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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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08RIYADH153SAUDIS SKEPTICAL ABOUT SUDANESE INTERFERENCE IN
[...] (S) Charge d'Affaires Gfoeller met with Prince Dr. Turki bin Mohammed, Undersecretary for Political Affairs at the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 4 and presented demarche points per REFTEL. The CDA also presented a letter of condolence to the Ministry following the de [...]
2008-02-04 15:11:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU SA CH
08ROME34ITALY RECEPTIVE TO CHINA ANTI-SATELLITE TEST
[...] (S) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on January 7 and to East Asia Office Director Giuseppe Mistretta on January 10. Separately, Scioff delivered the demarche to MFA Director for Energy, Space, High Techn [...]
2008-01-10 18:35:00Embassy RomeSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR TSPA CH IT
08ROME828ITALY WELCOMES NASA-CNSA TALKS, STRATEGIC SPACE
[...] (U) SCICOUNS delivered reftel non-paper to Giovanni Manfredi, Director for Energy, Space, High Technology and Aerospace and Defense Programs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on June 27, 2008. Manfredi,s successor, Counselor Roberto Liotto, also attended the meeting. Due to reorganizat [...]
2008-07-03 09:20:00Embassy RomeSECRETPARM PREL TSPA TPHY TSPL KSCA CH IT
08SANJOSE259DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SOMALIA - DESIGNATION OF
[...] (S) On April 1 we notified Carlos Cordero Madrigal, Director of Disarmament and Terrorism Section of the MFA of the USG decision to designate Al-Shabaab as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. We provided Cordero with the identifiers for Al-Sha [...]
2008-04-04 20:59:00Embassy San JoseSECRETPTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO BG RS CH XA CS
08SANJOSE969HISTORICAL VISIT OF CHINESE PRESIDENT HU KICKS OFF
[...] (SBU) "Chinese president (arrives) like Santa Claus with FTA, balls, and bicycles" read one headline recapping the historical visit of President Hu Jintao to San Jose November 16-17. Hu's rock-star-like reception included major street closures and a holiday for most government employees who wo [...]
2008-12-12 02:12:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EFIN EINV ECON CS CH CU
08SANTIAGO932IMPACT OF OLYMPICS ON VIEWS TOWARD CHINA
[...] (SBU) This cable transmits Santiago's responses to questions (reftel) about the impact that China's hosting of the Olympic Games has had on views on China. A) How closely did the public follow the Beijing Olympic Games? Chileans followed the tennis star Fernando Gonzalez extensively. C [...]
2008-10-20 15:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSCUL PGOV PREL CH CI
08SAOPAULO130CHINA'S BUSINESS INTERESTS IN BRAZIL RECEIVE MIXED
[...] (C) Although bilateral trade between China and Brazil continues to grow, there are increasing frustrations on both sides regarding access to each others' markets. For Brazilian business, China represents the largest opportunities for growth, but also the greatest economic risks, and many poi [...]
2008-03-14 16:02:00Consulate Sao PauloCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL EINV ECON CH BR
08SECTIO04OF07BEIJING3049BEIJING 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-07 08:34:00Embassy BeijingSECRET//NOFORNASEC CASC CH CMGT ECON KOLY OVIP PREL PTER
08SEOUL1061PREVIEW OF ROK-PRC SUMMIT, JOINT STATEMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During the May 27-30 Summit with PRC President Hu Jintao in Beijing, President Lee Myung-bak will agree to upgrade the Korea-China relationship from the current "Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership" to one of "Strategic Cooperative Partnership," said Noh Kyu-duk, Director of MOF [...]
2008-05-23 07:58:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PREL CH KN
08SEOUL1142KOREA COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SIX-PARTY ECONOMY AND
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul welcomes and grants country clearance for the official visit to Seoul of the Six-Party Economy and Energy Working Group (EEWG) during June 10-11, 2008. The EEWG includes National Security Council Director of Asian Economic Affairs Kurt Tong, U.S. Department of Energy Office [...]
2008-06-05 07:54:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG OTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA RS
08SEOUL1149KOREA COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EAP/K SUNG KIM AND
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul welcomes and grants country clearance for the official June 9-12, 2008 visit of Sung Kim, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs and Chuck Lutes, NSC Director for Counter-Proliferation. The purpose of the visit is to travel to Seoul en route to Pyongyang for consultations [...]
2008-06-08 23:58:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08SEOUL1207SEOUL RESPONSE/ACTION REQUEST: IRANIAN FINANCIAL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (S) On June 17, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Disarmament and Non-proliferation Acting Division Director Lee Sang-soo thanked Econoff for the two demarches (in Refs C&D) outlining Bank Mellat's recent proliferation act [...]
2008-06-17 04:48:00Embassy SeoulSECRETECON EFIN IR KNNP PARM PTER KS IS UK CH HK
08SEOUL1245KOREA COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EAP/K SUNG KIM AND PAUL
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul welcomes and grants country clearance for the official June 24-30, 2008 visit of Sung Kim, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs and Paul Haenle, NSC Director of Chinese Affairs. The purpose of the visit is to travel to Seoul en route to Pyongyang for consultations related [...]
2008-06-23 23:06:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08SEOUL1700ROK-PRC SUMMIT MEETING: NORTH KOREA ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 26 meeting with POL M/C, MOFAT Director General for Northeast Asian Affairs Cho Tai-young said that Presidents Lee and Hu held extensive discussions on North Korea during the August 25 ROK-PRC summit meeting. Lee requested Hu's assistance in persuading the North to r [...]
2008-08-27 06:53:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KS KN CH
08SEOUL1746CONCERNS REGARDING DELIVERY OF SHIPS TO IRISL
[...] (S) Acting EconCouns met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials on September 02 to urge their government's help in preventing the delivery of additional ROK-built vessels to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines. Sang Soo Lee of the Disarmament and Nonprliferation Divisio [...]
2008-09-04 05:23:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPARM PREL KNNP EFIN PINR IR CH KS
08SEOUL1882ROKG'S INIITIAL RESPONSE ON ENGAGING CHINA ON
[...] (C) Poloff presented reftel demarche and non-paper to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division on September 23. Deputy Director Kim Woo-see and Second Secretary Koh Young-kul said that they understood the importance of the message and that discussion of these i [...]
2008-09-23 06:56:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR CH SK PINR
08SEOUL1894 KOREA SEES VALUE IN THE CONVENTION ON SUPPLEMENTARY
[...] Summary: In a September 19 meeting with ESTHOFF and U.S. nuclear power industry representatives, officials of Korea's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) agreed in principle that the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) was a constructive framewor [...]
2008-09-24 08:54:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDIAEA ENRG TRGY AORC KNNP KS JA CH
08SEOUL2155ROK SEEKS U.S. VIEW ON KOREA-JAPAN-CHINA DEFENSE
[...] (C) On November 3, MOFAT ROK-US Security Cooperation Director Kim Yong-hyon demarched the POL-MIL chief on a South Korean proposal to hold ROK-Japan-China defense trilateral meetings in 2009. Kim explained that the ROK planned to discuss the idea with the Japanese at the ROK-Japan bilateral [...]
2008-11-04 06:46:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPINS PREL MARR KS JA CH
08SEOUL2433ROKG VIEWS ON ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CHINA-JAPAN-ROK
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified and not/not intended for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The ROKG was pleased with the substantive economic results and press coverage of the China-Japan-ROK summit meeting in Fukuoka, Japan on December 13. The Japan-ROK USD 3 billion " [...]
2008-12-18 11:17:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ECIN PREL KS CH JA
08SEOUL55ROKG TO CONTINUE PRESSURE ON CHINA REGARDING ASAT
[...] (S) On January 8, A/DCM delivered reftel A demarche and nonpaper to Song Young-wan, Director General of the International Organizations Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Song thanked the A/DCM for sharing the planned demarche to China and reiterated the ROKG's concern abo [...]
2008-01-09 07:04:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR KS CH
08SEOUL644ROK REACTION TO DOD REPORT ON CHINA MILITARY POWER
[...] (C) As requested in reftel, Emboffs engaged our ROKG contacts to gauge reaction to the March 3rd Defense Department release of the 2008 China Military Power Report. Ministry of National Defense (MND) U.S. Policy Division Chief Colonel Song Seung-jong told us that he did not review the report [...]
2008-04-01 04:36:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PREL PGOV TSPA KS CH
08SEOUL806KOREA COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EAP/K SUNG KIM AND
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 21 through April 25, 2008 visit of Sung Kim, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs; Paul T. Haenle, Director of Chinese Affairs and Six Party Talks, National Security Council; Douglas Frank, Program Manager, Pacific North [...]
2008-04-21 07:26:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08SEOUL879SOUTH KOREAN ANGER AT CHINESE STUDENTS' VIOLENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On Sunday, April 27, Chinese students studying in Korea who had gathered for the procession of the Olympic torch through downtown Seoul violently attacked South Korean demonstrators who were protesting China's treatment of North Korean refugees and Tibet. Unlike in other parts of [...]
2008-04-29 08:39:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM CH
08SEOUL903SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MAY 7-8
[...] (C) Your visit to Korea falls between the April 18-19 Camp David Summit and the Secretary's expected stop in Seoul at the end of June. Secretary Gates will also be coming for the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) change-of-command ceremony on June 3. These visits will be followed by a second U.S.-ROK [...]
2008-05-01 08:24:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR PARM PREL PGOV PINS KN KS CH JA
08SEOUL926KOREA COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EAP/K SUNG KIM AND
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul welcomes and grants country clearance for the May 7 through May 11, 2008 visit of Sung Kim, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs; Douglas Frank, Program Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Chuck Lutes, NSC Director for Counter-Proliferation; and Richard Klein, [...]
2008-05-06 07:17:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08SHANGHAI100CHINA'S STOCK MARKETS: EVOLVING "POLICY MARKETS"
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of consultations with fund managers, securities firms and investor advisory firms from March 4-14, TDY Econ Officer solicited views on the drivers of China's equity markets. An overarching theme is that China's stock markets should be viewed in the special context th [...]
2008-03-20 10:34:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
08SHANGHAI103SHANGHAI EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIGRANT
[...] (SBU) Summary: As in many other large Chinese cities, the Shanghai Municipal Government is exploring ways to improve the quality of education for migrant children. The Shanghai Education Commission (SEC) in January 2008 announced plans to increase the proportion of migrant children in Shanghai [...]
2008-03-21 08:52:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSCUL SMIG PGOV SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI12CHINA EASTERN - SINGAPORE AIRLINES DEAL: BELLWETHER FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 8, China Eastern Airlines (CEA) shareholders rebuffed a deal that would have allowed Singapore International Airlines (SIA) to buy a strategic share of the company. The move has sparked a wave of speculation regarding the meaning for CEA and the greater airline indu [...]
2008-01-11 11:38:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ELTN ECPS ETRD EFIN CH
08SHANGHAI121SENATOR MCCASKILL'S SHANGHAI VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Claire McCaskill(D-MO) visited Shanghai on March 22-25 and met with Shanghai Deputy Mayor Tang Dengjie and Shanghai Municipal Peoples Congress (SMPC) Deputy Chairman Zhou Yupeng. Deputy Mayor Tang discussed Shanghai's goals of becoming the commercial, trade, finance and [...]
2008-03-27 02:22:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV EAIR PREL OREP CH
08SHANGHAI122SHANGHAI AMERICAN STUDIES SCHOLAR ON TAIWAN ELECTION, TIBET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26, 2008 DPO and Conoff met with Fudan University Professor Wu Xinbo, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Institute for American Studies to discuss the Taiwan presidential election. Wu speculated that under certain conditions Beijing could tolerate a U.S. visit by Ma Ying-je [...]
2008-03-27 05:20:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON CH TW
08SHANGHAI126CHINA 'CANNOT ACCEPT' MA YING-JEOU U.S. VISIT, SHANGHAI
[...] (C) Summary: Professor Zhang Nianchi, Director of the influential Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) and expert on cross-strait relations, told DPO that Beijing would "not be able to accept" a visit by Taiwan's president-elect Ma Ying-jeou to the United States, in a March 27 m [...]
2008-03-28 04:19:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08SHANGHAI127SHANGHAI SIIS SCHOLARS COMMENT ON POST-ELECTION TAIWAN,
[...] (C) Summary: On March 28, 2008, Deputy Principal Officer (DPO) met with Yan Anlin, Executive Vice Director of Taiwan Affairs and Cross-Strait Relations, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS),and Zhang Xihong, Researcher, Taiwan Affairs and Cross-Strait Relations, SIIS to discuss [...]
2008-03-28 09:03:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08SHANGHAI133MEETING WITH WESTINGHOUSE TO DISCUSS FACILITATED VISA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 12, 2008, Consular Section Chief met with Westinghouse representatives to discuss special visa processing in support of the AP1000 Nuclear Power Plant Project. This year alone, Westinghouse plans to sponsor up to 200 Chinese nationals for nuclear power technologies tra [...]
2008-04-01 04:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS PGOV ECON CH ENRG
08SHANGHAI134SOCCER DIPLOMACY IN SHANGHAI
[...] (U) Summary: In late March 2008, North Korea played South Korea in a World Cup Qualifier that ended in a draw. The mostly South Korean crowd gave each team a standing ovation at the end of the match. In Early March, the Los Angeles Galaxy played the Chinese All-Star team, although Chinese fan [...]
2008-04-02 05:40:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON SOCI OEXC OIIP KPAO CH KS KN
08SHANGHAI144RURAL REFORM AND NGO ACTIVITIES IN ANHUI PROVINCE
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff and political assistant traveled to Anhui Province on April 7-8 to meet with Zhang Deyuan, the deputy director of the China San Nong Problem Research Center at Anhui University in Hefei, and to observe a rural poverty alleviation project in Yuexi County sponsored by the NGO [...]
2008-04-11 09:29:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EAGR SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI154YIWU PARTY SECRETARY ON IPR, RMB APPRECIATION, AND TIBET
[...] (SBU) On April 18, the Consul General (CG) hosted Yiwu Party Secretary Wu Weirong for lunch in Shanghai. Yiwu, a city in SIPDIS central Zhejiang Province of 1.6 million people, claims to be home to the biggest small commodity wholesale market in the world. Yiwu also has a reputation for b [...]
2008-04-22 03:50:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON KIPR CH
08SHANGHAI159THE EVE OF CIVIL SOCIETY'S ARRIVAL: NPI PROMOTES
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to Director of the Shanghai Pudong-based Non-Profit Incubator (NPI) Simon Lu, the Pudong District Government began to "outsource" some social services to local non-government organizations (NGOs) as a part of its comprehensive coordination pilot reform program approved [...]
2008-04-29 03:06:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI PHUM CH
08SHANGHAI165AUTHORITIES IMPLEMENT MEASURES IN ATTEMPT TO BOOST CHINA'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: TDY Econ Officer solicited views on China's equity markets, particularly in light of recent measures to boost market performance, which highlight authorities' continued efforts to manage the domestic equity markets. Two measures were implemented during the week of April 21, a [...]
2008-04-30 09:54:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI174ZHEJIANG PROVINCE'S WENZHOU: CHINA'S ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER
[...] (U) Summary: During an April 23-24 visit to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, local officials and entrepreneurs said that many of Wenzhou's export-oriented enterprises are under pressure from increasing raw material prices, renminbi (RMB) appreciation and U.S. economic changes. In response, local [...]
2008-05-13 03:04:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETRD PGOV KIPR SOCI CVIS CH
08SHANGHAI18SHANGHAI MAGLEV - A LONG HISTORY OF CONTROVERSY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai's magnetic levitation train (Maglev),has not only been costly in financial terms but is now costing the city the support of many of its residents. On January 13, Shanghai residents staged a large-scale demonstration against the proposed extension of the Maglev train [...]
2008-01-16 08:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD ELTN KIPR ELAB PHUM CH
08SHANGHAI184(C) SHANGHAI SCHOLARS DISCUSS INCOMING TAIWAN MA
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai scholars of cross-strait relations cautioned Stimson Center Distinguished Fellow Alan Romberg on May 16 that China will need time to adjust to the incoming Taiwan administration of President Ma Ying-jeou, including time to assess Ma's statements and initiatives followin [...]
2008-05-19 10:58:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS ETRD CH TW
08SHANGHAI187SED ENVOY HOLMER VISITS SHANGHAI AND NINGBO
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 18-20 visit to Shanghai and Ningbo, Special Envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) Ambassador Alan Holmer, Managing Director for China and the SED Dan Wright, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy Joel Szabat engaged U.S. busin [...]
2008-05-23 10:06:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ETRD EFIN KIPR ENRG SENV EWWT CH
08SHANGHAI19SHANGHAI RESIDENTS PROTEST MAGLEV EXTENSION
[...] (C) Summary. Large-scale demonstrations on January 12 and 13 against the Shanghai government's plans to extend the Maglev train line have not only highlighted dissatisfaction by Shanghai residents over the government's plans, but is an example of local residents using public means to press fo [...]
2008-01-16 08:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV ELTN CH
08SHANGHAI194BILATERAL AND TAIWAN RELATIONS: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SCHOLARS LOOK AHEAD RE RELATIONS WITH UNITED STATES, TAIWAN AND JAPAN
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai Institute for International Studies leaders outlined for visiting State Department official David Shear on May 22 several of China's foreign policy priorities and discussed China's growing comfortableness with multilateral engagement. They strongly urge that the next U [...]
2008-06-02 05:04:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN ECON MARR CH TW JA NU
08SHANGHAI195A TOUR D'HORIZON OF THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP FROM FUDAN'S
[...] (C) Summary. During a May 24 meeting Fudan University American Studies Center Director Shen Dingli told incoming EAP/CM Director David Shear that the Sichuan earthquake, which had revealed much weakness in the Chinese government, would be a catalyst for positive change. He appraised the th [...]
2008-06-02 05:35:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ENRG CH TW IR
08SHANGHAI20TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL/USA PRESIDENT BOSWELL'S LUNCH
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 15 lunch, Transparency International/USA President and CEO Nancy Boswell engaged representatives of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (SMPC) and an academic specializing in NGO development on ways of improving transparency in the budget process, organizing [...]
2008-01-16 09:11:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS SOCI ETRD KPAO CH
08SHANGHAI209SHANGHAI AMERICA-WATCHERS ON A DIFFICULT YEAR, TAIWAN, AND
[...] (C) Summary. On May 24, David Shear, incoming EAP/CM Director, met with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Vice President Huang Renwei and, separately, with Fudan University Center for American Studies Deputy Director Wu Xinbo. (Meetings with Shanghai Institute of International Stud [...]
2008-06-05 06:08:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN CH TW
08SHANGHAI210CIC AND SAFE: SHANGHAI FINANCIAL INDUSTRY VIEWS, LATE MAY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Visiting Department economic analysts and Congenoff (Econoffs) met May 21-23 with Shanghai financial industry participants and regulators to discuss China's capital market development and sovereign wealth fund issues. Most of the interlocutors agreed that the State Administra [...]
2008-06-05 08:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI212SHANGHAI SCHOLARS ON CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary. During a June 10 lunch for visiting former EAP DAS Randy Schriver, participating Shanghai academics were cautiously optimistic on near-term cross-Strait rapprochement. Despite general agreement that economic cooperation between China and Taiwan was achievable, there was little con [...]
2008-06-12 06:52:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08SHANGHAI218SHANGHAI ACADEMICS SEE MEASURED PROGRESS ON NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Shanghai academics concur that the Six-Party Talks are resulting in real, sustained progress, although, in moving forward, the pace of progress may not fully meet U.S. expectations. While the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) seeks friendlier bilateral relations with the United [...]
2008-06-16 09:25:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON KN CH
08SHANGHAI219SHANGHAI SCHOLARS ZHANG NIANCHI PREDICTS SLOW PROGRESS IN
[...] (C) Summary: In a June 16 meeting, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies President Zhang Nianchi expressed pleasure that talks between Taiwan and the Mainland have resumed, but cautioned against high expectations for future talks. Tough issues, including more international space for Taiwan [...]
2008-06-16 10:16:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW MARR
08SHANGHAI239LIANYUNGANG - ENTREPOT FOR JIANGSU'S LESS DEVELOPED NORTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the Consul General's June 12-13 visit to the city of Lianyungang in northern Jiangsu Province, Mayor Xu Yiping extolled the virtues of Lianyungang's strategic location, noting the city has received a large amount of attention and financial support from the Provincial and [...]
2008-06-25 05:27:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EINV KIPR ELAB ETRD ENRG EWWT CH
08SHANGHAI246SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE: RECENT VOLATILITY, PROSPECTS FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. Shanghai financial services industry participants identify last year's stock market bubble as the primary source of the Shanghai Stock Exchange's most recent volatility. Poor economic performance in certain sectors has also fueled volatility, with inflation and softening real [...]
2008-06-27 08:52:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI253SHANGHAI SCHOLARS' VIEWS ON THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai scholars described Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states as committed to cooperation on issues of common interest, but divided over any larger role the organization should play over the long term. The August 2008 summit will not break new ground but will [...]
2008-07-01 01:25:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG CH RS XD XE IR
08SHANGHAI254SHANGHAI BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT CONCERN ABOUT COMPETITION
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a June 26 meeting with ConGenoffs, newly appointed Shanghai Bar Association (SBA) President Liu Zhengdong expressed his concerns about the increase in the number of foreign law firms operating in Shanghai in direct competition with local Shanghai firms. He acknowledges, ho [...]
2008-07-02 06:11:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI256COUNTDOWN TO CROSS-STRAIT FLIGHTS: VIEW FROM SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shanghai is watching closely as China and Taiwan prepare to implement a recently negotiated agreement launching weekend cross-Strait charter flights and opening Taiwan to Mainland tourists. Local travel companies Shanghai Airlines and Shanghai CYTS Tours seem positive on the [...]
2008-07-03 02:44:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR PREL ECON SOCI CH TW
08SHANGHAI259SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON CHINA-VATICAN RELATIONS, SHESHAN
[...] (C) Summary. In a July 7 meeting with Pol/Econ Section Chief and Poloffs, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Luxin Jin continued to be pessimistic about prospects for normalization of relations between the Vatican and Beijing. He also confirmed that Beijing had taken measures to keep the annual pilgrim [...]
2008-07-08 00:31:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER KIRF CH VT TW
08SHANGHAI264SHANGHAI MARKET PARTICIPANTS DISCUSS HOT MONEY: MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary. Shanghai market participants agree, hot money presents a serious challenge for Chinese monetary policy. With sterilization bills becoming increasingly costly to issue and reserve requirement ratio (RRR) increases hurting the profitability of an already constrained banking sect [...]
2008-07-14 08:40:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI273(C) SIX-PARTY TALKS: SHANGHAI ACADEMICS COUNSEL SHORT-TERM
[...] (C) Summary: Several Shanghai academics believe the Six-Party Talks can produce continued movement by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) toward denuclearization and regional dialogue, but counsel patience since any progress is likely to be gradual. It is unclear whether North Ko [...]
2008-07-22 08:41:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ECON JA KN PGOV PREL
08SHANGHAI275CHINA SUMMIT ON ANTI-CORRUPTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The China Summit on Anti-Corruption, a private-sector conference aimed at providing U.S. businesses and multi-national companies with information on anti-corruption best practices and strategies to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, took place in Shanghai from July 1 [...]
2008-07-23 00:47:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KJUS CH
08SHANGHAI276SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: China's leading academic experts on Japan are cautiously optimistic that the relationship will continue to build on recent positive developments. High-level visits by leaders on both sides, Japan's relief effort in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake, the port call to China b [...]
2008-07-23 08:58:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MCAP CH JA
08SHANGHAI28SHANGHAI STOCK MARKET: UP, UP, AND A BUMP: WHERE TO NEXT?
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) rose 97 percent in 2007, adding to its 130 percent gain in 2006. The market was characterized by volatility and sharp swings. However, at the close of business in 2007, two-thirds of stocks listed were at historical highs and local investor con [...]
2008-01-24 09:18:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV CH
08SHANGHAI280SHANGHAI ACADEMIC YANG JIEMIAN ON TAIWAN, SED
[...] (C) Summary: During the Consul General's July 25 farewell call, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) President Yang Jiemian noted improvements in cross-Strait relations and expressed his hope that the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) will continue even after the change in admi [...]
2008-07-25 08:59:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH PGOV PREL TW
08SHANGHAI283SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA'S ROLE IN SUDAN, ZIMBABWE
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai's academic experts on China's foreign policy and African studies view Zimbabwe's crisis as a strictly internal matter that should be resolved through dialogue between the ruling and opposition parties, and they strongly oppose any further sanctions. The academics also be [...]
2008-07-28 08:17:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ETRD PARM PREL XA
08SHANGHAI284SHANGHAI ENERGY EXPERTS - COAL IS KING
[...] (SBU) Summary. With summer peak demand for power approaching in East China, another round of possible thermal coal shortages is causing great concern. Industry experts said the main bottleneck in China's thermal coal supply is transportation, although coal exports (encouraged by a gap betwe [...]
2008-07-28 09:06:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON ETTC EINV CH
08SHANGHAI285SHANGHAI'S CIQ LEADERSHIP CALLS FOR MORE COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Consul General (CG) met July 17 with China Inspection and Quarantine (CIQ) Shanghai Director General Xu Jinji to discuss ways the two sides can work closer together on information sharing. CG noted that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would soon open an office in Shan [...]
2008-07-28 09:08:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD TBIO PGOV ECON BEXP EAGR CH
08SHANGHAI29YANGTZE RIVER DELTA TEXTILE MAKERS FEAR RMB APPRECIATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese textile manufacturers in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) say that they face significant challenges that threaten their businesses in the coming year. Their main concern is the ongoing renminbi (RMB) appreciation that makes their exports more expensive and less competitive. [...]
2008-01-24 11:19:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTEX EFIN ETRD EAGR PGOV ELAB SENV CH
08SHANGHAI295SHANGHAI ENERGY EXPERTS: FUEL SHORTAGES EXIST, BUT NOT IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to Shanghai energy experts, price controls are primarily to blame for gasoline and diesel shortages. However, because Chinese oil companies control both up and downstream processes in fuel production, they can more easily cope with price controls then power generators [...]
2008-07-31 06:18:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON ETTC EINV CH
08SHANGHAI296SHANGHAI CUSTOMS: EMPHASIS ON TRANSPARENCY AND CUSTOMER
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 22 meeting, the Shanghai Customs Director General Sun Yibiao welcomed the "close relationship" between Customs and the Consulate over the past three years and discussed areas for future cooperation. Sun emphasized the importance of input from the Consulate and the U.S [...]
2008-08-01 05:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV ECON BEXP KIPR EAIR CH
08SHANGHAI297SHANGHAI PARTY SECRETARY YU ZHENGSHENG'S PRAGMATIC
[...] (C) Summary: Eight months after taking over the leadership in Shanghai, Consulate contacts praise Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng as being fair-minded and pragmatic. He may not be a charismatic leader, but he is able to strike a balance between Beijing and Shanghai's interests. As a practical [...]
2008-08-01 05:47:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON CH
08SHANGHAI298NANJING LEADERSHIP SEEKS CLOSER U.S. TIES
[...] (SBU) Summary. During the Consul General's July 30 visit to Nanjing, Mayor Jiang Hongkun and Vice Mayor Jin Daoqiang pushed for an increased U.S. commercial and diplomatic presence in Nanjing. A U.S. Consulate in Nanjing would be useful in deepening cultural and economic ties said Mayor Jian [...]
2008-08-01 09:30:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EINV KIPR ELAB ETRD ENRG EWWT CH
08SHANGHAI30UP, 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 [...]
2008-01-25 00:34:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS CMGT CH
08SHANGHAI306TAIWAN ENTREPRENEURS IN HANGZHOU CONCERNED ABOUT MAINLAND
[...] (C) Summary: At an August 1 roundtable, members of the Hangzhou Taiwan Compatriots Investment Enterprise Association voiced concerns about the Mainland business environment, and wished for better access to national-level Chinese officials. Rising costs, a slowing global economy, the new Labor C [...]
2008-08-05 05:50:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ECON ELAB ETRD PGOV PREL TW
08SHANGHAI309CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETINGS WITH JIANGSU PARTY SECRETARY LIANG
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with the Consul General (CG) on July 30, Jiangsu Party Secretary Liang Baohua and Governor Luo Zhijun expressed their appreciation for the CG's efforts to increase ties between Jiangsu Province and the United States. Like Nanjing municipal officials (see reft [...]
2008-08-06 00:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV KIPR CH
08SHANGHAI313ZHEJIANG'S YIWU: BEARING THE BRUNT OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary. Zhejiang's Yiwu is home to one of the largest wholesale markets in the world. During a July 21 visit, the Consul General discussed the impact of global economic trends on Yiwu with Yiwu Party Secretary Wu Weirong and Mayor He Meihua. In addition, the CG visited Huahong Home D [...]
2008-08-08 05:23:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB ETRD KIPR ENRG CH
08SHANGHAI318JIANGSU AND NINGBO CIQS URGE GREATER COOPERATION ON FOOD AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Consul General (CG) met with the Jiangsu Provincial Entry-Exit Quality Inspection and Quarantine (CIQ) Office in Nanjing on July 31 and the Ningbo City CIQ Office on August 4 to discuss a wide range of import and export issues. Both offices welcomed greater cooperation with [...]
2008-08-12 10:15:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD TBIO PGOV ECON BEXP EAGR CH
08SHANGHAI320ZHEJIANG LEADERS CONFIDENT IN TRADE TIES WITH UNITED STATES
[...] (SBU) Zhejiang Province enjoys a good relationship with the United States built on a foundation of strong trade ties, provincial and local officials told the Consul General on his farewell trip to Hangzhou, Zhejiang's provincial capital on August 6-7. Zhejiang officials remain concerned that t [...]
2008-08-13 05:14:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB ETRD EINV ENRG CH
08SHANGHAI326NINGBO'S ECONOMY - OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW
[...] (SBU) Summary. During an August 4 farewell visit to Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, the Consul General (CG) discussed Ningbo's economy and development plans with Mayor Mao Guanglie and Ningbo Foreign Affairs Office Director Kong Weiwei. The two officials said Ningbo aims to "upgrade" its econo [...]
2008-08-14 07:07:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB ETRD KIPR CH
08SHANGHAI328CONSUL GENERAL'S FAREWELL CALLS ON SHANGHAI LEADERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 14, the Consul General paid separate farewell calls on Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng, Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (MPC) Chairman Liu Yungeng and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Shanghai Committee Chairman Feng Guoqin. Mayor Han noted the i [...]
2008-08-14 08:41:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL CH ECON
08SHANGHAI330SHANGHAI IP ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES MOVE FORWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 8 farewell visit to Shanghai, Senior IPR Attachi Mark Cohen engaged Shanghai IP Administration (SIPA),Shanghai IPR Complaint Center, and Shanghai Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) officials on current initiatives and opportunities for cooperation [...]
2008-08-15 02:54:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON EINV PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI337VOLUNTEERISM IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary. Despite ample opportunities for people to volunteer, local volunteer organizations still have problems attracting people. Interlocutors blamed the lack of interest in volunteering to the absence of legislation on volunteers, the lack of a system to track someone's volunteer exp [...]
2008-08-18 00:34:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB CH
08SHANGHAI342CASH MEETS CAPITAL: UNDERGROUND FINANCING IN WENZHOU
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 12, Econoff visited the entrepreneurial city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province to discuss challenges facing small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Interlocutors noted several difficulties brought on by the current economic slowdown. In particular, SMEs have been disp [...]
2008-08-18 08:28:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI35AVIAN INFLUENZA PREVENTION IN JIANGSU PROVINCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Two confirmed cases of Avian Influenza (AI) in Jiangsu Province have focused attention on Jiangsu's ongoing efforts against AI. In meetings with Conoff, Jiangsu health officials confirmed reports that a father and son both contracted AI in December. Jiangsu CDC does not have [...]
2008-01-28 08:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PGOV ECON CH
08SHANGHAI352NANJING SCHOLARS UPBEAT ON CHANCES FOR CONTINUED
[...] (S) Summary: Nanjing scholars express optimism that cross-Strait relations can continue to develop at a brisk pace, though cautious on the possibility of short-term steps toward political integration or a "diplomatic truce." Chinese President Hu Jintao's flexibility on Taiwan nomenclature and [...]
2008-08-22 05:48:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETCH ECON PGOV PREL TW
08SHANGHAI36SHANGHAI AVIAN INFLUENZA PREVENTION CONTINUES
[...] (SBU) Summary: In discussions with Conoff on January 25, Shanghai Health Bureau and Center for Disease Control (CDC) officials stressed that the city's Avian Influenza (AI) prevention and reaction plans are on track. Shanghai CDC has recorded only one case of AI infection, which occurred in 20 [...]
2008-01-29 07:14:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO ECON PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI360SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA'S PROTESTANTS, CCC/TSPM
[...] (C) Summary. Academic contacts in Shanghai describe Protestantism in China as growing in number and diversity. There are three categories of Protestants in China: the official church, unofficial urban churches, and unofficial rural churches. Members of unofficial rural churches have limited [...]
2008-08-27 08:07:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KIRF CH
08SHANGHAI364DOL SECRETARY CHAO'S AUGUST 27 MEETING WITH SHANGHAI PARTY
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 27 lunch meeting with Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Elaine L. Chao, Shanghai Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng described challenges facing Shanghai, such as relocating residents out of poor housing blocks, providing adequate social services to migrant workers, and sh [...]
2008-08-28 08:44:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ECON ELAB ENRG PGOV PINR
08SHANGHAI371CHINESE PROTESTANT SEMINARY IN NANJING SLATED FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Nanjing Union Theological Seminary is on track for a major expansion in facilities and student capacity, according to Dean Reverend Ambroise Aiming Wang. The Seminary's new campus in the Nanjing suburbs, scheduled to open next year, as well as a new cathedral, have both been m [...]
2008-09-04 06:52:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM CH KIRF PGOV PINR SOCI
08SHANGHAI372HIGH SPEED RAIL FURTHER INTEGRATES EAST CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past year, East China has embarked on a quest for further intra-regional connectivity and economic integration through faster passenger rail transport. On July 15, Shanghai and Zhejiang Province announced plans for a new high-speed rail link that will connect Hangzho [...]
2008-09-04 08:45:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN PGOV ETRD EINV ECIN CH
08SHANGHAI374NANJING'S AMITY PRINTING COMPANY WORLD'S LARGEST BIBLE
[...] (C) Summary: With its recent move to a larger facility, the Amity Printing Company in Nanjing will increase its production of Bibles to over 12 million volumes annually, cementing its position as the world's largest Bible publisher. Among other successes, Amity Printing was commissioned by Bei [...]
2008-09-05 08:13:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI
08SHANGHAI375SHANGHAI ACADEMICS COMMENT ON GEORGIA: IMPLICATIONS AND
[...] (C) Summary: Leading Shanghai academics on Russia and international security fault both Russia and Georgia for escalating the conflict, and state that China will not support independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia because of concerns over setting a precedent for Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang [...]
2008-09-08 05:51:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ENRG MCAP PARM PREL RS TW
08SHANGHAI383SHANGHAI VICE MAYOR AI BAOJUN DISCUSSES SHANGHAI'S ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a September 5 meeting with Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian, Shanghai Vice Mayor Ai Baojun explained the Shanghai Government's efforts to build its alternative/renewable energy capacity, particularly focusing on wind energy and alternative energy [...]
2008-09-11 05:28:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON EIND PGOV BEXP CH
08SHANGHAI384EAST CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ON IMPACT OF OLYMPICS AND
[...] (C) Summary: Three East China human rights activists told Poloff on September 10 that their activities were tightly constrained during the recent Beijing Olympics with one of the activists prevented from traveling to the United States to attend a conference. Local security forces currently are [...]
2008-09-11 07:40:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ECON ETRD KIRF PGOV PHUM
08SHANGHAI385NEW CHINA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT DISCUSSES CHALLENGES
[...] (C) Summary: Gao Feng, the new President of the China Christian Council (CCC),said during a September 2 meeting with Poloff that he would take steps to address challenges such as the insufficient number of pastors and churches and the lack of education opportunities for church workers and laym [...]
2008-09-11 07:47:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH KIRF PGOV PINR
08SHANGHAI386GEORGIA CRISIS TESTS SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO)
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 08:49:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ENRG GG IR PREL RS XD XE
08SHANGHAI387SCHOLARS OFFER MIXED ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL VIEWS AT WORLD
[...] (SBU) The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) hosted its third World Forum on China Studies September 7-9, to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of SASS. This third iteration of the World Forum on China Studies featured 15 panel discussions and three roundtables [...]
2008-09-12 03:06:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREL ENRG KIRF CH
08SHANGHAI396SHANGHAI SEEKING NEW PERKS FOR FINANCIAL SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. Slowing coastal economic growth and the slumping stock market are driving top Shanghai officials to lobby the central authorities for a package of financial sector reforms. A key part of the plan is for increased authorities to be granted to local branches of financial regulat [...]
2008-09-17 05:48:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON EFIN PGOV
08SHANGHAI397SHANGHAI SCHOLARS ON CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS: MA'S
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai academics are divided in their opinion of Ma's political skills, some claiming his distinct style of leadership creates complications for the PRC, which is frequently not consulted in advance of Ma's initiatives. The international space issue will take many years to reso [...]
2008-09-17 07:26:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH MARR MCAP PA PGOV PREL TW
08SHANGHAI399CHINESE AUTHORITIES NERVOUS OVER AIG FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to an American International Group (AIG) General Insurance Company China high level official in Shanghai, Chinese regulatory authorities are concerned about AIG's stability in China. The State Council ordered the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to request [...]
