOLY SOCI SENV CH
08BEIJING2012COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR A/S HILL TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy Beijing welcomes and grants country clearance for EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill and his delegation to Beijing on May 27-29 for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks. 2. (SBU) Control Officer: Nancy Leou, Political Officer Tel: (86-10)6532-3831 x6040 Cell [...]
2008-05-27 01:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08BEIJING2030May 27 MFA Press Briefing: Upcoming South Korean President
[...] Key points at the May 27 MFA Press Briefing: -- South Korean President Lee arrives in China for a state visit May 27 and both countries aspire to bring their relationship to a "new level." -- VFM Wu Dawei will meet chief Six-Party Talks negotiators this week and China hopes "other relevant [...]
2008-05-27 10:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EAID KS KN CH
08BEIJING2047SUDAN -- DESIGNATING FOUR INDIVIDUALS
[...] (C) PolOff on May 28 delivered to MFA reftel points on designating four individuals for targeted sanctions and urged China to refrain from putting a hold on the designations in the 1591 Committee. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yiny [...]
2008-05-28 08:33:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CH
08BEIJING2076 SED Ambassador Alan Holmer Previews SED IV During
[...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury Special Envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) Ambassador Alan Holmer discussed plans for the fourth round of the SED with Chinese officials during a May 22-23 visit to Beijing. In his discussion with NPC Vice Minister Wu Xiaoling, Holmer praised Chi [...]
2008-05-29 07:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN ENV CH
08BEIJING2084CHINA REVISITS MANDATORY CERTIFICATION FOR
[...] (U) Summary: Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative Timothy Wineland met with the Chinese Government and United States industry representatives in Beijing from May 6-16 to discuss China's unprecedented proposal for mandatory certification requirements across a wide range of securi [...]
2008-05-29 09:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ETRD PREL EINV WTRO ECON CH
08BEIJING2086MAY 29 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS,
[...] Key points at the regular May 29 MFA press briefing: -- Current bilateral negotiations within the framework of the Six-Party Talks will help build mutual trust and understanding. Dates have not yet been set for the next round of the Six-Party Talks, nor for the submission of North Korea's [...]
2008-05-29 09:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH JA KN KS NP IN
08BEIJING2087SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 4 SECURITY DIALOGUE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 10:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PARM PGOV CH
08BEIJING2101HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: A/S KRAMER MEETING WITH
[...] (C) The resumption of the U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue (HRD) is an important step that should promote bilateral relations, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer in a 45-minute meeting following the May 26 day-long formal HRD session. A/S Kramer agreed that [...]
2008-05-30 08:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING2103THE U.S.-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE, MORNING
[...] (U) May 26, 2008; 9:30 a.m.; Beijing, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse 2. (U) Participants: U.S. --- David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Rights, and Labor (DRL) John V. Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Dan Piccuta, Charge d'Affaires, [...]
2008-05-30 09:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KOLY CH UN
08BEIJING2104THE U.S.-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE, WORKING
[...] (U) May 26, 2008; 1:30 p.m.; Beijing, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse 2. (U) Participants: U.S. David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Rights, and Labor John V. Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secret [...]
2008-05-30 10:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KOLY NK BR CH
08BEIJING2127UNSC THEMATIC DEBATE AND RESOLUTION ON SEXUAL
[...] (SBU) PolOff on June 3 delivered to MFA reftel points urging Chinese support for a U.S.-drafted UNSC resolution on sexual violence in situations of armed conflict. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin said China in the past has sup [...]
2008-06-03 02:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC UN UNSC PREL KWMN PHUM CH
08BEIJING2128PRC REQUESTED TO HELP EASE BURMESE RESTRICTIONS ON
[...] (C) PolOff on June 3 delivered to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo and MFA Asian Department Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam Division Deputy Director Chen Chen reftel points on the U.S. Government's concern over the Burmese reg [...]
2008-06-03 05:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREL CH
08BEIJING2143JUNE 3 MFA Press Briefing: Human Rights, Sichuan
[...] Key points at the June 3 MFA Press Briefing: -- China believes there is a "new opportunity" in the Six-Party Talks and hopes the relevant parties will show "flexibility" in overcoming differences. -- The U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue was "candid," "positive" and "constructive," helping [...]
2008-06-03 23:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MARR EAID IN JN KS KN CH
08BEIJING2155SFDA'S TREATMENT OF BAXTER IN CHINA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives of Baxter Healthcare (protect) visited the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to present their concerns about the deterioration of relations with China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) amid concerns that the agency may try to shift responsibility for the hepar [...]