2008-09-18 10:22:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV PGOV PREL CH
08SHANGHAI402SHANGHAI AUTHORITIES ALSO DEMAND ASSURANCES FROM AIG
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 10:19:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV PGOV PREL CH
08SHANGHAI407SHANGHAI CATHOLIC BISHOP JIN OPTIMISTIC ON RELIGIOUS
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin (JIN Luxian) told the Consul General that he is generally satisfied with the situation of Catholics in China, favorably contrasting present freedoms against the Mao Zedong era. The 92-year-old Bishop said he was unaware of any bishops presently incarcer [...]
2008-09-22 07:38:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI
08SHANGHAI408SHANGHAI HOUSE CHURCH LEADER SAYS OLYMPIC CLAMPDOWN TO
[...] (C) A prominent Shanghai house church leader said local police clamped down on house church activity during the Beijing Olympics, and the increased scrutiny has shown no signs of abating in the month since the Games concluded. The leader stated that he believes the local government fears the r [...]
2008-09-22 07:44:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KIRF SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI41SHANGHAI ACADEMIC YANG JIEMIAN ON THE SENIOR DIALOGUE, SED,
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 22 meeting, EAP DAS Thomas Christensen and Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) President Yang Jiemian exchanged views on the Senior Dialogue and Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED),Taiwan, Iran, North Korea, and China's non-interference principle. [...]
2008-02-01 06:22:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR CH TW IR BM
08SHANGHAI410THE CONSUL GENERAL DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the successful Beijing Summer Olympic Games, international economic stability is now Beijing's top priority, according to Shanghai scholars. They regard U.S. actions leading up to and during the Olympics as having provided a psychological boost to bilateral relatio [...]
2008-09-22 08:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON CH KN RS TW
08SHANGHAI411SOME SHANGHAI BANKS NERVOUS ABOUT US TRANSACTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Some Chinese banks are refusing to increase their exposure to U.S. bank debt since the Lehman failure, although there does not appear to be a broad government policy in effect, said several U.S. banks with operations in Shanghai contacted on September 22. End summary. Some [...]
2008-09-22 09:13:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL
08SHANGHAI412SHANGHAI CPPCC CHAIR DEFENDS CITY'S FOOD SAFETY RECORD;
[...] (SBU) Feng Guoqin, Chairman of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),defended Shanghai's food safety record during an introductory call by the Consul General on September 22, stating that inspection teams are working to ensure that dairy produ [...]
2008-09-22 09:15:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EAGR PREL BEXP ETRD CH
08SHANGHAI413MULTILATERALISM INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FACET OF CHINA'S
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai scholars regard China's increasingly active role in multilateral fora as the product of Beijing's integration into the global economic system and response to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. China's sharper focus on national interests and the elevation of its international [...]
2008-09-23 06:41:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ECIN ECON EFIN PREL XC
08SHANGHAI416FINANCIAL CRISIS MAY FURTHER DELAY CHINESE BOARD FOR TECH
[...] (C) Summary: Xu Guangxun (strictly protect),the Chief Representative in China for the NASDAQ OMS Group and a Shanghai Congen contact of several years standing, said on September 23 that the Central Government once again is considering delaying the launch of the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) [...]
2008-09-24 06:32:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV PREL ECON CH
08SHANGHAI418AIG FACING FURTHER REGULATORY PRESSURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A top AIG official in China on September 25 described disruptive new reporting requirements from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC). These are having a significant impact on AIG's operations in China, and AIG is working with regulators to institute more workable com [...]
2008-09-25 09:57:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV PREL ECON CH
08SHANGHAI419AIG FACING FURTHER REGULATORY PRESSURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A top AIG official in China on September 25 described disruptive new reporting requirements from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC). These are having a significant impact on AIG's operations in China, and AIG is working with regulators to institute more workable com [...]
2008-09-25 10:09:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV PREL ECON CH
08SHANGHAI42SHANGHAI ACADEMICS DISCUSS TAIWAN, NORTH KOREA AND IRAN WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 22 lunch, four of Shanghai's leading U.S.-China relations academics exchanged views with EAP DAS Thomas Christensen on Taiwan, U.S.-China military relations, North Korea and China's non-interference principle. The academics expressed concerns about the domestic polit [...]
2008-02-01 06:28:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR CH TW IR BM
08SHANGHAI422SHANGHAI SCHOLARS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER DELAY IN SIX-PARTY
[...] (S/NF) Summary: xxxxx are concerned about the current impasse in the Six-Party Talks, but each varies in his diagnosis of its causes and prescriptions for U.S. policy. xxxxx claims that a debate has emerged within the Chinese leadership over the merits of quick U.S. delisting, as a result of Pyongy [...]
2008-09-26 06:40:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRET//NOFORNCH KN PGOV PHUM PREL
08SHANGHAI427SHANGHAI: OFFICIALS SHAKEN BY MILK SCANDAL BUT LITTLE
[...] (C) Summary: Officials in Shanghai and other East China cities appear shaken by the current milk scandal, but there have been few apparent political outcomes such as forced resignations or incidents of social instability. High-level officials in Shanghai continue to reassure the public and the [...]
2008-09-29 08:00:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CH
08SHANGHAI428SHANGHAI ACADEMICS COMMENT ON CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH LATIN
[...] (C) Summary: China's strategy in Latin America is shaped by its desire for natural resources and not by any geopolitical ambitions, according to Shanghai scholars, and China does not want to raise U.S. suspicion about China's motives in the region. Political competition with Taiwan in Latin A [...]
2008-09-29 11:44:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD CH VE BR TW XM
08SHANGHAI43SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ZHANG NIANCHI CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ON
[...] (C) Summary. In a January 23 meeting with EAP DAS Thomas Christensen, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) President Zhang Nianchi was cautiously optimistic that there can be progress on cross-Strait issues. He was pleased with the Taiwan Legislative Yuan (LY) election results an [...]
2008-02-01 06:36:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08SHANGHAI430(SBU) GRIM OUTLOOK FOR EXPO PARTICIPATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prospects for an American national pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 look increasingly grim. The private sector fundraising team reported on Sept. 29 that the initial $500,000 of USA Pavilion seed money is exhausted with as yet no new money raised to pay for the pavilion [...]
2008-09-30 07:59:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDCH KPAO BEXP SCUL ETRD PREL
08SHANGHAI435SHANGHAI CONTACT ON THIRD PLENUM
[...] (C) Summary: One day prior to the opening of the Third Plenum of the 17th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, a well-connected Shanghai contact said CPC leaders believe the "time is now" to quicken the pace of rural reform; however, any land reforms introduced during the Plenum wi [...]
2008-10-09 10:29:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN CH
08SHANGHAI436HANGZHOU VICE MAYOR DISCUSSES FINANCIAL TURMOIL, CPC PLENUM,
[...] (SBU) Tong Guili, Vice Mayor of Hangzhou, told the Consul General on October 9 that the city's exports have decreased in the face of a challenging economic environment, and the municipal government has introduced several export promotion measures to counter the effects of the global financial c [...]
2008-10-09 11:05:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EFIN ETRD EINV KIPR CH
08SHANGHAI441SHANGHAI WTO CENTER DIRECTOR SPEAKS ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] (SBU) In an October 9 meeting with the Consul General, Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center Director Wang Xinkui emphasized that the global financial crisis will have a deep effect on the Chinese economy, particularly the trading sector. It will also have significant implications for the g [...]
2008-10-14 09:07:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EFIN ETRD EINV WTRO CH
08SHANGHAI443EAST CHINA ACADEMICS ON CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS: ASO WILL BE
[...] (C) Summary: Japan experts in Shanghai and Nanjing believe new Japanese Prime Minister Aso, consumed by domestic political and economic challenges, will adopt a pragmatic approach to China regardless of his past anti-China rhetoric. Aso will attend the ASEM meeting in China in late October, b [...]
2008-10-17 06:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH JA PREL SOCI
08SHANGHAI446U.S. TRAVEL INDUSTRY CONCERNS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: During August and September 2008 Shanghai Commercial Officer visited with executives of several U.S. travel and tourism firms active in the China outbound tourism market. Each of the executives expressed concern with recent trends in China's outbound tourism to the U.S. subseq [...]
2008-10-17 09:12:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON CVIS PREL BEXP ETRD KIPR CH
08SHANGHAI449ANHUI OPTIMISTIC IT WILL WEATHER ECONOMIC STORM
[...] (SBU) Anhui Provincial officials told visiting Congenoffs on October 14-15 that the global economic slowdown has affected the province but not as severely as in coastal provinces. The most significant impact of the economic situation is likely to be felt by Anhui's rural-to-urban migrants work [...]
2008-10-21 02:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB ETRD EIND EINV CH
08SHANGHAI450STONES FROM OTHER HILLS SERVE TO POLISH THE JADE: SUZHOU'S
[...] (U) Summary: Suzhou Mayor Yan Li invited Shanghai-based diplomats, business people and sister city reps to a two-day event Sept. 26-27 showcasing the city as a model of investment-friendly and harmonious development. Although billed as a an opportunity for the city to seek advice from outside [...]
2008-10-21 04:35:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV PGOV PREL ETRD ECON SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI451REGULATOR SUPPORTING DOMESTIC INSURANCE FIRMS
[...] (SBU) Summary. American International Group (AIG) is coming under additional scrutiny from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission as AIG prepares to possibly spin off parts of its Asian insurance operations. CIRC appears to be mixing its role as a regulator of China-based insurance compan [...]
2008-10-22 01:56:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON EFIN PREL
08SHANGHAI458SHANGHAI OFFICIALS STRESS COOPERATION WITH U/S MCCORMICK
[...] (SBU) Summary. Treasury U/S McCormick and delegation met Shanghai Vice Mayor Tu Guangshao and Bank of Communications Chairman Hu Huaibang on October 21 in Shanghai. Both contacts emphasized that China is focused on assuring stable domestic economic growth during the fallout of the global fin [...]
2008-10-28 06:11:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON EFIN
08SHANGHAI459READING PEARL BUCK IN ZHENJIANG
[...] Summary: Zhenjiang, a city of one million at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal, proudly proclaims its connection to Pearl S. Buck, author of "The Good Earth" and 1938 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Once unwelcome in China, Buck is now praised as a bridge betwe [...]
2008-10-28 06:45:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL KPAO OIIP PREL EAGR CH
08SHANGHAI460CONSUL GENERAL'S INITIAL MEETING WITH LIU YUNGENG, CHAIR OF
[...] (C) Summary: In an October 24 meeting with the Consul General, Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (MPC) Chair Liu Yungeng discussed the MPC's efforts to improve transparency in its legislative process. Liu said ordinary citizens can observe some MPC meetings and voice concerns directly thro [...]
2008-10-28 07:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON CH
08SHANGHAI461JIANGSU WELCOMES LAND REFORMS BUT PROGRESS ON GOVERNANCE
[...] (C) Summary. Farmers in Jiangsu Province welcomed the Central Government's policy announcements on land reform during the Third Plenum of the 17th CPC Central Committee (Ref A),but progress on local governance and evaluation of government officials will have a greater impact on the lives of t [...]
2008-10-28 08:00:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN CH
08SHANGHAI467YIWU: MIXED PICTURE FOR CHINESE EXPORTERS, MANY SHIFTING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Zhejiang Province's Yiwu, home to one of the world's largest wholesale commodity markets, has experienced a general downturn in its export-oriented economy. However, local government officials remain cautiously optimistic, saying the global economic crisis "presents a threat a [...]
2008-10-29 10:01:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB ETRD EFIN EINV CH
08SHANGHAI476(C) YIWU'S MUSLIM COMMUNITY: POSSIBLE TRANSIT POINT FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Muslim community in Yiwu, a key trading center in East China's Zhejiang Province, is thriving on the back of China's growing trade with South Asia and the Middle East. In an effort to attract Muslim businesspeople to the city, local government officials have set up Muslim sch [...]
2008-11-04 02:01:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PTER XF PK CH
08SHANGHAI477SHANGHAI GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING FOLLOWS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) The CPC Central Committee and the State Council recently approved Shanghai's plan on restructuring municipal government agencies. The restructuring is in line with the Central Government's administrative reorganization in March 2008 at the National People's Congress, which also was known [...]
2008-11-04 02:47:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ETRD EINV EAGR SENV CH
08SHANGHAI49SHANGHAI MAYOR HAN ZHENG GETS SECOND TERM
[...] (C) Summary: Despite earlier speculation that Mayor Han Zheng would be reassigned elsewhere, he was re-elected to a second five-year term at the end of Shanghai's Municipal People's Congress (MPC) on January 30. Contacts are mixed as to whether Mayor Han will complete his term. The MPC also [...]
2008-02-01 10:01:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON CH
08SHANGHAI490JIANGSU ECONOMY SLOWING IN FACE OF GLOBAL CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Government officials and researchers in East China's Jiangsu Province are increasingly concerned about the adverse impact of the global economic slowdown on the province, particularly its large export sector. Achieving more robust domestic consumption to offset the decline in [...]
2008-11-10 09:15:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON EFIN KIPR
08SHANGHAI491SERVICE PROVIDER OR A SUPPLEMENT TO GOVERNMENT: A
[...] (SBU) Scholars at an international conference on social welfare in Nanjing said strengthening service-oriented non-government organizations (NGOs) would be a stable and secure strategy for NGO development in the future but would have limited influence in China's political system and promotion o [...]
2008-11-12 05:47:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI493U.S.-CHINA INTERNET INDUSTRY FORUM EMPHASIZES COOPERATION;
[...] (SBU) The Internet Society of China (ISC) and Microsoft co-hosted the 2nd U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum November 7-8 in Shanghai, encouraging more bilateral cooperation on Internet issues. Chinese participants highlighted technological advances and the patriotic virtues of the Internet, w [...]
2008-11-14 04:28:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PHUM TINT KIPR ETTC KPAO OIIP SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI494SHANGHAI: THE PARTY SECRETARY IS ONLINE
[...] (SBU) Shanghai CPC Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng participated in his first webchat on November 6, fielding questions from Shanghai residents on economic and social issues. Netizens took advantage of the opportunity to raise concerns about economic development, infrastructure projects, housing [...]
2008-11-14 06:00:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PHUM EFIN TINT ETTC SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI496THE OLYMPICS AND NATIONALISM: VIEWS FROM EAST CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: Interlocutors in Shanghai and Nanjing believe rising Chinese nationalism in the months preceding the Olympics was mainly a reaction to Western criticism and "bias" against China during the Tibet crisis. Although China is more confident after a "successful" Olympics, the interlocu [...]
2008-11-14 07:37:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI498GOT MILK? - SHANGHAI THIRSTY FOR FOREIGN IMPORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shanghai stores have sold out of imported milk in the wake of the recent melamine scandal. Chinese authorities maintain that there has been no change in China's import milk regulations, but some retailers and consumers believe that a slowdown of imports is a deliberate move to [...]
2008-11-14 09:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR SENV TBIO CH
08SHANGHAI499SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE OFFICIAL HOLDS DIM VIEW OF LOCAL
[...] (C) Summary. A well-placed Shanghai financial professional, James Liu of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE),offered a series of candid views on Shanghai's economic prospects, in particular the real estate sector, Chinese stocks, and the U.S. financial bailout plan. Liu is as critical of Sh [...]
2008-11-14 09:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV EWWT PGOV PREL CH
08SHANGHAI500PTO-SPONSORED IP PROGRAM BUILDS BRIDGES IN EAST CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 16-17 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office-sponsored trip to Shanghai and Nanjing, Judge Ronald S.W. Lew from the United States District Court for the Central District of California and Matthew J. Bassiur, Criminal Division Trial Attorney and IP Liaison to Industr [...]
2008-11-14 11:42:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD EINV EFIN CH
08SHANGHAI501EAST CHINA AUDIENCES FASCINATED AND SURPRISED BY THE U.S.
[...] Summary: U.S. election programming over the last 14 months in the Shanghai district proved, in the words of one Chinese student, "a great showcase for democracy." However, media coverage, while extensive, was sometimes limited by Chinese Government restrictions. End Summary. 2. While [...]
2008-11-17 06:53:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO OIIP PREL CH
08SHANGHAI503SHANGHAI ACADEMICS: ARATS CHAIR VISIT TO TAIWAN A SUCCESS,
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai scholars view the recent visit to Taiwan by ARATS Chair Chen Yunlin a "success" mainly for its symbolism and for helping to "maintain momentum" in cross-Strait dialogue. However, they see this visit as only the first "easy" step in a long difficult process. Some scholar [...]
2008-11-19 08:12:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PINR CH TW
08SHANGHAI505LUWAN DISTRICT OFFICIAL RETURNS TO SHANGHAI AFTER MYSTERIOUS
[...] (C) An official from Shanghai's Luwan District returned home earlier this month after mysteriously disappearing during a business trip to France in October. It is unclear why the official vanished, or why he returned, but media reports have focused on corruption as the likely cause. Public sc [...]
2008-11-20 08:38:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI506SHANGHAI MAYOR ADDRESSES TAXI CONCERNS
[...] (C) Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng met with taxi drivers and other public transportation representatives on November 18 to discuss upcoming reform plans. The mayor's meeting with taxi drivers comes on the heels of highly publicized work stoppages by taxi drivers in Chongqing and Hainan, and one cont [...]
2008-11-20 08:55:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI510EXPORT GROWTH RATE PLUNGING SAYS SHANGHAI CUSTOMS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai Customs Director General Sun Yibiao and Consul General (CG) discussed trade trends, the Megaports initiative, the Container Security Initiative (CSI),and opportunities for further cooperation during an October 31 courtesy call. According to Sun, the growth rate of ex [...]
2008-11-24 05:23:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EWWT PGOV ECON BEXP CH
08SHANGHAI513SHANGHAI: MILK NOT DOING THE BODY POLITIC ANY GOOD
[...] (C) Public reaction to the recent milk scandal remains muted in Shanghai even as local stores have faced difficulties stocking an adequate supply of imported milk. Observers say Shanghai residents are angry about the food safety lapse, but the situation has not led to social instability in lar [...]
2008-11-25 03:26:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON EAGR CH
08SHANGHAI515SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai scholars believe China-India relations are improving with high-level visits, military cooperation, and increasing bilateral trade, but unresolved border issues and political distrust are hampering further progress. Many Indian Government officials still maintain a "Cold [...]
2008-11-26 08:25:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PARM EINV CH IN PK
08SHANGHAI518(SBU) ZHEJIANG SEEKING TO RESTRUCTURE AS ECONOMIC GROWTH
[...] (SBU) Summary. Zhejiang Province is not likely to suffer a long-term economic downturn as a result of the global financial crisis, agree several Consulate contacts, but Zhejiang officials are seeking to use the current challenges to encourage firms to gradually restructure away from export de [...]
2008-11-26 11:51:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ELAB PGOV SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI519SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai scholars believe Sino-Pakistan relations are strong and stable, one scholar calling it an "all weather partnership," with growing bilateral trade and good political relations. China's growing ties with India (Ref A),however, make Pakistan uncomfortable and force China t [...]
2008-12-02 02:05:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PTER PINR SNAR CH PK IN
08SHANGHAI522(C) ZHEJIANG: FACTORY CLOSURES RAISE SOCIAL STABILITY
[...] (C) Social and political analysts in Zhejiang Province said the province's economy may recover from the current financial crisis (Refs A and B),but factory closures could result in social unrest, particularly as Lunar New Year approaches. Zhejiang-based observers worry that the Central Governm [...]
2008-12-05 08:24:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN ELAB PHUM CH
08SHANGHAI523(C) HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PETITION TO CALL FOR POLITICAL REFORM
[...] (C) Summary: Contacts in Hangzhou said they have joined a petition calling for more political reform in China, which they said would be posted on-line o/a December 10 to coincide with UN Human Rights Day. Both contacts said China's current social and economic environment provides an opportuni [...]
2008-12-08 02:08:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH UN
08SHANGHAI526GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS HURTING TAIWAN BUSINESSES IN KUNSHAN,
[...] (C) Summary: Taiwan entrepreneurs in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, said the global economic downturn has severely impacted their businesses, with orders for electronic components, the mainstay of Kunshan's Taiwan manufacturers, down at least 20 percent this year. Several large Taiwan factories i [...]
2008-12-08 07:56:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ECON ELAB EFIN CH TW
08SHANGHAI527HANGZHOU CONTACTS ON INTERNET FREEDOM IN EAST CHINA
[...] (C) The case of a blogger from Jiangsu Province about to go on trial for libel is being watched closely in East China, according to contacts in neighboring Zhejiang Province. Journalists and intellectuals told Poloff they see internet freedom as a critically important issue, particularly given [...]
2008-12-08 08:46:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR SOCI TINT CH
08SHANGHAI530FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA JOHN LEIGHTON STUART LAID TO
[...] (U) Nearly 60 years after departing his post, the last U.S. Ambassador to serve in pre-PRC Mainland China was laid to rest in a cemetery near Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang Province. The interment of the remains of former Ambassador Dr. John Leighton Stuart on November 17 completed a jo [...]
2008-12-09 04:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KPAO CH
08SHANGHAI533SHANGHAI ACADEMIC YANG JIEMIAN ON OBAMA ADMINISTRATION,
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) President Yang Jiemian said the Chinese Government wants to stabilize bilateral relations with the United States and avoid the recurring "pendulum effect" in relations that seems to occur each time a new administration comes int [...]
2008-12-10 03:47:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08SHANGHAI542(C) HANGZHOU POLICE QUESTION ONE CHARTER SIGNATORY BUT NO
[...] (C) Summary: Hangzhou activist Wen Kejian, who first informed Consulate Poloff about the "08 Charter" (reftels),was questioned by local police on December 10 and later released. Another Hangzhou activist told Poloff on December 11 that he has not been contacted by police despite being both a c [...]
2008-12-11 08:18:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH UN
08SHANGHAI543POWER CONSUMPTION DOWN IN SHANGHAI DUE TO ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Energy contacts in Shanghai say power consumption in Shanghai has slowed significantly the past few months due to the economic downturn. In contrast to the situation earlier this year, there is now an "oversupply" of coal in Shanghai, said one analyst, who also thinks power pri [...]
2008-12-11 08:38:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON EINV PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI544POWER CONSUMPTION DOWN IN SHANGHAI DUE TO ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Energy contacts in Shanghai say power consumption in Shanghai has slowed significantly the past few months due to the economic downturn. In contrast to the situation earlier this year, there is now an "oversupply" of coal in Shanghai, said one analyst, who also thinks power pri [...]
2008-12-11 09:08:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON EINV ENRG PGOV
08SHANGHAI545IPR INTERNET PROGRAM BUILDS CAPACITY IN EAST CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 20-21 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)-sponsored trip to Nanjing and Shanghai, Department of Justice Trial Attorney Tyler Newby, Federal Bureau of Investigation Supervisory Special Agent Kiffa Shirley, and PTO Trade Policy Analyst Susan Tong held two cap [...]
2008-12-15 04:48:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON EINV PGOV TINT CH
08SHANGHAI546SHANGHAI LEADS OUT ON JUDICIAL IP PROTECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Building on its reputation as high caliber center for judicial intellectual property (IP) protection, Shanghai has taken a number of measures since October to highlight and strengthen its judicial capabilities. On October 29, Shanghai held a ceremony for the establishment of t [...]
2008-12-15 05:26:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON EINV PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI549NBA FULL COURT PRESS IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) The National Basketball Association (NBA) continues its rapid expansion in China. The NBA is attempting to transform itself from a marketing giant in the Chinese market into a financial partner dedicated to running arenas and domestic basketball leagues. Executing this game plan has led [...]
2008-12-16 01:18:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV SCUL CH
08SHANGHAI550(SBU) EXPORT SLOWDOWN SPURRING BANK REFORMS IN ZHEJIANG
[...] (SBU) Summary. Zhejiang provincial and local officials are pushing ahead with financial reforms to create small lending companies as part of their answer to the global financial crisis. Our contacts described the need to increase financing for SMEs as critical because bank lending to SMEs ha [...]
2008-12-16 05:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH EFIN ECON PGOV
08SHANGHAI551THE BUMPY ROAD OF EAST CHINA LOGISTICS
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 17-21 visit to Shanghai, Department of Transportation Office of International Standards Office Hazardous Materials Safety Director Duane Pfund and Assistant Director Ryan Paquet met with three U.S. logistics companies and attended the China World Logistics Confe [...]
2008-12-16 10:28:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN PGOV ETRD EINV ENRG CH
08SHANGHAI552SHANGHAI LEGAL EMPLOYMENT MARKET HIT BY ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
[...] (SBU) Expansion of Shanghai's legal employment market appears to have come to a sudden halt. Partners at Chinese and international law firms report a hiring freeze, but they said their firms have not yet begun layoffs. Law students express frustration trying to find legal employment. Profess [...]
2008-12-17 00:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI557(SBU) U.S. CHICKEN EXPORTER FACING TRADE FINANCING
[...] (SBU) Summary. A shortage of trade finance in Hong Kong is causing problems for Tyson Foods, Inc., imports of chicken into China. The troubles with trade finance are squeezing the US$400 million in revenues that Tyson earns annually from chicken parts sales in the China market. The high mar [...]
2008-12-18 01:04:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH EFIN ECON PGOV ETRD
08SHANGHAI558REAL ESTATE WEBSITE OFFERS WINDOW ON SOCIAL STABILITY
[...] (C) Summary. Public aggravation with housing issues that in recent months has sometimes boiled over into street protests in East China can be gauged by chatroom activity on the nationwide Soufun.com website, according to a contact in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. The Public Security Bureau (PS [...]
2008-12-18 01:19:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV
08SHANGHAI562(C) SHANGHAI LAWYERS SAY THEY ARE TOLD TO STAY AWAY FROM
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai attorneys say the Shanghai Bar Association informed its members to stay away from sensitive cases related to melamine and residents displaced by proposed Maglev construction (reftels). Many of the lawyers expressed concern that rule of law in East China is threatened by [...]
2008-12-18 10:28:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON PREL CH
08SHANGHAI570ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY - A LOCAL UNIVERSITY WITH A GLOBAL
[...] (SBU) During a November 17-18 visit to Hangzhou, the Consul General (CG) met Zhejiang University President Yang Wei and discussed the university's international network, strategies to promote international student exchanges, collaborative research, scientific innovation and visa issues. Zheji [...]
2008-12-23 02:51:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSCUL CVIS KIPR ECON TBIO TRGY SENV CH
08SHANGHAI571SHANGHAI COFCOM DG: SHANGHAI'S ECONOMY ON SOLID GROUND, BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a courtesy call with Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce (Shanghai COFCOM) Director General Sha Hailin, the Consul General discussed a wide range of economic and business-related issues, including Shanghai's response to the financial crisis, the city's long-term pl [...]
2008-12-23 02:51:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EFIN ETRD ELAB EAIR CH
08SHANGHAI572LEADING INDIAN IT COMPANIES IN SHANGHAI IMPACTED BY GLOBAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Major Indian IT outsourcing firms in Shanghai said their China businesses have been hit hard by the global economic downturn, as multinational and domestic clients cancel or defer projects. The boom of recent years has come to a screeching halt, with revenue growth falling short [...]
2008-12-23 06:36:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV CH IN
08SHANGHAI573EAST CHINA VIEWS ON TRADE FACILITATION VERSUS TIGHTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a December 4-7 visit to Shanghai, U.S. Senate Finance Committee Trade Analyst Hun Quach met with Shanghai Customs and Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (CIQ) officials, as well as held discussions with U.S. business representatives on a wide-range of customs-rel [...]
2008-12-23 06:36:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ELTN EWWT ASEC PREL KIPR CH
08SHANGHAI574SHANGHAI GM RELATIVELY IMMUNE FROM GM FINANCIAL WOES, BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 18, the Consul General (CG) met with Shanghai General Motors (GM) Executive Vice President Robert Socia and other top executives to discuss the effects of the economic downturn, general business environment issues and the local fall-out from GM's financial troubles. [...]
2008-12-23 07:58:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND KIPR ELAB WTRO CH
08SHANGHAI578KMT-CCP TALKS: VIEWS OF SHANGHAI ACADEMICS
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff spoke with several Shanghai academics about the 4th annual KMT-CCP forum which took place in Shanghai December 20-21. One academic who participated in the forum said the talks proceeded "smoothly" and "without big surprises." The forum focused on enhancing cross-Strait eco [...]
2008-12-24 07:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ECON EFIN EINV CH TW
08SHANGHAI580O HOLY NIGHT: FOREIGN PROTESTANTS PACK CHURCHES AT
[...] (C) Foreign Protestants packed church services for Christmas celebrations in Shanghai, taking advantage of recent indications that the Municipal Government is willing to provide more opportunities for expatriate Protestants to meet corporately in the city. With the growing number of foreigners [...]
2008-12-30 08:56:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KIRF SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI581ECONOMIC CRISIS CRIMPING REVENUES OF ZHEJIANG EXPORT HUB
[...] (SBU) Summary: Slowing economic activity in Ningbo, a major port in Zhejiang Province, is leading to much lower revenue growth, which in turn will impact Central Government finances, according to the chief economist of the local planning commission. Ningbo's growth is on a declining trend, a [...]
2008-12-31 06:11:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV
08SHANGHAI60EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S JANUARY 22-23 MEETINGS WITH SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary: EAP DAS Thomas Christensen met separately January 22 and 23 with Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng and American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (AmCham) representatives. Mayor Han said the city's 2008 growth target would be only ten percent, after realizing 13.3 percent in 2007. Han e [...]
2008-02-11 01:31:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR CVIS PREL BEXP CH
08SHANGHAI66PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION RESEARCH PROJECT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to find ways to amend the Administrative Litigation Law, China's Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has tasked Suzhou University School of Law Professor Huang Xuexian to conduct research on public interest litigation. Public interest litigation occurs when an individual sues [...]
2008-02-15 02:20:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR KJUS SENV CH
08SHANGHAI74ZHEJIANG POWER NEEDS MET BY BLACKOUTS IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary: Zhejiang Province's electrical grid and power supply system that was severely damaged during the recent winter storms (Refs A and B) have been largely repaired, but generation and transmission capacity is not yet fully restored. The Shanghai Electric Power Company (SEPC) has sen [...]
2008-02-21 12:30:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI75SHANGHAI HOUSING RIGHTS LAWYER ZHENG ENCHONG DETAINED
[...] (C) In a phone conversation with Poloff on February 22, Shanghai petitioner Chen Enquan confirmed a February 20 report by Human Rights in China (HRIC) that prominent Shanghai housing rights lawyer Zheng Enchong was detained on February 20. She also asserted as appeared in the HRIC report that [...]
2008-02-22 06:27:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI81SHANGHAI HOUSING RIGHTS LAWYER ZHANG ENCHONG UPDATE
[...] (C) In a phone conversation on the evening of February 22, Shanghai Housing Rights Lawyer Zheng Enchong confirmed that he is currently under heavy surveillance and was beaten by thugs he believed to be plainclothes police. According to Zheng, he was beaten by two "policemen" on February 16 af [...]
2008-02-26 07:44:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI88DASD SEDNEY'S SHANGHAI ACADEMIC MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary: During his February 27-March 2 trip to Shanghai, in addition to leading the U.S. delegation to the Defense Policy Coordination Talks (DPCT),Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia (DASD) David Sedney exchanged SIPDIS views on U.S.-China relations with Shanghai's le [...]
2008-03-07 03:31:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR CH TW BM RS JA
08SHANGHAI97CHINA FINANCIAL FUTURES EXCHANGE WAITING FOR STATE COUNCIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 5 meeting with Consulate TDY Econ Officer, China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) Research and Development Head Dr. Zhang Xiaogang and his staff provided a status update on CFFEX preparations to launch a stock index future. Licenses have been granted for 75 futures [...]
2008-03-19 07:43:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV CH
08SHENYANG103PRC-DPRK BORDER TIGHTENS PRE-OLYMPICS: DPRK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Local officials confirm they have taken measures to "strengthen control" of the PRC-DPRK border region during the Olympics. New checkpoints have been established outside some sensitive border cities. The PRC "through diplomatic channels" requested that the DPRK stem border-cross [...]
2008-07-29 05:40:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PREF ASEC KN CH
08SHENYANG109PRC-DPRK: BORDER-CROSSERS AND THEIR OFFSPRING;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts along the PRC-DPRK border report smaller-than-usual numbers of North Korean border-crossers this summer. Civil Affairs officials in one key border city screen detained border-crossers for infectious diseases and arrange for medical care pending repatriation. Children bor [...]
2008-08-06 06:13:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PREF KN CH
08SHENYANG116PRC-DPRK BORDER DEFENSE, BORDER-CROSSERS, NORTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC has made some progress in PRC-DPRK border security in recent years, but advances ought not be overestimated, say northeast China experts. Although new investment, infrastructural improvements and modern technologies have enhanced defense capacity, the border remains porou [...]
2008-08-20 05:20:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PREF ASEC KTIP SNAR KN CH
08SHENYANG12NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS: MORE PRC THINKING;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The small group of specialists researching North Korean border-crossers for the PRC government largely endorses Chinese policy on the issue, even if small differences exist. One researcher said a PRC "transit corridor" permitting North Koreans to quietly traverse Chinese territor [...]
2008-01-18 00:38:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PINR GTIP KN KS CH
08SHENYANG122MEETING WITH LIAONING ENTRY EXIT BUREAU RE
[...] (SBU) On September 5, conoffs met with Liaoning Provincial Entry Exit Administration Bureau (EEB) officials to discuss the issues and information outlined in State 90800. Representing the EEB, which is a subset of the Public Security Division, were Ms. Du Juan, Bureau Chief, and Mr. Liang Qi [...]
2008-09-05 05:37:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KFRD PTER ASEC CVIS CH EC
08SHENYANG123POOR DPRK ATTENDANCE, SOME SHIPPING NEWS, AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Pyongyang's delegation to the Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Expo, held last week in Jilin Province, appeared smaller that last year's. North Korean diplomats at the expo privately praised China's grain harvest, with one claiming the DPRK's crop was also "good." In a keynote [...]
2008-09-09 23:51:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EWWT ENRG KN KS JA RS CH
08SHENYANG13PRC: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM A MIXED PICTURE IN YANBIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Religious freedom is enjoying modest improvement in a key ethnic minority enclave of Jilin Province, near the PRC-DPRK border. Christianity is making inroads among local Chinese, migrant workers, and North Korean border-crossers. "House churches," many with links to official chu [...]
2008-01-24 01:25:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALKIRF PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG134NORTHEAST CHINA: CORRUPTION SCANDALS SNARE JUDGES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Corruption scandals in northeast China over the past year have reached levels in seniority unseen for several years. Jilin Province quietly sacked ten of its High Court judges, but legal contacts say the Party prevented a thorough investigation. Attorneys report that judicial co [...]
2008-09-26 05:02:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHENYANG135NORTHEAST CHINA: CORRUPTION SCANDALS SNARE JUDGES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Corruption scandals in northeast China over the past year have reached levels in seniority unseen for several years. Jilin Province quietly sacked ten of its High Court judges, but legal contacts say the Party prevented a thorough investigation. Attorneys report that judicial co [...]
2008-09-26 05:02:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHENYANG136DALIAN PORT GROUP EXPANDS REACH THROUGHOUT
[...] (U) Summary. The "Five Points One Line" development plan, devised by former Liaoning Party Secretary and current Executive Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, is virtually co-extensive with the expansion of Dalian Port Group, which continues to broaden its reach throughout Northeast China (Ref A). In ad [...]
2008-09-26 05:06:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH ECON ETRD EWWT PGOV PREL
08SHENYANG138SUBJECT: CHINA,S SUCCOTASH SECURITY-PLENTY OF CORN
[...] (C) Summary. Jilin Grain, a key enterprise in China,s drive for grain security, sees continued price pressure in soy beans and oil. Jilin and other corporate entities in China are taking major steps to increase the amount of China-controlled soy plantation both in China and around the world. [...]
2008-09-29 06:44:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON PREL EIND EINT ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV
08SHENYANG14CHINA'S DPRK-BOUND FOOD AID, AG EXPORTS CONTINUE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Contrary to ROK press reports, PRC food aid and agricultural exports to the DPRK have not been suspended as a result of increased export tariffs on grain and other agricultural commodities imposed by Beijing in a bid to counter domestic inflation. New export regulations and a dro [...]
2008-01-24 02:15:00Consulate ShenyangSECRETPINR PGOV ECON ETRD EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG15BRILLIANCE EXPANDS FINANCIAL AND COMPONENT
[...] (C) Summary. Shenyang's Huachen Brilliance Automotive, which plans to enter the U.S. market later this year, has completed negotiations and regulatory steps to establish a joint-venture automotive-finance corporation with U.S.-based GE Money. The joint venture will begin operations in China [...]
2008-01-25 03:30:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EPIT EFIN PROV WTRO CH
08SHENYANG150PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...]
2008-11-04 05:29:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG151PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...]
2008-11-04 05:30:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG152PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...]
2008-11-04 05:30:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG16CASH FINANCING MAINTAINS HOUSING BOOM IN NORTHEAST
[...] (U) Summary. Similar to the early days of the boom in other parts of China, housing developers in Northeast China raise cash chiefly through high-return, advance purchase agreements without recourse to the banking system and are thus immune from tighter credit controls. The current glut o [...]
2008-01-25 03:30:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV CH
08SHENYANG169Labor Contract Law Slows Hiring and Investment in China's
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's Labor Contract Law has had an uneven impact on major foreign and domestic businesses in Northeast China. While many of the results are seen as beneficial to labor, the law has had some unintended consequences detrimental to workers interests. Both companies and their em [...]
2008-11-26 05:08:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV PREL HK CH
08SHENYANG173LIAONING'S ECONOMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT
[...] (C) Summary. Local leaders in three of the Liaoning Province's less well-off urban areas put a good front on this province's relative resiliency in the face of recession but privately conceded their worries. The most telling statistic is electricity demand, which was flat in October and dropp [...]
2008-12-03 03:09:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON EFIN ENRG PINR PREL
08SHENYANG185NORTH KOREA: RAJIN PORT FRICTIONS; CHINESE AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese commercial concerns have been focusing on the North Korean port of Chongjin since Pyongyang recently terminated a Chinese company's lease rights at the DPRK port of Rajin and awarded those privileges to a state-owned Russian firm. One Chinese scholar claims the move is fu [...]
2008-12-24 02:50:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EWWT KN KS CH
08SHENYANG189PRC-DPRK: CHINA'S COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1718
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Two years on, PRC compliance with the spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1718's luxury- goods provisions appears limited at best. Dandong and other border officials tell us privately that while they are implementing military-related provisions of UNSCR 1718, they are not en [...]
2008-12-30 23:51:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ETRD KN KS CH
08SHENYANG19SENIOR HEILONGJIANG OFFICIALS ON STABILITY-RELATED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Inflation is a pressing concern for senior Heilongjiang officials, who are implementing a full range of countermeasures not always made public in order to avoid a panic. Along with new export taxes, the policy of supplying grain and coal nationwide to cover excess domestic demand [...]
2008-02-13 02:58:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL ECON EIND ETRD CH KN RS
08SHENYANG3PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: YAO FUXIN ABUSE ALLEGATIONS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Health problems continue to beset imprisoned Liaoning labor activist Yao Fuxin, whose case has triggered high-level USG attention since his initial arrest in 2002. In a letter to his daughter he recently managed to have smuggled out of prison, Yao for the first time described sev [...]
2008-01-07 07:43:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINS SOCI CH
08SHENYANG30PRC/DPRK: IMPACT OF PRC EXPORT RESTRICTIONS;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: NEW PRC EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ARE DELAYING, IN SOME CASES BY MANY WEEKS, SHIPMENTS OF KEY CHINESE COMMODITIES TO NORTH KOREA VIA DANDONG. IN LIMITED CASES, BEIJING IS GRANTING TEMPORARY WAIVERS FOR PRC FIRMS WITH LARGE, PREEXISTING CONTRACTS IN THE DPRK. PYONGYANG IS DISPLEASED, [...]
2008-03-03 06:00:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV ECON ETRD KN KS CH
08SHENYANG36"SLAVE LABOR" SCANDAL HITS CHINA AGAIN: 33 FORCED
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Authorities in Heilongjiang Province announced yesterday that they discovered 33 migrant "slave laborers" held captive and coerced to work--some for as long as three years--in a suburb of the provincial capital. Initial reports claim the captors "systematically" targeted vulnerabl [...]
2008-03-20 10:14:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV ELAB GTIP KCRM ECON CH
08SHENYANG37NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PRC-DPRK BORDER TRADE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: New PRC export restrictions are complicating some PRC-DPRK trade and contractual relationships, according to more Chinese trade officials. North Korean businessmen have been sent abroad recently on grain "purchasing" missions, essentially requesting free "donations" in places like [...]
2008-03-21 02:10:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV ECON ETRD PREF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG38NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS: PRC OLYMPICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Two Chinese provincial governments hosting Olympics events this summer have enlisted Korea specialists to investigate potential contingencies involving North Korean border-crossers or activists that support them. Scholars in Liaoning and Shandong have told us they are keeping a cl [...]
2008-03-21 08:04:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH
08SHENYANG44NORTHEAST CHINA LEADERS TO WATCH (PT. 1): LIAONING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Northeast China is home to a number of promising, up-and-coming officials worth watching as they seek to prove their political mettle in "revitalizing" this strategic corner of the PRC. Communist Youth League lineages remain a common denominator in most, but not all, profilees. [...]
2008-04-07 00:30:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON CH
08SHENYANG45NORTHEAST CHINA LEADERS TO WATCH (PT. 2):
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Northeast China is home to a number of promising, up-and-coming officials worth watching as they seek to prove their political mettle in "revitalizing" this strategic corner of the PRC. Communist Youth League lineages remain a common denominator in most, but not all, profilees. [...]
2008-04-08 07:54:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON CH
08SHENYANG48MORE INTERNAL PRC RESEARCH ON NK BORDER-CROSSERS:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Northeast China is home to 10,000-20,000 North Koreans, according to the internal research of another one of the few Chinese specialists studying North Korean border-crosser issues for the PRC Government. PRC policy toward North Korean border-crossers shifted in 2002 in part beca [...]
2008-04-10 01:12:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PINR PGOV PREL PHUM KN KS CH
08SHENYANG51LIAONING AND SHENYANG PARTY CHIEFS ON GOVERNANCE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At a meeting with the Ambassador in Shenyang, Liaoning Province's new Party Secretary, Zhang Wenyue, explained that high-level attention from Beijing, a booming economy and growing revenue expansion are bankrolling Liaoning Province's efforts to address key social-stability issues [...]
2008-04-15 07:36:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PREF ECON KN CH
08SHENYANG56REPORTS OF MAJOR DROUGHT IN CHINA'S NORTHEAST ARE
[...] (C) Summary. Over the past six weeks, China's Xinhua News Agency has published numerous reports of serious drought in Northeast China, many of which were picked up by western wire services. Econoff,s queries about the drought during a series of trips around the region, however, met with res [...]
2008-04-25 06:03:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV
08SHENYANG67NORTH KOREA: PRICE WOES, SQUEEZED AID GROUPS, PRC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent returnees from Pyongyang, Sinuiju and Rason point to sharply surging food prices in the DPRK. North Korean laborers employed by one aid group in Rason have complained that food-inflation has eviscerated their purchasing power. Customs officials in Yanbian are strictly enfo [...]
2008-05-22 00:10:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG68DPRK FOOD TROUBLES AND PRC-DPRK RESPONSES: VIEWS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC-DPRK border contacts agree that the DPRK's food situation is more dire than in recent years, but remain divided on the question of severity, with some contending conditions are "not as extreme as being reported in the West." North Korean diplomats and other officials have ack [...]
2008-05-29 05:33:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG7PRC-DPRK: TRILATERAL RAILWAY HANG-UPS; MUSAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Unreported DPRK-related obstacles appear likely to delay the implementation of a late December PRC- DPRK-Russian agreement that aims to link the Greater Tumen region by railway; Chinese contacts are pessimistic that the new Tumen-Tumangang-Khasan cargo-transport corridor, even if [...]
2008-01-16 02:25:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH
08SHENYANG71PRC-DPRK: BORDER-CROSSERS, RELIGIOUS TROUBLES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC appears to have tightened internal security in the PRC-DPRK borderlands in recent months, though border-crossers continue to trickle into China. Border residents report increased official scrutiny of some religious activities. Yanji officials warned religious leaders that [...]
2008-05-30 06:56:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG76DPRK: RASON THROUGH THE EYES OF AN AID WORKER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Rason, in northeastern North Korea, is home to a variety of foreign-assistance ventures, involving everything from agriculture and animal husbandry to power generation, transportation and pharmaceuticals, according to a Westerner involved in several projects there, but tensions ha [...]
2008-06-13 00:20:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG84HAO YUE ISLAMIC BEEF REVAMPS DOMESTIC STRATEGY TO
[...] Summary. Hao Yue Islamic Beef Company (one of the largest beef companies in China) has changed its sales strategy in order to control retail prices and take advantage of beef's increasing importance in the Chinese diet. While Hao Yue previously serviced the domestic market by selling to who [...]
2008-06-24 00:54:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EAGR CH
08SINGAPORE1191PRESIDENT'S ASEAN 7 MEETING A "LEADING INDICATOR"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Singapore MFA's outgoing Deputy Director for ASEAN Wong Chow Ming highlighted for us November 4 the importance of senior U.S. engagement with ASEAN. U.S. regard for ASEAN confers prestige that helps the organization maintain a central role in the region's institutional architect [...]
2008-11-07 10:12:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALBM ETRD IN PREL SN ASEAN CH APEC PE
08SINGAPORE1337STAFFDEL LUSE HEARS MFA'S VIEW OF ASIAN CHALLENGES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Singapore MFA Second Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan urged continued strong U.S. engagement in East Asia during a wide-ranging conversation with Staffdel Luse and the DCM on December 5. He urged the United States to focus on reviving its own economic growth while using to [...]
2008-12-23 04:18:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPREL SN CH KN PK
08SINGAPORE144SINGAPORE MEDIA CELEBRATE CORRESPONDENT'S RELEASE
[...] (SBU) Singapore media featured prominently China's decision to parole the Singapore Straits Times' chief China correspondent Ching Cheong February 5 (reftel). Coverage included photos of Ching's joyful reunion with his family in Hong Kong after China's surprise decision to release him just be [...]
2008-02-06 10:10:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV HK SN CH
08SINGAPORE197INTERNATIONAL NOTIFICATION OF U.S. SATELLITE
[...] (C/NF) The Ambassador took advantage of an opportunity on the margins of a separate meeting on February 21 to deliver to MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho the notification on U.S. satellite engagement contained in para 4 of reftel. Ho expressed appreciation for the information and asked if the [...]
2008-02-21 09:58:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM KTIA TSPA SN CH
08SINGAPORE618MANAGE CHINA'S RISE CAREFULLY, FM YEO TELLS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo told Senator Joseph Lieberman May 30 that strong U.S. engagement in the Asia-Pacific was essential to managing China's peaceful rise. Absent a strong U.S. presence, China's near neighbors might fear its expansionism. In Southeast Asia, coun [...]
2008-06-02 07:02:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR OVIP CH JA SN KN
08SINGAPORE647U.S. NEEDS "COUNTER-STRATEGY" FOR CHINA'S
[...] (C) Summary: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew discussed regional stability in the face of China's economic, political, and military rise with Senator Joseph Lieberman, joined by the Ambassador, May 30. Lee called on the United States to develop a "counter-strategy" to respond to China's growing [...]
2008-06-06 09:18:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR OVIP CH IZ RS SN
08STATE100914DEMARCHE PRIOR TO POSSIBLE VISIT BY PAKISTAN
[...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Beijing. See requested action in Para 3. 2. (C) Background: China shares our concern about instability in Pakistan and has requested closer coordination with the United States on Pakistan. China has significant interests in Pakistan and provided s [...]
2008-09-22 13:13:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALCH EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PK PREL PTER
08STATE101860HONG KONG'S JETPOWER SUPPLYING VARIETY OF METALS
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: The USG has information indicating that the Hong Kong firm Jetpower Industrial Ltd. has been working to supply Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries (HESA) with a variety of metals, including 7000 series and 2000 serie [...]
2008-09-23 23:59:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC IR CH HK
08STATE104207UPDATE ON IRAN SPECIFIC EXPORT CONTROL OUTREACH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: On May 15, Washington provided all Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Participating Governments (PGs) with detailed information regarding critical commodities Iran will require to [...]
2008-09-30 15:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM IR MNUC UK GM FR BE IT SZ CH JP
08STATE104496DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
[...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------ 2. (SBU) The United States designated the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and 18 subsidiaries under E.O. 13382 ("Blocking the Property of Weapons of Mass De [...]
2008-09-30 20:49:00Secretary of StateSECRETAG AS AJ BE CH CY EG RE GM IN IR IT JA LY MY MT
08STATE105132MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): CHINA'S RECORD ON CONTROLLING MISSILE-RELATED EXPORTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-01 22:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS CH
08STATE105997CHINESE ENTITY CONTINUES EFFORTS TO SUPPLY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: In July 2008, the U.S. shared with China information indicating that the Chinese firm Polytechnologies Inc. had concluded contracts in February 2008 to supply a fiber coil winding machine and integ [...]
2008-10-03 15:55:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
08STATE10690ADDRESSING PROTECTION CONCERNS OF UIGHUR ASYLUM
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs three and four. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Department requests the Embassy ask the Government of United Arab Emirates (UAEG) not to return Chinese Uighur Muslim Abduhalik Nazar to China without appropriate consideration of h [...]
2008-02-01 20:54:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH KIRF KISL PHUM PREF PREL
08STATE10746CHINESE COMPANY OFFERING TO SELL TAIWAN-ORIGIN
[...] This is an action request. AIT Taipei, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background and Purpose: In light of our extensive cooperation with Taiwan under the export control "Gameplan," we want to alert Taiwan authorities to efforts by a Chinese firm to transfer Taiwan-origin machine tools [...]
2008-02-01 22:24:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL TW CH
08STATE107520(S) EFFORTS BY NORTH KOREA TO PROCURE CONTROLLED
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Bern, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: On several occasions, we have raised with Swiss officials exports of machine tools by the Swiss firm Schaublin Machines that posed potential proliferation concerns (Reftels). In response, Swiss autho [...]
2008-10-07 21:07:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC SZ CH KN
08STATE108236RUSSIAN FIRM SELLING INTEGRATED OPTICAL CHIPS AND
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Moscow, please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: The United States Government has information indicating that since at least early 2007, the Russian firm Optolink facilitated the sale of integrated optical chips (IOCs) to the Advanced [...]
2008-10-09 13:09:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC RS PK CH
08STATE109118RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS OF SEMICONDUCTOR EXPORT
[...] (U) This cable provides answers to the questions posed by Taiwan in reftel concerning the licensing of dual-use semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) for use in China. AIT is requested to provide the following answers to the questions posed by Taiwan. 2. (U) Would the USG have any o [...]
2008-10-10 19:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON ETRD ETTC KSTC PARM PREL TW
08STATE111597FOLLOWING UP WITH THE PRC ON LIMMT'S CONTINUED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 16:49:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08STATE112219(C) IRAN, NORTH KOREA, AND SYRIA NONPROLIFERATION
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (S) Action Request: The United States will announce in the Federal Register on Wednesday, October 22 the imposition of sanctions under the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA). Thirteen entities in eight countries will be included. T [...]
2008-10-21 21:06:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC CH IR
08STATE113768CHINESE FIRMS CONCLUDE CONTRACT TO SUPPLY A WIND
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The U.S. has information that in December 2007, the China Precision Machinery Import/Export Corporation (CPMIEC) and China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA) concluded a contract to supply t [...]
2008-10-24 19:28:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
08STATE114820DEMARCHE REQUEST: CHINESE LAUNCH OF VENEZUELAN
[...] (U) This is an action message, please see paragraph 6 below. 2. (SBU) Venezuela is planning to operate a satellite that may create significant interference problems for two U.S.-licensed satellite operators, SES Americom and Intelsat. The satellite, known both as Venesat-1 and Simon Boliva [...]
2008-10-28 19:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL TSPA KSCA CH
08STATE116100AUTHORIZATION FOR P-1 NORTH KOREAN REFERREAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 22:26:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH KN KS PREF PREL
08STATE116304U.S. AND EU DISCUSS DEVELOPMENTS IN EAST ASIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. and EU officials held their biannual discussions on East Asia (termed COASI, or Consultations on Asia) in Washington on October 3. In addition to a general review of developments in the region, this session included an exchange of views on the future of India, China, and ASEA [...]
2008-10-31 14:10:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EU XB NK CH
08STATE116428NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT): BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of the UN General Assembly,s First Committee meeting in New York, ISN/MNSA Director Marguerita Ragsdale, joined by Deputy Director Scott Davis, held informal bilaterals on Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) issues October 13-15 with Australia, Brazil, Canada, [...]
2008-10-31 15:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALAORC AS BR CA CH EG ENRG FR ID JA KNNP MNUC NZ
08STATE117570CHINA-PAKISTAN CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 12-13. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S/NF) Following the return of Pakistani President Zardari from China, FM Sheh Mahmood Quereshi was quoted in the media announcing new civil nuclear cooperation with China to build two additional nuclea [...]
2008-11-04 22:39:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL PGOV PTER PK EAID ECON EFIN CH ETTC AORC
08STATE118099CHINA'S LIMMT PREPARING POSSIBLE IMMINENT DELIVERY OF GYROSCOPES AND ACCELEROMETERS TO BEIJING-BASED MODAFL REP FOR USE BY IRANIAN MISSILE ENTITY (S)
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-05 21:00:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08STATE119671DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CHINA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified in paragraph 2 below. The individuals listed below are candidates to attend the ILEA Bangkok Tactical Safety and Pla [...]
2008-11-10 19:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM PTER PREL MARR SNAR HK CH TH
08STATE120864WARNING CHINA ON HARASSMENT OF U.S. NAVY VESSELS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (U) Background: Over the past 18 months, the frequency of China's verbal warnings, vessel-shadowing by multiple platforms simultaneously, unprofessional seamanship, and unsafe maneuvering have increased the risk of miscalculation in inte [...]
2008-11-14 00:24:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALCH KTIA MOPS PBTS PHSA PREL
08STATE12119SAUDIS SKEPTICAL ABOUT SUDANESE INTERFERENCE IN
[...] (S) Charge d'Affaires Gfoeller met with Prince Dr. Turki bin Mohammed, Undersecretary for Political Affairs at the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 4 and presented demarche points per REFTEL. The CDA also presented a letter of condolence to the Ministry following the de [...]
2008-02-05 14:54:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU SA CH
08STATE121386TRAVEL WARNING ? CHAD
[...] The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of traveling to Chad and recommends that American citizens not affiliated with humanitarian relief efforts avoid all travel to eastern Chad and the Chad/Central African Republic border area due to insecurity caused by banditry and clashes [...]
2008-11-14 21:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC PTER ASEC CH
08STATE126045COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: A/S HILL AND
[...] Department requests country clearance for EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill and his delegation, listed in para 3, to travel to Tokyo and Singapore from December 2-6 for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks. Department thanks posts for assistance. 2. Please arrange accomm [...]
2008-11-28 21:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC CH JA KN RS SN KS
08STATE126248FOLLOW-UP ON ATTEMPTS BY NORTH KOREA'S KOMID TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (S) Background and Action Request: In September 2008, we advised the GOJ that in July 2008, North Korea's primary weapons trading firm, Korea Mining Development Corporation (KOMID),was working with the Chinese comp [...]
2008-12-01 15:10:00Secretary of StateSECRETBM CH ETTC JA KACT KN KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL
08STATE1264SECOND DEMARCHE FOR CHINA REGARDING CHINA'S JANUARY 2007 ANTI-SATELLITE TEST
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-06 19:32:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR CH
08STATE1265REQUEST TO ALLIES FOR NEW DEMARCHE TO CHINA REGARDING CHINA'S JANUARY 2007 ANTI-SATELLITE TEST
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-06 19:49:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR CH
08STATE126516FOLLOW-UP ON COOPERATION BETWEEN UKRAINIAN FIRM
[...] This is an action request. Embassy Kyiv, please see paragraph 2. 2. (S) Background and Action Request: Since November 2007, the U.S. has alerted the Government of Ukraine (GOU) to cooperation between the Ukrainian firm Arsenal Design Bureau and entities associated with China's Sanjiang S [...]
2008-12-01 21:30:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC UP CH
08STATE128796DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CHINA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - POST
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified in paragraph 2 below. The individuals from the Tianjin and Hubei public security bureaus listed below are candidates [...]
2008-12-08 15:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM PTER PREL MARR SNAR HK CH TH
08STATE130444CORRECTED COPY - KIRIBATI: RESETTLEMENT OF UIGHUR DETAINEES
[...] (S) In November 2008, pursuant to instructions from the Department, Post initiated discussions with the Government of Kiribati (GoK) regarding the possible resettlement in Kiribati of up to 17 Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). GoK President Tong indicated a willingness to discuss th [...]
2008-12-11 22:13:00Secretary of StateSECRETPTER PREL PHUM PINS TN KR AS NZ CH
08STATE133202(U) SIXTH SENIOR DIALOGUE THIRD SESSION:
[...] (U) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Clark T. Randt A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Acting A/S Patricia A. McNerney, ISN David Gordon, Director of Policy Planning S/P John J. Norris, EAP DAS David Sindey, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia Justin Higgins [...]
2008-12-20 01:41:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH
08STATE14066(S) ADVISING THE PRC OF LIMMT'S CONTINUED
[...] This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: Since February 2006, we have repeatedly discussed with China our concerns regarding the proliferation-related trading activities of the Chinese firm Dalian Sunny Industries, which is also [...]
2008-02-11 18:41:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08STATE1522U.S.-JAPAN-KOREA POLICY PLANNING TALKS - WORKING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable reports on the working lunch and afternoon session of the U.S.-Japan-Korea policy planning trilateral held on December 17 (see reftel for reporting on the welcome dinner and morning session). At the lunch, S/P Director David Gordon, Japanese Deputy Vice Minister for [...]
2008-01-07 17:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH EAID JA KS PGOV PREL
08STATE16171COUNTRY 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, Seoul, and Tokyo from February 18-21 for discussions with officials in each capital in advance of Secretary Rice's upcoming visit, includi [...]
2008-02-15 23:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08STATE17302COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: EAP/K DPRK UNIT CHIEF
[...] Department requests country clearance for Office of Korean Affairs DPRK Unit Chief Yuri Kim to travel to Beijing en route to Pyongyang to support the New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea February 25-27. Ms. Kim will then travel to Seoul for consultations. Ms. Kim will arrive Beijing [...]
2008-02-20 22:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH
08STATE18373DEMARCHE REQUEST: WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS
[...] This is an urgent action request. See paragraph 7 below. (Because of time constraints, we are unable to provide translations.) Summary ------- 2. The WTO Doha Round is moving into a critical stage of detailed negotiations across all elements of the single undertaking. As services i [...]
2008-02-24 22:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO CH
08STATE20266COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: EAP/K SUNG KIM, NSC
[...] Department requests country clearance for Office of Korean Affairs Director Sung Kim and NSC Asia Director of Chinese Affairs Paul Haenle to travel to Beijing for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks from February 29 - March 2. 2. Department requests that Embassy Beijing arrange ac [...]
2008-02-28 15:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08STATE22047UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' FEBRUARY 25 MEETING WITH
[...] (S) Summary. Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister (AFM) He Yafei and Under Secretary Burns met February 25 immediately prior to the P5 1 Political Directors, meeting on Iran. AFM He highlighted U.S.-Chinese agreement on the strategic importance of diplomatic approaches to North Korea and Iran. [...]
2008-03-04 17:27:00Secretary of StateSECRETBM CH ECON ENRG IR PGOV PREL XD
08STATE2736DEMARCHE REQUESTS TO FOLLOW UP UNAMID DEPLOYMENT
[...] PURPOSE: The Department asks posts to demarche host governments at the highest appropriate level to follow up deployment issues concerning the deployment of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) pursuant to reftel (NOTAL). Posts may draw upon the following themes in th [...]
2008-01-10 00:33:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV UNSC SU CH
08STATE27996(S) INFORMATION ON SHIPMENT OF PROLIFERATION
[...] (S/NF) Washington has information to share with Chinese authorities regarding a shipment of proliferation concern that originated in China and was seized in Dubai while en route to Iran. The cargo was seizes in November 2007 and was being transported on the &M/V Seventh Ocean8. Additionally, [...]
2008-03-18 12:59:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PARM AE CH IR
08STATE29096IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FINANCIAL PROVISIONS OF UNSCR 1803
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ---------------------- 2. (U) On March 3, 2008, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1803, imposing further Chapter VII sanctions on Iran in response to its failure to comply [...]
2008-03-20 14:42:00Secretary of StateSECRETAS AU BA BR CA CH ECON EFIN EG ETRD EUN FR GM GR
08STATE30297SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDANCE FOR USG PERSONNEL IN THE
[...] (U) This cable provides supplemental guidance for U.S. contractors traveling to and/or assuming temporary duty (TDY) in the DPRK for the purpose of implementing denuclearization measures pursuant to Six-Party and other related agreements (''Contractors''). This guidance supplements guidance p [...]
2008-03-24 17:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP MNUC AMGT AMED KN CH
08STATE30504APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 28-29
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold an informal meeting (GYMNICH) in Ljubljana on March 28-29. We expect the agenda to include: Western Balkans (Serbia/Kosovo),Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Lebanon-Syria, China/Tibet, and [...]
2008-03-25 01:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM EUN ZL IS SY LE RS CH
08STATE32719(S) RESPONSE TO GERMAN INQUIRY ON U.S. LICENSING
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) BACKGROUND: Per Reftel, German authorities are considering the export to China of technology used to produce carbon fiber and have requested information on USG licensing practices for such a transfer. In particular, the FRG ask [...]
2008-03-31 13:21:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH ETTC GM KNNP KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL
08STATE35440COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: A/S HILL TO SINGAPORE,
[...] Department requests country clearance for EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill and his delegation, listed in SIPDIS para 3, to travel to Singapore and Beijing from April 7-9 for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks. Department thanks post for all assistance. 2. FOR EMBA [...]
2008-04-04 22:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08STATE35673CHINESE FIRM SUPPLYING MISSILE-RELATED MATERIALS
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: The USG has information indicating that the China-based firm Shenyang Huali Economic Trading Company recently supplied to Syria consignments of steel, as well as vibration test equipment controlled by the Missile Techn [...]
2008-04-07 14:06:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH KN
08STATE35977(S) SHIELD S05-08: IMMINENT TRANSFER OF CW
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Background: The U.S. has information that a shipment of 1000 metric tons of the CW precursor chemical sodium sulfide (also spelled sulphide) from China to Iran is imminent. Specifically, the Chinese company China Northern Ch [...]
2008-04-07 20:26:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
08STATE37260M/V IRAN TEYFOURI: FOLLOWING UP ON SHIPMENTS OF
[...] (S) ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to follow-up on an April 8 National Security Council meeting with Chinese DCM Xie Feng to provide additional information on the January voyage of the M/V Iran Teyfouri, press China to reconsider its decision on the proposed visit of a State experts team t [...]
2008-04-09 23:52:00Secretary of StateSECRETKNNP PARM PREL MNUC CH IR
08STATE39100REQUEST FOR FOLLOW-UP WITH CHINESE AUTHORITIES ON
[...] This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 2. 2. (S) Action Request: In June 2007, the USG provided information (ref A) to the PRC concerning a shipment by the China branch of Taiwan's Yuan Sheng Aluminum Manufacturing Corporation of 7075-T651 aluminum plates to Ir [...]
2008-04-14 20:55:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL CH IR TC
08STATE39690(S) CONTINUED ASSISTANCE TO IRAN'S MISSILE
[...] This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: Since November 2006, we have discussed with PRC authorities extensive cooperation between the Chinese company Shanghai Technical By-Products International Corporation (STBPI) and Iran's bal [...]
2008-04-15 21:48:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08STATE41405COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: APRIL 21-25 TO SEOUL,
[...] Department requests country clearance for Office of Korean Affairs Director Sung Kim and delegation members listed in para 3 to travel to Seoul en route to Pyongyang for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks from April 21-25. Travelers will arrive Seoul April 21, travel to Pyongyang ov [...]
2008-04-18 23:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08STATE43018USN ACTIVITIES IN CHINA'S EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph eight. 2. (U) Background: China objects to military surveys in its EEZ, and has on occasion challenged or interfered with U.S. Navy ships conducting military surveys within China's claimed EEZ. The U.S. has on several occasions objected [...]
2008-04-23 19:31:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH KTIA MOPS PBTS PHSA PREL
08STATE43742APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE APRIL 28-29
[...] (U) Classified by William Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 16. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on April 28-29. [...]
2008-04-24 21:16:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EUN ZL PK ZI IR IZ IS SY LE CH
08STATE44906SHIPMENT OF NORTH KOREAN PARTS WITH MISSILE
[...] (S) ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to approach Chinese officials at an appropriate level regarding a cargo of North Korean electronic relays possibly trans-shipping through Chinese ports en route to Syria. Post may draw from objectives, background, and non-paper below as appropriate. - [...]
2008-04-29 00:56:00Secretary of StateSECRETKNNP PARM PREL MNUC CH KN SY
08STATE45483TRAVEL WARNING - CHAD
[...] This Travel Warning is updated to note that the Department of State has authorized the return of U.S. Embassy non-emergency personnel and adult family members to Chad. The Department of State continues to urge American citizens to defer travel to Chad and for American citizens in Chad to exer [...]
2008-04-30 01:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC PTER ASEC CH
08STATE50507ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON CHINESE ENTITIES THAT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 2. 2. (S) On several occasions since March 2006, the U.S. has discussed with Chinese authorities attempts by Pakistan's missile program to procure ring-rolling and flow forming machines from entities in China (Reftels). [...]
2008-05-13 15:04:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH PK
08STATE52694DEMARCHE REQUEST TO SECURE CHINESE SUPPORT FOR UN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) On May 16, 2008, USUN will submit a request to add the names of four operatives of Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) to the Committee's list of individuals and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, [...]
2008-05-16 22:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
08STATE53081EFFORTS TO EVADE TAIWAN'S EXPORT CONTROL
[...] This is an action request. AIT Taipei, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: In light of our extensive cooperation with Taiwan under the export control "Gameplan," we want to alert Taiwan authorities to efforts by Johann Mair to circumvent Taiwan's export controls. Specifically, in [...]
2008-05-19 16:32:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL TW CH IR
08STATE54231US-CHINA DISCUSSIONS ON COOPERATION IN ASIAN REGIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 1 in Washington, China MFA Asia Department Deputy Director-General (DDG) Yang Yanyi participated in broad-ranging discussions with U.S. officials on U.S.-China cooperation in Asian regional organizations. China sees the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) as useful, particularly i [...]
2008-05-21 15:31:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL CH ASEAN ARF APEC XB
08STATE57067MACHINE TOOL PROCUREMENT EFFORTS BY ENTITIES OF
[...] This is an action request. AIT Taipei, please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Background: On several occasions since February 2005, the U.S. has shared information with Taiwan regarding export activities of proliferation concern by the Taiwan-based firm She Hong Industrial Co. Ltd - also known [...]
2008-05-28 20:08:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL TW CH
08STATE57679NASA LETTER TO CNSA ON POTENTIAL SPACE AND EARTH
[...] (SBU) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 3 BELOW. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND A. FOLLOWING HIS VISIT TO THE PEOPLE,S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC) IN SEPTEMBER 2006, THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) ADVISED THE PRESIDENT OF NASA,S DESIRE TO ESTA [...]
2008-05-29 21:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA TPHY TSPA TSPL CH
08STATE60290COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: SIX-PARTY ECONOMY AND
[...] Department requests country clearance for the following U.S. government officials participating in the Six-Party Talks Economy and Energy Working Group meeting in Seoul and Panmunjom June 10 and 11 respectively. Traveler information is listed in para 2. Please designate a control officer and a [...]
2008-06-04 23:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG OTRA AMGT KNNP MNUC PREL KN KS CH JA RS
08STATE63929IRANIAN DECEPTIVE FINANCIAL PRACTICES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------ 2. (S) We have information about Iranian deceptive financial practices that may be occurring in addressees' jurisdictions. We want to alert host governments and urge them to [...]
2008-06-13 14:35:00Secretary of StateSECRETECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR UK CH SK HK
08STATE63960ACTION REQUEST:P5+1 REFRESHED PACKAGE FOR IRAN
[...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 2. 2. (SBU) ACTION: In advance of Javier Solana,s planned June 14 trip to Iran to present the updated P5 1 incentives package, action posts should immediately brief senior host government officials drawing upon the talking points in paragr [...]
2008-06-13 15:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR PREL UNSC KNNP PARM FR UK CH RS BA KU MO JO TS
08STATE64254(S) FOLLOWING-UP WITH THE PRC ON ITS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: Since February 2006, we have repeatedly discussed with China our concerns regarding the proliferation-related trading activities of the Chinese firm Dalian Sunny Industries, which is a [...]
2008-06-13 22:04:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL ETTC CH IR
08STATE67989NOTIFICATION REGARDING NASA-CNSA CIVIL SPACE
[...] 1. (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See paragraph 3 below. 2. BACKGROUND: A. (S) On January 6, 2008, the State Department instructed nine posts to deliver Washington's request to allied host governments for their continued assistance in applying diplomatic pressure on China concerning the [...]
2008-06-24 23:37:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH KSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL
08STATE69339IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IRISL CARGO INSPECTION
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ---------------------- 2. (U) On March 3, 2008, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1803, which imposed further Chapter VII sanctions on Iran in response to its failure to c [...]
2008-06-27 15:56:00Secretary of StateSECRETAG AS AJ BE CH CY EG FR GM IN IR IT JA LY MY MT
08STATE71613CHINESE ENTITY TO SUPPLY PAKISTAN WITH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: We have information indicating that as of February 2008, the Chinese firm Polytechnologies Inc. concluded contracts to supply a fiber coil winding machine and integrated optical chips to Pakistan's [...]
2008-07-03 13:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
08STATE72026REQUEST TO INVESTIGATE SHIPMENT DESTINED FOR
[...] (S) ACTION REQUEST: Washington has information that a Chinese company with a history of procuring commodities of concern for Iran,s Ministry of Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) is preparing a shipment destined for Iran,s Defense Industries Organization (DIO) in possible contravention of United [...]
2008-07-03 22:14:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH IR PARM PREL
08STATE79112(S) FLIGHT OF PROLIFERATION CONCERN BETWEEN DPRK
[...] (S) Posts are requested to approach appropriate-level host nation officials regarding a planned North Korean flight to Iran of proliferation concern and encourage them to deny overflight for the aircraft or require that it land and be subjected to inspection before proceeding. Posts may draw [...]
2008-07-23 15:00:00Secretary of StateSECRETMNUC PARM PREL AF CH KG KZ TI TX UZ
08STATE79520ISN ACTING A/S MCNERNEY'S MEETING WITH PLA LTG
[...] (S) In the first-ever meeting between the International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) bureau and the People,s Liberation Army (PLA) Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, ISN Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia McNerney met with Lieutenant General Zhang Qinsheng on July 14. Discus [...]
2008-07-23 21:20:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH KNNP MCAP PREL
08STATE80081(S) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON DPRK-IRAN FLIGHT
[...] (S) Posts are requested to approach appropriate-level host nation officials regarding additional information vis-a-vis a chartered North Korean passenger flight to Iran (REF A). It has come to our attention that a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting is scheduled to be held in Iran on 27-30 Jul [...]
2008-07-24 21:53:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL MNUC AF CH KG KZ TI TX UZ
08STATE83144EFFORTS TO HALT IRANIAN PROCUREMENT IN CHINA
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------------------- SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------- 2. (S//NF) Washington is currently initiating a more focused strategy to prevent shipments of commodities of concern to Iran. We are approaching countries and asking them to inf [...]
2008-08-01 19:52:00Secretary of StateSECRETECON KNNP PARM PTER IR CH PINR
08STATE8769COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: EAP/K SUNG KIM AND NSC
[...] 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 and Beijing en route to Pyongyang for consultations related to the Six-Party Talks from January 29 - February 3. Travelers will arrive Se [...]
2008-01-29 00:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH
08STATE90303CONCERNS REGARDING DELIVERY OF SHIPS TO IRISL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) We have information that Iran's Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) expected to receive three new vessels from China in July and August and one in September. We also have information tha [...]
2008-08-21 21:07:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL KNNP EFIN PINR KS CH
08STATE91989(S) CANCELLATION OF DPRK-IRAN FLIGHT: THANKING
[...] (S//REL Recipients) SUMMARY: On 23 July, we informed Central Asian states of a possible flight of proliferation concern transiting Central Asian airspace en route from North Korea to Iran. Because similar flights in the past have transported personnel and items of proliferation concern, we [...]
2008-08-27 12:37:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL MNUC AF CH KG KZ TI TX UZ
08STATE92568FOLLOWING-UP WITH CHINA ON EFFORTS BY PAKISTAN'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background and Purpose/Objective: On many occasions since March 2006, U.S. has provided Chinese officials with information regarding attempts by Pakistan's missile program to procure ring-rolling and flow form [...]
2008-08-28 16:28:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
08STATE93558(S) SHIPMENT OF CHINESE ORIGIN GOODS DESTINED FOR IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-02 13:20:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL IR CH UK AS
08STATE98684CHINA CIVAIR: UPS REQUESTS USG ADVOCACY
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: As Post is aware, U.S. cargo carriers continue to experience difficulties getting their operating schedules approved by the General Administration of Civil Aviation in China (CAAC). Recently, the CAAC informed UPS that its 20 [...]
2008-09-15 21:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH EAIR KTIA
08STATE98969SOLICITING SUPPORT TO PUSH CHINA ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------ 2. (S) Singapore is one of the busiest transshipment points for trade between China and Iran. As such, and as a friend and partner of the United States, it is a key player in comb [...]
2008-09-16 16:48:00Secretary of StateSECRETECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR UK CH SK HK PINR
08STATE98975URGING COALITION ALLIES TO APPROACH BEIJING ON CHINESE PROLIFERATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-16 16:57:00Secretary of StateSECRETECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR UK CH SK HK
08STATE99000SOLICITING ALLIES, SUPPORT TO ENGAGE CHINA ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-16 17:47:00Secretary of StateSECRETECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR UK CH SK HK PINR
08SUVA143FIJI POLICE ARREST TIBET PROTESTERS
[...] (U) Fiji police arrested 17 NGO human rights activists who took part in a silent protest across the street from the Chinese embassy in Suva April 10. No charges have been laid. Several NGOs have questioned police grounds for breaking up a peaceful demonstration. The Chinese Embassy condemned [...]
2008-04-15 02:55:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL FJ CH
08SUVA274PRC AID TO FIJI - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION
[...] (C) PRC aid to the Interim Government (IG) is set to increase sharply in the next few years as Fiji begins to tap into the US$375 million soft loan package for the Pacific that PRC Premier Wen announced in Nadi two years ago. PRC Embassy officials insist, however, that reports of increased a [...]