2008-06-04 08:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD HHS PREL CH
08BEIJING2157FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE AGENDA DELIVERED TO PRC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-04 09:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PMIL EAID IZ CH
08BEIJING2159BEIJING POLICE KEEP TIGHT LID ON TIANANMEN
[...] (C) On the nineteenth anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, security presence in the Square was substantial, and restrictions on activists remained. Security forces prevented any commemoration or displays at the family compound of former Party chief Zhao Ziyang, who w [...]
2008-06-04 11:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
08BEIJING2160Chilly PRC Response to Delivery of TIP Demarche
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-04 23:11:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KWMN KCRM PHUM ELAB PGOV KPAO SMIG CH
08BEIJING217JANUARY 22 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SENIOR
[...] Key points at the January 22 MFA Press Briefing: -- At the Senior Dialogue last week, Vice Foreign Minister Dai and Deputy Secretary Negroponte exchanged ideas on the international situation and how to ensure the long-term stable development of bilateral relations and cooperation on regional [...]
2008-01-22 10:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH TW GM IR UK
08BEIJING2172U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue: May 27 meeting with PRC
[...] (C) Visiting DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer pushed for greater press freedom and a reduction of restrictions on the Internet in a May 27 meeting with State Council Information Office Internet Department Deputy Director General (DDG) Liu Zhengrong. A/S Kramer told DDG Liu that China shoul [...]
2008-06-05 07:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KOLY CH
08BEIJING2173U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue: May 27 meeting with PRC
[...] (C) Visiting DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer pushed for greater press freedom and a reduction of restrictions on the Internet in a May 27 meeting with State Council Information Office Internet Department Deputy Director General (DDG) Liu Zhengrong. A/S Kramer told DDG Liu that China shoul [...]
2008-06-05 07:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KOLY CH
08BEIJING2174THE U.S.-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE, MINISTRY OF
[...] (U) May 27, 2008; 3:45 p.m.; Beijing, Ministry of Justice 2. (U) Participants: U.S. --- David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Robert K. Harris [...]
2008-06-05 08:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KJUS KOLY CH
08BEIJING2201CHINA OPPOSES FOUR SUDAN-RELATED DESIGNATIONS
[...] (C) MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo told PolOff June 6 that China will oppose adding the four Sudan-related names (ref B) to the asset freeze and travel ban list maintained by the 1591 Committee. Sun said China takes a "cautiou [...]
2008-06-06 07:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CH
08BEIJING2202PRC WILL ATTEND FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 07:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PMIL EAID IZ CH TC
08BEIJING2217CONCERN REGARDING LAWYERS' "DISBARMENT" CONVEYED
[...] (C) Summary: In a June 6 meeting with MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director General Shen Yongxiang, PolMinCouns conveyed DRL A/S Kramer's reply letter to MFA International Organizations (IO) Director General Wu Hailong on the Human Rights Dialogue (HRD) as well as U.S. co [...]
2008-06-06 09:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING2218CONTACTS SAY WANG YI APPOINTMENT SIGNALS
[...] (C) Embassy contacts say veteran diplomat Wang Yi's appointment as Director of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) signals an effort to improve cross-Strait relations. Appointing a diplomat to handle Taiwan also sends a strong signal regarding Beijing's recognition of the need to ad [...]
2008-06-06 09:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08BEIJING2219BEIJING SCHOLARS SAY PRC SEES TAIWAN'S MA
[...] (C) A senior PRC American affairs expert said that despite some initial misgivings, the PRC Government is convinced that Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's tenure provides an important opportunity to improve cross-Strait relations. He noted that Ma's campaign rhetoric regarding Tibet, his "insult [...]
2008-06-06 09:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM CH TW
08BEIJING2220A/S KRAMER DISCUSSES TIBETAN AND UIGHUR ISSUES
[...] (C) In a May 27 meeting with State Ethnic Affairs Commission Vice Minister Wu Shiming, DRL A/S Kramer urged China to seize the opportunity to seek "real results" in the dialogue with the Dalai Lama's representatives. Vice Minister Wu replied that progress does not depend on the Chinese side a [...]