2008-07-08 21:33:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL PGOV MARR FJ CH TW
08TAIPEI1010TAIWAN OVERVIEW OF CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC AGENDA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In recent meetings with AIT ECON staff, Taiwan authorities responsible for cross-Strait economic issues have outlined a wide-ranging program that includes expansion of cross-Strait passenger charter flights, establishing cargo and shipping links, and unilateral Taiwan measures to [...]
2008-07-10 08:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL TW CH
08TAIPEI1034FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN ON DOMESTIC
[...] (C) Summary: Former President Chen Shui-bian told the Director on July 10 that DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen has been doing a good job so far, adding that he has been working behind the scenes to support her. However, Chen expressed concern that some party heavyweights, sensing possible openi [...]
2008-07-14 10:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH JA TW
08TAIPEI1038KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON DOMESTIC POLITICS,
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung, accompanied by Vice Chairman John Kuan and former TECRO Representative Stephen Chen, told the Director on July 14 that it is impossible for President Ma Ying-jeou to stay on the "second line" in the Taiwan political environment. In the fall-out over t [...]
2008-07-15 10:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR CH TW
08TAIPEI1091EAP/CM DIRECTOR JOHN NORRIS'S MEETINGS WITH NSC
[...] (C) Summary: During separate meetings on July 15 with NSC Secretary General Su Chi and Foreign Minister Francisco Ou, EAP/CM Director John Norris welcomed recent cross-Strait progress and noted U.S. efforts urging Beijing to take a constructive and flexible approach toward cross-Strait relati [...]
2008-07-24 05:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI1094KMT MAINLAND AFFAIRS DIRECTOR CHANG JUNG-KUNG
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Deputy Secretary-General Director Chang Jung-kung told a visiting INR analyst and AIT on July 17 that cross-Strait relations have made significant progress with the start of weekend charter flights on July 4 and the opening of those flights to mainland Chinese tourists on Jul [...]
2008-07-24 11:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI1147HONORARY KMT CHAIRMAN LIEN CHAN ON CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary: Honorary KMT Chairman Lien Chan told the Director on August 4 that he will meet with Taiwan Affairs Office Director Wang Yi in Beijing on August 5, the first day of his trip to China to attend the Olympic opening ceremony on August 8. Lien stressed the importance of U.S. support [...]
2008-08-05 10:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI119DPP CANDIDATE FRANK HSIEH ON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on January 23, DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh described cross-party efforts to resolve the UN referendum issue, an issue that is controversial for both the DPP and KMT. The KMT is talking to President Chen about its ideas for a possible com [...]
2008-01-24 11:26:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1270REPRESENTATIVE ENGEL MEETS TAIWAN OFFICIALS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) discussed U.S.-Taiwan relations, cross-Strait relations, and Taiwan's foreign policy in separate meetings on August 19-20 with Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairperson Lai Hsin-yuan, Straits Exchan [...]
2008-08-26 02:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH ECON MARR PGOV PREL TW
08TAIPEI1292KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG DISCUSSES INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Acting Director on August 27, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung discussed his recent meetings in Beijing with PRC President Hu Jintao, Central Standing Committee member Jia Qinglin, and Taiwan Affairs Office Director Wang Yi. PRC leaders raised concerns about Taiw [...]
2008-08-28 10:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1324FORMER FM ON TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL SPACE AND
[...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou had erred in not using party channels to engage Beijing directly on international space issues and help China better understand his proposed "diplomatic truce," Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (Taiwan's Foreign Minister from 1997-2000 and TECRO Washington chief repr [...]
2008-09-05 08:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1348KAOHSIUNG TRAVEL AGENTS CONTEND CHINA EXERTING CONTROL OVER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Before the inauguration of weekend direct flights on July 4, there was a steady flow of Mainland tour groups traveling to Taiwan via a stop-over in a third-country. However, Kaohsiung travel agents reported to AIT/K that in negotiations with Mainland China to establish weekend d [...]
2008-09-11 09:09:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIS PHSA PGOV CH TW
08TAIPEI1373FOREIGN MINISTER OU ON UN EFFORT, DIPLOMATIC
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Ou told the Director on September 18 that the failure of Taiwan's UN proposal the day before was expected. Both Taiwan and the PRC made an effort to downplay the issue, and although the PRC reaction was "a little tough," PermRep Wang Guangya's UN statement also [...]
2008-09-18 10:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PM PA NU GT DR CH TW
08TAIPEI1384PRC ASYLUM SEEKERS IN TAIWAN TREATED ADEQUATELY
[...] (C) Summary: The Taiwan authorities provide haven (in theory temporary but in practice indefinite) and modest subsistence to PRC asylum seekers they determine are bona fide political dissidents who would face persecution if repatriated. Without a refugee law, the government here says it cann [...]
2008-09-19 09:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1400TAIWAN'S PACIFIC ALLIES SECURE FOR NOW, BUT PRC
[...] (C) Summary: While its diplomatic ties to six Pacific island states appear stable for the moment, Taiwan's efforts to expand its dialogue with the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) illustrate the problems it faces in implementing President Ma Ying-jeou's "diplomatic truce" with the PRC and his call [...]
2008-09-25 01:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID TW CH
08TAIPEI1407USCC MEETING WITH TAIWAN PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's key short-term goals in its relations with the United States are securing the approval of the pending package of weapons systems, obtaining public U.S. support for Taiwan's proposal on meaningful participation in UN specialized agencies and strengthening of bilateral co [...]
2008-09-25 07:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR MCAP TW US CH
08TAIPEI1408USCC DELEGATION DISCUSSES U.S.-TAIWAN AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Members of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) met August 22 with key members of President Ma Ying-jeou's administration and the head of the island's main opposition party to review the status of U.S. relations with Taiwan and assess the evolving cross- [...]
2008-09-25 07:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MCAP MARR CH TW
08TAIPEI1434TAIWAN-PARAGUAY TIES APPEAR STABLE, BUT UNDERSCORE
[...] (C) Summary: While the facts are murky, indications and perception in Taiwan are that the PRC has thus far discouraged Paraguay's efforts to establish diplomatic ties with China in the interest of reducing cross-Strait tensions. More clear is that Paraguay is dissatisfied with strings curren [...]
2008-10-03 08:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW CH
08TAIPEI1464LOOKING TO BOUNCE BACK, DPP DE-EMPHASIZES
[...] (C) Summary. Since the start of 2008, Taiwan,s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been humiliated in legislative and presidential elections and wracked by a scandal that threatens to end in money laundering charges against its former party leader and two-term President. Although reeling, [...]
2008-10-14 06:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH PGOV PREL TW
08TAIPEI1496SCUFFLE WITH VISITING PRC OFFICIAL UNLIKELY TO
[...] (C) Summary. A senior official from the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) cut short his "academic" visit to southern Taiwan following an October 21 incident in which pro-independence activists led by a DPP Tainan Councilman jostled him until he stumbled - or was [...]
2008-10-22 11:06:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TW CH
08TAIPEI1515OPPOSITION DPP TO DEMONSTRATE SATURDAY IN THE
[...] (C) Summary. The DPP and likeminded organizations will hold a large march and rally this Saturday (Oct.25) to demonstrate their supporters' discontent with President Ma's performance, his policies toward China, and PRC actions. This demonstration will set the stage for further protests when P [...]
2008-10-24 11:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1520LARGE OPPOSITION RALLY PUTS PRESSURE ON PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) staged a large, peaceful demonstration in Taipei on October 25 mainly to protest against President Ma Ying-jeou and the PRC. The demonstration was intended to put pressure on the Ma administration ahead of the visit next week by P [...]
2008-10-27 10:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1521KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON PRESIDENT MA
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on October 27, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung attributed President Ma Ying-jeou's low standing in public opinion polls to the economic downturn, public disappointment that Ma's presidency has not fulfilled expectations, and Ma's early standoffish attitu [...]
2008-10-27 10:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1530DPP PLANS MORE PROTESTS FOR CHEN YUNLIN VISIT BUT
[...] (C) Summary: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on October 28 she was pleased the party's October 25 protest demonstration had gone smoothly and had received very broad support from other likeminded organizations. Without providing details, she sai [...]
2008-10-30 00:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1531FORMER PREMIER SU TSENG-CHANG ON DOMESTIC POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on October 24, former Premier Su Tseng-chang expressed disappointment that the DPP has not been able to take advantage of what he regarded as the dismal performance of President Ma Ying-jeou and the KMT administration. While Ma's approval rating in [...]
2008-10-30 00:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1539MAC CHAIR LAI SHIN-YUAN PREVIEWS UPCOMING
[...] (C) Summary. On October 29, AIT Director Young met with the chairwoman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC),Lai Shin-yuan for a preview of the agenda and substance of the November 3-7 talks between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations Across the T [...]
2008-10-30 10:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EAIR EWWT PGOV TW CH
08TAIPEI1548FOOD SAFETY ASSUMES IMPORTANT ROLE IN CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In advance of his November 3-7 visit to Taipei, the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin made an October 27 written apology (ref a) and an October 30 verbal apology for the distress caused by exports of Chinese-manufactured taint [...]
2008-11-03 09:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA ETRD TW CH
08TAIPEI1554PRC ARATS CHAIRMAN CHEN YUNLIN BEGINS HISTORIC
[...] (C) Summary: PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin arrived in Taiwan on November 3 for an historic four-day visit. Chen will hold cross-Strait talks with Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang on November 4, and the two sides will [...]
2008-11-03 11:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08TAIPEI156RISING KMT STAR ERIC CHU ON ELECTIONS, "TYPHOONS"
[...] (C) Summary. Taoyuan Magistrate Eric Chu, a rising younger generation KMT leader, told the Director on January 28 that he expects the KMT to "take off the table" its support for the UN referendum before the March 22 presidential election. He urged that the U.S. not make further statements, [...]
2008-02-01 07:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CH TW
08TAIPEI1563FORMER PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI CRITICIZES PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: Former President Lee Teng-hui told the Director on October 31 that, in his view, cross-Strait talks should now be conducted directly between government agencies such as the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) and the PRC's Taiwan Affairs Office rather than through intermediary bodies [...]
2008-11-04 10:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1569PROTEST FEARS TRIGGER LAST MINUTE CHANGES IN
[...] (C) Summary: Concerns about a large DPP protest scheduled for the afternoon led President Ma Ying-jeou to advance by several hours the time for his meeting today with PRC ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin. The meeting lasted just seven minutes, with Ma delivering brief remarks, and Chen making no r [...]
2008-11-06 11:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1579TAIWAN CAUTIOUS ON DPRK HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary: During recent meetings with a visiting U.S. envoy, Taiwan government and NGO officials displayed little understanding or concern about human rights issues in North Korea. While willing, in principle, to expand cooperation with the United States, local thinktank Taiwan Foundation [...]
2008-11-07 08:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH KN KS PGOV PHUM PREL
08TAIPEI1584PRC ARATS CHAIRMAN CONCLUDES TAIWAN VISIT AFTER
[...] (C) Summary: After a day and night of intense and sometimes violent protest demonstrations on Thursday (Nov. 6),Taipei is breathing a sigh of relief following PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin's smooth departure for Beijing this morning. Che [...]
2008-11-07 11:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1588FOREIGN MINISTER OU ON WHO, INTERNATIONAL SPACE,
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan understands that gaining WHO observer status will require talking directly with Beijing and expects to re-engage the mainland soon, Foreign Minister Ou told the Director during a November 7 meeting. On other "international space" issues, Taiwan has been receiving mixed me [...]
2008-11-10 09:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TW CH
08TAIPEI1599DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN FEARS MORE VIOLENCE IF
[...] (C) Summary: A visibly tense Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on November 10 that she was decidedly downbeat about the future of Taiwan democracy. Claiming that President Ma Ying-jeou wasn't really in charge of his party (the KMT),Tsai predicted more p [...]
2008-11-12 09:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1602SEF CHAIRMAN P. K. CHIANG ON THE CHEN YUNLIN VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang told the Director on November 10 that, on the surface, the PRC's ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin had been understanding about the political situation in Taiwan and appreciative of the government's efforts to protect his security [...]
2008-11-12 11:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI1610MAC CHAIR:CHEN YUNLIN VISIT BEGINS ERA OF "MUTUAL
[...] (C) Summary. The official portion of ARATS head Chen Yunlin,s groundbreaking visit to Taiwan was a success and demonstrated that China had accepted Taiwan,s call for &mutual non-denial,8 MAC Chair Lai Shin-yuan told the Director November 11. It will be difficult to maintain rapid progress, t [...]
2008-11-13 08:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TW CH
08TAIPEI1627TAIWAN PREPARES TO ADMIT PRC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary. On November 10, Education Minister Cheng Jei-ching announced that, beginning with the fall semester in 2009, Taiwan's colleges, universities and graduate schools will begin accepting up to 1,000 students per year from the PRC. Increasing cross-Strait contacts by opening Taiwan t [...]
2008-11-19 09:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ECIN CH TW KPAO
08TAIPEI1628KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON DOMESTIC POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director on November 17 that PRC ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin had seemed satisfied with his visit to Taiwan, despite the protests. Wu was concerned that violence in some of the demonstrations would give the mainland a bad impression of Taiwan's [...]
2008-11-19 10:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1668TAIWAN APEC REPRESENTATIVE ON HU JINTAO MEETING,
[...] (C) Summary. Although APEC is primarily an economic, and not political institution, Taiwan's representation at this year's summit by a former Vice President was a &breakthrough,8 Lien Chan told the Director December 1. Lien described his meeting with Hu Jintao as another step forward in a gra [...]
2008-12-01 08:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW CH
08TAIPEI1676DPP STRUGGLES TO GET BACK INTO THE POLITICAL GAME
[...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the Director, several DPP elders argued that the Ma administration under President Ma Ying-jeou has reversed course on Taiwan's democratization, citing the clampdown on protesters during the early November visit of PRC official Chen Yunlin and an alleged j [...]
2008-12-02 08:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CH TW
08TAIPEI1694PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU TAKES CRITICISM FOR NIXING
[...] (C) Summary: The DPP and even some KMT politicians have criticized President Ma Ying-jeou for saying on December 3 that this is not a good time for the Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan. DPP critics charge Ma with yielding to pressure from Beijing, contrasting his agreement to a visit by the PRC's [...]
2008-12-05 11:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1705MA ADMINISTRATION MOVES TO INSTITUTIONALIZE
[...] (C) Although Honorary KMT Chair Lien Chan will take part in the December 20-21 KMT-CCP Forum in Shanghai, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-Hsiung will be in charge, Taiwan Deputy National Security Advisor Ho Sze-yin told the Deputy Director December 9. Although the talks will remain informal and consultat [...]
2008-12-09 09:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL GPGOV PINR TW CH
08TAIPEI1717TAIWAN RESEARCHER: PRC PUTTING BRAKES ON ACADEMIC
[...] (C) Summary. At least five PRC academic delegations planning travel to Taiwan in recent weeks to discuss Taiwan's "international space" and related issues have been cancelled, presumably by Chinese authorities, according to a researcher at a Taiwan government-funded think tank. Beijing likely [...]
2008-12-11 09:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TW CH
08TAIPEI1728DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TAIWAN TO (AGAIN) SEEK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's executive branch will request the Legislative Yuan to ratify the UN International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, despite Taiwan's lack of standing in the UN, President Ma Ying-jeou announced at a December 10 ceremony m [...]
2008-12-15 06:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH PGOV PHUM PREL TW
08TAIPEI1746DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN ON CHEN SHUI-BIAN AND PARTY
[...] (C) Summary: Former President Chen Shui-bian should be "brave" and face Taiwan's judicial process, opposition DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on December 16. Balancing pressure from Chen's supporters to do more on his behalf with views of critics within the party of the former preside [...]
2008-12-17 08:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1748MA TO CODEL ISSA: CROSS-STRAIT TIES ON RIGHT
[...] (C) Summary. As the new U.S. administration reviews its approach on trade issues, Taiwan hopes to work with the U.S. to put in place the building blocks for an eventual bilateral FTA, Taiwan President Ma told Congressman Darrell Issa during a December 17 meeting. Taiwan appreciates U.S. securi [...]
2008-12-18 08:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD INT PGOV PINR PREL TW
08TAIPEI1758LEGISLATIVE SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON DOMESTIC
[...] (C) Summary: Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) assured the Director on December 16 that he would support speedy action by the LY to approve Taiwan's accession to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Wang discussed plans for his upcoming visit to Washington for the [...]
2008-12-19 06:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR ECON ETRD PHUM CH TW
08TAIPEI1759KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON THE UPCOMING KMT-CCP
[...] (C) Summary: Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director on December 18 that he had agreed to the request of both Honorary Chairman Lien Chan and President Ma Ying-jeou to lead the KMT delegation to the KMT-CCP forum in Shanghai on December 20-21. Topics at the forum will include cross-Strait c [...]
2008-12-19 07:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD CH TW
08TAIPEI1762TAIWAN SCHOLAR: MA'S SOFTER TONE ON WHO/WHA
[...] (C) Summary. China is blocking academic travel to Taiwan as PRC leaders hammer out a consensus on ties with the island, according to a well-connected scholar in confirmation of previous similar reports. On "international space," President Ma's apparent pessimism about prospects for a breakth [...]
2008-12-22 07:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TW CH
08TAIPEI1778SENIOR KMT OFFICIALS DISCUSS KMT-CCP CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary. PRC Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) head Wang Yi offered encouraging words about the prospects for Taiwan's participation in the May 2009 World Health Assembly (WHA) in informal meetings on the margins of the December 20-21 KMT-CCP cross-Strait economic forum in Shanghai, according to [...]
2008-12-24 07:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON WHO AORC TW CH
08TAIPEI1781VICE PRESIDENT SIEW ASSESSES TAIWAN'S ECONOMY
[...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with AIT Director Young, Vice President Vincent Siew expressed guarded optimism that Taiwan's economy will recover in the second half of 2009. At the same time, Siew believes recent moves to improve cross-Strait economic ties would not have much impact on Taiw [...]
2008-12-29 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD CH TW
08TAIPEI1788FM OU ON THE "DIPLOMATIC TRUCE," WHO/WHA, AND THE
[...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's "diplomatic truce" with China over competition for diplomatic allies is holding, Foreign Minister Francisco Ou told the Director during their December 30 meeting. Taiwan's quest for greater international space is more complex because it involves sovereignty questions, a [...]
2008-12-31 06:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1789KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON CROSS-STRAIT FORUM,
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director on December 29 he was optimistic on prospects for a breakthrough regarding Taiwan's participation in the WHA next May, although he acknowledged the issue is not yet resolved. The Director noted that China objects to the U.S. raising the [...]
2008-12-31 09:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ETRD CH TW
08TAIPEI238FM HUANG ON TAIWAN FOREIGN RELATIONS, UN REFERENDA
[...] (C) Summary. Fm James Huang is generally upbeat on the status of Taiwan's relations with most of its twenty-four remaining diplomatic partners, with the exception of Panama. It is "just a matter of time" before Panama switches to Beijing, he told the Director, lamenting China's "imperial" am [...]
2008-02-20 10:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08TAIPEI349SEF CHAIRMAN HONG CHI-CHANG ON CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Deputy Director on March 12, Strait Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Hong Chi-chang expressed hope that Taipei and Beijing can make progress on further economic opening and charter flights after the presidential election, adding that he has been urging Pr [...]
2008-03-13 10:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH TW
08TAIPEI351SEF CHAIRMAN HONG CHI-CHANG ON CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Deputy Director on March 12, Strait Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Hong Chi-chang expressed hope that Taipei and Beijing can make progress on further economic opening and charter flights after the presidential election, adding that he has been urging Pr [...]
2008-03-14 03:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH TW
08TAIPEI386DPP CANDIDATE FRANK HSIEH ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND
[...] (C) Summary: DPP candidate Frank Hsieh told the Director on March 18 that he trails the KMT's Ma Ying-jeou by a 3-5 percent margin but is working to close the gap before the presidential election on Saturday, March 22. Hsieh noted that the March 12 intrusion at his headquarters by four KMT l [...]
2008-03-18 12:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI393Taiwan to expand cross-Strait "mini-link" program
[...] (U) Summary. On March 19, the Executive Yuan (EY) approved the expansion of the cross-Strait "mini-link" program designed to boost local economic development through tourism. The expansion will allow a daily quota of 680 mainland Chinese, mainly from Fujian Province, to tour Kinmen and Matsu [...]
2008-03-20 03:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD CH TW
08TAIPEI420PRESIDENT-ELECT MA YING-JEOU MOVES INTO TRANSITION
[...] (C) Summary. The Ma campaign team is shifting into transition mode, with much of the campaign staff moving to the new transition team. President-elect Ma plans to move quickly on selecting his senior administration members so that the Ma transition team can begin addressing the numerous dom [...]
2008-03-24 10:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
08TAIPEI421KMT'S MA YING-JEOU WINS DECISIVE VICTORY IN
[...] (C) Summary: The KMT's Ma Ying-jeou swept to victory with a record-breaking 58.4 percent of the votes in Taiwan's presidential election on March 22, beating the ruling DPP candidate Frank Hsieh, who took 41.6 percent of the votes. On a day when the entire island enjoyed good weather, the elec [...]
2008-03-24 11:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI464FOREIGN MINISTER HUANG AND CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Huang told Chairman Burghardt and Director Young on March 28 that he remains worried about the possibility of further diplomatic losses to Beijing prior to President-elect Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration on May 20. Huang was most concerned that St. Kitts and Nevis m [...]
2008-03-31 10:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SC PM NU RM CH TW
08TAIPEI473VP-ELECT VINCENT SIEW AND CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT
[...] (C) Summary: Vice President-elect Vincent Siew told Chairman Burghardt and DDIR Wang on March 28 that the Ma administration will end the current price freezes on oil and electricity, as well as take other steps to deregulate Taiwan's economy and lower barriers to investment in the PRC. The ne [...]
2008-04-01 07:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAGR ETRD CH TW
08TAIPEI487KMT HONORARY CHAIRMAN LIEN CHAN ON CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary: Honorary KMT Chairman Lien Chan suggested to the Director on April 3 that Ma Ying-jeou's victory is also a win for the U.S., because Ma will restore stability and predictability to cross-Strait relations, easing U.S. security concerns. Lien expressed appreciation for President Bu [...]
2008-04-07 09:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI499MA INSIDER TAOYUAN MAGISTRATE ERIC CHU PREDICTS
[...] (C) Summary: Taoyuan Magistrate Eric Chu told the Director privately on April 9 that President-elect Ma Ying-jeou had already chosen his premier (Prof. Liu Chao-hsuan),and the likely candidates for Foreign Minister (David Lee),National Security Adviser (Su Chi),and the head of the Straits [...]
2008-04-10 09:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI515VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT VINCENT SIEW MEETS WITH PRC
[...] (C) Summary: Vice President-elect Vincent Siew returned Sunday from the Boao Forum in Hainan, where he had met with PRC President Hu Jintao. Siew described Hu as "pragmatic" and said Hu's comments offered a "historic opportunity" to improve cross-Strait relations. During the meeting, Siew an [...]
2008-04-14 10:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI545KMT VICE CHAIRMAN JOHN KUAN ON MA CABINET
[...] (C) Summary: KMT President-elect Ma Ying-jeou will draw from previous KMT administrations as well as from those outside the party to staff his Cabinet, KMT Vice Chairman John Kuan told the Deputy Director on April 17. Ma is following his own rules in choosing the new Cabinet, said Kuan, and h [...]
2008-04-18 10:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI546KMT MAINLAND AFFAIRS DIRECTOR CHANG JUNG-KUNG
[...] (C) Summary: President-elect Ma Ying-jeou will be under strong pressure to deliver on cross-Strait economic opening after his inauguration on May 20, KMT Mainland Affairs Director Chang Jung-kung recently told AIT. Although public expectations are high for quick movement on economic issues, [...]
2008-04-18 10:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI551 TAIWAN'S "SECOND STAGE" WHA EFFORT: BACK TO
[...] (C) Summary. Fully expecting WHO to reject President Chen Shui-bian's letter to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan applying for WHO membership, MOFA plans a "second stage" effort applying for observership. MOFA hopes the World Health Assembly (WHA) opening sessions on May 19 can host a two-b [...]
2008-04-21 10:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TBIO WHO AORC CH TW
08TAIPEI561AIT RECEIVES ASYLUM REQUEST FROM PRC NATIONAL
[...] (C) On April 2, PRC citizen Cai Lujun sent an email to AIT's American Corner library in Taichung, requesting political asylum or refugee status in the U.S. The email was forwarded to the AIT political section on April 7. 2. (C) In his email, Cai claimed he was imprisoned in the PRC for th [...]
2008-04-23 10:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL CVIS ASEC PGOV PINR PHUM TW CH
08TAIPEI595FUTURE MAC CHAIRPERSON LAI SHIN-YUAN: MA'S
[...] (SBU) Premier-designate Liu Chao-hsuan has named former Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) legislator Lai Shin-yuan to head the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC),the most controversial figure among the 18 cabinet appointments that Liu announced April 28 (see reftel for comprehensive list). As MAC c [...]
2008-04-29 10:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI620PREMIER-DESIGNATE LIU CHAO-HSUAN ON HIGH
[...] (C) Summary: Premier-designate Liu Chao-hsuan told the Director during a May 2 meeting that he had not expected to be named Premier, and that he was leaving academic life somewhat reluctantly. The public expects too much, too soon, from the incoming Ma administration, he lamented, leaving Ma a [...]
2008-05-05 10:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI625LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG (KMT) ON MA
[...] (C) Summary: LY Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) told the Director during a May 5 meeting that China would not ease pressure on Taiwan's "international living space" during Ma's presidency, even if it harmed chances to warm cross-Strait relations. Facing high commodity prices and a global economic [...]
2008-05-06 10:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI636STRAITS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN-DESIGNATE
[...] (C) Summary: Kuomintang Vice-Chairman Chiang Pin-kung (P. K. Chiang) is slated to become chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF),Taiwan's quasi-official organization for handling relations with mainland China, after President-elect Ma Ying-jeou is inaugurated on May 20. The 76 yea [...]
2008-05-08 00:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI671MAC CHAIRPERSON-DESIGNATE LAI SHIN-YUAN ON FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary: MAC Chairperson-designate Lai Shin-yuan told the Director on May 14 that improving cross-Strait relations will be a difficult task, emphasizing that progress will need to come "one step at a time" so as not to get ahead of expectations of what can be accomplished on both sides. [...]
2008-05-14 10:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI672SEF CHAIRMAN-DESIGATE P.K. CHIANG ON CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary: SEF Chairman-designate P.K. Chiang told the Director on May 13 that future discussions with Beijing on cross-Strait issues will focus initially on establishing weekend charter flights and increasing the number of Chinese tourists to Taiwan. In the course of discussions, Taipei [...]
2008-05-14 10:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI698MA YING-JEOU INAUGURATED AS NEW TAIWAN PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: Ma Ying-jeou and Vincent Siew were inaugurated as Taiwan's new president and vice president on May 20. In his inaugural address, Ma pledged to strengthen relations with the U.S., Taiwan's "foremost security ally and trading partner." Extending an olive branch to Beijing, Ma sai [...]
2008-05-20 11:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI715KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON UPCOMING HISTORIC
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the A/DIR on May 22 that he will be departing May 26 for a six-day visit to mainland China at the invitation of PRC President Hu Jintao. Wu emphasized that President Ma Ying-jeou fully supports his visit, the highlight of which will be Wu's meeting [...]
2008-05-23 06:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI733PRO-GREEN SCHOLARS CRITIQUE MA YING-JEOU'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent panel discussion, several leading pro-Green scholars argued that President Ma Ying-jeou's May 20 inaugural address and his approach in general are rooted in the past, turning back to KMT policies from the early 1990s (when the party was in power) to address 21st cen [...]
2008-05-28 10:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI762 TAIWAN NSC SECRETARY-GENERAL SU CHI ON
[...] (C) Summary. NSC Secretary General Su Chi told Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior staff member Frank Jannuzi that the Ma Administration considers its U.S. ties to be even more important than its relations with Beijing. He said the former is critical to both Taiwan's survival and prosp [...]
2008-06-03 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AORG MARR MASS MCAP CH TW
08TAIPEI787SFRC SENIOR STAFF MEMBER JANNUZI DISCUSSES TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: Two senior DPP party officials told SFRC senior staff member Frank Jannuzi on June 2 that Tsai Ing-wen's election as DPP chairperson would help the party get back on its feet following a series of defeats at the polls. Bikhim Hsiao cited internal divisions and perceived loss of [...]
2008-06-06 11:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI799TAIWAN RENDERING APPROPRIATE AID TO PRC ASYLUM
[...] (C) PRC citizen Cai Lujun first contacted AIT via email on April 2, 2008. In his email, Cai requested political asylum or refugee status in the U.S. Cai also complained that because the Taiwan immigration authorities forbade him from working, he was in serious financial distress. On April 11 [...]
2008-06-09 06:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL CVIS ASEC PGOF PINR PHUM TW CH
08TAIPEI807SEF CHAIRMAN P. K. CHIANG PREVIEWS UPCOMING
[...] (C) On June 9, Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang (Pin-kung) briefed the Acting Director on his upcoming visit to Beijing to resume the cross-Strait dialogue, suspended since 1999. During the talks, the two sides will complete agreements on passenger charter flights and [...]
2008-06-09 09:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV TW CH
08TAIPEI818KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON BEIJING VISIT, U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told A/DIR Wang on June 11 that the current cross-Strait atmosphere is returning the "China fever" Taiwan experienced ten years ago. In his private meeting with PRC President Hu Jintao on May 28, Wu said he had stressed the importance of "security, inte [...]
2008-06-11 09:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR CH US TW
08TAIPEI831TAIWAN AND PRC RESUME CROSS-STRAIT DIALOGUE, SIGN
[...] (C) Summary: On June 13, P.K. Chiang (Pin-kung),Chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF),and Chen Yunlin, Chairman of the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS),signed two agreements in Beijing, one on weekend passenger charter flights and the other [...]
2008-06-13 11:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAIR ETRD CH TW
08TAIPEI860SEF CHAIRMAN P.K. CHIANG ON CROSS-STRAIT TALKS AND
[...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang told the Director on June 17 he was pleased with the results of the June 11-14 talks in Beijing with China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS). Chiang said the two agreements on passenger charter flight [...]
2008-06-18 10:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS ECON ETRD EINV EAIR EFIS CH
08TAIPEI864NSC CHAIRMAN SU CHI: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S TOP
[...] (C) Summary: NSC Secretary-General Su Chi is a longtime friend and advisor to President Ma Ying-jeou, having served most recently as a speechwriter and deputy campaign manager for Ma. NSC colleagues predict Su's NSC will play an advisory role, and will not oversee or manage cross-Strait, fo [...]
2008-06-19 06:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CH TW
08TAIPEI915MAC CHAIRPERSON LAI SHIN-YUAN ON CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary: Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairperson Lai Shin-yuan told the Director on June 25 that she has not encountered problems so far coordinating cross-Strait policy, pointing out that MAC is the government agency legally responsible for dealing with cross-Strait affairs and polici [...]
2008-06-27 05:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI949LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) Summary: During a June 30 meeting with the Director, Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) asserted the LY is entitled to supervise cross-Strait negotiations and ratify cross-Strait agreements. This would ensure that Taiwan's sovereignty and security are not impugned, and the [...]
2008-07-01 10:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAGR ETRD MARR CH TW
08TAIPEI959KMT INSIDER CANDIDLY DISCUSSES KMT POLITICS,
[...] (C) Summary: Taoyuan County Magistrate Eric Chu (protect) suggested to the Director on July 2 that recent maneuverings by Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng and other KMT leaders were part of the normal give and take of intra-party politics. In a free-wheeling discussion, this confidant of Pr [...]
2008-07-02 10:25:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAGR ETRD ECON CH TW
08TAIPEI969TAIWAN CROSS-STRAIT EXPERTS EXPECT CONTINUED FOCUS
[...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou,s inauguration and new cross-Strait agreements on weekend charter flights and Chinese tourism have raised expectations here of a cross-Strait thaw that will bring Taiwan substantial economic and political benefits. Several Taiwan cross-Strait experts tel [...]
2008-07-03 11:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CH TW
08TALLINN211ESTONIA COURTS CHINESE INVESTMENT IN PORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With two new deals in the works - a commercial investment agreement between Estonian and Chinese ports, and a state-level bilateral shipping agreement - Estonia has come out ahead of potential regional competitors in attracting Chinese capital to its shipping sector. These ag [...]
2008-06-17 13:07:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EWWT CH EN
08TELAVIV2434THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAN WITH EXPERTS AT THE
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Director Oded Eran and members of the INSS staff October 29. INSS is the premier security studies center, with close links to the Israeli military and intelligence communities. The discussion focused on Isra [...]
2008-11-03 05:14:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MOPS IR CH RU IS
08TELAVIV2436THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAN WITH EXPERTS AT THE
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Director Oded Eran and members of the INSS staff October 29. INSS is the premier security studies center, with close links to the Israeli military and intelligence communities. The discussion focused on Isra [...]
2008-11-03 07:17:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MOPS IR CH RU IS
08TELAVIV401CHINA 2007 ANTI-SATELLITE TEST DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-19 14:32:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR CH IS
08THEHAGUE480CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): MEETING WITH
[...] (C) On June 5, Ambassador Javits and Delrep met with OPCW Director General Pfirter to discuss the way forward on U.S. and Russian destruction documents and the DG,s recent trip to China. As per Ref A, Amb. Javits explained the conditions that must be met for the U.S. to join consensus on the [...]
2008-06-05 15:03:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALCH PARM PREL RS CWC
08THEHAGUE801NETHERLANDS: AGREEMENT ON NEED TO ADDRESS CHINA'S
[...] (S) The Dutch agree that getting China to aggressively implement UNSC Iran resolutions is vital. Emboffs delivered reftel points September 22 and 23 to Henk Cor van der Kwast, Head of Non-Proliferation at the Foreign Ministry, and Anne-Chris Visser, Senior Advisor at the Finance Ministry's Fi [...]
2008-09-25 12:49:00Embassy The HagueSECRETECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR CH NL
08THESSALONIKI46NORTHERN NOTES - MAY 2008
[...] Three companies submitted bids for leasing the Thessaloniki Port Cargo Station, by the deadline of May 15. The three companies bidding were Cosco Pacific Limited (China),Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (subsidiary of Dubai Ports World) and Hutchison Port Holding Limited (Hong [...]
2008-06-03 15:18:00Consulate ThessalonikiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SMIG CH GR
08THESSALONIKI51DESPITE CONTINUING PROTESTS, THESSALONIKI PORT'S
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A prolonged and controversial competition to identify a private company to upgrade and run the container terminal at the Port of Thessaloniki is nearing completion. Striking port workers have delayed the privatization process, which the Greek government hopes will modernize the [...]
2008-06-25 15:48:00Consulate ThessalonikiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PGOV SOCI CH HK GR
08THESSALONIKI53NORTHERN NOTES - JUNE 2008
[...] (SBU) On June 23, the chairman of the Federation of Northern Greek Industries and CEO of Alumil S.A. Giorgos Milonas was released after being held hostage for 13 days (Reftel A). The industrialist appeared before the national media shortly afterward, looking remarkably relaxed, stating that h [...]
2008-07-09 12:21:00Consulate ThessalonikiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR SOCI SMIG CH HK
08THESSALONIKI58NORTHERN NOTES JULY 2008
[...] On July 23, the Port of Thessaloniki announced that the Hutchison-Alapis consortium (Hong Kong-based) submitted the highest bid for the management of Thessaloniki port's cargo station and was therefore declared tentative winner of the competition, pending parliamentary approval (Ref A). Hutch [...]
2008-08-04 13:12:00Consulate ThessalonikiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SMIG CH MK TU HK
08TIRANA611ALBANIA AGREES TO DISCUSS RESETTLEMENT OF GITMO
[...] (C) Summary: On 17 June 2008, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Clint Williamson met with Albanian government officials to encourage them to talk about their experiences in accepting detainees from the U.S. military base at Guantanamo. The GOA was very open to discussing their experience wi [...]
2008-08-08 07:37:00Embassy TiranaCONFIDENTIALKAWC PGOV PHUM PREF PREL CH AL
08TOKYO1075PRC EMBASSY ON HU MAY VISIT TO JAPAN, TIBET, AND
[...] (C) Summary: Despite failure to make progress on the East China Sea energy dispute during Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka's April 14-15 visit to Beijing, Beijing and Tokyo are working hard to reach a compromise before President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan on May 6, Chinese Embassy Politica [...]
2008-04-18 10:04:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV PHUM PREL BM CH JA
08TOKYO1093CRITICISM ON CHINA,S RESPONSE TO TIBET ESCALATING
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Koumura raised Tibet with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang on April 17, and senior ruling party and opposition politicians have stepped up public criticism on China's handling of the demonstrations in Tibet in the past several days. Increased concern about protests [...]
2008-04-21 07:41:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CH JA
08TOKYO1138NO JOY IN ARRANGING HU VISIT TO JAPAN
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese President Hu Jintao's May visit to Japan was intended to be a foreign policy success showcasing Japan's improved ties with China, but instead has become riddled with problems, including Tibet and the incident of contaminated Chinese dumplings imported to Japan, MOFA China [...]
2008-04-24 08:24:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL PGOV PHUM CH JA
08TOKYO1166AID ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S MEETING WITH CHINESE VM YI
[...] (SBU) Summary. While China is interested in learning more about U.S. official development assistance (ODA),Chinese Commerce Vice Minister YI Xiaozhun declined to commit to a bilateral dialogue on development issues during an April 7 meeting with USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore. Yi stated [...]
2008-04-28 06:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON JA PREL CH OECD
08TOKYO1219CHINA TO ENDORSE SECTORAL APPROACH IN JOINT
[...] (C) Japanese officials confirmed press reports that Japan and China continue to negotiate the text of a joint statement on climate change to be issued by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda during the former's visit to Tokyo on May 7. Several major news outlet [...]
2008-05-02 08:52:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV KGHG CH JA
08TOKYO1267NO SURPRISES DURING HU JINTAO,S JAPAN VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: There have been no surprises during the first three days of Chinese President Hu Jintao's May 6-10 visit to Japan. Hu's visit is being characterized in the press as successful, is viewed as in important step forward, and signals a new chapter in Japan-China ties. As reported sep [...]
2008-05-09 09:26:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL PGOV PHUM CH JA
08TOKYO1272DEPUTY SECRETARY'S DINNER WITH JAPANESE DIET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Six Party Talks, the abductees problem, China, Afghanistan, and Iraq were the focus of discussions over dinner between Deputy Secretary Negroponte and a cross section of Japanese Diet members May 9 in Tokyo. Diet members underscored the political importance of addressing the ab [...]
2008-05-10 07:35:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL JA KN CH AF IZ MOPPS
08TOKYO1322JAPAN OFFERS ASSISTANCE TO CHINA
[...] Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda sent a message to Chinese President Hu Jintao offering disaster assistance following the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan. Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura sent a similar message to State Councilor Dai Bingguo and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Chief Cabinet Secretary [...]
2008-05-14 10:09:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PHUM CH JA
08TOKYO1336METI NOTES CHINESE FLEXIBILITY IN HU VISIT RESULTS
[...] (C) Summary: The various economic agreements concluded as part of Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Japan revealed substantially greater willingness on Beijing's part to meet Japan's requests than previous exchanges, according to an official of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade [...]
2008-05-15 09:16:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON EINV SENV PREL JA CH
08TOKYO1344CHINESE PRESIDENT HU'S JAPAN VISIT SIGNALS EFFORTS
[...] (C) Summary: Both MOFA and the PRC Embassy in Tokyo told Embassy Tokyo Prime Minister Fukuda's summit meeting with President Hu Jintao was a success and important step forward in advancing bilateral ties. Both sides regarded the Fukuda-Hu summit, fourth joint communique, and joint press state [...]
2008-05-16 05:45:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL PGOV PHUM CH JA
08TOKYO1477CHINA REQUESTS RELIEF FROM JAPAN, WILL ALLOW
[...] (C) Summary: The Chinese government has asked Japan to send additional supplies, including blankets, tents and medicine, to help with earthquake relief efforts. According to an MOD official, Chinese officials have said that they will not seek or accept CH-47 helicopter support from Japan. Ch [...]
2008-05-29 22:53:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH JA
08TOKYO1625JAPAN'S DISASTER RELIEF ASSISTANCE TO CHINA
[...] (S) Summary: Japan is continuing efforts to provide disaster relief assistance to China following the earthquake in Sichuan Province in an effort to improve ties with Beijing. Japan has provided one billion yen in aid and disaster relief supplies in addition to the three emergency and medical [...]
2008-06-13 09:19:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPREL PGOV EAID CH JA
08TOKYO1626U/S BURNS MEETS WITH JAPAN'S DEPUTY FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan believes care must be taken to avoid pushing China too hard on the Tibet issue, Deputy Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae told visiting Under Secretary for Political Affairs Bill Burns June 9, and suggested that a statement made on the subject by the G-8 Foreign Ministers acce [...]
2008-06-13 09:38:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL XE CH RS IR AS JA
08TOKYO1654JAPAN-CHINA: FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS EAST CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura and Chinese Foreign Yang Jiechi met June 14 and discussed the East China Sea resource development issue, human rights and Tibet. Progress on joint development in the East China Sea will be announced "quite soon," but press reports suggesting an [...]
2008-06-17 08:37:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV PREL PHUM CH JA
08TOKYO1668COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the June 19-20, 2008, visit to Japan by Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill, EAP Special Assistant Chrisotpher Klein, EAP/K Director Sung Kim, and NSC Director for Chinese Affairs Paul Haenle. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will [...]
2008-06-18 01:53:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08TOKYO1677JAPAN, ROK AND PRC FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET
[...] (C) The Foreign Ministers of Japan, China and South Korea met June 14 to set the stage for a first-ever "stand-alone" trilateral summit this fall in Tokyo (every previous trilat has taken place on the margins of the ASEAN 3 summit or other international events). During their three-hour meeting [...]
2008-06-18 08:27:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SENV EAID KS CH JA
08TOKYO1712JAPAN-CHINA AGREE ON EAST CHINA SEA GAS FIELDS
[...] (C) Summary. While not relinquishing long-standing territorial claims, Japan and China agreed to joint development of the Shirakaba and Asunara gas fields in the disputed East China Sea. Japanese officials are hailing the agreement as a "victory," perhaps one that will change the tenor of re [...]
2008-06-22 22:58:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PREL CH JA
08TOKYO175PACOM COMMANDER KEATING'S JAN 18 MEETINGS WITH
[...] (C) Senior Chinese officials were considerably less belligerent on the issue of Taiwan during his January 13-18 visit to China than in May 2007, likely due to consistent messages from the U.S. Government and the results of Taiwan's legislative elections, visiting PACOM Commander ADM Timothy K [...]
2008-01-23 08:57:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR CH JA
08TOKYO1769NOTIFICATION OF JAPANESE GOVERNMENT REGARDING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-27 06:35:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALTSPA TSPL KSCA PARM CH JA
08TOKYO1860JAPANESE RECONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE TEAM RETURNS
[...] (C) Japan dispatched a reconstruction team to China from June 20 to July 2 to assess construction assistance needs following the earthquake in China, MOFA First Country Assistance Planning Division Director Kozo Honsei told USAID Counselor and Political Officer on July 2. MOFA Southeast and S [...]
2008-07-07 08:25:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH JA
08TOKYO1997JAPAN-TAIWAN ECONOMIC TIES CENTERING ON
[...] (C) Summary: Economic ties between Japan and Taiwan center increasingly on cooperative operations in mainland China, according to Embassy Tokyo contacts. The rapid improvement in the political relationship between Taipei and Beijing with the accession of the new Taiwan president took some [...]
2008-07-18 07:50:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PREL JA TW CH
08TOKYO2161JAPANESE PM FUKUDA HEADING TO BEIJING; TALKS ON
[...] Summary: Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda will arrive in Beijing on August 8 to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao and will make a brief appearance at the Olympics Opening Ceremony before departing for Japan that same evening, MOFA told Embassy Tokyo on August 4. Japan [...]
2008-08-06 10:19:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG PHUM CH JA
08TOKYO2188METI PESSIMISTIC ABOUT SHORT-TERM OIL OPERATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There have been no new developments in the East China Sea dispute since China and Japan signed an MOU on joint development, according to METI Petroleum and Natural Gas Division Director Shin Hosaka. Negotiations may resume in October. Hosaka also described his recent meeting in [...]
2008-08-08 08:36:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PREL CH IR IZ JA
08TOKYO2216ACCS KAWAI ON OUTCOME OF PM FUKUDA'S MEETINGS IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-12 08:39:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR GG CH JA
08TOKYO244JAPAN-CHINA PANEL SEEKS TO DEPOLITICIZE HISTORY
[...] (C) Summary: The Japan-China Joint Historical Research Committee, formed in October 2006, will complete and publish this summer a two-volume report containing the views of each side on several historical periods from ancient times until the present. The goal of the committee is not to produce [...]
2008-01-30 08:36:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH JA
08TOKYO258JAPAN POSITIVE ON GREATER CHINA/INDIA ENERGY
[...] (C) Summary. Japan believes India and China need to be brought into the International Energy Agency (IEA),MOFA Economic Affairs Director-General Yoichi Otabe told visiting EEB DAS for Energy and Sanctions Hengel, even if it means that they do so without first becoming members of the OECD. Ja [...]
2008-01-31 08:50:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV PREL ETRD JA CH IN
08TOKYO2624JAPANESE ON ENGAGING CHINA ON
[...] (S) Japan shares our concerns about Chinese violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions aimed at sanctioning Iran, but would like to study the points made in reftel non-paper before making a commitment to press China on this subject, according to MOFA Second Middle East Division [...]
2008-09-23 09:04:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPREL PARM PTER ECON EFIN IR CH JA
08TOKYO27COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the December 7, 2007, visit to Japan by EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill, EAP/K Director Sung Kim, NSC China Director Paul Haenle, and EAP Special Assistant Chrisotpher Klein. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Politic [...]
2008-01-07 00:06:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT JA KN KNNP MNUC OTRA PREL CH
08TOKYO2714COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the October 4, 2008, visit to Japan by Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill, Special Assistant Yuri Kim, Director EAP/K Sung Y. Kim, NSC Director of Chinese Affairs Paul Haenle, and ISN DAS C.S. Eliot Kang. 2. (U) Control Officer for t [...]
2008-09-30 02:13:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL MNUC KN CH JA
08TOKYO2830TOKYO COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL HAGEL (15-17
[...] (U) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the October 15-17, 2008, visit to Japan by Senator Chuck Hagel, Mr. Rexon Ryu, and Colonel Phil Skuta. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit is Political Officer Dan Cintron. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-555 [...]
2008-10-10 05:01:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGMT ASEC AFIN JA CH KS
08TOKYO2864USPACOM COMMANDER KEATING MEETS DEFENSE MINISTER
[...] (S) SUMMARY: USPACOM appreciates the Ministry of Defense's efforts leading up to the successful deployment of the USS George Washington to Japan, visiting PACOM Commander ADM Timothy Keating told Defense Minister Hamada during an October 9 meeting. DefMin Hamada said the GW's arrival in Japa [...]
2008-10-14 23:02:00Embassy TokyoSECRETMARR PGOV PINR PREL JA CH
08TOKYO2884BEIJING OLYMPICS MARGINALLY IMPROVED ATTITUDES,
[...] (C) Summary: The Beijing Olympics were well viewed in Japan and helped to showcase for the Japanese China's ongoing modernization and global integration. The Olympics also solidified for the majority of Japanese already deeply suspicious of China and its intentions the view that the PRC is an [...]
2008-10-16 09:03:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH JA
08TOKYO2966METI VM MOCHIZUKI ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND TRADE
[...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Vice Minister Harufumi Mochizuki focused on energy, climate change, the WTO, and China, in an October 22 meeting with the DCM. Mochizuki noted a shared interest in an effective and inclusive post-Kyoto framework, as well as energy s [...]
2008-10-23 22:55:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEINV ENRG ETRD JA PREL SENV CH
08TOKYO2980INR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FORT CONSULTS WITH
[...] (S) SUMMARY: During a visit to Tokyo October 7, INR Assistant Secretary Randall Fort consulted with counterparts from MOFA's Intelligence and Analysis Service, the Prime Minister's Cabinet and Intelligence Research Office (CIRO),the Ministry of Justice's Public Security Information Agency (PS [...]
2008-10-24 08:37:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPINR PREL CH KN GG PK RS JA
08TOKYO3092S/P DIRECTOR GORDON MEETS WITH JAPANESE FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his visit to Tokyo October 28-30 to attend Trilateral Policy Planning talks with Japanese and South Korean counterparts, S/P Director David Gordon also met with several former senior Japanese government officials who now are active in academic or advisory capacities. Gordo [...]
2008-11-06 08:29:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL NK CH IR JA
08TOKYO3172AF ASSISTANT SECRETARY JENDAYI E. FRAZER MEETS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan will continue to deepen its economic and political engagement with Africa, senior Japanese officials told Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi E. Frazer October 17. MOFA officials expressed skepticism about the sustainability of Chinese development programs in Af [...]
2008-11-17 08:07:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS EAID KPKO SO ZI SU CH JA
08TOKYO3191JAPAN VICE FOREIGN MINISTER ON APEC, GUAM,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A bilateral summit with the President at APEC in Lima is critical to Prime Minister Aso's political and public standing, Vice Foreign Minister Yabunaka told the Ambassador during a wide-ranging November 18 meeting. VM Yabunaka thanked the United States for hosting the G-20 Financ [...]
2008-11-18 10:00:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PINR PREL JA CH
08TOKYO3416JAPAN-CHINA-KOREA TRILATERAL SUMMIT FOCUSES ON
[...] (U) Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso hosted Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak at a one-day summit in Dazaifu, Fukuoka on December 13. The three leaders issued joint statements that focused on "future-oriented comprehensive cooperation" in economic, political, [...]
2008-12-16 07:47:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PARM CH KS KN JA
08TOKYO342JAPAN MAKES ECONOMIC OVERTURES TO CHINA, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: Despite growing cooperation on energy and the environment, Japanese officials in MOFA and METI report an overall lack of progress on advancing economic relations with China. To date, China has rejected Japan's request for an agreement on food safety -- a particularly hot topic [...]
2008-02-08 06:45:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD EAGR PREL JA CH
08TOKYO360CODEL TAUSCHER MEETS WITH JAPAN'S DEPUTY FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: United States-Japan relations remain the "cornerstone" of Tokyo's foreign policy, not just for Japan's security, but for East Asia and the broader region as a whole, Japan DFM Yabunaka told visiting CODEL Tauscher on January 10. The DFM described Japan-PRC ties as improved from p [...]
2008-02-12 06:35:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALOVIP PGOV PREL JA CH
08TOKYO475ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S MEETING WITH JAPANESE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan is very much looking forward to the Secretary's visit to Asia the week of February 25 and is SIPDIS anticipating fruitful discussions on strengthening the U.S.-Japan alliance, MOFA Director General for North American Affairs Nishimiya told EAP Assistant Secretary Christop [...]
2008-02-22 09:09:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID XA XE CH AS KS KN IN JA
08TOKYO487JAPAN SUPPORTS CHINA, INDIA IEA MEMBERSHIP
[...] (C) The GOJ "does not anticipate any obstacles" for Japan to support the U.S. proposal to allow China and India to join the International Energy Agency (IEA),Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Economic Security Division Director Kazuyuki Takeuchi told Emboff February 21. Takeuchi believes th [...]
2008-02-25 03:43:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG JA IEA OECD CH IN
08TOKYO509AIT DIRECTOR YOUNG ENGAGES JAPANESE ON TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: AIT Director Young discussed the upcoming Taiwan presidential election, Japan's ties with China and Taiwan and cross-Strait relations during February 18 meetings with Japanese interlocutors. Japan and the United States have the ability to influence Taiwan and buttress its confid [...]
2008-02-27 02:11:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW JA
08TOKYO514PRC STATE COUNCILOR TANG'S JAPAN VISIT: TAIWAN AND
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan discussed Taiwan, improving food safety, the dispute over the East China Sea, North Korea, Burma, and environmental cooperation with his Japanese interlocutors during his February 21-23 visit to Japan. Both Japan and China are seeking to preve [...]
2008-02-27 05:00:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG CH TW JA
08TOKYO544JAPAN PLANS NO ACTION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE
[...] (C) The consortium led by Japan's Idemitsu Corporation to develop oil fields with PetroVietnam in the South China Sea has decided for business reasons to suspend work there, according to Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Petroleum and Natural Gas Division Director Shin Hosaka. Rep [...]
2008-02-29 09:15:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALENRG PBTS ECON PREL JA CH VN
08TOKYO592CHINA POLICY-MAKING IN THE FUKUDA CABINET
[...] (C) Under Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, senior politicians and opinion-makers seeking to play a leading role in Japan-China relations have complicated the policy coordination process. Adding to policy-making difficulties has been the lack of strong leadership and decisiveness on the part of th [...]
2008-03-06 02:19:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR CH JA
08TOKYO693TAIWAN CONTINGENCY: NO "AUTOMATIC" JAPANESE SUPPORT
[...] (C) Chief Cabinet Secretary Machimura and other senior officials underscored publicly on March 13 that a Taiwan Strait contingency will not "automatically" invoke the Japanese legislation governing rear area support for U.S. forces. These senior-level comments -- the most unequivocal to date [...]
2008-03-14 07:51:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPREL MARR CH JA
08TOKYO712EMBASSY TOKYO CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
[...] (U) Ambassador Schieffer hosted on March 4 Embassy Tokyo's first-ever event in honor of International Women's Day. More than 180 women, including Japanese Diet members, government officials, academics, members of the press and female diplomats from 25 nations, attended the inaugural event. Gu [...]
2008-03-17 08:30:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL JA CH RU
08TOKYO752TIBET: JAPANESE CALL ON CHINA TO EXERCISE
[...] (C) Summary: Japan is deeply concerned about the violence in Tibet and has called on the Chinese authorities to respond calmly, MOFA contacts told Embassy Tokyo on March 18. Japan raised its concerns with the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, and the Japanese Embassy in Beijing called on the Chines [...]
2008-03-19 22:50:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH JA
08TOKYO840JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO MISTAKEN SHIPMENT OF MISSILE
[...] (S) Embassy Tokyo Political Section Minister Counselor delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Deputy Director-General Masahiro Kohara on March 25. Kohara thanked Meserve for notifying Japan of the error. Econoff delivered [...]
2008-03-27 04:33:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL TW CH JA
08TOKYO856OPPOSITION DPJ PARLIAMENTARIAN EDANO ON TIBET
[...] (C) Summary: The Fukuda cabinet's response to the situation in Tibet has been unsatisfactory and their public statements on Tibet have been too weak, opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) parliamentarian Yukio Edano told Embassy Tokyo on March 24. China needs to grant diplomats and forei [...]
2008-03-28 08:03:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CH JA
08TOKYO912JAPAN DISCUSSIONS OF TRILATERAL ECON TIES FOCUS ON
[...] (C) Summary: Japan's desire to leverage cooperation with the U.S. in dealing with China figured prominently in discussions March 27 between Japanese officials and visiting economic section heads from Embassies Beijing and Seoul. On climate change, for example, the GOJ wants U.S. assistance [...]
2008-04-03 08:16:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALECIN ENRG EINV PREL ETTC JA CH KS OECD
08TOKYO94CHINESE 2007 ASAT TEST DEMARCHE: JAPAN'S RESPONSE
[...] (U) This contains an action request in paragraph 3. 2. (S//NF) Embassy Tokyo's Political Minister Counselor delivered the message regarding China's 2007 ASAT test (reftel) to Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs North America Bureau Deputy Director General Koji Haneda and Asia Bureau Deputy [...]
2008-01-11 05:39:00Embassy TokyoSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM MNUC CH JA
08TOKYO945RULING COALITION DIET MEMBERS ON CHINA, TIBET, AND
[...] (C) Summary: China needs to increase its transparency and react calmly to the situation in Tibet, but its handling of the situation there should not be linked to the Olympics, influential ruling coalition Diet members told Embassy Tokyo over the past several days. While the Japanese Governmen [...]
2008-04-07 08:43:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV PREL CH TW JA
08TOKYO960AMBASSADOR AND VFM YABUNAKA DISCUSS BILATERAL
[...] (C) Recent incidents involving U.S. servicemen have highlighted the need for the United States and Japan to make efforts to strengthen grassroots public support for and understanding of our alliance's strategic importance, the Ambassador told VFM Yabunaka on April 8. While VFM Yabunaka agreed [...]
2008-04-08 09:52:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR RU CH JA
08TOKYO976MOFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES G-8 PREPS, AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Ministry Senior Foreign Policy Coordinator Takehiro Funkoshi told visiting EAP/J Director that the four major political issues facing the upcoming G-8 summit will be Afghanistan, climate change, Tibet, and G-8 expansion. Japan plans to step up its engagement with Afghani [...]
2008-04-09 09:21:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL AF AU KS CH TT JA
08TRIPOLI466CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): CONVERSION OF THE RABTA CHEMICAL WEAPONS PRODUCTION FACILITY
[...] (C) Summary: The GOL's lead interlocutor on CWC issues told us: 1) conversion of the Rabta chemical weapons production facility would not be completed until December 2009 (which the GOL appears to have known since early 2006),2) the GOL would not submit a new National Paper at the upcoming June 2 [...]
2008-06-15 15:48:00Embassy TripoliCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW CH JA IT LY
08ULAANBAATAR315CHINESE VICE PRESIDENT XI VISITS MONGOLIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Xi Jinping, Vice President of the People's Republic of China, paid an official visit to Mongolia June 19 to 21. He met with the President, Speaker of Parliament and Prime Minister. Thirteen bilateral agreements were signed during the visit, highlighting expanding economic ties [...]
2008-06-25 01:08:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON SOCI MN CH
08USEUBRUSSELS980USG NON-PAPER ON NASA-CNSA CIVIL SPACE COOPERATION
[...] (C//NF) USEU EconOff on June 27 delivered USG non-paper to Paul Weissenberg, Director of the Aerospace, GMES, Security, and Defense Directorate in the European Commission,s Directorate General for Enterprise. Weissenberg was very appreciative of the notification, explaining that it is good to [...]
2008-06-27 10:31:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCH KSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL
08USUNNEWYORK117363RD 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 63rd United Nations General Assembly. 2. (U) To achieve U.S. objectives for the 63rd UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, East Asian and Pacific Islands support was [...]
2008-12-16 00:34:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALBP BX CB CH ECON FJ FM ID JA KR KS LA MG
08USUNNEWYORK667LAUNCH OF UN EARLY RECOVERY APPEAL FOR SICHUAN
[...] (U) On July 25, 2008, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched the UN China Appeal for Early Recovery Support to Assist Wenchuan Earthquake Victims. The appeal was announced July 16 in Beijing (see reftel.) In an historic move, the Chinese government requested the support of [...]
2008-07-25 22:44:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDCH ECON EFIN EIND PHUM UNDP
08USUNNEWYORK834AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS WITH CHINESE PERMREP
[...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Khalilzad met with Chinese PermRep Guangya Wang on September 16. On Kosovo, Wang said the Serbian request to seek an ICJ advisory opinion was a clever idea, and one that the U.S. should support. On Burma, Wang agreed that nothing concrete had been achieved by the UN,s [...]
2008-09-18 17:18:00USUN New YorkSECRETPREL PGOV CH BM
08USUNNEWYORK859SHARP DEBATE ON UKRAINE MARKS UN GENERAL COMMITTEE
[...] (U) Summary: The UN General Committee (GC) met September 17 to inscribe items on the agenda of the 63rd UNGA, which opened September 16, and to allocate them to the Main Committees or Plenary. There were no votes in the General Committee, but several controversial items were deferred for fut [...]
2008-09-22 23:18:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA PHUM CH TW
08VATICAN14POST ANALYSIS OF PAPAL ADDRESS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS
[...] (C) Summary: In his annual address on January 7 to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI provided an overview of the Vatican's concerns on a broad range of issues and hot spots. As revealing as his actual words are the Pope's omissions and nuances. Among the cou [...]
2008-01-14 16:41:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KIRF PHUM CU CH VE LE IS IR IZ VT
08VATICAN18CHINA: CARDINAL ZEN ON HOLY SEE'S CHINA DIPLOMACY
[...] (C) Summary: According to Cardinal Zen, the Holy See's lack of China expertise within its top ranks has resulted in an ineffective relation with the Government of China (GoC) that fails to take advantage of the window of opportunity afforded by Beijing's preoccupation with its international im [...]
2008-01-31 07:08:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI CH VT
08VIENTIANE111LAOS: PLANS FOR FIVE LARGE DAMS ON THE MEKONG
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past year the Government of Laos has signed 5 Memoranda of Understanding with companies from China, Vietnam, and Thailand to develop large dams on the mainstream of the Mekong river where both banks are within Laos. Four of the dams are estimated to individually produ [...]
2008-02-15 02:47:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALEAGR ENRG EIND SENV BEXP LA VM CH CB
08VIENTIANE202PLANNED CHINESE DEVELOPMENT IN VIENTIANE GENERATES
[...] (C) Summary: A public controversy -- a rare thing in Laos -- is brewing over government plans to give a Chinese firm a large 1600-hectare concession near the revered That Luang monument close to the Vientiane city center. Although originally described as a location for 2,000-3,000 workers ( [...]
2008-03-31 10:03:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EINV SOCI LA CH
08VIENTIANE226GMS SUMMIT CELEBRATES IMPROVED REGIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: The third Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit March 30-31 featured the meeting of all six GMS heads of state in Laos. The GMS leaders agreed to the "Vientiane Plan of Action for GMS Development," an ambitious 5-year plan with a reported $20 billion price tag. During the two h [...]
2008-04-11 04:37:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALECON EINV PREL ETRD PGOV LA CH CM VN BM TH
09ABUDHABI1070UAE'S HIGH PROFILE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] (SBU) Summary. In the five months since the State Department released its annual trafficking in persons(TIP) country reports, the UAE government has taken highly visible steps to crack down on human trafficking through enhanced measures of prevention, protection, and prosecution. Immediate re [...]
2009-11-12 12:21:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ELAB KTIP KCRM AE BG CH IN NP PK RP
09ABUJA2170CHINESE OIL COMPANIES NOT SO WELCOME IN NIGERIA'S
[...] (C) Two xxxxxxxxxxxx officials recently volunteered that Chinese oil companies had made a lot of mistakes in Nigeria and neither official welcomed their presence. Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) xxxxxxxxxxxx said on xxxxxxxxxxxx the NNPC is aware of how the Chinese have behaved in the Sud [...]
2009-12-02 11:16:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALECON EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL NI CH
09ADDISABABA277AU SUMMIT: AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH CHINESE
[...] (C) Summary: On January 30, AF Acting Assistant Secretary Phillip Carter met with Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister for Africa Zhai Jun on the margins of the AU Summit. Zhai was chiefly interested in trying to talk the United States out of its stated opposition to a UN Security Council Articl [...]
2009-02-03 11:57:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AU SU CH
09ADDISABABA899CODEL CARNAHAN MEETING WITH CHINESE IPU DELEGATION
[...] (SBU) On April 7, CODEL Carnahan met the Chinese delegation from the National People's Congress (NPC) on the margins of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly, held in Addis Ababa. The two delegations emphasized the importance of the bilateral relationship and discussed opportunities for [...]
2009-04-21 10:30:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV CH ET SU
09AITTAIPEI1029CODEL BERMAN'S AUGUST 20-22 VISIT TO TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials expressed appreciation for U.S. assistance in response to Typhoon Morakot during the August 20-22 visit of CODEL Berman. President Ma Ying-jeou and opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen both underscored the importance of U.S. security commitments to Taiwan, including th [...]
2009-08-25 08:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALOREP OVIP MASS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM TW CH
09AITTAIPEI1064CROSS-STRAIT PASSENGER FLIGHTS MORE THAN DOUBLE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On August 31, the number of direct cross-Strait passenger flights increased from 108 to 270 per week, pursuant to an April 26 Taiwan-PRC agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, flights from Taiwan's two major airports to any of the 21 approved destinations in the PRC are d [...]
2009-09-01 10:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR EINV PREL PGOV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI1070DALAI LAMA'S VISIT TO TAIWAN THUS FAR HAS LIMITED
[...] (C) Summary. The Dalai Lama's August 30 arrival in Taiwan caused the PRC to cancel or postpone a range of activities related to the gradual increase in cross-Strait economic cooperation. However, the overall economic impact of the PRC,s actions to protest the Dalai Lama's visit appears to be l [...]
2009-09-02 09:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI1075NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR: F-16S A TEST OF U.S.
[...] (S) Summary: Taiwan will approach political discussions with China with great caution, National Security Advisor Su Chi stressed to the Director during their September 1 introductory call. The Director in turn highlighted the need for close U.S.-Taiwan dialogue as this process goes forward. T [...]
2009-09-02 10:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRETPREL MARR MASS ECON TW CH
09AITTAIPEI1076VICE PRESIDENT TELLS DIRECTOR DALAI LAMA VISIT MAY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During the Director's September 2 introductory call, Vice President Vincent Siew said Taiwan hoped to begin discussions with the PRC on a bilateral Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) in the fourth quarter of 2009, but noted it was unclear if the Dalai Lamai's visit to [...]
2009-09-02 11:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAGR SENV EINV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI1082DALAI LAMA VISIT ROILS CROSS-STRAIT TIES, TAIWAN'S
[...] (C) Summary: While the initial fall-out from the Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan should be manageable, the trip could damage Beijing's confidence in President Ma Ying-jeou in the longer term, according to the KMT official responsible for China affairs. The visit has been a major topic in Taiwan [...]
2009-09-03 10:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR AEMR PGOV PHUM XE CH TW
09AITTAIPEI1154VISIT OF PRC CENTRAL BANK OFFICIAL FAILS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Taiwan officials say negotiations on a cross-Strait financial MOU are essentially complete, but political considerations appear to have delayed the signing. During his September 7-14 visit to Taipei, People's Bank of China (PBC) Deputy Governor Su Ning canceled his meeting with C [...]
2009-09-23 06:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
09AITTAIPEI1201THE DIRECTOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON DEFENSE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In an introductory meeting with Director on October 5, Defense Minister Kao Hua-chu reiterated that F-16 C/Ds, submarines, utility helicopters and the two remaining batteries of PAC-3 air defense missiles were Taiwan's most pressing priorities. Minister Kao also noted the continu [...]
2009-10-06 07:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS TW CH
09AITTAIPEI1396TAIWAN ANTICIPATES CONTINUED ADVANCES IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan officials have confirmed that the next round of economic talks with the PRC will take place in Taichung on December 21-25, when both sides are slated to ink agreements on agricultural inspection and quarantine, industrial standards, double taxation, and fisheries practices [...]
2009-11-24 10:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI1445TALKS WITH THE PRC ON TRACK AMIDST CONCERN ABOUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The fourth round of talks between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) remain on track to take place in Taichung on December 21-23. The talks are expected to produce bilateral agreements to enhance c [...]
2009-12-08 09:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI170VICE PRESIDENT DISCUSSES ECONOMY, U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] (C) In a February 13 meeting with AIT Director Young, Vice President Vincent Siew said Taiwan's economy faces "a very difficult year", with prospects for growth tenuous at best. According to Siew, the island's economy requires "fundamental restructuring" in order to attract foreign investment. [...]
2009-02-13 10:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD CH TW
09AITTAIPEI181CEPD CHAIRMAN SURVEYS BLEAK ECONOMY IN FEBRUARY 18
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 18 meeting with the Director, Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) Director Chen Tain-jy said exports will be a key indicator in determining when Taiwan's economy has bottomed out, and noted that recent upticks in short term export orders may be a hop [...]
2009-02-18 09:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL EAGR ELAB EFIN TW CH
09AITTAIPEI182TAIWAN PRESIDENT MA ASKS NODEL BERKLEY TO SUPPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a February 15-20 Taiwan visit by Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-NEV),President Ma Ying-jeou asked for her help in achieving a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA),a bilateral extradition agreement, visa waiver status for Taiwan travelers, and meaningful participation [...]
2009-02-18 10:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CVIS ETRD ECON CH TW
09AITTAIPEI188SEF CHAIRMAN PREVIEWS NEXT ROUND OF TALKS WITH
[...] (C) Summary. Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang discussed the status of cross-Strait economic relations and previewed Ma administration objectives for the next round of talks with China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) during a February 19 meeting [...]
2009-02-19 08:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV EAIR CH TW
09AITTAIPEI189TAIWAN FSC CHAIRMAN SAYS BANKS STRONG, ASKS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Chairman Sean Chen of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) told AIT Director Young Taiwan banks are strong enough to weather the current financial downturn, although profitability remains an issue. Unwilling to forecast the length or depth of the current recession, he said [...]
2009-02-19 08:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW
09AITTAIPEI268MA ECONOMIC POLICY PRESENTS CHALLENGES - AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Entering office last May determined to build cross-Strait economic ties and recharge Taiwan's economic growth, the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou has instead been confronted with an unprecedented global economic downturn. Nearly a year into its tenure, the Ma administrat [...]
2009-03-11 08:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL EAGR EFIN PINR TW CH
09AITTAIPEI302TAIWAN EXPANDS ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION WITH THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Unofficial Taiwan-PRC interaction on the environment has been ongoing since 1987, primarily sponsored by academic institutions advising Taiwan companies investing in the PRC. These exchanges have since grown, and private Taiwan entities regularly advise PRC government agencies o [...]
2009-03-19 04:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALSENV ECON PGOV PREL ETRD TW CH
09AITTAIPEI362TAIWAN FINALIZING AGENDA FOR NEXT ROUND OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. Taiwan hopes to schedule the next round of talks between the Straits Exchange Foundation and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait for mid-May, although the actual date has yet to be confirmed with Beijing. The agenda for the talks will encompass cross-Str [...]
2009-03-27 09:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
09AITTAIPEI378TAIWAN MULLS NEW ACRONYM FOR CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Under domestic political pressure, the Ma administration plans to adopt a new acronym to describe its planned economic cooperation pact with the PRC. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) In an April 1 conversation with econoff, a senior Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) official noted that potentia [...]
2009-04-01 07:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
09AITTAIPEI404TAIWAN SATELLITE PROGRAM GOING NATIVE
[...] (C) This is an action cable. Please see para. 6 2. (C) SUMMARY. Taiwan's National Space Program Office Director Miau Jiun-jih told us April 1 that the NSPO's existing two satellite programs, the Formosat-2 and Formosat-3, are continuing to operate as scheduled and have exceeded expectat [...]
2009-04-06 05:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALTSPA ETTC KSCA PREL CH TW
09AITTAIPEI415TAIWAN OFFICIALS OUTLINE PLANS FOR CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During the April 1-3 visit of an interagency trade delegation led by Deputy Assistant USTR Eric Altbach (septels),senior Taiwan officials outlined Taiwan's plans to negotiate a bilateral Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with the PRC. Although details remain vague, [...]
2009-04-07 10:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
09AITTAIPEI457LEVERAGING U.S.-TAIWAN GLOBAL ISSUES COOPERATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As advanced-economy democracies, the U.S. and Taiwan already cooperate closely on a broad range of global issues. In addition to the many benefits inherent in our bilateral cooperation, the expansion of cross-Strait ties (septel) gives us new options for reinforcing U.S. global i [...]
2009-04-15 02:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALSENV PGOV PREL ECON ETRD SOCI EAID TW CH
09AITTAIPEI59TAIWAN'S MEMORY CHIP SECTOR FACING RESTRUCTURING
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan's DRAM manufacturers are in trouble. A combination of over-production, price drops beginning in 2007, and stagnant demand during most of 2008 has produced a serious liquidity problem. Two of the leading producers have looked to the Ma administration for relief. The stakes [...]
2009-01-14 22:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD CH TW
09AITTAIPEI674TAIWAN PREPARES TO ALLOW PRC INVESTMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In early July, Taiwan plans to open its economy to PRC investment for the first time. Although Taiwan is by some measures the largest external investor in Mainland China, Taiwan has cited national security grounds in banning virtually all PRC investment in its own economy. Taiwan [...]
2009-06-09 09:09:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI711CHINA SENDS BUYING MISSIONS TO TAIWAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. A series of large trade missions from the PRC have recently come to Taiwan to place significant orders for products ranging from consumer electronics components to agricultural products. These buying missions, according to public and private sector experts, will likely give Taiw [...]
2009-06-15 09:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL TW CH
09AITTAIPEI729THE DIRECTOR'S JUNE 17 FAREWELL CALL ON VICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a June 17 farewell call on Vice Premier Paul Chiu, the Director stressed the importance of promptly opening Taiwan's market to all U.S. beef imports. The Vice Premier acknowledged that beef has long been a major bilateral trade irritant, and was optimistic that the issue co [...]
2009-06-18 07:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EAGR EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
09AITTAIPEI732 TERRORISM FINANCE: UN DESIGNATION OF ABDUL HAQ, AKA
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to Abdul Haq designated on April 15, 2009, by the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee (1267 Committee) for targeted sanctions. [...]
2009-06-18 08:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID UNSC ECON CH TW
09AITTAIPEI739TAIWAN RESPONSE TO U.S. VIEWS ON THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) On June 17, ESTH officer delivered reftel points to Mr. Hsu Ting Chang, Chief of the Task Force on International Environmental Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (SBU) Hsu stated that German officials have expressed a desire for Taiwan participation in IRENA. Because IRENA [...]
2009-06-22 07:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALENRG KGHG SENV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI766TAIWAN'S MOOTED TRADE PACT WITH THE PRC: STILL A
[...] (SBU) Summary. Although details about the scope and timing of a possible cross-Strait economic cooperation agreement remain scarce, the Ma administration continues to move forward on an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with the PRC. Officials, academics and industry executives [...]
2009-06-25 08:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI791TAIWAN POWERCHIP CHAIRMAN ON FUTURE OF MEMORY CHIP
[...] (C) Summary. During a June 29 farewell call with the Director, Powerchip Semiconductor Chairman Frank Huang expressed guarded optimism about the future of Taiwan's DRAM memory chip sector. Huang dismissed the possibility of a restructuring of the sector, saying the Taiwan Memory Corporation [...]
2009-06-30 08:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV TW CH
09AITTAIPEI795THE DIRECTOR'S JUNE 30 FAREWELL CALL ON VICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 30 farewell call with the Director, Vice President Vincent Siew on his own initiative said "the beef issue will be solved soon," but did not provide a detailed timeline. Looking wan but engaged after recent cancer surgery, the Vice President called for a vibrant U.S.-Ta [...]
2009-06-30 09:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON ETRD PREL EAGR TW CH
09AITTAIPEI849TAIWAN CROSS-STRAIT POLICY EXPERTS HIGHLIGHT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent meetings with AIT officers, senior staff at Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) and Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) underscored what they characterize as generally favorable public perceptions of Ma administration efforts to pursue closer economic integration wi [...]