2008-06-06 10:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KIRF SOCI CH
08BEIJING2221ASSISTANT SECRETARY KRAMER MEETS CHINESE RIGHTS
[...] (C) In a May 27 meeting with DRL Assistant Secretary Kramer, Beijing-based defense attorneys detailed the extensive problems in China's judicial system and the need for reforms. One lawyer claimed that even the new Lawyer's Law that goes into effect June 1 will be pointless without parallel c [...]
2008-06-06 10:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KJUS CH
08BEIJING2275PRC AFM HE YAFEI, TAO OFFICIAL COMMENT ON POSITIVE
[...] (C) Reflecting sentiments he expressed during the June 4 U.S.-China Security Dialogue (septels),PRC Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei on June 6 told visiting U.S. experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) that conflict with Taiwan is "extremely unlikely." AFM He [...]
2008-06-11 09:04:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MASS PGOV MOPS CH TW
08BEIJING2277CHINA URGED TO RECONSIDER FOUR SUDAN-RELATED
[...] (C) Per ref A instructions, PolMinCouns on June 11 urged China to support the addition of four names to the UN Security Council Resolution 1591 (2005) Sudan Sanctions Committee's consolidated asset freeze and travel ban list. MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director General L [...]
2008-06-11 09:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CH
08BEIJING2281U.S.-CHINA SECURITY DIALOGUE - MORNING SESSION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 23:00:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PGOV MARR MCAP MNUC CH TW KN KS JA RS
08BEIJING2300NORWEGIANS SAY TIBET DIALOGUE MAY BE IN JULY
[...] (C) Press reports of a "secret Norwegian communication channel" with representatives of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese Government are significantly overstated, Norwegian First Secretary Jo-Inge Bekkevold told PolOff June 12. The Norwegian Government has relatively good contacts with the Dalai [...]
2008-06-12 08:19:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KIRF NW CH
08BEIJING2303PRC/RUSSIA: MEDVEDEV VISIT CAST AS REAFFIRMATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The May 23-24 visit of Russian President Medvedev to Beijing aimed to reaffirm the Sino-Russian "strategic partnership," to emphasize the two countries' shared desire for a more multi-polar world, and to demonstrate their common approach to international hot-spot issues, said MFA [...]
2008-06-12 10:20:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG MASS KOLY RS CH
08BEIJING2305U.S.-CHINA SECURITY DIALOGUE: MEETING WITH DEPUTY
[...] (C) In a June 5 meeting at the Ministry of National Defense with Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Rood, PRC Deputy Chief of the General Staff Department Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian summarized the People's Liberation Army's major arms c [...]
2008-06-12 10:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM MNUC KTIA MOPS PBTS PHSA CH
08BEIJING2322U.S.-CHINA SECURITY DIALOGUE WORKING LUNCH: STRATEGIC SECURITY, MISSILE DEFENSE, SPACE, NONPRO, IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-13 06:01:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PGOV MNUC MCAP MAPS PARM PTER CH TW IR
08BEIJING2324CHINA ON ARF STATEMENT ON REGIONAL DISASTER
[...] (C) PolOff on June 12 conveyed to MFA reftel points on issuing an ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Statement on Regional Disaster Preparedness at the July 24 ARF Ministerial Meeting in Singapore. MFA Asian Department Asian Multilateral Security Division Director Ma Jia said China "stron [...]
2008-06-13 07:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ARF EAID ASEAN CH
08BEIJING2331CHINA/ENERGY: NEAR-TERM FUEL PRICE HIKES UNLIKELY
[...] (SBU) Beijing appears unlikely to raise retail fuel prices significantly in the near-term amidst policymakers' ongoing concerns about CPI inflation and social stability. The most commonly purchased blend of gasoline is held at USD 2.92/gallon, while diesel is USD 2.89/gallon. Against the back [...]
2008-06-13 08:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV EPET EFIN PREL CH
08BEIJING2333FRENCH AMBASSADOR: BEIJING PUNISHES FRANCE BY
[...] (C) Summary: The Beijing Tourism Bureau recently ordered all Beijing-based travel agencies to remove brochures and catalogues advertising trips to France, and to stop selling packages, French Ambassador Herve Ladsous told the Charge June 7. Ladsous said the order has resulted in a two-thirds [...]
2008-06-13 10:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CVIS ETRD KOLY FR CH
08BEIJING2334ROK PRESIDENT LEE VISITS BEIJING; AGREES TO
[...] (C) South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and PRC President Hu Jintao, during Lee's May 27-30 visit to China, agreed to "upgrade" bilateral relations to a "strategic cooperative partnership," China's highest category of bilateral relations. An ROK Embassy official, however, dismissed the "upgr [...]