2009-07-14 09:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV TW CH
09AMEMBASSYHANOI909Vietnam 'Unfriends' Facebook
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following weeks of speculation that the Government of Vietnam was considering blocking the popular social networking site Facebook, Internet users' worst fears began to materialize in mid November. The blockage began at first with only a few Internet service providers in certain re [...]
2009-11-25 09:30:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALEINT ETTC PHUM KPAO VM CH
09ANKARA983TURKEY: ANKARA'S UIGHUR PARADOX
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite President Gul's recent trip to China, the GOT leadership has vocally condemned Chinese Government actions against the ethnically Turkic Uighurs in Urumqi. PM Erdogan characterized the violence as a "massacre" and called on Beijing to end its siege. Reflecting Erdogan's p [...]
2009-07-09 17:55:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL CH TU
09ASHGABAT15TURKMENISTAN: DELAY OF COMPLETION OF GAS PIPELINE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a recent statement released by the Turkmen state information agency, a detailed status report on the construction of the gas pipeline to China omitted mention of the long anticipated 2009 start of operatio [...]
2009-01-06 13:14:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ECON PREL CH TX
09ASHGABAT1627TURKMENISTAN: MORE CHINESE LOANS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) On December 13, Turkmen and Chinese officials signed a number of intergovernmental agreements stipulating that the Chinese government will provide soft loans to Turkmenistan through China's Export-Import Bank. According to [...]
2009-12-17 12:58:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET PGOV EINV EFIN CH TX
09ASHGABAT235TURKMEN PREFERENCES MAY DETERMINE THE FORM AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Longtime resident and EU TACIS program coordinator Michael Wilson,s contacts and knowledge of business activities in Turkmenistan give him a bird,s eye view of energy sector development. On February 11 he shared his perspectives on the dramas that are currently unfolding as th [...]
2009-02-17 13:03:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EPET EINV TX CH
09ASHGABAT379TURKMENISTAN: STATE AGENCY DIRECTOR KAKAYEV
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Director of the State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbons shared his thoughts on Turkmenistan's offshore and offshore development efforts, and explained the country's willingness to sign production sharing agreements (PSAs) with interested partner nations like [...]
2009-03-24 11:16:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV EPET EINV TX CH IR
09ASHGABAT380TURKMEN GAS DIRECTOR EXPOUNDS ON PRODUCTION,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The director of the Turkmen State Gas Concern (Turkmengas) recently described the company's responsibilities and activities, and discussed the Turkmenistan Government's hopes for development of its hydrocarbon resources. He indicated that Turkmengas is moving forward with the [...]
2009-03-24 12:37:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV EPET EINV TX CH RS
09ASHGABAT393TURKMENISTAN: CHINA KNOWS PATIENCE PAYS OFF HERE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Chinese ambassador to Turkmenistan described the relationship with Berdimuhamedov's government as positive, yet more stand-offish than in former President Niyazov's time. That said, CNPC is making progress on its Turkmenistan-China pipeline, although only half of this twin [...]
2009-03-27 08:57:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV EINV EPET TX CH
09ASHGABAT396TURKMENISTAN: WINTERSHALL MANAGER PROVIDES RANGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: German-based Wintershall's country manager recently provided a broad picture of the challenges and intrigues of doing business in the energy sector here. The manager described some of the complexities of interacting with Turkmen energy officials, most of whom cling tightly to [...]
2009-03-30 10:14:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV EPET EINV TX RS IR CH
09ASHGABAT619TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UN DESIGNATION OF ABDUL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-15 08:17:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID CH TX
09ASHGABAT704TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON RECEPTIVE TO PROPOSALS THAT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Morningstar delegation's meeting with Chevron's country manager was an opportunity to exchange information and brainstorm on creative ways that U.S. energy companies can try to engage Turkmen officials on innovative types of agreements. For its part, Chevron is willing to [...]
2009-06-08 12:01:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV EPET EINV TX CH
09ASHGABAT849SOME INSIGHTS INTO HOW TURKMENISTAN SUPPORTS THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The cost of living in Turkmenistan has risen dramatically since exchange rate unification and redenomination, without an improvement in the standard of living. According to the International Monetary Fund and financial experts in Ashgabat, the Turkmen manat is strong due to a [...]
2009-07-07 09:31:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EFIN EIND TX RU PK CH IR
09ASMARA143CHINA'S MERCANTILIST AID TO ERITREA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China's foreign assistance to Eritrea consists in part of a multi-million dollar shopping spree for Chinese manufactured goods selected by a senior Eritrean official, according to the Chinese ambassador to Eritrea. End Summary. 2. (C) MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR GIFT CARD ----------- [...]
2009-05-04 12:02:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL ECON ER CH
09ASMARA195CHINESE MINING WOES IN ERITREA
[...] (C) LOWERED CHINESE EXPECTATIONS: The Chinese mining company "Eritrea-China Exploration and Mining Company" (ECEM),one of four Chinese mining or exploration companies operating in Eritrea, has run into substantial problems and is pessimistic about its prospects, according to a well-placed Ch [...]
2009-06-25 12:29:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALEMIN ECON PINS PREL ER CH
09ASMARA363ISAIAS ZEDONG?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, who trained as a political commissar in China during the depths of the Cultural Revolution, continues to idolize Mao, remains fond of China, and governs Eritrea and its relations with the outside world based on his decades of experience as a rev [...]
2009-10-20 10:12:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ER CH
09ASTANA1034 KAZAKHSTAN: ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE, MAY 24-JUNE 6
[...] SUMMARY: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press and has not been verified for accuracy. -- Reorganization in Response to Five-Year Plan -- Banking Sector News -- Samruk-Kazyna Establishes New Direct Investment Fund -- May Inflation -- Critic Suggests Revising [...]
2009-06-17 10:01:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EPET ENRG EINV EFIN ELAB CH KZ
09ASTANA1035 KAZAKHSTAN: DOING BUSINESS WITH CHINA
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 11, Energy Officer met separately with a Western manager from the U.S. oil services company Baker Hughes and an American partner with the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, both of whom shared experience [...]
2009-06-17 10:54:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINR ECON EPET EINV ELAB SMIG CH KZ
09ASTANA1210 KAZAKHSTAN: LOCAL UIGHURS CONCERNED ABOUT UNREST IN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Kazakhstani media outlets, think tanks, and interest groups are expressing concern that Uighur-related unrest in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) may negatively affect Kazakhstan because of Kazakhsta [...]
2009-07-21 10:27:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM CH KZ
09ASTANA1292 KAZAKHSTAN: UNHCR, UIGHUR ACTIVIST HAVE RECEIVED NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A UNHCR official told us on July 28 that UNHCR has received no reports that Kazakhstani authorities have deported Chinese Uighurs back to China. However, he was aware of several cases of Uighur refugee activists being detained by the Almaty police for several hours, which he bel [...]
2009-07-30 07:07:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM CH KZ
09ASTANA1438 KAZAKHSTAN: SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging, frank, and lively conversation on August 25, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard M. Morningstar discussed regional energy security with a panel of senior government officials, including the Deputy Chairman of the National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna, Timu [...]
2009-08-26 10:32:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV EPET IR RS CH GG
09ASTANA1445 KAZAKHSTAN: PRIME MINISTER BRIEFS SPECIAL ENVOY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 26, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard M. Morningstar met with Prime Minister Karim Masimov to discuss economic and energy security issues, including oil and gas export routes from Central Asia, the September 14 Caspian Sea Summit in Aktau, the influence of Russ [...]
2009-08-27 11:05:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV EPET CH RS TX KZ
09ASTANA1449 KAZAKHSTAN: SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 26, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard M. Morningstar met with Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) Sauat Mynbayev to discuss two oil export projects: the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pipeline expansion and the Kazakhstan Caspian Transportation [...]
2009-08-28 10:27:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV EPET AJ CH RS TX KZ
09ASTANA169 KAZAKHSTAN: SOUTH KOREANS SEEKING INVESTMENTS, BUT GLOBAL
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff met several times in January with South Korean Embassy First Secretary Lee Jooil and Second Secretary Lee Moon-bae to discuss economic relations between Kazakhstan and Korea. They explained that overall bi [...]
2009-01-28 11:15:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG EPET KS CH KZ
09ASTANA170 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE, JANUARY 4 - JANUARY
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press and has not been verified for accuracy. -- New Refinancing Rate -- Update from Samruk-Kazyna -- Humanitarian Aid for Tajikistan -- Arcelor Mittal To Modernize Coal Mines -- China To Build A Gas-Fired Power Plant [...]
2009-01-28 11:15:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EFIN EIND ENRG EPET KTDB TI CH IN KZ
09ASTANA1843KAZAKHSTAN PRESSES AGAIN ON OSCE SUMMIT, ANNUAL
[...] (C) To follow up on the October 7-8 visit to Astana by Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, the Ambassador met on October 12 with Deputy Foreign Kairat Umarov to seek clarification how the Foreign Ministry would coordinate Kazakhstan's inter-agency process to designate a single lead ent [...]
2009-10-13 08:12:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OSCE RS CH AF KZ
09ASTANA1967 KAZAHKSTAN: DAS KROL COMPARES NOTES WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: SCA DAS George Krol met with Security Council Deputy Chairman Marat Shaikhutdinov in Astana on October 29. Their meeting was a refreshingly open "exchange of views," in which Shaikhutdinov, hand-picked from the Foreign Ministry by Security Council Chairman Marat Tazhin, asserte [...]
2009-11-05 03:45:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MARR SNAR CH RS AF ZK
09ASTANA2066 KAZAKHSTAN: DEPUTY SECRETARY OF NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (S) SUMMARY: On November 12, Deputy Director of the Marshall Center, Dr. James MacDougall, met with Kazakhstan's Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC),Marat Shaikhutdinov, to discuss continued support for participation in Marshall Center programs. Shaikhutdinov -- and form [...]
2009-11-19 10:29:00Embassy AstanaSECRETPGOV PREL PINR MARR CH RS UZ KZ
09ASTANA2095 KAZAKHSTANI UIGHUR GROUPS REFUSE TO SING AND DANCE IN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Following unrest in July and August in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR),Kazakhstan's ethnic Uighurs -- one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic groups in Kazakhstan and an important political force -- criticized the Chinese government and staged a large prote [...]
2009-11-25 11:30:00Embassy AstanaSECRETPGOV PHUM PREL PINR SOCI KDEM CH KZ
09ASTANA2168 KAZAKHSTAN: HU JINTAO'S PIPELINE DIPLOMACY SUCCESS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Prior to Chinese President Hu Jintao's December 12 visit to Kazakhstan, the media touted Kazakhstani and Chinese positive expectations for the visit, as well as reports of a demonstration in protest of a Chinese i [...]
2009-12-22 01:02:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EPET SOCI CH RS TX KZ
09ASTANA2190 KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON LOGISTICS
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) President Nursultan Nazarbayev gave his annual summing up to the diplomatic corps on December 22. Since he broke no new ground on any issue, we are reporting only excerpts from his presentation about issues of special in [...]
2009-12-22 08:27:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EPET MARR SENV OSCE EU CH RS
09ASTANA2202 KAZAKHSTAN'S VIEWS ON ITS NEIGHBORS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake thanked State Secretary-Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev and President Nazarbayev's foreign policy advisor Kairat Sarybai for Kazakhst [...]
2009-12-23 05:07:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ETRD ECON OSCE AF CH IN IR KZ
09ASTANA235 KAZAKHSTANI ACADEMICS DISCUSS RELATIONS WITH CHINA,
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In December, PolOff met with several academics from one of Kazakhstan's most prestigious universities, Al-Farabi National University in Almaty. PolOff's interlocutors stressed the importance of Kazakhstan's balan [...]
2009-02-10 01:39:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI KPAO KDEM CH KZ
09ASTANA348KAZAKHSTAN: CHINESE AMBASSADOR DENIES ANY CHINESE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Cheng Guoping told the Ambassador on February 24 that he expects China will agree to participate in the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) for commercial shipment of non-lethal supplies to Afghanistan. He described China's principal objective in [...]
2009-02-25 08:18:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MARR CH AF RS KG UP KZ
09ASTANA380 KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, FEBRUARY 17 - 27
[...] The "Almaty Notes" series from U.S. Office Almaty focuses on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital." OPPOSITION PARTIES CRITICIZE THE ELECTION LAW 2. On February 18, four opposition parties -- Azat, the National Social Democratic P [...]
2009-03-03 07:46:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KDEM CH KZ
09ASTANA420KAZAKHSTAN: NO GRAND BARGAIN IN THE WORKS
[...] (S) SUMMARY: As EEB DAS Hengel conveyed to the Ambassador (ref A),a Shell oil executive expressed concern on March 4 that economic problems in Kazakhstan increase the likelihood that the government will turn to Russia or China for financial assistance. If that were to happen, Shell is conc [...]
2009-03-06 09:44:00Embassy AstanaSECRETPGOV ECON EINV EPET RS CH KZ
09ASTANA521KAZAKHSTAN: PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR SMUGGLING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The State Department's Preventing Nuclear Smuggling Program conducted a table-top nuclear smuggling exercise in Astana February 24-25. Almost 20 Kazakshtani officials from eight government agencies attended the event. Kazakhstan is currently finalizing a national nuclear smuggl [...]
2009-03-20 08:41:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PTER MARR MNUC KNNP CH KZ
09ASTANA588 KAZAKHSTAN: LIFE IN A SMALL MINING TOWN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: PolOff visited Ridder, a mining town in East Kazakhstan oblast March 8-12, and had an opportunity to observe the local socio-economic environment. Close to the Russian and Chinese borders, Ridder seems almost lik [...]
2009-04-03 10:19:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ECON EMIN SENV SOCI CH RS KZ
09ASTANA623KAZAKHSTAN: U.S. ASSISTANCE HELPS CUSTOMS CONTROL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post's Export and Related Border Security (EXBS) and Department of Energy (DOE) offices have provided assistance to strengthen border security at many of Kazakhstan's 112 border crossing points. Typical site assessments indicate Kazakhstan's border crossing points typically pro [...]
2009-04-12 07:57:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL MNUC KNNP CH KZ
09ASTANA714 KAZAKHSTANI FM TAZHIN'S PRIORITIES FOR HIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Previewing for the Ambassador his May 4-5 visit to Washington, Foreign Minister Tazhin said: -- he hopes to be prepared to make new "strategic non-military proposals" for enhanced Kazakhstani asssistance in Afghanistan; -- he will be fully prepared to discuss with Secretary [...]
2009-04-27 05:39:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OSCE CH RS KZ
09ASTANA852 KAZAKHSTAN: KOREAN PRESIDENT LEE'S STATE VISIT PROMOTES
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On May 12, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak arrived in Kazakhstan for a three-day state visit (reftel A). Lee and Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev signed a series of documents during the visit, including a joi [...]
2009-05-15 10:55:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ENRG EPET EINV RS CH KS KZ
09ASTANA855 KAZAKHSTAN: ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE, APRIL 16 - MAY 9
[...] SUMMARY: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press and has not been verified for accuracy. -- New Refinancing Rate -- Banking Sector News -- Government Procurement Legislation Signed -- Presidents Discuss Customs Union -- Government to Enhance Control Over Anti- [...]
2009-05-18 06:36:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EPET ENRG EINV EFIN EAGR CH KZ
09ATHENS1581Greece: Government Manages to Suspend Port Strike, But For
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Confronting its first major challenge since taking office, Greece's new PASOK government negotiated a temporary suspension to a dockworkers' strike on October 17. Latching onto PM Papandreou's pre-election promises to re-examine privatization agreements, dockworker unions at t [...]
2009-10-27 11:31:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ELAB GR CH
09ATHENS2064Greek Shippers Drowning in the Wake of Economic Pressures
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A seafaring nation for millennia, the resilience of the Greek shipping industry is being tested seriously for the first time since it rose to modern prominence in the 1960s. As the global economic crisis continues, and the demographics of international trade shift, the Greek sh [...]
2009-11-20 16:11:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHSA KPIR CH GR
09ATHENS933Terrorism Finance: Greek Response on UN Designation of Abdul
[...] (SBU) On May 21, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Ioannis Papadakis, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the Bank of Greece. EconOff f [...]
2009-06-02 10:32:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID CH GR
09BAGHDAD2715CHINA TRAINS IRAQI ARMY PERSONNEL IN DEMINING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Chinese Defense Attach to Iraq confirmed September 21 that the Chinese military is providing training in demining to approximately 20 Iraqi Army officers and 20 Afghan Army officers in the vicinity of Nanjing. People's Republic of China (PRC) Defense Attach Senior COL Wang Ru [...]
2009-10-08 13:49:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPINR PREL PARM EPET KHDP AF CH IZ
09BAGHDAD2966A GOOD WEEK FOR IRAQ'S ECONOMY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Overshadowed by the October 25 bombings and wrangling over the election law, it has been a good few weeks for Iraq on the economic front. Washington hosted the oversubscribed U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference from October 20-21. The Ministry of Oil signed an agreem [...]
2009-11-09 09:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EPET PGOV BEXP IZ CH
09BAMAKO118A CHINESE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER NIGER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-26 11:53:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID CH ECON EIND ETRD EINT ML
09BANGKOK1088 UNESCAP 65TH COMMISSION SESSION DISCUSSES THE FINANCIAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) held its 65th annual session at its headquarters in Bangkok on April 23-29. A recurrent topic of discussion was the current global economic downturn and the meeting's ministerial segment provi [...]
2009-05-01 05:14:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR IR CH INCB KS JA PK RS XB TH
09BANGKOK1190THAI MFA NOT SUSPICIOUS OF GROWING CHINESE POWER
[...] (C) Summary. According to the Thai MFA Director of Chinese Affairs, Thailand agreed that increased transparency of Chinese military intentions would help regional stability, but Thailand had no reason to be concerned with growing Chinese military power and accepted as natural China's growing [...]
2009-05-14 10:52:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPARM PM PREL TH CH
09BANGKOK1196THAI HOUSE SPEAKER ON CONGRESS AND BALANCING
[...] (C) Speaker of the House of Representatives Chai Chidchob, in a May 14 call by the Ambassador, requested assistance in helping the Thai House build stronger ties with its U.S. counterpart. Chai said that the Thai-American Parliamentarian Friendship Group, consisting of 121 members, had reache [...]
2009-05-15 09:17:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ECON TH CH
09BANGKOK2595EXBS: THAILAND/VIETNAM/CAMBODIA ADVISOR MONTHLY
[...] (U) Commonwealth Trading Partners (CTP) conducted an Anti-Corruption and Integrity Awareness Workshop in Thailand, Sep. 14-15. Advisor conducted meetings with post and Vietnamese officials in Hanoi and a visit to Lao Cai border crossing, Sep. 21-25. Advisor met with officials from Thailand's [...]
2009-10-09 09:35:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TH VN CB CH
09BANGKOK2682 CHINA SPARKS HYDRO DEBATE AT MEKONG RIVER COMMISSION
[...] (SBU)SUMMARY. The unprecedented active participation of Chinese officials breathed life into the Mekong River Commission's previously tame annual stakeholders meeting in Chiang Rai on October 15-16. Government and NGO representatives engaged in a lively debate with the Chinese, who presented t [...]
2009-10-20 09:50:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAGR CH ECON
09BANGKOK528CHINESE ASEAN AMBASSADOR COMMENTS ON CLINTON VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Assistant Secretary and U.S. Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs Scot Marciel met with Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN Xue Hanqin, discussing a wide range of ASEAN issues February 28. Xue expressed China's positive impression of Secretary of State Clinton,s visit to Jakarta. She al [...]
2009-03-03 09:51:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TH CH
09BASRAH56BASRA: BP CONFIDENT ABOUT RUMAILA OIL DEAL, PARTNERSHIP WITH
[...] (U) This is a Basra PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary. In an October 1 meeting with PRT Econoffs, BP Iraq Chief Operating Officer David Campbell (strictly protect) expressed confidence that BP and its China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) partner would soon finalize a contract with [...]
2009-10-16 12:36:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALECON EPET EINV IZ CH
09BEIJING10MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, FINANCIAL CRISIS,
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "To cautiously evaluate the future of U.S.-China relations" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/04): "Regarding certain historical lessons after the 10th and 20th Anniversaries, this year the government and the s [...]
2009-01-05 09:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1010MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "U.S. media acknowledged that there is insufficient evidence for the "Chinese hacker" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/16): "Tang Lan from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations tells t [...]
2009-04-16 08:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1012DEMARCHE DELIVERED CONCERNING DESIGNATION OF GOODS
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel A points concerning designation of goods and entities under UNSCR 1718 to Ambassador for Korean Peninsula Issues Yang Houlan in a pull-aside following his meeting with Senior East Asia Advisor for the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Frank [...]
2009-04-16 09:39:00Embassy BeijingSECRETUNSC PARM KN CH KNNP
09BEIJING1013APRIL 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NORTH KOREA, HOLBROOKE VISIT,
[...] Key points at the April 16 MFA press briefing: -- China has "taken note" of reports that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have been expelled from North Korea. -- Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke "exchanged views on issues of common interest [...]
2009-04-16 22:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PARM KNNP KWBG IAEA EFIN AMED CH KS KN
09BEIJING1014CHINA/IPR: ECONOMIC DOWNTURN WEAKENING IPR
[...] (SBU) China is facing increased difficulty in enforcing intellectual property rights (IPR) and preventing "local protectionism" during the economic downturn, Chinese government officials at the Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Ministry of Commerce acknowledged to a recent U.S. government dele [...]
2009-04-17 02:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND KIPR ECON CH
09BEIJING102MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, ISRAEL
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "U.S.-China cooperation promotes world peace" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (01/13): "For these two countries, the U.S.-China relationship has become one of their most important global partnerships. Their relationship is acquiring more a [...]
2009-01-13 09:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1024PRC/DPRK: VFM HE YAFEI DISCUSSES SIX-PARTY TALKS
[...] (C) North Korea has not shut the door to the United States or to Six-Party Talks, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told Staffdel Jannuzi April 16. VFM He downplayed the possibility of a DPRK nuclear test, urged the United States to "keep talking" with the North Koreans and praised U.S.-China co [...]
2009-04-17 08:32:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP OVIP KS CH
09BEIJING1025MEDIA REACTION: MILITARY, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] MILITARY "U.S. conventional military strength ranks NO.1 in the world; Obama is not silly or naove" Elite Reference (Qingnian Cankao),a newspaper affiliated with the official Communist Youth League's China Youth Daily (04/17): "On April the 5th, the U.S. President, during his speech in Pra [...]
2009-04-17 08:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1026CHINESE STILL STUDYING U.S.-PROPOSED DESIGNATIONS
[...] (S) MFA International Organizations and Conferences UN Affairs official Yang Zhiyu told PolOff on April 17 that China was "still studying" the U.S.-proposed designations of goods and entities under UNSCR 1718 conveyed to the MFA on April 15 (ref A). A response, if any, to the U.S. proposal wo [...]
2009-04-17 08:42:00Embassy BeijingSECRETUNSC PARM KN CH KNNP
09BEIJING1028 U.S. Firms Voice Concerns about China's Stimulus Packages
[...] (SBU) Summary: A lack of transparency and "buy local" biases could thwart U.S. companies seeking to benefit from China's considerable stimulus package funding, according to representatives of major U.S. firms. Firms report that the plan has been used to support Chinese firms and create import [...]
2009-04-17 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH
09BEIJING103JANUARY 13 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: MIDDLE EAST, EU, INTERNET
[...] Key points at the January 13 MFA press briefing: -- China is "gravely concerned" that UN Security Council resolution 1860 is "not being implemented" in Gaza. -- China "attaches great importance" to its relationship with the EU -- China calls on France to create conditions for the improv [...]
2009-01-13 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH TW IS XG RW UG BR KN MI SF CB
09BEIJING1032CHINESE ACADEMICS ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Embassy contacts expressed cautious support for the new U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, though our interlocutors argued that the new strategy did not appropriately address the Kashmir issue. They were suspicious of long-term U.S. intentions in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Citin [...]
2009-04-17 10:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR CH PK AF IN
09BEIJING1044MEDIA REACTION: ADMIRAL ROUGHEAD'S VISIT TO CHINA,
[...] ADMIRAL ROUGHEAD'S VISIT TO CHINA a. "The U.S. fears China's anti-warship capabilities" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(04/20): "A former U.S. chief of naval operations once mentioned that China's research int [...]
2009-04-20 08:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1046SRAP HOLBROOKE'S APRIL 15 DINNER WITH CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-20 09:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER EAID NATO MOPS MARR CH PK AF
09BEIJING1047DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: PRC
[...] (C) PolOff conveyed diplomatic note and human rights pledge (ref A) on the U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Division Deputy Director Xu Jing on April 20. Xu referenced her MFA colleague's April 8 re [...]
2009-04-20 09:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNHRC UN CH
09BEIJING1050 Kenyan Ambassador on Growing China
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-21 02:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD PREL SENV CH KE
09BEIJING1055XINJIANG: NO EVIDENCE OBSERVED OF MEDIA-REPORTED
[...] (C) Summary: Despite rumors of arrests of underground or terrorism-related religious practitioners, the overall atmosphere in Xinjiang seemed more relaxed than on previous PolOff trips in advance of and just following the 2008 Olympics (Refs A and B),with no checkpoints and fewer propaganda p [...]
2009-04-21 06:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PTER PREL PGOV KIRF CH
09BEIJING1058China/Oil Reserves: Active Purchases, But Facilities
[...] (SBU) Summary. Beijing is taking advantage of lower oil prices to build up its strategic petroleum reserves (SPR). The four existing SPR facilities - which hold the equivalent of about 25 days of imports - reportedly are now full, challenging China's ability to continue purchasing oil for re [...]
2009-04-21 06:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON SENV CH
09BEIJING1063MEDIA REACTION: FINANCIAL CRISIS, CHINESE NAVY'S
[...] FINANCIAL CRISIS a. "The internal defect and future evolution of the international currency system" 21 Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao) under Guangdong 21 century publishing company Ltd. (04/21): "For more than 30 years, the Dollar Standard System has caused the abnormal dev [...]
2009-04-21 09:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1064BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON HIGH-LEVEL
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing April 17, German Ambassador Michael Schaefer told the group that a Bundestag delegation had been able to hold a dinner meeting with Charter '08 writers and signers after the German Embassy informed the MFA and asked the Chinese government [...]
2009-04-21 09:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING1066GLOBAL TIMES LAUNCHES ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION,
[...] (SBU) People's Daily President Zhang Yannong presided over the official launch of the Global Times English-language edition at an April 20 reception in Beijing. At the event, People's Daily and Global Times editors told us the new English- language publication would maintain the "patriotic" [...]
2009-04-21 11:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1067APRIL 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: UN CONFERENCE ON RACISM,
[...] Key points at the April 21 MFA press briefing: -- China "regrets to see some countries did not attend" the UN Conference on Racism. -- China is ready to play a constructive role in the Middle East and hopes relevant parties follow UN resolutions and use diplomacy to achieve "the peaceful c [...]
2009-04-21 22:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ENRG KPAL IAEA SENV CH EG IS JA RS
09BEIJING1075MEDIA REACTION: EASTERN TURKISH TERRORISTS, CIA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] EASTERN TURKISH TERRORISTS "U.S. punishes Eastern Turkish terrorist leader" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/21): "Recently, the U.S. Department of Finance announced that they would put financial sanctions on the leader of the Eas [...]
2009-04-22 09:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1076CHINA POSTAL LAW DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche on China's Postal Law to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on April 22 in the form of a letter from Charge d'Affaires Daniel Piccuta to Assistant Minister LIU Jieyi. Liu, the most appropriate interlocutor, and the next lowest appropriate interloc [...]
2009-04-22 09:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO CH
09BEIJING1080CROSS-STRAIT FTA A POSSIBILITY?
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan is intent on negotiating with Beijing a comprehensive Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA),equivalent to an FTA, according to a contact who met recently with top officials from both sides. Beijing is amenable to reaching a deal with Taipei that will advance cro [...]
2009-04-23 03:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
09BEIJING1083INNER MONGOLIA GROWTH GOAL "ONLY" 13 PERCENT,
[...] (SBU) Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) officials claimed March 30 that, while the IMAR's resource-based economy was faring better than that of China's export-oriented regions, the province was still feeling the ill effects of the global financial crisis. Some VIPs present at the openin [...]
2009-04-23 04:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EPET PGOV CH
09BEIJING1092MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CHINESE BLOGGERS,
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "China should think more broadly than the west" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/23): "Some people believe that democracy is a general value globally. However, this is a theoretical law. Democracy is not a [...]
2009-04-23 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1094APRIL 23 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Yasukuni Shrine, Dalai Lama,
[...] Key points at the April 23 MFA press briefing: -- A "correct and proper handling" of historic issues is the bedrock of Sino-Japanese relations, and Japan should take appropriate steps to safeguard the relationship following Prime Minister Taro Aso's sending an offering to the Yasukuni Shrine. [...]
2009-04-23 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH JA FR KN KS
09BEIJING1095CNO ADM ROUGHEAD DISCUSSES MIL-MIL TIES, PIRACY,
[...] (S) In an April 18 meeting with Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Gary Roughead, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said China adhered to the principle of peaceful development and noted that the PLA Navy (PLAN) had been expanding to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. AD [...]
2009-04-23 09:57:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL MARR MOPS PBTS PHSA CH KN
09BEIJING1096FOREIGN MEDIA PRESSURED TO COMPLY WITH CODE OF
[...] (C) The Chinese Government issued a new "code of conduct" for PRC staff working at foreign news bureaus on February 13, and although the code largely repeats existing prohibitions on independent news gathering by Chinese assistants, authorities are now enforcing these rules with increased vigo [...]
2009-04-23 10:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1097CHINA'S HEALTHCARE REFORM/REBALANCING:
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's blueprint for healthcare reform released on April 6 is being heavily promoted by the official media but will take years to implement and experts question whether it will address fundamental problems in China's healthcare system. The plan is unlikely to improve trust in [...]
2009-04-23 22:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SOCI CH
09BEIJING11PRC VFM HE YAFEI IN PAKISTAN: SEEKING TO REDUCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-05 09:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER PK IN CH
09BEIJING1107MEDIA REACTION: AMERICAN NETWORK SECURITY, TAIWAN, U.S.
[...] AMERICAN NETWORK SECURITY "American 'Network War Command Office' is set up to control the network power [and security of the U.S.]" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/24): "The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administrat [...]
2009-04-24 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1110MFA ARMS CONTROL DG ON IRAN AND SOUTH ASIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iran remained suspicious of U.S. intentions, but the new approach by the United States and the E3-plus-3 was the best way forward on the nuclear issue, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Director General Cheng Jingye told A/DCM April 24. China had engaged Tehran "at dif [...]
2009-04-24 10:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH PK AF
09BEIJING1113IRANIAN OFFICIAL ADDRESSES BEIJING AUDIENCE ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A visiting Iranian Atomic Energy Agency official told an invited audience of some 30 PRC government officials, Chinese academics, and foreign diplomats (including PolOff) April 23 that Iran considered the attainment of nuclear energy a main policy goal, and argued that sanction [...]
2009-04-24 11:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH IS
09BEIJING1115AUSTR STRATFORD AND DOC DAS KASOFF REVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 31-April 1 visit to Beijing that marked the first USTR/Commerce senior visit under the new Administration, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (AUSTR) for China Affairs Timothy Stratford and Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia Ira Kasoff out [...]
2009-04-25 10:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR EIND WTRO CH
09BEIJING1120U.S. UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE AND PRC DG CHENG
[...] (C) In Beijing to represent Energy Secretary Chu at the April 20-24 International Nuclear Energy Ministerial, U.S. Ambassador to UNVIE Greg Schulte met with MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Director General Cheng Jingye on April 22. Ambassador Schulte complimented DG Cheng for Chi [...]
2009-04-27 06:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC IAEA CH IR NK
09BEIJING1125MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, IRAN, U.S. POLICY, DALAI
[...] NORTH KOREA "Three doubts in North Korean issue" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/27): "There are three questions concerning North Korea's development of nuclear weapons. First, is it a goal or a method? Second, concerning the nu [...]
2009-04-27 08:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1126PRC REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) China would like the United States to be elected to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),MFA International Organizations and Conferences Human Rights Division official Chen Yingzhu told PolOff April 27. Chen requested that the United States support China, and noted that China "thinks highly [...]
2009-04-27 10:06:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNHRC UN CH
09BEIJING113MEDIA REACTION: RUSSIA, ISRAEL, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] RUSSIA "The conflict is on a downward spiral, even though the conflict took a briefly positive turn" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(01/14): "If Russia wants to transfer gas into Europe, it must transport gas through the Ukrainian border. However, Ukraine has not [...]
2009-01-15 09:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1131AGENDA FOR JUNE GICNT PLENARY IN THE HAGUE
[...] On April 29, PolOff joined Arjen van den Berg, Political Counselor at the Dutch Embassy in Beijing, and Andrey Chernyshov, Second Secretary at the Russian Embassy in Beijing, to present the proposed agenda for the June 16-17 2009 Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Plenary Me [...]
2009-04-28 06:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER MNUC KGIC KNNP CH RS NL
09BEIJING1133CHINA/RUSSIA: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS OR STRATEGIC
[...] SUMMARY: In spite of PRC public support for the Sino-Russian "strategic partnership," Chinese officials privately view Russia as "irrational, aggressive and untrustworthy," according to an opinion page editor at a leading state-owned newspaper. Our contact noted that many readers found a rec [...]
2009-04-28 08:17:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS AF
09BEIJING1134MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS, U.S. POLICY,
[...] U.S.-CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS "China and Japan should alleviate the U.S. influence in their countries' future development" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/28): "The Japanese Prime Minister will visit China soon. This brings attentio [...]
2009-04-28 08:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1136APRIL 28 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: UIGHUR DETAINEES, SWINE FLU,
[...] Key points at the April 28 MFA press briefing: -- The Uighur detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay are "members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement" and "should be handed over to China." -- China takes the swine flu issue "seriously" and has "jump started" a program to respond to the t [...]
2009-04-28 22:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER PHUM CH JA FR MX
09BEIJING1147MEDIA REACTION: H1-N1, OBAMA'S 100 DAY, U.S.-CHINA
[...] H1-N1 "H1-N1 approaches East Asia" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/29): "The WHO has upgraded the emergency status of the H1-N1 virus to level 4, this adjustment has created tension in many countries. The U.S. has published its p [...]
2009-04-29 08:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1148PRC-KAZAKHSTAN: NAZARBAYEV VISIT STRESSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The energy deal announced during Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev's April 15-19 visit to China was only a deal "in principle," and Sino-Kazakh energy cooperation was proceeding under "market principles," according to an MFA official. Otherwise, the visit emphasized security and la [...]
2009-04-29 09:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG EAID PTER ZK CH
09BEIJING1149CHINA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER OCTG AND TIRES TRADE CASES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-29 09:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND EMIN KFPC CH
09BEIJING1162DEMARCHE DELIVERED--U.S. DEMONSTRATES SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 08:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON CH
09BEIJING1165MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, OBAMA'S 100 DAYs
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. conducts hundreds of special investigations on China every year" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(04/30): These reports focus on the national security of the U.S. It is believed that the purpose of th [...]
2009-04-30 08:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1168SOMALIA: CHINA'S VIEWS ON COMBATING PIRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China supported the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) and would like to improve military coordination but had to maintain sole control of its military operations and avoid a "military hierarchy," an MFA official told PolOff April 29. The official said China [...]
2009-04-30 09:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH MARR MOPS PGOV PHSA PREL SO
09BEIJING1169PRC SCHOLARS SHARE VIEWS ON AFRICOM, SOMALIA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China "shares African concerns" about U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)'s perceived "militarization" of U.S. policy in Africa, according to two Chinese scholars on Africa. Our contacts expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of prosecuting Somali pirates and urged the United St [...]
2009-04-30 09:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCG CH MARR MOPS PGOV PREL SO EINV
09BEIJING1170APRIL 30 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK, Visas, Japan, Visits
[...] Key points at the April 30 MFA press briefing: -- China hopes that all parties involved can safeguard the Six-Party Talks. China and Japan are both willing to increase communication and coordination for peace and prosperity in East Asia and the world. -- Foreign reports that China is tigh [...]
2009-04-30 09:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH JA FR KN KS SP MX
09BEIJING1172PRC: CHINESE SCHOLARS SUGGEST ACHIEVING NEAR-TERM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese participants at a UK/France-sponsored seminar on UN Security Council Reform April 29 uniformly affirmed the need for UN Security Council reform, though none expressed any urgency in acting on this need. While offering generally positive views of the UK/France "intermedia [...]
2009-04-30 10:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KUNR UN CH JA RS
09BEIJING1173EDITOR SUSPENDED FOR INTERVIEW PRAISING "UNIVERSAL
[...] (C) Zhong Weizhi (protect),the editor-in-chief of China's only national-level "private" newspaper, The Economic Observer, was suspended for publishing an interview with a controversial historian, Zhong told PolOffs March 25. The historian in question, Sun Yat-sen University's Yuan Weishi, ha [...]
2009-04-30 10:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PHUM PGOV KDEM CH
09BEIJING1174BEIJING CONTACTS HAIL ECONOMIC"BREAKTHOUGH" AT
[...] (C) Embassy contacts trumpeted the outcome of the April 25-26 PRC-Taiwan dialogue in Nanjing as a breakthrough for cross-strait economic cooperation. Two contacts noted that the rapid progress since the renewal of talks in June 2008 had "exceeded expectations." The Financial Cooperation Agre [...]
2009-04-30 11:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECIN EFIN ETRD PREL TW CH
09BEIJING1176XXXXXXXXXXXXDISCUSSES G-20, DPRK,
[...] (C) Taiwan's participation as an observer at the upcoming May World Health Assembly (WHA) meetings demonstrated what could be achieved based on "one China, very broadly interpreted," XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX working lunch hosted by the Charge d'Affaires. XXXXXXXXXXXX said he would ask for approp [...]
2009-04-30 13:07:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL ECON EFIN PARM PHUM KUNR CH TW KN KS
09BEIJING1177 CHINA - STATE COUNCIL OPINION URGES
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's State Council issued a seven-point "Opinion" April 10 on "Strengthening Management of Government Procurement" that is a binding administrative prescription with quasi-legal force (unofficial translation at Paragraph 7). Local media portray the new guidelines as targetin [...]
2009-05-03 22:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EINV WTRO PGOV CH
09BEIJING1179NASA DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH CHINA NATIONAL SPACE
[...] (SBU) On April 24, NASA Assistant Administrator (AA) for External Relations Michael O'Brien briefly met with Dr. SUN Laiyan Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to discuss upcoming NASA-CNSA bilateral expert group meetings on cooperation in earth and space science. [...]
2009-05-03 22:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA TSPL TPHY PREL CH
09BEIJING118PRC SCHOLARS SAY CHINESE GOVERNMENT CAUTIOUSLY
[...] (C) Summary: The Chinese Government has distanced itself from Zimbabwean President Mugabe but will not pressure him to step down unless the South African Development Community (SADC) or African Union (AU) calls for his resignation, Chinese scholars recently told PolOff. The scholars agreed t [...]
2009-01-15 08:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH ZI SF
09BEIJING1189MEDIA REACTION: U.S. POLICY, A(H1N1),U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC
[...] U.S. POLICY Quote: "There is strength in Obama's soft-style diplomacy" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(05/04): "It's time to make some conclusions concerning Obama's diplomacy during his first 100 days. Ob [...]
2009-05-04 08:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1196MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CHINA'S INFORMATION
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "China won't worry a smarter U.S." The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/05): "During the first 100 days of Obama's administration, the diplomacy of the U.S. has become smarter. This is the 'smart power' emphas [...]
2009-05-05 08:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1198PRC/MEPP: FM YANG EXPOUNDS ON CHINA'S PEACE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a five-day swing through the Middle East, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi laid out China's five-point plan for progress on the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),according to an MFA official. He conveyed to the new Israeli government hopes expressed by Arab leaders that the M [...]
2009-05-05 11:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS SY EG IR
09BEIJING1199MAY 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: FLU, QUARANTINES, VISA POLICY,
[...] Key points at the May 5 MFA press briefing: -- China has taken "urgent and temporary" measures to "protect the safety of the animal husbandry industry and the people" from the threat of H1N1 Influenza. -- The spokesperson had no information about reports that four American citizens have be [...]
2009-05-05 22:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH MX CE CA AS KU JP
09BEIJING1204SHIELD S13-08: CHINA INFORMED OF PRC FIRMS
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper urging China to investigate and prevent the supply of a key chemical weapons precursor and training to a chemical manufacturing plant in Iran to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Biological and Chemical Weapons Division Deputy Director [...]
2009-05-06 07:47:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING1206INCREASED GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP OF POLITICAL
[...] (C) Aggressive censorship is making it more difficult to hold political discussions online, according to multiple bloggers and online activists. While contacts differed on whether the ongoing "anti-vulgarity" campaign was being employed as cover for the political tightening, all agreed that c [...]
2009-05-06 08:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PROP SCUL SOCI CH TW EINT
09BEIJING1207MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, FINANCIAL
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS a. "China rebuts U.S. Senior Official's criticism" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/06): "Michael Mullen indicated two days ago that China's efforts to strengthen the navy and air force are mainly poi [...]
2009-05-06 08:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1209REPORTS OVERSTATE CHINA'S AID TO ASEAN
[...] (C) Summary. There is less to China's much-heralded April 12 announcement of a multi-billion dollar aid package to ASEAN than media reporting suggests, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry contact. For example, the $10 billion investment cooperation fund will only receive $1 billion in in [...]
2009-05-06 08:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PREL PHUM TH BM CH
09BEIJING1211PRC "OPPOSES" USNS VICTORIOUS PRESENCE IN CHINA'S
[...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for North American and Oceanian Affairs Zheng Zeguang called the Charge to meet for coffee May 6 and during that meeting expressed "firm opposition" to the presence of the USNS Victorious in China's Exclusive Economic Zone. Referring to statemen [...]
2009-05-06 11:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PARM PM CH
09BEIJING1221MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, CHINA
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "U.S. and China deal with naval confrontation in the Yellow Sea quietly" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/07): "Yesterday, the U.S. media reported the confrontation between the U.S. and China in the Y [...]
2009-05-07 08:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1227MAY 7 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HU-OBAMA TELCON, USNS VICTORIOUS,
[...] Key points at the May 7 MFA press briefing: -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President Barack Obama discussed bilateral relations and had an "in-depth exchange of views" on H1N1 influenza, agreeing to cooperate in addressing the issue. The two leaders also discussed the Korean Peninsu [...]
2009-05-07 23:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH MX CE CA AS KU JP
09BEIJING1230CHINA TO SEND DELEGATION TO ISLAMABAD REGIONAL
[...] (U) China will send a delegation to the May 13-14 Islamabad Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Asian Affairs Department Deputy Director Cao Jing. The delegation will be headed by MFA Asian Affairs Department Director General [...]
2009-05-08 03:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP EAGR EAID ECON ENRG KPWR PREL AF CH
09BEIJING124MEDIA REACTION: CHINA DIPLOMACY, MADE IN CHINA
[...] CHINA DIPLOMACY a. "Don't always compare China's strengths with the shortcomings of others" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/15): "Recently, people have been comparing the 30 years since the 'opening up' with the 30 years before i [...]
2009-01-15 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1242China's Qinghai Province Slow to Rebalance Economy and
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Tibetan and other minority communities in rural Qinghai Province see only limited benefits from China's rural development efforts. Like much of rural China, weak local government capacity hinders Chinese Government development efforts throughout rural Qinghai. These problems are [...]
2009-05-08 08:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING1244PRC: DEMARCHE URGING AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASE
[...] (C) In response to reftel points requesting that China urge the Government of Burma to release democratic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, MFA Asian Affairs Department Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam Division Deputy Director Chen Chen told PolOff May 8 that China hoped that all parties in [...]
2009-05-08 09:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CH BM
09BEIJING1246CHINA - SHIP RECYCLING DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Econoff coordinated with the Australian Embassy to deliver the demarche on the International Maritime Organization's (IMO's) Ship Recycling Convention to the Chinese Ministry of Transport (MOT) and the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on May 4. Chinese Government representatives stated they [...]
2009-05-08 09:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND ETRD EWWT IMO KTIA PREL SENV CH
09BEIJING1247BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON DPRK, GTMO
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing May 8, French DCM Nicholas Chapuis reported that State Councilor Dai Bingguo told visiting former French President Chirac that the West would not gain from more sanctions on North Korea. Dai reportedly said that "the lever of economic d [...]
2009-05-08 10:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING1249WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: CHINESE REPORTERS AND
[...] (C) PRC journalists and bloggers lamented continued government restrictions on the media and the Internet at a May 3 Charge-hosted dinner, organized jointly by Embassy POL and PAS sections, to mark World Press Freedom Day. Our contacts, mostly outspoken journalists and bloggers in their earl [...]
2009-05-08 12:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PHUM PGOV PREL KFLU CH JA
09BEIJING1253SHIELD S13-08: CHINA SEEKS MORE INFORMATION OF PRC
[...] (S) In response to Ref A demarche, urging China to investigate and prevent a group of employees from Zhejiang Material Industries Chemical Group and Shanxi Weiqida Pharmaceuticals Company from traveling to Iran to provide technical training and expertise, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Depar [...]
2009-05-11 02:38:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING1261CHINA/RUSSIA: FM YANG'S VISIT TO MOSCOW REAFFIRMS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China and Russia share a common interest in a multi-polar world and "democratization of international relations," but the China-Russia strategic partnership is "not an alliance and not directed at a third country," according to an MFA official. The official said China and Russia [...]
2009-05-11 08:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS AF
09BEIJING1263MEDIA REACTION: RMB INTERNATIONALIZATION, CHINA'S FINANCE
[...] RMB INTERNATIONALIZATION "Editorial: We should be cautious about the internationalization of the RMB" The independent Chinese weekly business newspaper distributed in major cities throughout China, Economic Observer (Jingji Guanchabao) (05/11) "A currency's internationalization should be t [...]
2009-05-11 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1271MEDIA REACTION: GRAIN WEAPON, GLOBALIZATION, A(H1N1),
[...] GRAIN WEAPON "What should China use to defend itself against the American's grain weapons?" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/12): "The U.S. is the only country that has bonded grain, energy, finance, military, diplomacy and values [...]
2009-05-12 09:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1272EMBASSY PROTESTS TREATMENT OF AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following reports of detention and harassment of U.S. journalists attempting to report in Tibetan areas of western China, the Embassy has thrice protested to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In an April 17 meeting, PressOff asked the MFA to clarify rules governing foreig [...]
2009-05-12 09:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1275MAY 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CONTINENTAL SHELF, SRI LANKA,
[...] Key points at the May 12 MFA press briefing: -- China has submitted information to the UN on the outer limits of its continental shelf. -- The work of Chinese companies in building a port in Sri Lanka is "a normal business action" and reports that it is otherwise are "distortions" and "gro [...]
2009-05-12 13:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AMED MCAP CH KN
09BEIJING1280SOMALI PIRACY: CHINA INVITED TO ATTEND CGPCS
[...] (SBU) China will send a delegation of officials from the MFA, Ministry of National Defense (MND) and Ministry of Transportation to attend the May 29 meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Di [...]
2009-05-13 06:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO
09BEIJING1282MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS, H1N1, RMB CURRENCY
[...] U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS "A positive turn for U.S-Iran relations" The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao)(05/13): "Recently, Iran has released the female American Journalist that it held. The American media felt calm and relief. However, the Obama administration [...]
2009-05-13 09:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1285MAY 13 TAO PRESS BRIEFING: ARMS SALES, MA'S ONE YEAR MARK,
[...] Key points from the May 13 Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) press briefing: -- Regarding potential U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the TAO spokesman said China's "consistent" and "clear-cut" policy is that it opposes U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. -- Assessing Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's first year [...]
2009-05-13 23:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM ECON ETRD CH TW
09BEIJING1294MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN, CHINESE ECONOMY, GEITHNER'S VISIT,
[...] TAIWAN "Time the U.S. eschewed its faulty Taiwan policy" The official English-language newspaper China Daily (05/14): "Some scholars credit the TRA for the positive developments in Sino-U.S. and cross-Straits ties. This is ridiculous, coming as it does on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. C [...]
2009-05-14 08:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1295PRC: NEW MFA BOUNDARY AND OCEAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
[...] (C) The recently-established MFA Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs would focus more on technical and legal issues than on policy matters, including providing advice on incidents involving USNS vessels in the South and East China seas, Maritime Delimitation Division Director Yang Li told [...]
2009-05-14 09:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC
09BEIJING1296CHINA WATCHERS CONFERENCE MAY 7-9
[...] (C) Embassy Beijing warmly thanks the participants in the China Watchers Conference, held in Beijing May 7-9. The new conference brought together participants from 17 different posts and commands, including multiple agencies and members of the analyst community. Participants exchanged views o [...]
2009-05-14 09:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL OTRA AMGT PGOV CH
09BEIJING1297 CHINA'S EXPORT DECLINE STABILIZING IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. China's General Administration of Customs May 12 reported a 22.8 percent drop in China's overall foreign trade to $170.7 billion versus the prior year, the sixth straight monthly decline in China's overseas trade flows. While on a year-on-year basis exports dropped by 22.6 per [...]
2009-05-14 10:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EIND EMIN CH
09BEIJING1299MAY 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: H1N1, DEFENSE POLICY,
[...] Key points at the May 14 MFA press briefing: -- China continues to work to monitor and contain H1N1 influenza, dismissing as "irresponsible" allegations that the United States and Canada have not taken sufficient measures to contain the virus's spread. -- Regarding press reports of a USG o [...]
2009-05-14 23:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CH FR AS KN PK BR CA MX
09BEIJING1310MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, H1N1, U.S. POLICY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. radical voice offends China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/15): "Is it possible that the Chinese Intelligence Institute is better than the CIA? It must be the case because, yesterday the U.S. rel [...]
2009-05-15 08:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1311China's Africa Aid Aims to Achieve
[...] (SBU) Summary. China has a distinct approach to Africa development assistance and is open to exchanging views with the United States. Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) officials provided an overview to Emboffs of their African aid priorities, but skimped on budget and project details. They ack [...]
2009-05-15 08:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAID EINV CH
09BEIJING1314SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR KERRY'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Senator Kerry, the Chinese leaders place great importance on personal relationships with foreign counterparts and on the symbolism of high-level visits. They will want to use your visit to demonstrate that China is deepening links with all parts of the U.S. Government. They will welcome [...]
2009-05-15 09:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH
09BEIJING1315SCENESETTER FOR SPEAKER PELOSI'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Madame Speaker, your visit to China comes at a significant time. 2009 marks a series of key anniversaries: January 1 commemorated 30 years of diplomatic relations between our two countries; March saw the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising and the Dalai Lama's flight to India; [...]
2009-05-15 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH
09BEIJING1318DASH FOR THE CASH: LOCAL PARTY SECRETARY GETS HIS
[...] (C) Providing a window on the thinking of local officials in China, the Party Secretary of Hulunbeier City in Inner Mongolia on May 12 described to PolOff his successful campaign to obtain a large chunk of PRC stimulus package funding for his city, as well as his efforts to maintain the munic [...]
2009-05-15 12:02:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KPAO CH
09BEIJING1329DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHINA URGED TO SUPPORT UNSC
[...] (SBU) PolMinCouns conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Deputy Director General Li Junhua May 18 reftel points urging China to support UN Security Council action on Burma in the wake of new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi. There was no immediate substantive r [...]
2009-05-18 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC PHUM BM CH
09BEIJING1330MEDIA REACTION: NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA a. "U.S. puts great emphasis on the nomination of their new Ambassador to China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/18): "Obama personally announced that the Governor from Utah, Jon Huntsman, will be the [...]
2009-05-18 08:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1333LESSONS FOR S&ED - SWAGGER OVER SUBSTANCE AT 2ND
[...] (C) China used the second High-level Economic Dialogue (HED) with the EU in Brussels May 7-8 to secure a vague commitment to &resist protectionism8 and take a dig at the United States and missed the chance to make substantive concessions on the numerous trade and investment barriers the EU rai [...]
2009-05-18 09:30:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV EAID ETRD WTRO PREL CH EU
09BEIJING1336XXXXXXXXXXXXX
[...] (C) CDA spoke by phone with XXXXXXXXXXXXX to discuss recent pressure by the Chinese government to censor the company's Chinese website, accelerated perhaps by the approach of significant political anniversaries.XXXXXXXXXXXXX averred that the root of the problem was China's Politburo Standing Comm [...]
2009-05-18 23:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING1339 CHINA'S AUTO INDUSTRY ENJOYS RECORD SALES FOR FOURTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Record auto sales in April suggest that China's auto support plan is providing a significant boost to the industry. April auto sales data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) show that 1.15 million vehicles were sold, the fourth straight month of [...]
2009-05-19 04:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND OTRA SENV CH
09BEIJING1346DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ECOSOC NGO COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC PHUM NGO SOCI UN CH
09BEIJING1347MEDIA REACTION: A/H1N1, CHINESE SPY, FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] A/H1N1 "The domestic increase of the A/H1N1 virus in Japan shocks neighboring countries" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/19): "Yesterday, Japan confirmed that the number of A/H1N1 cases in Japan has increased to 139. Both China [...]
2009-05-19 09:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1348CHINA PROTESTS PACOM ADMIRAL KEATING'S REMARKS IN
[...] (C) In a May 18 meeting, MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang delivered a formal demarche to the Charge protesting remarks appearing in a Times of India article by Pacific Command (USPACOM) Commander Admiral Keating. Admiral Keating is quoted in the [...]
2009-05-19 09:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV CH IN
09BEIJING1349DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS
[...] (C) China recently donated USD one million for assisting Pakistan's internally displaced persons (IDPs) and will likely provide more, MFA Asian Affairs Department South Asia Division official Xing Lei told PolOff May 19 in response to reftel points urging China to provide aid. Xing said China [...]
2009-05-19 09:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PREF PHUM UN CH PK
09BEIJING1350BURMA: MFA DG QUESTIONS EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW
[...] (C) The Charge delivered ref A points on May 18 urging PRC support for UN Security Council action in response to the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi to MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang. In response, DG Zheng suggested that a statement from the UN Sec [...]
2009-05-19 10:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PHUM BM CH
09BEIJING1353MAY 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA, BOC
[...] Key points at the May 19 MFA press briefing: -- -- China "hoped the new U.S. Ambassador to China would play a positive role in promoting friendship between the two countries." -- China "welcomed the verdict" convicting two former Bank of China employees who "committed embezzlement and then [...]
2009-05-19 11:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH FR AS KN PK BR IN KS XG BM RS
09BEIJING1361MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL, A/H1N1, RUSSIA
[...] ISRAEL "Obama urges Israel to accept this historic opportunity for peace" The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao) (05/20): "It was said that Obama's main goal for this meeting was to send a message to Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. wit [...]
2009-05-20 08:25:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING137CHINA INFORMED OF MARAGING STEEL SHIPMENT TO IRAN
[...] (S) On the margins of a meeting on another topic, PolOff shared reftel points informing China of an upcoming purchase of maraging steel from a Chinese company to an Iranian entity associated with Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO) with MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Departmen [...]
2009-01-16 06:22:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING1376MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. POLICY, A/H1N1
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Hacking military computers 'not a hack job'" The official English-language newspaper China Daily (05/21): "There is no way hackers - including those from China - can access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military or government networks. The US milita [...]
2009-05-21 08:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1379MAY 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Ma Ying-jeou Stop-Over,
[...] Key points at the May 21 MFA press briefing: -- China continues to oppose official exchanges between other countries and the Taiwan authorities in accordance with the one China principle, and that position is unchanged. -- A statement on the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference posted on t [...]
2009-05-21 23:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CH DA BM CB LA VM
09BEIJING1384SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS A MIXED BAG OF TENSIONS,
[...] (C) Chinese academic and Indian diplomatic contacts in recent meetings painted a mixed picture of Sino-Indian ties. Interlocutors cited historic tensions and present disagreements, but also noted that incremental progress had been made. Chinese scholars downplayed the "String of Pearls" strat [...]
2009-05-22 09:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PBTS PHSA IN NP PK CH
09BEIJING1386SOMALI PIRACY: CHINA INVITED TO ATTEND MAY 29
[...] (SBU) China's Ministry of National Defense would likely continue to push its proposal to put counter-piracy military operations in the Gulf of Aden under UN command, MFA International Organizations and Conferences (IO) Department UN Affairs Division official Jiang Hua told PolOff May 22 in res [...]
2009-05-22 10:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO
09BEIJING1387TIANANMEN: JUNE 4 MEMORIES REMAIN FRESH FOR
[...] (C) Twenty years on, the June 4, 1989 violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators continues to have a powerful impact on Chinese society and politics, despite the fact that the event remains a taboo subject, according to a range of Embassy contacts. The Party has reportedly created a sp [...]
2009-05-22 12:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PROP CH
09BEIJING1388PRC/SUDAN: PRC SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DARFUR
[...] (C) In a May 25 meeting with Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration, Special Representative for the Chinese Government on Darfur Ambassador Liu Guijin agreed that the United States and China shared common goals in Sudan. Liu added that China hoped that the new U.S. Administration's "con [...]
2009-05-25 12:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU LY
09BEIJING1389PRC/SUDAN: MFA DG CALLS NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary: MFA DG for West Asia and North Africa Song Aiguo told Special Envoy for Sudan General Scott Gration May 25 that China sought "comprehensive" ties with Sudan by developing links with authorities in the south but maintaining strong relations with Khartoum. Song urged the internati [...]
2009-05-25 12:08:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1390TIANANMEN: JUNE 4 MEMORIES REMAIN FRESH FOR
[...] (C) Twenty years on, the June 4, 1989 violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators continues to have a powerful impact on Chinese society and politics, despite the fact that the event remains a taboo subject, according to a range of Embassy contacts. The Party has reportedly created a sp [...]
2009-05-25 12:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PROP CH
09BEIJING1391MEDIA REACTION: A (H1-N1),Geithner visit,
[...] A (H1-N1) "America's loose disease control measures arouses global argument" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/22): Quite a number of H1N1 cases have been exported from America. Some developing countries, where there are few confi [...]
2009-05-26 01:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1395MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, GEITHNER'S VISIT, PELOSI'S
[...] NORTH KOREA "20 Chinese experts are polled on North Korean nuclear issue" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/26): "Qing Hua University professor Sun Zhe believes, "North Korea's nuclear test is blackmail in nature. North Korea took [...]
2009-05-26 09:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1397MAY 26 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK Nuclear Test, Tiananmen
[...] Key points at the May 26 MFA press briefing: -- The Chinese government is "firmly opposed" to North Korea's nuclear test and "strongly urges" the DPRK to honor its commitments, stop moves that edge it closer to isolation, and return to the Six-Party Talks. -- Apologizing for the "political [...]
2009-05-26 11:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH BM TT MY PK KN KS LT NP
09BEIJING1398PRC/DPRK: CHINESE MFA ON UNSC RESOLUTION RE DPRK
[...] (C) China wanted any UN Security Council resolution responding to the DPRK's May 25 nuclear test to be measured, be made in the interest of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, and support the denuclearization of the Peninsula and the Six-Party Talks, MFA North American Affairs DG Zheng [...]
2009-05-26 13:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MOPS KN KS CH
09BEIJING1404HUMAN TRAFFICKING MOVIE DIRECTOR TELLS STUDENTS TO
[...] (C) A recent Embassy showing of "Blind Mountain," a PRC film depicting a young, college-educated Chinese woman who is trafficked for marriage to a poor farmer in rural Shaanxi Province, elicited strong reactions from a student audience. In a Q&A session afterward with the film's director Li Yan [...]
2009-05-27 05:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH
09BEIJING1414PRC/SUDAN: AFM LIU JIEYI TELLS S/E GRATION CHINA
[...] (C) The United States and China had common interests in Sudan, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi told Special Envoy for Sudan General Scott Gration May 25. AFM Liu stressed that China believed the political and peace-keeping tracks were both important and underscored the need to persuade p [...]
2009-05-27 08:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1416PRC/SUDAN: CENTRAL PARTY COMMITTEE SAYS CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee International Department Director General Liu Denglin told Special Envoy for Sudan General Scott Gration May 25 that China would "spare no efforts" to bring about lasting peace and stability in Sudan. Initial implementation of the [...]
2009-05-27 08:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1417MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE, A/H1N1
[...] NORTH KOREA a. "North Korea launches two missiles to fight against the Security Council" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(05/27): "The U.N Security Council has expressed its severe opposition and criticism about North Korea's nuclea [...]
2009-05-27 09:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING142TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF UNSCR 1267
[...] (S) On January 16, PolOffs conveyed to MFA the U.S. intention to request that the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 Sanctions Committee add four al-Qaeda associates detained or formerly detained in Iran to its list of individuals associated with the Taliban, al-Qaida and/or Usama Bin Laden ( [...]
2009-01-16 08:07:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH PK IR
09BEIJING1424SENATOR KERRY DISCUSSES U.S.-CHINA CLIMATE CHANGE COOPERATION ON COPENHAGEN WITH CHINA'S VICE PREMIER LI KEQIANG
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-29 08:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH ENRG KHGH SENV
09BEIJING1428CODEL PELOSI MAY 27 MEETING WITH PRC PRESIDENT HU
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 27 meeting with CODEL Pelosi, Chinese President Hu Jintao noted that China hoped that the developed world would take the lead on climate change by providing financial assistance and technical support to developing countries but admitted the developing countries had a res [...]
2009-05-29 09:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PARM MNUC PBTS PTER PGOV CH KN
09BEIJING1429CODEL KERRY MEETING WITH NPC VICE CHAIRMAN LU
[...] (SBU) China "resolutely opposed" the latest North Korean nuclear test and wanted to work with the international community to push North Korea back to the Six Party Talks said National People's Congress Vice Chairman Lu Yongxiang in a meeting with Senator John Kerry on May 26. On climate chan [...]
2009-05-29 09:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG CH KN KS
09BEIJING1432CODEL KERRY MEETING WITH PRC NPC FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] (SBU) Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Li Zhaoxing and Senator John Kerry (D-MA) May 27 both noted multiple avenues for cooperation on climate change at the December 2009 UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen. Twenty-nine pieces of environment [...]
2009-05-29 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG CH KN KS
09BEIJING1433MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, INDIA, CHINA'S SAVINGS RATE,
[...] NORTH KOREA "It is an inferior policy to pressure with a nuclear test" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(05/28): "The recent nuclear tests conducted by the DPRK may become a crucial step in future DPRK issues. [...]
2009-05-29 10:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1434PRC/DPRK: CHINA RESPONDS WITH SPECIFICITY TO U.S.
[...] (C) China supported adoption of a new UN Security Council Resolution that would respond appropriately to the May 25 DPRK nuclear test, MFA Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told Charge d'Affaires May 31. The resolution would demonstrate the international community's seriousness in safeguarding th [...]
2009-05-31 13:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MOPS KN KS CH
09BEIJING1435PRC/SUDAN: CHINESE OIL COMPANY VP DISCUSSES SUDAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a rare and free-flowing discussion with visiting Special Envoy for Sudan General Scott Gration, the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) reported a "wait-and-see" attitude about Sudan's future but hoped to continue oil production regardless of the 2011 refer [...]
2009-06-01 00:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ENRG EPET SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1440MEDIA REACTION: GEITHNER'S VISIT, NORTH KOREA
[...] GEITHNER'S VISIT "Complaint diplomacy should be discarded" The official Xinhua Daily Telegraph (Xinhua Meiri Dianxun) (06/01): "Before the visit began, Geithner informed the Chinese media that the first goal of the visit is to inform China about the measures the U.S. will take to deal with [...]
2009-06-01 09:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING145TAIWAN: HU JINTAO'S DECEMBER 31 SPEECH SETS MORE
[...] (C) In his December 31 speech, President Hu Jintao established a more realistic, flexible and less urgent policy direction on Taiwan, according to Embassy contacts. The speech's purpose is to establish new "guiding principles" that elevate Hu's "Six Points" on Taiwan policy to the level of De [...]
2009-01-16 08:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING146CHINA-AFGHANISTAN RELATIONS
[...] (C) Afghan Embassy First Secretary Meerwais Nab told PolOffs January 14 that China and Afghanistan have good bilateral relations, but he noted Chinese concerns, including the presence of U.S. forces near the Sino-Afghan border, India's influence in Afghanistan, "elements" in Afghanistan assist [...]
2009-01-16 08:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER SNAR ETRD PK IN AF CH
09BEIJING1463CHINA OBJECTS TO SPECIAL 301 DESIGNATION, WANTS MORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: China objects to its designation as a Priority Watch List (PWL) country in the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) 2009 Special 301 Report, Department of Treaty and Law Director General Li Ling of China's Ministry of Commerce told visiting USTR officials on May 27. She said that [...]
2009-06-02 09:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND KIPR ECON CH
09BEIJING1464MEDIA REACTION: GEITHNER VISIT, NORTH KOREA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] GEITHNER VISIT a. "Geithner explains the prospects of the fiscal deficit; while speaking, he made a concerted effort to speak in Chinese" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(06/02): "An expert suggests that Geithner's visit is to co [...]
2009-06-02 09:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1467BEIJING GEARS UP FOR JUNE 4 ANNIVERSARY
[...] (C) On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, China's security forces are warning well-known activists against protest activities and putting many under virtual house arrest. Despite tight Party control of Inte [...]
2009-06-02 10:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH
09BEIJING1468JUNE 2 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NORTH KOREA RELATIONS, PSI,
[...] Key points at the June 2 MFA press briefing: -- Asked about reports that China canceled official exchanges with North Korea, the spokesperson said that China and North Korea "always have normal people to people exchanges." -- Asked whether China and North Korea remained allies, Qin repeated [...]
2009-06-02 23:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH KN KS JP BR
09BEIJING1474MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-03 09:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1476 CHINESE BID TO BUY HUMMER AWAITS GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A Chinese industrial machinery company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with General Motors (GM) to purchase its civilian Hummer brand. A GM China official (protect) confirmed that Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery does not have experience in the autom [...]
2009-06-03 23:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV SENV CH
09BEIJING148MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. DEPLOMACY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "To create a space for new win-win" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(01/16): "The U.S. -China economic and trade relationship has been developing over the last 30 years. The relationship's growth has exceeded the most optimistic estimation [...]
2009-01-16 09:39:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1482 CONGRESSMEN MARK KIRK AND RICK LARSEN'S
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-04 04:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EAGR ECON PREL MCAP WTRO CH
09BEIJING1490PELOSI DELEGATION'S MEETING WITH CHINA'S NATIONAL PEOPLE'S
[...] (U) Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Representative Edward Markey (D - MA) on May 27 led a delegation that met with China's National People's Congress (NPC) Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee (EPRC). Please see paragraphs 13 and 14 for a list [...]
2009-06-04 07:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EIND ENRG CH
09BEIJING1492MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST,
[...] OBAMA'S VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST "The U.S. lowers its position; this is beneficial for world peace" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/03): "On June 2nd, Obama began his first trip to the Middle East. His major goal is to reach a fr [...]
2009-06-04 09:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1493CHINA WANTS CONSENT OF SUDAN IN RENEWING THE SUDAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China wanted to gain the consent of Sudan and the Africa Group regarding the UN Human Rights Council's upcoming renewal of the mandate for the Sudan Special Rapporteur, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Human Rights Division Deputy Director Yao Shaojun to [...]
2009-06-04 10:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM AORC CH SU
09BEIJING1494TIANANMEN ANNIVERSARY PASSES QUIETLY AMID HEAVY
[...] (C) The 20th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators passed quietly in Beijing amid the tightest security witnessed in Tiananmen Square in years. As of 17:30 Beijing time, no unrest or large-scale demonstrations were observed by PolOffs posted at Tiananmen and [...]
2009-06-04 11:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING1495JUNE 4 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY CLINTON'S TIANANMEN
[...] Key points at the June 4 MFA press briefing: -- China calls Secretary Clinton's message on the twentieth anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre "groundless accusations" in contravention of the U.S.-China Joint Communiqus and international norms. China believes the Secreta [...]
2009-06-04 23:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ETRD SENV CH KN KS JP BR IN
09BEIJING150CHINESE NEW YEAR TRAVEL RUSH BEGINS; PRESIDENT HU
[...] (SBU) With China's Lunar New Year travel rush officially underway migrant workers, students and middle-class residents are queuing for hours to snatch up scarce train tickets. Severe ticket shortages, allegedly exacerbated by the hoarding and scalping of railway passes, led Chinese President [...]
2009-01-16 11:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PROP ECON ELTN SOCI CH
09BEIJING1500 CONGRESSMEN KIRK AND LARSEN'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen met with Minister of Commerce Chen Deming May 31 under the auspices of a National Committee on U.S.- China Relations visit. Chen praised the legislators' work as Co-Chairs of the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group. Chen observed tha [...]
2009-06-05 04:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EAGR ECON PREL MCAP WTRO CH AF
09BEIJING151 CHINA ANNOUNCES STEEL AND AUTO INDUSTRY SUPPORT PLANS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The State Council approved industrial support plans for the auto and steel sectors on January 14, the first two of ten industry focused plans to help those sectors hardest hit by the economic slowdown. The measures will support domestic demand, protect employment and promote en [...]
2009-01-16 11:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND EMIN ECON SENV CH
09BEIJING1515CHINA CONSIDERING INCREASE IN THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] PolOff delivered ref A demarche encouraging China to support a significant real increase in the IAEA regular budget and to move costs associated with nuclear security into the regular budget to Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Director Zhang Shen on June 5. Zhan [...]
2009-06-05 08:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL AORC ENRG KNNP IAEA CH
09BEIJING1516IAEA FUEL BANK ISSUE: CHINA SUPPORTS FULL
[...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche encouraging China to support a full and open discussion of fuel bank assurances at the June 15-18 IAEA Board of Governors meeting, including advocating with other countries to do the same, to Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Direc [...]
2009-06-05 08:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA CH
09BEIJING1518DIRECTOR OF STATE COUNCIL INFORMATION OFFICE MEETS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives Mark Kirk (D-IL) and Rick Larsen (R-IL) met on June 1 with Wang Chen, Director of the State Council Information Office(SCIO),to discuss issues related to open access to information in China. The Congressmen specifically raised censorship of Voice of America (VO [...]
2009-06-05 09:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINT ECON KIPR CH
09BEIJING1519MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA, JUNE 4
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. stimulates its economy, China needs to benefit as well" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/05): "Although the American economic stimulus plan limits U.S. government procurements to American-made produc [...]
2009-06-05 09:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING152CHINA CUTS GASOLINE AND DIESEL PRICES, AGAIN
[...] (U) Official media reported on January 14 that China cut its benchmark retail gasoline and diesel prices by 2 percent and 3.2 percent respectively. This is the first cut since China's new pricing mechanism took effect at the beginning of 2009 (see Ref). This move follows the Government's Dece [...]
2009-01-16 11:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ECON EPET EFIN CH
09BEIJING1520"ESCORT OF THE YOUTH FLOWERS" - CHINA SEEKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on May 22 mandated that all computers sold in China, whether imported or manufactured domestically, be pre-installed with "Green Dam - Escort of the Youth Flowers" Internet filtering software effective July 1, 2009. [...]
2009-06-05 11:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING1521 CHINA TO INTRODUCE GREEN ENERGY SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: China's National Energy Administration (NEA) has announced it will soon submit a support plan for the alternate energy sector. Although specific details have not yet been released, the plan will focus on more-efficient and alternative energies--particularly wind and solar-- a [...]
2009-06-07 22:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV SENV CH
09BEIJING1523CONGRESSMEN KIRK AND LARSEN'S MEETING WITH CHINA
[...] (C) Summary. Recent economic trends in the U.S. are encouraging and there is no longer a "scare factor" for investors, China Investment Corporation (CIC) (China's sovereign wealth fund) President Guo told Representatives Kirk and Larsen May 31. CIC intends to increase its investments in the [...]
2009-06-08 02:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV CH
09BEIJING1534MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S SPEECH IN EGYPT, NORTH KOREA
[...] OBAMA'S SPEECH IN EGYPT "Obama is not the terminator of cultural conflict" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(06/08): "Obama intends to fix the divergences between the U.S. and the Muslim world through his speech [...]
2009-06-08 08:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1535REPS KIRK-LARSEN MEET VICE PREMIER WANG QISHAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 09:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL ECIN CH
09BEIJING1536FRANCE-CHINA TENSION OVER DALAI LAMA, AFRICA ASSISTANCE,
[...] (SBU) Economic Counselor Josselin Kalifa and Financial Counselor Pierre Mongrue from the French Embassy in Beijing told Econoffs June 5 that Sino-French relations are on the mend following several months during which China gave France the cold shoulder as punishment for President Sarkozy's Dece [...]
2009-06-08 09:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD PHUM AU CH
09BEIJING1537TIBET: FOUR MONKS SENTENCED TO LABOR CAMP AFTER
[...] (S) Four Tibetan Buddhist monks have been sentenced to two years of reform through labor for their participation in a demonstration in Guinan, Qinghai Province, on February 25, according to a "living Buddha" at Guinan's Lucang Monastery. Two additional monks were still awaiting sentencing as [...]
2009-06-08 10:27:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPHUM PGOV KIFR CH
09BEIJING1538COMPUTER INDUSTRY CONTEMPLATES RESPONSE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met on June 8 with representatives of several trade associations to further discuss their reactions to the Chinese government's mandate that all computers sold in China after July 1 be preinstalled with "Green Dam" Internet filtering software (reftel). Those present el [...]
2009-06-08 12:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING154DALIAN SUNNY INDUSTRIES/LIMMT AND BELLAMAX
[...] (C) PolOff on January 19 informed MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department officer Sun Lei that the United States will levy sanctions against Dalian Sunny Industries/LIMMT and Bellamax for the transfer of controlled missile technology to Iran. PolOff briefly described the sanctions as outli [...]
2009-01-19 02:17:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MUC ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING1543 CHINA/RUSSIA: CROSS-BORDER TRADE SUFFERS FROM ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China-Russia cross-border trade has dropped noticeably since October 2008, due largely to Russia's economic troubles and a Russian crackdown on Russian shuttle traders, according to Chinese officials in the border town of Suifenhe in Heilongjiang Province. Suifenhe officials ha [...]
2009-06-09 06:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EIND ETRD CH RS
09BEIJING1546MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "U.S. needs China vs. China needs the U.S." The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao) (06/09): "U.S. officials and economic personnel have frequently visited China. They all have similar attitudes concerning avoiding ag [...]
2009-06-09 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1547CDA AND MFA DG ZHENG ZEGUANG: DPRK, MIL-MIL,
[...] (C) In a June 9 luncheon hosted by the Charge, MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang said that senior officials who met with Deputy Secretary Steinberg had been impressed by his seriousness of purpose and by his explanation of the U.S. position on how [...]