2008-06-13 10:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH KS
08BEIJING235PRC/IRAN: MFA READOUT OF JALILI VISIT TO BEIJING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian National Security Advisor Saeed Jalili said during his January 17-18 visit to Beijing that the recent U.S. National Intelligence Estimate "proves" the peaceful nature of the Iran nuclear program, the MFA told us January 23. Jalili acknowledged past "ambiguities" regarding [...]
2008-01-23 11:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC ETRD CH IR
08BEIJING2371INDIAN FM MUKHERJEE'S VISIT TO CHINA: MOMENTUM
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese Government and South Asia scholars agree that Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's June 4-7 visit helped maintain momentum in China-India relations though the two sides achieved no progress on substantive bilateral issues. Chinese scholars note the Indian [...]
2008-06-17 09:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PBTS ECON ETRD MARR CH IN
08BEIJING2386UNSC THEMATIC DEBATE ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ARMED
[...] (SBU) PolOff on June 18 delivered to MFA ref b points urging Chinese support for consensus adoption of a U.S.-drafted UNSC resolution on sexual violence in situations of armed conflict and China's agreement to withdraw from suggested amendments that would weaken key elements of that resolution [...]
2008-06-18 08:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC UN UNSC PREL KWMN PHUM CH
08BEIJING2389COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR A/S HILL AND DELEGATION TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy Beijing welcomes and grants country clearance for EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill and his delegation to Beijing on June 20-27 for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks. 2. (SBU) Control Officer: Nancy Leou, Political Officer Tel: (86-10)6532-3831 x6040 Cel [...]
2008-06-18 09:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA RS
08BEIJING2391(S) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON LIMMT SHARED WITH
[...] (S) PolOffs delivered reftel message urging China to share substantive information on China's investigation of LIMMT before June 27 to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Director Zhang Junan on June 18. PolOffs also shared new information with Zhang indicating that LI [...]
2008-06-18 09:56:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08BEIJING2392Liu Jieyi Expresses PRC Opposition to Possible Inclusion of
[...] (C) In a June 18 conversation with the Charge, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi expressed China's "grave concern and clear opposition" to the inclusion of any reference to Tibet in the agendas, discussions or outcome documents of any upcoming G-8 meetings. AFM Liu said China has informatio [...]
2008-06-18 10:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CH
08BEIJING2393CHINESE PROTEST AT JAPANESE EMBASSY OVER EAST CHINA SEA
[...] (SBU) Summary: A small group of Chinese demonstrators chanted and waved flags in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing in protest against a Sino-Japan joint gas exploration deal on June 18. Security was tight at the government-sanctioned protest, with an estimated 150 municipal police and Pe [...]
2008-06-18 22:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI CH JP
08BEIJING2414XINJIANG: OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY BRINGS TIGHT
[...] (C) Summary: One government contact in Xinjiang described Urumqi as a city paralyzed by inconvenient security measures, while Urumqi netizens on a Xinjiang Government-run news portal complained of minor hassles. Local media were more upbeat; they took the arrival of the Olympic torch relay to [...]
2008-06-19 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PTER PREL PGOV KIRF KOLY PK KZ CH
08BEIJING2415JUNE 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: EAST CHINA SEA
[...] Key points at the June 19 MFA press briefing were: -- Vice Foreign Miniter Wu Dawei briefed journalists on the East hina Sea agreement. The agreement does not undermine China's sovereignty claims over the East China Sea, nor does it recognize a median line. China and Japan will work to mak [...]
2008-06-19 12:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KOLY ENRG PHUM KS KN SA JP CH
08BEIJING2431SARKOZY POSTPONES ANNOUNCEMENT OF OLYMPIC PLANS
[...] (C) The French Government has postponed until July 9 the announcement of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision on whether to attend the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, French DCM Nicolas Chapuis told the Charge June 20. Beijing's current tourism boycott of France (reftel) [...]
2008-06-20 09:20:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CVIS ETRD KOLY FR CH
08BEIJING2433CHINA/ENERGY: SIGNIFICANT AND SURPRISING PRICE HIKES
[...] (SBU) In a surprise move that came late on June 19, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced significant energy price increases. Effective June 20, gasoline rose 16.7 percent, diesel 18.1 percent, and jet fuel 25.2 percent; effective July 1, electricity will rise an [...]
2008-06-20 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV EPET EFIN PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING2435TAIWAN AFFAIRS OFFICE PROVIDES UPBEAT READOUT OF
[...] (C) The June 11-14 dialogue between the Mainland and Taiwan, on hiatus for nearly a decade, "exceeded expectations," Li Li, office director in the Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) Bureau for Hong Kong, Macao and Overseas Affairs, told PolOff on June 18. He said Chen Yunlin's planned trip to Taiwan [...]
2008-06-20 09:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM CH TW
08BEIJING2436PRC/IRAN: CHINA URGES DIALOGUE, SEEKS "COMMON
[...] (C) Summary. MFA Arms Control Department DDG Wu Haitao told Acting PolMinCouns that the atmosphere around Javier Solana's June 14 presentation of the P5-plus-1 incentives package to Iran was "active and constructive." Wu argued that the P5-plus-1 preconditions for negotiations could be reso [...]
2008-06-20 11:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER MNUC IR CH
08BEIJING2437EARTHQUAKE: PARTY BENEFITS, ANGER IN QUAKE ZONE
[...] (C) The Chinese public is giving high marks to the Central Government, and especially to Premier Wen Jiabao, for its quick response to the May 12 Sichuan earthquake, and our contacts believe the Party and Central Government have received a boost in legitimacy as a result. Although managing th [...]
2008-06-20 11:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PROP SOCI CH
08BEIJING2458OPEN QUAKE COVERAGE UNPRECEDENTED, LONG-TERM
[...] (C) Chinese journalists jumped at the chance to cover the devastating May 12 Sichuan earthquake without waiting for (or ignoring) guidance from the Party Propaganda Department, according to a variety of Embassy contacts. Premier Wen Jiabao's prompt appearance at the quake's worst-hit areas pr [...]
2008-06-23 11:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI SCUL CH
08BEIJING2483A/S HILL MEETING WITH AFM LIU JIEYI
[...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi told the Ambassador and A/S Christopher R. Hill that inclusion of Tibet in the G8 Ministerial statement would "not help U.S.-China cooperation." Hill said the United States understands China's concerns and would discuss them with G8 counterparts. He a [...]
2008-06-24 07:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PARM CH
08BEIJING2484HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: HRD DELEGATION'S MAY 27
[...] (U) May 27, 2008; 9:00 a.m.; Beijing, United Front Work Department. 2. (U) Participants: United States ------------- David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor John V. Hanford, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Thomas C [...]
2008-06-24 08:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KOLY CH UN
08BEIJING2487A/S HILL MEETING WITH AFM LIU JIEYI
[...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi told the Ambassador and A/S Christopher R. Hill in a June 23 meeting that inclusion of Tibet in the G8 Ministerial statement would "not help U.S.-China cooperation." Hill said the United States understands China's concerns and would discuss them with G [...]
2008-06-24 08:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PARM CH
08BEIJING2524SHAPING POST-CYCLONE ASSISTANCE IN BURMA
[...] (C) PolOff on June 26 delivered to MFA reftel points seeking China's help in shaping the international responses to a revised UN appeal and the imminent UN report on needs in Burma after Cyclone Nargis. Drawing on reftel points, PolOff emphasized that China should join the international commun [...]
2008-06-26 09:34:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID BM CH
08BEIJING2525DRAFT UNSCR TO RENEW MANDATE OF 1267 MONITORING
[...] (C) PolOff on June 26 delivered to MFA reftel points seeking China's support for a U.S.-drafted UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) to renew the mandate of the UNSCR 1267 monitoring team. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said [...]
2008-06-26 09:42:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG CH
08BEIJING2526ADVANCE ARRANGEMENT OF EAST CHINA SEA AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: The framework of the East China Sea joint gas exploration agreement was established prior to the June 18 announcement, but the announcement was delayed due to Chinese fears of a public and media backlash. Negotiations began in October 2004, but only started to come to fruition ear [...]
2008-06-26 10:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG CH JN
08BEIJING2530HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: HRD DELEGATION WORKING DINNER WITH
[...] (C) Making human rights a positive aspect of the U.S.-China relationship is our shared goal, PRC Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi told DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer during a working dinner on May 26 following the conclusion of the U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue (HRD) earlier that d [...]
2008-06-26 23:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CH
08BEIJING2548PRC/IRAN: AMBASSADOR SCHULTE EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The international community must use a dual track approach of incentives backed by diplomatic pressure and sanctions to ensure Iran does not continue to develop its enrichment program in violation of its Security Council obligations, U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic En [...]
2008-06-27 11:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ENRG MARR CH IR
08BEIJING2550(S) PRC SAYS NOTHING NEW TO REPORT ON LIMMT
[...] (S) Summary. MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Director Zhang Junan briefed Poloffs on June 27 regarding the PRC's investigation into LIMMT and eleven other companies. Director Zhang provided no new information on actions taken against LIMMT, stating only that invest [...]
2008-06-27 12:27:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08BEIJING2564POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION CHECK: D375609 NANJING
[...] (U) Unauthorised disclosure of the information below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. (U) REFTEL requested a Post-Shipment Verification (PSV) end-use check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, NANJING ElECTRONICS CALIBRATION CO. ("NE [...]
2008-06-30 05:48:00Embassy BeijingSECRET//NOFORNBEXP CH ETRD ETTC PREL
08BEIJING2569VICE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT LETTER TO DOT
[...] (U) On June 30, post received via facsimile diplomatic note No. (2008)090 dated June 26 from the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Transport (MOT) transmitting a letter (Note: Courtesy translation provided by MOT. End Note) from MOT Vice Minister Weng Mengyong to Unite [...]
2008-06-30 08:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ELTN CH
08BEIJING2570CHINA HOPES FOR UNANIMOUS VOTE ON UNSC 1735
[...] (C) PolOff on June 30 delivered reftel points to MFA asking China to support publicly the follow on resolution to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1735. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said that China and the United State [...]
2008-06-30 08:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC AG CH
08BEIJING259PRC/RUSSIA: OBSERVERS SAY WARMING TREND IS REAL,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese and Russian leaders are celebrating a relationship they call "the best in history." Chinese scholars say the warming trend is rooted in a new alignment of PRC and Russian interests. This convergence of interests stems from expanding trade, shared perceptions of external [...]
2008-01-24 09:30:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG MASS RS CH
08BEIJING2592GUIZHOU RIOT: AUTHORITIES FOCUS ON STABILITY,
[...] (U) The following is a joint Embassy Beijing - ConGen Chengdu cable. 2. (C) Following the massive riot in Guizhou Province that reportedly involved 30,000 people on June 28-29 over allegations of a cover-up in the rape and murder of a 15 year-old girl, Chinese authorities are moving to rest [...]
2008-07-01 11:15:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPINS PHUM PGOV CH
08BEIJING2593AMBASSADOR PROTESTS ACTIVISTS' DETENTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 11:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL OVIP CH
08BEIJING260SINO-GERMAN RELATIONS BACK ON TRACK
[...] (C) Several high-level German officials plan to visit China in the wake of the recent thaw in Sino-German relations, which soured after Chancellor Merkel's September 23 meeting with the Dalai Lama. German Embassy Second Secretary Dirk Lechelt told PolOff January 24 that German SIPDIS Forei [...]
2008-01-24 10:33:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH GM
08BEIJING261JANUARY 24 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DARFUR, OLYMPICS,
[...] Key points at the regular January 24 MFA press briefing: -- China is playing a constructive role in Darfur and any attempt to link the Olympics and Darfur "goes against the Olympic spirit." -- The Dalai Lama is not a religious or spiritual leader but someone who seeks to undermine Chinese [...]
2008-01-24 10:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KN VT KS IR SU TW CH
08BEIJING2610China Unchanged on Kosovo: No Recognition, No
[...] (C) PolOff conveyed reftel points urging China to recognize the independence of Kosovo to MFA European Affairs Department Balkans Division Deputy Director Hua Yafang on July 1. Hua thanked PolOff, but responded that the information provided "does not affect China's position" and that China wi [...]
2008-07-02 10:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KV CH
08BEIJING2613CHINA URGED TO SUPPORT UNSC CHAPTER VII
[...] (C) PolOff on July 2 delivered to MFA reftel points urging China to Randt [...]
2008-07-02 11:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI CH
08BEIJING2614AUSTRALIA GROUP'S OUTREACH TO CHINA ON
[...] (S) In a June 25 meeting with Australia Group (AG) Chair Ian Biggs, PRC MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control Li Song objected to news that an AG representative would be dispatched to Taiwan "shortly" as part of the AG's outreach program. Biggs said that China should not be surprised by [...]
2008-07-03 00:24:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM KSTC PREL PGOV ETTC ETTRD BEXP CH
08BEIJING2616CORRECTED - CHINA URGED TO SUPPORT UNSC CHAPTER
[...] (C) Poloff on July 2 delivered to MFA reftel points urging China to support a UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe. MFA International Organizations and conferences Department UN Division Counselor Sun Minqin said that China is also concerned by events in Zimbabwe. China's position is that the interna [...]
2008-07-03 01:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI CH
08BEIJING2628CHINESE COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICIALS STILL
[...] (S) Chinese counterterrorism officials expressed interest in visiting the U.S. National Counterterorrism Center (NCTC) after the Olympic Games, MFA External Security Affairs Department Deputy Director Wu Shifan told Poloffs June 17. Wu proposed setting up bi-monthly meetings with the U.S. Emba [...]
2008-07-03 07:03:00Embassy BeijingSECRETCH KOLY PINR PREL PTER
08BEIJING2631JULY 3 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Olympics Politicization,
[...] Key points at the July 3 MFA Press Briefing: -- All attempts to interfere in China's internal affairs by politicizing the Olympics are doomed to failure. The spokesperson refused to comment further on the specific case of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's attendance at the Opening Ceremonie [...]
2008-07-03 09:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KOLY CH MX
08BEIJING2644AFGHAN ARMY SIZE INCREASE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (C) PolOff conveyed reftel points regarding increasing the size of the Afghan Army to MFA Asian Affairs Department Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh Division Deputy Director Xu Wei on July 3. On July 7, Xu said that the Chinese Government had received information that the Afghan Army was p [...]
2008-07-07 09:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO AF CH
08BEIJING2645PRC: A TAIWAN POLICY "HAWK" RECANTS
[...] (C) Tsinghua University Professor Yan Xuetong, a prominent advocate of using military force to reunify with Taiwan, penned a recent article in the Global Times in which he "apologizd" for his prediction of war before 2008. In the article, he assessed that th cross-Strait situation will be pea [...]
2008-07-07 10:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS PGOV CH TW
08BEIJING2648(S) CHINA PROVIDES RESPONSE TO U.S.-RAISED
[...] (S) Summary. MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Director Zhang Junan briefed Poloffs on June 27 regarding the PRC's response to twelve proliferation-related cases raised by the United States. Zhang provided additional information on four cases and otherwise largely r [...]
2008-07-07 10:42:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE ETTC CH IR SY
08BEIJING2649PRC: DIALOGUE WITH DALAI LAMA REPRESENTATIVES
[...] (C) During July 1-2 talks between the Chinese Government and representatives of the Dalai Lama, Chinese official statements slightly modified earlier Chinese demands, saying the Dalai Lama should "not support" rather than "stop" independence, violence, actions of the Tibetan Youth Congress, an [...]
2008-07-07 11:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PHUM KOLY CH
08BEIJING2665THAI PM IN CHINA: CONTINUITY NOT SUBSTANCE
[...] (C) Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej stressed the continuity of warm Chinese-Thai relations in his first visit as PM to China. Samak made the de rigueur expressions of support for a one China policy, Chinese sovereignty over Tibet and a successful, "non-politicized" Olympics, achieving C [...]
2008-07-08 09:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD TH CH
08BEIJING2666JULY 8 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, DALAI LAMA
[...] Key points at the July 8 MFA press briefing were: -- A Six Party Talks Heads of Delegation meeting will convene on July 10, as will both the Denuclearization and the Energy and Economic Cooperation Working Groups. -- China protects human rights and freedom because that commitment is enshr [...]
2008-07-08 10:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KOLY PHUM KIRF KS KN JP SU CH
08BEIJING2674CHINA URGED TO INVESTIGATE AND HALT SHIPMENT
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel message urging China to investigate and prevent the shipment of Chinese-origin diphenylamine to Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO) to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Director Wang Daxue on July 9. 2. (S) Wang promised [...]
2008-07-09 08:13:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08BEIJING2675CHINA WILL NOT SUPPORT UNSC ZIMBABWE RESOLUTION
[...] (C) PolOff on July 9 delivered to MFA reftel points urging China to support a UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe. MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo said China would have "major difficulty" supporting a resolution at the current time. S [...]
2008-07-09 08:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC ZI CH
08BEIJING2676CHINA WOULD SUPPORT LIBYAN DRAFT OF SETTLEMENTS
[...] (C) PolOff on July 9 delivered to MFA reftel points urging China to instruct its UN Mission to join the United States in asking the Arab Group not to present its draft UN Security Resolution on Israeli settlements before negotiations are complete. MFA International Organizations and Conference [...]
2008-07-09 08:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC IS SY LE CH
08BEIJING2679TIBET: TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS AND TIGHT SECURITY IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite pronouncements from authorities in Beijing that life has returned to normal in ethnic Tibetan areas of China, travel restrictions for foreigners persist in and around a center of Tibetan culture in Gansu Province. While roads into Tibetan areas of Qinghai Province are open [...]
2008-07-09 09:47:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KOLY IN CH
08BEIJING2681CHINA ASKED TO INVESTIGATE THE SALE TO PAKISTAN OF
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel message asking China to investigate the February 2008 sale of a fiber coil winding machine and integrated optical chips to Pakistan's Advanced Engineering and Research Organization (AERO) to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Directo [...]
2008-07-09 10:02:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MTCR ETTC CH SY
08BEIJING2682TIBET: TENSION, RESENTMENT REMAIN FRESH AFTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In the aftermath of the post-March 14 security crackdown, the military and police presence in ethnic Tibetan areas of Gansu and Qinghai provinces has increased and tensions are simmering between Tibetan inhabitants and government authorities. Several monks separately told visitin [...]
2008-07-09 10:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KIFR KOLY CH IN
08BEIJING2701JULY 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DEPORTED UK CITIZEN, OLYMPICS,
[...] Key points at the July 10 MFA press briefing were: -- Dechen Pemba, a UK citizen deported from Beijing July 8, is a leading member of the Tibetan Youth Congress, a "separatist organization." -- The issue of a "verification mechanism" will be discussed during this week's Six-Party Talks He [...]
2008-07-10 10:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KOLY PHUM PTER MNUC KS KN JP SU CH FR
08BEIJING2718AMBASSADOR URGES PRC SUPPORT FOR ZIMBABWE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi the Ambassador pushed strongly for China to support bringing a resolution on Zimbabwe to a vote in the UN Security Council and to vote for that resolution. AFM Liu said China opposes the draft resolution and claimed that the [...]
2008-07-11 12:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU CH
08BEIJING2720DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MAJOR ISSUES AT
[...] (U) This is an action request (please see para 7). 2. (SBU) On June 25, post delivered reftel diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). On June 30, post faxed reftel points to MFA and faxed reftel points and a copy of the diplomatic note to the State Postal Bureau (SPB),wh [...]
2008-07-13 23:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ECON ETRD WTRO CH
08BEIJING2734BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON OLYMPICS
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 ambassadors in Beijing July 11, the French Ambassador reported that Sino-French relations have entered a "difficult period" following continuing friction over the Dalai Lama and President Sarkozy's public linkage of his attendance at the Olympic Opening Ceremo [...]
2008-07-14 08:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR KOLY NATO CH FR JA UK
08BEIJING2737DEMARCHE ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-14 10:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CH
08BEIJING2761PRC: "NO PROBLEM" WITH CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT INPUT;
[...] (C) MFA Asia Department Asian Multilateral Security Division Director Ma Jia told PolOff July 16 that from the MFA perspective, China has "no problem" with the substance of points (ref A) the USG would like included in a regional disaster preparedness section of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) [...]
2008-07-16 06:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ASEAN CH
08BEIJING2766POLITICAL REFORM UNLIKELY IN "THOUGHT LIBERATION"
[...] (U) This cable contains input and reporting from Consulate General Guangzhou as well as Embassy Beijing. 2. (C) Summary: Calls for reform and new ways of thinking by a powerful and rising young Communist Party leader have triggered speculation (and hope) that the Party may be considering ma [...]
2008-07-16 08:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
08BEIJING278CHINA SUGGESTS BURMA RECONSIDER GAMBARI VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese officials suggested to Burmese Special Envoy and Deputy Foreign Minister U Maung Myint during his January 21 visit to Beijing that the Burmese regime reconsider UN Special Advisor Gambari's request to visit Burma prior to the April timeframe offered by Burma, MFA Asia Dep [...]
2008-01-25 10:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ETRD CH BM
08BEIJING2793CHINA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER ICC INDICTMENT OF
[...] (C) MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo and International Criminal Court (ICC) Affairs Desk Officer Li Jun expressed concern to PolOff July 17 that the ICC indictment of Sudanese President Bashir would "further complicate" t [...]
2008-07-17 10:11:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH PGOV PHUM PREL SU
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