2009-06-09 09:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV CASC SENV CH
09BEIJING1549JUNE 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK, CENSORSHIP SOFTWARE, NEW
[...] Key points at the June 9 MFA press briefing: -- China hoped all parties would "proceed from the interests of denuclearization and strengthening peace and stability" on the Korean Peninsula to avoid a deterioration of the situation. -- Asked directly whether the Treaty of Friendship, Coopera [...]
2009-06-09 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH KN KS BR GB RS LO
09BEIJING1556 China/Economic Rebalancing: New Growth
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. China's export-dependent growth model has served it well, but that model has now reached its limits, according to locally-based foreign economists. Domestic consumption could fuel future growth but it will take many years -- even decades -- to achieve the fundamental economic [...]
2009-06-10 07:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EDEV CH
09BEIJING1557MEDIA REACTION: U.S. DIPLOMACY, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S. DIPLOMACY "Smart Power, 3Ds, and soft diplomacy" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (06/10): "After Obama took office, he successively visited the American States, Europe and the Middle East. In this way, he manifests an obvious difference between himself and [...]
2009-06-10 08:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1559UPDATE ON CHINA'S INFORMATION COLLECTION,
[...] (U) Post presents the following updates to the survey on China's immigration control and watchlist systems for terrorist screening. Responses are keyed to lettered subheadings in ref A. 2. (SBU) A: Immigration Databases and Traveler Information Collection: No updates to report. 3. (SBU) [...]
2009-06-10 09:59:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV CVIS ASEC KHLS KVPR CH
09BEIJING1571Secretary Geithner's June 1 Meeting with Vice
[...] (SBU) In a June 1 meeting in Beijing, Vice Premier Wang Qishan told Treasury Secretary Geithner that discussion in the Economic Track of the late July Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) should be strategic, include bilateral and global issues, and neither duplicate nor replace discussions [...]
2009-06-11 05:20:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL CH
09BEIJING1578MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, GREEN DAM SOFTWARE, EASTERN
[...] NORTH KOREA "U.S. stance on the North Korea issue gets tougher" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(06/11): "Secretary Clinton recently implied that the U.S. will take tough actions against North Korea. Analysts think the tougher stance by the U.S. is related to sub [...]
2009-06-11 08:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1579JUNE 11 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK, CLIMATE CHANGE, GITMO
[...] Key points at the June 11 MFA press briefing: -- The UN Security Council (UNSC) should adopt a "responsible and balanced resolution" to promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and safeguard peace and stability in the region. -- China had a "positive and responsible attitude" to [...]
2009-06-11 09:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AF CH GJ JA KN KS SENV
09BEIJING1582UK-CHINA ECON DIALOGUE: NO LONGER A “BLOODY
[...] (C) While the 2008 first round of the UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) was a "bloody disaster," the second meeting, held in London May 11, 2009, produced "decent results," according to UK Embassy Econoff Tamsin Rees, who coordinated the UK Embassy's contributions to the event. Rees sa [...]
2009-06-12 02:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD PHUM AU-1 CH
09BEIJING1586SECRETARY GEITHNER'S MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] (C) Chinese President Hu Jintao told visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner June 2 that continuing close contacts between China and the U.S. under the Obama administration are building good momentum in the relationship. He cited his April meeting with President Obama in which the two leade [...]
2009-06-12 08:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALOVIP ECON EFIN PREL CH
09BEIJING1587MEDIA REACTION: A/H1N1 VIRUS, TIBET, NORTH KOREA
[...] A/H1N1 VIRUS "Alert level of H1N1 is raised to the highest. This is the first time in 41 years" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(06/12): "The World Heath Organization is expected to announce that H1N1 is pandemic. This is the fi [...]
2009-06-12 09:13:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1588APPLE IPHONE FACING LICENSING ISSUES IN CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Apple Corporation representatives told Emboffs on June 11 that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has refused to accept the company's application for a license critical to introducing the iPhone in China, effectively continuing to shut the iPhone out of t [...]
2009-06-12 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EIND ECON CH
09BEIJING1589SCO: SECRETARIAT STAFF PREDICT NOT MUCH NEW AT
[...] (C) Contrary to MFA official comments trumpeting the importance of the upcoming SCO summit in Yekaterinburg June 15-16, officials at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Secretariat in Beijing downplayed expectations for new developments at the summit in a meeting with PolOff June 12. T [...]
2009-06-12 11:47:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR
09BEIJING1592Peru-China Free Trade Agreement
[...] (SBU) Summary. During the late April visit to China by Peruvian Vice President Giampietri, China and Peru signed a comprehensive free trade agreement which covers goods, services and investment and is expected to go into effect by the end of this year. Giampietri also promoted Chinese investme [...]
2009-06-15 01:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV EIND PREL EFIN CH PE
09BEIJING1597PRC: DEMARCHE ON UNOMIG DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) On June 15, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin reftel points urging China to support a resolution extending the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) for two weeks to allow negotiations on a revised mand [...]
2009-06-15 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS PBTS UNGA CH GG RS
09BEIJING1598MEDIA REACTION: GREEN DAM SOFTWARE, EASTERN TURKISTAN,
[...] GREEN DAM SOFTWARE "Green Dam software; an American company plans to sue over plagiarism" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/15): "Recently, China has fulfilled its promise to open its network. This has received global compliments. [...]
2009-06-15 23:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING160MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. POLICY, NORTH
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "China could take more initiative when dealing with Obama" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/20): "Recently, American scholars advised Obama to visit China for his first official presidential visit. Although Ob [...]
2009-01-20 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1602 China/Economic Plans: Continued Reform Endorsed
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Beijing's 2009 economic planning document, in contrast to last year's version and some of the trends evident in China's recent economic support and stimulus plans, endorses liberalization and economic transformation. Financial reform continues. China's largest state-owned enter [...]
2009-06-15 23:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EIND EFIN EAGR ENRG EDEV SENV CH
09BEIJING161CHINA WARNS OF CONSEQUENCES OF ICC ARREST WARRANT
[...] (C) Summary: China is concerned that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir that will make the Sudanese Government less cooperative and further destabilize the situation in Sudan, MFA West Asian and North African Affairs Department Su [...]
2009-01-20 09:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SOCI KDEM CH SU
09BEIJING1620PRC: RELEASE OF UIGHURS TO BERMUDA VIOLATES
[...] (S) The U.S. decision to release four Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility to Bermuda for resettlement had "seriously violated the legitimate sovereignty and national security interests of China" and China urged the United States to withdraw its plan to hand over Uighurs hel [...]
2009-06-16 08:27:00Embassy BeijingSECRETMOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KAWC KISL KPAO CH
09BEIJING1621MEDIA REACTION: GUANTANAMO UYGHURS, NORTH KOREA, IRAN
[...] GUANTANAMO UYGHURS "Eastern Turkistan prisoners want to open a restaurant in Bermuda" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/16): "Recently Western media organizations have reported on every move of the four East Turkistan Prisoners sen [...]
2009-06-16 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1626JUNE 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: USS JOHN MCCAIN, KIM JONG-IL
[...] Key points at the June 16 MFA press briefing: -- China had "taken note" of media reports regarding a June 11th collision between a Chinese submarine and a sonar array trailed by the destroyer USS John McCain. -- The spokesperson said China was "not aware of the relevant situation" when ask [...]
2009-06-16 09:58:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AF CH GJ JA KN KS SENV
09BEIJING1627JUNE 4 CONFERENCE ANGERS PARTY, SOME PARTICIPANTS
[...] (C) An underground academic conference on the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen crackdown elicited a swift reaction by Chinese security agencies, according to key organizers of the meeting. Nineteen people, including prominent professors, journalists and activists participated in the May 10 forum, which [...]
2009-06-16 10:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING1634CDA AND MFA ASIAN AFFAIRS ON DPRK
[...] (C) In a June 16 luncheon in honor of visiting Hong Kong CG Joe Donovan hosted by the Charge, XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX said that China liked a U.S. proposal described by Ambassador Bosworth here on June 5 to put all issues related to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula into a package for [...]
2009-06-17 06:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV CH KN KS
09BEIJING1635TREASURY SECRETARY GEITHNER'S MEETINGS WITH
[...] (C) In the first of Secretary Geithner's June 1-2 meetings with Chinese officials, Minister of Commerce (MOFCOM) Chen Deming said China does not want its trade surplus with the United States to increase, as that would spur purchase of more U.S. Treasury bonds and generate additional U.S. criti [...]
2009-06-17 06:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL OVIP CH
09BEIJING1638MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, NORTH KOREA, AMERICAN BONDS
[...] IRAN "Iran falls into a suspected color revolution" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/17): "Two Chinese experts expressed that because Iran has a supreme leader with high authority it is hard to compare it to the former Soviet stat [...]
2009-06-17 08:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING164January 20 MFA Press Briefing: Wen Jiabao Visit to Europe,
[...] Key points at the January 20 MFA Press Briefing: -- Premier Wen Jiabao will visit EU headquarters, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom from January 27-February 2. Wen plans to attend the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos. -- As President-elect Obama prepares to take offi [...]
2009-01-20 10:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KS KN CH SZ UK SP GM EU TW
09BEIJING1649CHINESE INTERNET REACTION TO IRANIAN ELECTION
[...] The recent Iranian presidential elections and their aftermath were hot topics on major Chinese news portals, Internet forums and microblog platforms in China over the past week. Netizen commentary on traditionally liberal sites expressed support for students with some even comparing the situat [...]
2009-06-17 10:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EINT CH IR
09BEIJING165PRC SPECIAL ENVOY LAYS OUT POSITION ON GAZA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China's Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process Ambassador Sun Bigan described for PolMinCouns January 20 the five principles that China believes are necessary for progress in the Middle East Peace Process in light of the current situation in Gaza. In addition to calling [...]
2009-01-20 10:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS
09BEIJING1650PRC: MFA SENIOR OFFICIAL PROTESTS RELEASE OF
[...] (S) China firmly opposed the transfer of Chinese citizen Uighur detainees at Guantanamo to a third nation, Chinese MFA Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Hongbo informed the Charge during a strongly-worded demarche June 17. U.S. attempts to "justify itself" were not welcomed and continuing to appro [...]
2009-06-17 23:05:00Embassy BeijingSECRETMOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KAWC KISL KPAO CH PS UK
09BEIJING1654CHINA'S NON-FERROUS METALS INDUSTRY GETS GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: China announced May 11 a detailed three-year plan to stimulate its non-ferrous metals industry focused on industrial consolidation and technology innovation. The plan encourages regrouping among non-ferrous metal companies with the goal of forming three to five large-scale corpo [...]
2009-06-18 04:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT EIND ETRD CH
09BEIJING1657INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT: CHINA SHARES U.S. CONCERNS
[...] (SBU) China shared U.S. concerns about creating an international piracy court, MFA Treaty and Law Department International Law Division Deputy Director Xu Yu told PolOff June 17 in response to reftel points urging China's support for the U.S. position opposing the creation of an international t [...]
2009-06-18 08:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL CH
09BEIJING1658PRC: CHINA'S POSITION ON THE CCIT REMAINS UNCHANGED
[...] (SBU) On June 17, PolOff conveyed to MFA Treaty and Law Department Public International Law Division Officer Wang Xiaolin reftel points noting U.S. concerns about the Coordinator's Proposal regarding the UN Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) and requesting Chinese gover [...]
2009-06-18 08:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER UNGA CH
09BEIJING1659MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS, BRIC SUMMIT,
[...] U.S.-CHINA MILITARY RELATIONS "U.S. and China need to regulate their behavior in the South China Sea" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (06/18): "Technically speaking, the 'intimate contact' between the U.S. de [...]
2009-06-18 08:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1660PUBLIC OUTRAGE OVER GREEN DAM UNLIKELY TO PROMPT
[...] (C) After an initial wave of media criticism, the Communist Party Propaganda Department ordered news outlets to report positively on the government's decision to require that new computers be sold with pre-installed Internet filtering software. Following the order, official media, including th [...]
2009-06-18 10:47:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPROP PHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING1661CHINA/RUSSIA: CHINESE SCHOLAR AND RUSSIAN
[...] (C) Despite China and Russia's public statements about the importance of their strategic partnership, neither country viewed its bilateral relationship as its top foreign policy priority, a Chinese expert on Russia told PolOff June 15. The scholar predicted that the Shanghai Cooperation Organi [...]
2009-06-18 10:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS
09BEIJING1662PRC/IRAN: HU-AHMADINEJAD MEETING; ELECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An MFA official reported that President Hu Jintao told Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the margins of the SCO Summit that Iran needed to show flexibility, take advantage of the opportunity to engage with the United States, and help the international community oppose nuclear prol [...]
2009-06-18 14:04:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING1663JUNE 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, SUB COLLISION, GREEN DAM,
[...] Key points at the June 18 MFA press briefing: -- MFA Spokesman Qin Gang stated that China "respected the choice of the Iranian people" in recent elections. -- Despite controversy over the "Green Dam" internet filtering software China had a responsibility to protect Chinese youth from "bad [...]
2009-06-18 23:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EINT CH CN KN KS TX UZ IR IN
09BEIJING1675REPS KIRK-LARSEN MEET VICE PREMIER WANG QISHAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen met with Vice Premier Wang Qishan on May 31 during their visit to Beijing as co-chairs of the U.S.-China Working Group of the U.S. Congress. Wang observed that, given the size of the U.S. economy, a U.S. recovery would spell recovery for Chi [...]
2009-06-19 08:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL ECIN CH
09BEIJING1677MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, U.S. ECONOMICS, U.S.-CHINA MILITARY
[...] IRAN "Five days in Tehran - The protests will have a hard time influencing Ahmadinejad" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(06/19): "If the protests expand further, Mousavi's support for the protests is not wise. It is a confronta [...]
2009-06-19 08:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1679PRC/SOUTH PACIFIC: INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While Chinese government interlocutors continued to stress the centrality of "non-interference" to China's foreign policy, a Fijian EmbOff told us a new package of Chinese economic assistance to Fiji announced earlier this year arrived just as western sanctions were proving probl [...]
2009-06-19 08:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD CH FI AS NZ
09BEIJING1680PRC: AFGHAN FM SPANTA VISIT AFFIRMS POSITIVE
[...] (C) Afghan FM Spanta's June 9-11 visit to China provided both sides an opportunity to affirm positive bilateral relations but produced no new bilateral economic or security initiatives, according to MFA and Afghan Embassy contacts. While China reiterated its commitment to assist in Afghanistan [...]
2009-06-19 08:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID EINV CH AF
09BEIJING1682GREEN DAM INTERNET FILTERING SOFTWARE DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary. The Chinese government has a legal obligation to protect children from inappropriate content on the web Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told EMIN June 19. Mandating the internet filtering software Green Dam be provided with every new computer sold in China is in [...]
2009-06-19 10:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING1693MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE COOPERATION, IRAN, CHINA'S INTERNET
[...] CLIMATE COOPERATION "The trilateral climate meeting between China, the U.S. and Japan will begin in July and climate cooperation will be the key topic" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(06/22): "On June [...]
2009-06-22 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1695CONGRESSMEN KIRK AND LARSEN MEETINGS WITH CHINA'S CENTRAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen held meetings with People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Zhou Xiaochuan and China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) Chairman Liu Mingkang during their visit to Beijing as co-chairs of the U.S.-China Working Group of the U.S. Congress. G [...]
2009-06-22 09:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON CH
09BEIJING1698PRC: SCHOLARS DOWNPLAY POSSIBILITY OF HIGH-PROFILE
[...] (C) The United States "should not expect too much" from China in terms of high-profile advocacy of potentially controversial or unpopular strategies associated with the United States, particularly in Pakistan, Chinese academic contacts told the U.S. Embassy in recent weeks. They described PRC [...]
2009-06-22 10:36:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID CH PK AF
09BEIJING1703Congressmen Kirk and Larsen's Roundtables with Chinese,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen participated in a Chinese Business Roundtable on May 30 and a joint American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) and U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) Roundtable on June 1, during their visit to Beijing as co-chairs of the U.S.-China Working Grou [...]
2009-06-23 08:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP ECON EINV ETRD KIPR CH
09BEIJING1704MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, NORTH KOREA, And U.S. POLICY
[...] IRAN "Obama is conflicted concerning Iran" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/23): "Obama maintains restraint when stating his opinion concerning Iran. This restraint reflects that the Obama administration has a far different polit [...]
2009-06-23 08:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1708MALAY PM IN CHINA: COMMEMORATING 35 YEARS OF
[...] (C) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's June 2-5 trip focused on the commemoration of 35 years of China-Malaysia relations and resulted in no new substantive initiatives, according to an MFA official and a Malaysian Embassy contact. Though the two sides touched lightly on extant disputes in [...]
2009-06-23 09:44:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD MARR MY CH KS
09BEIJING1710JUNE 23 MFA PRESS BREIFING: DPRK VESSEL, H1N1, IRAN
[...] Key points at the June 23 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that China was aware of relevant reports of a DPRK vessel transporting munitions but emphasized that any related inspections must abide by the provisions of UNSC 1874. -- Qin asserted [...]
2009-06-23 11:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHSA AO BM CH JA IR KN KS SW TW
09BEIJING1711SWEDISH DIPLOMAT DECLARED PNG IN POSSIBLE
[...] (C) Helena Reitberger, First Secretary at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing, told Poloff June 23 that she had been declared persona non grata (PNG) by the Chinese government and was required to depart China no later than June 30. She said she had been called in by the MFA and informed of the dec [...]
2009-06-23 13:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF SW CH
09BEIJING1720CHINA/G-20 Pittsburgh: Focus on IFI Reform and Aid, Not
[...] (C) Summary: China would like to continue working with the United States in the lead-up to the Pittsburgh G-20 Leaders' Summit, and seek to avoid a perceived European desire to raise economic imbalances that would shine an unflattering light on China and the United States, according to China's [...]
2009-06-24 05:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EFIN CH
09BEIJING1727Food Security at L'Aquila Summit: China
[...] (SBU) Summary: China is skeptical $15 billion can be raised for food security at the L'Aquila Summit, according to Guo Xuejun, Deputy Director in the Foreign Ministry International Organizations Department. China prefers bilateral and United Nations channels for delivering assistance. Guo [...]
2009-06-24 08:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD ECON WTRO EAGR EAID PREL CH
09BEIJING1728MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, INTERNET SUPERVISION, WTO
[...] North Korea "U.S. wants to use China to put sanctions on North Korea" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/24): "The two-day U.S. China Deputy Defense Minister level talks started yesterday in Beijing. Such talks between the two coun [...]
2009-06-24 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1734LIU XIAOBO ARRESTED ON SUBVERSION CHARGES
[...] (C) A June 24 Xinhua press release announced the formal arrest of dissident writer and Charter 08 signer Liu Xiaobo on the charge of inciting the subversion of the state. PolOff contacted Liu Xiaobo's wife, Liu Xia, who confirmed the press release. Liu Xia said police had also told her th [...]
2009-06-24 10:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CH
09BEIJING174CHINA: VISA DELAYS SET BACK WESTINGHOUSE PROJECT, THREATEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Westinghouse's execution of a multi-billion dollar contract to build nuclear power units in China -- a source of thousands of U.S. jobs -- continues to be hindered by visa processing delays, specifically the 9 weeks currently required for Visas Mantis Security Advisory Opinion ( [...]
2009-01-21 09:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS OEXC ECON ENRG EINV TRGY KNNP KSCA CH
09BEIJING1747JAPANESE EMBOFFS ON ECONOMIC DIALOGUE, INVESTMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Emboffs, described the June 7 China-Japan High-level Economic Dialogue (HLED) as making little progress on substantive matters but enjoying good atmospherics. The most recent meeting of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese negotiators to discuss a trilateral investment treaty w [...]
2009-06-25 06:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD CH JA KS PK
09BEIJING1752PRC THANKED FOR SUPPORT OF NOMINATIONS OF 3 PAKISTAN-BASED INDIVIDUALS FOR UNSCR 1267 DESIGNATION
[...] (C) On June 25, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin U.S. appreciation for Chinese support of the designation of Arif Qasmani, Muhammad Yahya Mujahid, and Fazeel-a-Tul Shaykh Abu Muhammad Ameen al-Peshawari to the UN S [...]
2009-06-25 08:24:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH PK AF
09BEIJING1753MEDIA REACTION: WTO, U.S. POLICY, NORTH KOREA, FEDERAL
[...] WTO "Don't use free trade to force China" English-language daily published by Global Times/Huanqiu Shibao, the international edition of the People's Daily (06/25): "Restricting the export of strategic resources is China's indivisible right. Free trade excuses cannot violate the basic right [...]
2009-06-25 08:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1754INDUSTRY DISCUSSES GREEN DAM DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (C) Summary. Industry's strong opposition to China's plans to roll out the internet filtering software Green Dam stems both from business concerns and domestic political concerns U.S. industry representatives said June 25. CEOs have to show their companies made every effort to stop the roll- [...]
2009-06-25 09:22:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING176PROSPECTS FOR SINO-EU RELATIONS IN 2009
[...] (C) Summary: The cancellation of the China-EU Summit, slated for December 1, was the culmination of a year of poor relations between China and France, according to European Embassy contacts. Since France ceded the rotating EU Presidency to the Czech Republic on January 1, however, China has [...]
2009-01-21 09:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF XG EZ CH
09BEIJING1761PRC/DPRK: CHINESE SCHOLARS ON UNSCR 1874 AND
[...] (C) Chinese scholars in recent conversations with PolOff said that Pyongyang's response to UNSCR 1874 had been "tepid" so far and that North Korea's domestic political situation did not appear to be tense. The DPRK had not anticipated such a strong reaction to its nuclear test from the internation [...]
2009-06-26 07:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM KNNP MOPS EFIN KN KS CH
09BEIJING177EU'S TAKE ON THE SINO-EU STRATEGIC DIALOGUE:
[...] (C) Summary: In contrast to previous years, the January 19 Sino-EU Strategic Dialogue was surprisingly productive, according to the Czech Embassy. After an initial Chinese diatribe on Tibet, the remainder of the dialogue was open, friendly, and "more than just talking points." Though the fo [...]
2009-01-21 09:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF XG EZ TW CH
09BEIJING1777PRC: MAUNG AYE TOLD TO "ADVANCE DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT;" AUNG SAN SUU KYI NOT DISCUSSED
[...] (C) SPDC Vice-Chairman Maung Aye did not discuss Aung San Suu Kyi with senior Chinese leadership during his June 15-20 visit to China, according to an MFA contact, focusing instead on strengthening bilateral ties. The Chinese urged Burma to advance its "domestic democratic development" and inc [...]
2009-06-29 09:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALAGS BM CH ENRG ETRD PHUM PREL
09BEIJING1778MEDIA REACTION: CHINA POLICY, MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS,
[...] CHINA POLICY "China needs to learn to create alliances" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(06/29): "Recently, the U.S. and Europe made a move to file a petition to WTO over China's production and export restricti [...]
2009-06-29 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING178MEDIA REACTION: INAUGURATION, U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS,
[...] INAUGURATION "People expect the U.S. will walk a new path" The official Xinhua Daily Telegraph (Xinhua Meiri Dianxun) (01/21): "A British paper had an article titled 'Great Expectations' concerning Obama's inauguration. The same title is also translated to 'bright future' in Chinese for Ch [...]
2009-01-21 09:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1801MEDIA REACTION: GREEN DAM, U.S. POLICY, U.S. MILITARY,
[...] GREEN DAM "The network is a sensitive zone for the China-West conflict" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/30): "Recently, concerning friction between China and the West, internet supervision has become a sensitive topic. The U.S. [...]
2009-06-30 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1802PRC DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE DALAI LAMA VISIT
[...] (C) PRC Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei met with Acting DCM Bill Weinstein the evening of June 29 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a demarche protesting the possibility of a visit to the United States by the Dalai Lama in order to meet with senior U.S. officials. VFM He, who spea [...]
2009-06-30 10:51:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH
09BEIJING1803PRC/IRAN: SCHOLAR ON ELECTION'S TIANANMEN ECHOES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a senior Chinese academic, Beijing was handling coverage of the contested Iranian elections carefully in light of potential comparisons by ordinary Chinese of the unrest to the leadership split that lead to the June 4 Tiananmen massacre. Our contact said that Beijin [...]
2009-06-30 11:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING1804JUNE 30 MFA PRESS BREIFING: ASEAN+3, FIVE PARTY TALKS,
[...] Key points at the June 30 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that China would continue to "play a constructive role" through the ASEAN+3 and Regional Security Forum and, given that the international security and economic situation was "changing ra [...]
2009-06-30 23:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MARR PHSA AO BM CH JA IR KN KS SW
09BEIJING1814MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS, INTERNET
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Why the West puts 'spy' tag on China?" English-language daily published by Global Times/Huanqiu Shibao, the international edition of the People's Daily (07/01): "For years some Western politicians and media have accused China of spying with the goal of gaining advance [...]
2009-07-01 08:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1817CHINA HAS FAVORABLE VIEW OF IRENA BUT
[...] (SBU) On June 30, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) responded via faxed letter to points conveyed in REFTEL regarding China's view towards joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF INFORMAL TRANSLATION: Dear Mr. Brent Christensen ESTH [...]
2009-07-01 23:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH
09BEIJING1818CHINA HAS FAVORABLE VIEW OF IRENA BUT NOT READY TO JOIN
[...] (SBU) On June 30, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) responded via faxed letter to points conveyed in REFTEL regarding China's view towards joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF INFORMAL TRANSLATION: Dear Mr. Brent Christensen ESTH [...]
2009-07-01 23:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH
09BEIJING1819CHINA HAS FAVORABLE VIEW OF IRENA BUT NOT READY TO JOIN
[...] (SBU) On June 30, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) responded via faxed letter to points conveyed in REFTEL regarding China's view towards joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF INFORMAL TRANSLATION: Dear Mr. Brent Christensen ESTH [...]
2009-07-01 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH
09BEIJING1820China Has Favorable View of IRENA but not Ready to Join
[...] (SBU) On June 30, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) responded via faxed letter to points conveyed in REFTEL regarding China's view towards joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF INFORMAL TRANSLATION: Dear Mr. Brent Christensen ESTH [...]
2009-07-01 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV TSPL CH
09BEIJING18212009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DCT),
[...] (C) During the first session of the 10th U.S.-PRC Defense Consultative Talks (DCT) held June 23-24 2009 in Beijing, both the U.S. and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) delegations affirmed that presidents of the two countries had charged them with improving the military-to-military relations [...]
2009-07-01 00:38:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING18222009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DC),
[...] (C) The U.S. policy of conducting surveillance in China's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) reflects a Cold War mentality and should be stopped, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) delegation maintained during the second session of Defense Consultative Talks (DCT) June 23, 2009. U.S. surveillance [...]
2009-07-01 00:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING18232009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS: ASIA
[...] (S) China appreciates and shares the concerns of the United States, Japan and South Korea regarding the North Korean nuclear test, Deputy Chief of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian told Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP) Michele Flournoy [...]
2009-07-01 00:59:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING18262009 U.S.-CHINA DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DCT),
[...] (C) During a discussion on advancing the U.S.-PRC Dialogue on Nuclear Policy and Strategy as part of the 10th U.S.-China Defense Consultative Talks (DCT),Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian responded to a U.S. presentation on the Defense Department's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR),Ballistic Missil [...]
2009-07-01 01:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING18272009 U.S.-PRC DEFENSE CONSULTATIVE TALKS (DCT)
[...] (S) Summary: Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian, Deputy Chief of the PLA General Staff, stretched what was to be a sixty minute Small Group session with Ms. Michele Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP),into ninety minutes, and focused his remarks on objecting to U.S. arms sales [...]
2009-07-01 01:20:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM MOPS CH TW
09BEIJING1834MEDIA REACTION: INTERNET CENSORSHIP, CYBER WAR, NORTH
[...] INTERNET CENSORSHIP "Foreign media demonizes the fighting over Green Dam software" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(07/02): "The postponement of the Chinese government's installation of Green Dam software has been widely welcomed by [...]
2009-07-01 05:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1838JULY 2 MFA PRESS BREIFING: WU DAWEI, G-8, GREEN DAM,
[...] Key points at the July 2 MFA press briefing: -- Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei began his visit to Russia, the United States, Japan and South Korea on July 2, and will "exchange views with relevant parties" on the situation on the Korean Peninsula as well as issues relating to Northeast Asia. [...]
2009-07-01 10:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PARM ECIN CH JA KN KS ZI RS IT TW
09BEIJING1839WFP Scaling Back DPRK Operations
[...] (SBU) Summary: The WFP is scaling back its work in North Korea because of lower than expected donor support as well as new restrictions imposed by the North Korean government, according to World Food Program (WFP) North Korea Country Representative Torben Due. The WFP is refocusing their eff [...]
2009-07-01 12:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID PREL CH KN
09BEIJING1843WFP Scaling Back DPRK Operations
[...] (SBU) Summary: The WFP is scaling back its work in North Korea because of lower than expected donor support as well as new restrictions imposed by the North Korean government, according to World Food Program (WFP) North Korea Country Representative Torben Due. The WFP is refocusing their eff [...]
2009-07-04 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID PREL CH KN
09BEIJING1844SCO SUMMIT: CHINA WEIGHS LEADERSHIP ROLE AS
[...] (C) Chinese and other Shanghai Organization (SCO) member countries' diplomats told us that the June 16 SCO summit in Yekaterinburg had served primarily as a forum for SCO members to demonstrate a sense of urgency in responding to the global financial crisis, eclipsing discussion about increasin [...]
2009-07-05 02:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR
09BEIJING1845INTERAGENCY UNSCR 1874 MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] (S) Chinese MFA Director General for International Organizations Wu Hailong, leading an interagency delegation made up of representatives of all Chinese agencies tasked with implementing UNSCR 1874, told Ambassador Philip Goldberg in a 3 hour 45-minute meeting on July 2 that China was committe [...]
2009-07-05 02:50:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS
09BEIJING1847INTERAGENCY UNSCR 1874 MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-05 02:51:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS
09BEIJING1848INTERAGENCY UNSCR 1874 MEETING WITH CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-05 02:51:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC CH JA KN KS
09BEIJING1850CHINA WEIGHS LEADERSHIP ROLE AS ECONOMY TAKES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-05 03:00:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID ETRD ENRG ZK XD CH RS IR
09BEIJING1851SOMALI PIRACY: CHINA ASKED TO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL
[...] (SBU) China was "flexible" if additional states wished to participate in the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division official Cheng Lie told PolOff July 2 in response to reftel points encouraging C [...]
2009-07-05 03:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHSA MARR MOPS CH SO
09BEIJING186LAND AND SOCIAL STABILITY IN RURAL CHINA: A
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Discontent and the potential for rural unrest involving land disputes may be increasing despite the Government's recent emphasis on reforming rural land policy. Little substantive progress has been made to reform rural land policy since the announcement of new reforms at the Oc [...]
2009-01-22 03:16:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI
09BEIJING1867MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA,
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The U.S. and China don't need a Fourth Joint Communiqu yet" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(07/06): "The Obama Administration is continuing the stable development of U.S.-China relations [...]
2009-07-05 08:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1868140 DEAD IN URUMQI RIOTS, DEATH TOLL MAY GO
[...] (C) During the course of July 6, China's official media steadily revised upward the death toll from July 5 rioting in Urumqi, Xinjiang, to 140. The Xinhua News Agency warned the final figure could be higher. 828 people were injured and police have made "hundreds" of arrests, the agency report [...]
2009-07-05 11:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING1874MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, ENVIRONMENT, HONDURAS
[...] XINJIANG RIOT "Supporting Rabiye Qadir is being the enemy of the Chinese people" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(07/07): "The fierce violence that happened on the evening of July 5th in Urumqi, Xinjiang province has destroyed the lo [...]
2009-07-07 08:49:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1876MFA DEMARCHE ON XINJIANG UNREST
[...] (C) PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Department Director General Zheng Zeguang met with Charge d,Affaires Robert Goldberg at 2140 on the evening of July 6 to deliver a briefing and demarche on the July 5 unrest in Urumqi. The demarche was similar in content to July 6 Xinhua press rele [...]
2009-07-07 11:02:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1877JULY 7 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: XINJIANG, RUSSIA
[...] Key points at the July 7 MFA press briefing: - Regarding the events in Xinjiang, MFA spokesperson Qin said that the "facts could not be clearer" and that an "evil crime" had taken place that some people called a "peaceful demonstration." Qin said that these people were cowards and "totally l [...]
2009-07-07 11:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CH RS
09BEIJING1878UNREST CONTINUES IN URUMQI, COUNTER DEMONSTRATION
[...] (C) During a third day of unrest in Urumqi, large numbers of rioters of Han nationality engaged in counter protests directed at Uighur residents and businesses. According to a U.S. Embassy officer in Urumqi, as of 1800 local time, unrest, including explosions and the use of tear gas by police [...]
2009-07-07 11:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING1906MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, U.S. ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICY
[...] XINJIANG RIOT a. "July 5" incident will not create chaos in China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(07/08): "After the large chaos on July 5th, small scale chaos, demonstrations and conflicts continue. Comparable to favoring Tibet's [...]
2009-07-08 09:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1910China/UNSCR 1874: Delivery of State 66250
[...] (SBU) Ref A nonpaper and talking points were delivered to the Chinese Government via a telephone call between U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey and People's Bank of China (PBoC) Vice Governor Su Ning (ref B),Ambassador Phillip Goldberg's meeting in Beijing with Chinese government off [...]
2009-07-08 23:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV EPET EFIN CH
09BEIJING1911SCENESETTER FOR DOE SECRETARY CHU VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Secretary Chu, Chinese leaders are eagerly looking forward to your visit to China and to engaging you on issues of energy, climate change and science, among others, that will help determine the quality of life of the Chinese and American people over the next few decades. Your visit come [...]
2009-07-08 23:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING1923MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, NORTH KOREA
[...] XINJIANG RIOT a. "The west helps Rabiye take control in 'Xinjiang independence' organization" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/09): "Rabiye, who knew little about the 'Eastern Turkish' issue, has become the behind-the-scenes dire [...]
2009-07-09 09:06:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1924SCENESETTER FOR DOC SECRETARY LOCKE VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Secretary Locke, I wanted to send you a note that addresses some of the issues you will raise from a China mission perspective. I know that your staff has prepared papers on these matters and hope we are not duplicating some of their observations. 2. (SBU) Clearly, Chinese leaders are [...]
2009-07-09 09:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING1927JULY 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: XINJIANG UNREST, RIO TINTO
[...] Key points at the July 9 MFA press briefing: -- Regarding the events in Xinjiang, while current casualty figures were not available, no foreign casualties had been recorded. -- Regarding Turkey's proposal to discuss the events in Xinjiang before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),[...]
2009-07-09 10:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU
09BEIJING1928CHINESE INTERNET REACTION TO XINJIANG UNREST
[...] The recent riots and ethnic tensions in Xinjiang were hot topics on major Chinese news portals, Internet forums and microblogging platforms in China over the past few days. Widespread censorship was present on popular social discussion platforms. Many netizens expressed skepticism about avai [...]
2009-07-09 10:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EINT CH
09BEIJING1929TENSIONS SUBSIDE IN URUMQI UNDER CONTINUED HEAVY
[...] (C) Poloff in Urumqi witnessed no new disturbances during the course of July 9. Public transportation was operational and many businesses had reopened. Poloff witnessed Uighurs walking unmolested in predominantly Han neighborhoods. Uighur neighborhoods appeared to have far less activity and fo [...]
2009-07-09 11:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CH
09BEIJING1945EMBASSY AIR QUALITY TWEETS SAID TO "CONFUSE" CHINESE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),ESTH Off and MED Off met on July 7 with Mr. WANG Shuai of MFA's Office of U.S. Affairs to respond to MFA's concerns about recent publicity in international and local press surrounding an air quality monitor installed on t [...]
2009-07-10 07:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV CASC KGHG TRGY ENRG PREL CH
09BEIJING1947DEMARCHE ON RESULTS OF U.S.-RUSSIA PRESIDENTIAL
[...] On July 10, Acting DCM delivered reftel non-paper highlighting President Obama's summit meeting with Russian President Medvedev to Acting DG for North American and Oceanian Affairs Ding Xiaowen. Also on July 10, PolOff shared the non-paper with the MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department [...]
2009-07-10 07:53:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL RS CH
09BEIJING1951PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SHIELD S15-09: SYRIA
[...] (SBU) On July 10, Poloff conveyed reftel points and non-paper on Syrian desires to obtain Schedule 2B chemicals from China to the MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Weapons Division Deputy Director Yang Yi. Yang had no immediate response but promised to provide any [...]
2009-07-10 08:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER CH
09BEIJING1952MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, NORTH KOREA
[...] XINJIANG RIOT a. "By being extreme, western media loses China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/10): "China is changing, but western media's attitude towards China seems forever unchanged. When the '7.5' incident happened, weste [...]
2009-07-10 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1953INFORMAL PROPOSAL FOR U.S.-CHINA BILATERAL INTERAGENCY
[...] On 10 July 2009 Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) External Security Division Director Xia Jingge informally proposed a bilateral interagency exchange on counterterrorism issues in Mid-September 2009. Director Xia suggested the exchange should be jointly led by Director General for External Sec [...]
2009-07-10 10:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH CT
09BEIJING1954XINJIANG SITREP FOR JULY 10, 2009
[...] (C) No major incidents of unrest occurred during in Urumqi during the course of July 9, though Embassy officers witnessed a brief scuffle as security forces broke up a demonstration of about 30 Uighurs in front of western journalists on July 10. The People's Armed Police (PAP) presence in the [...]
2009-07-10 11:36:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPGOV PREL PHUM CASC CH
09BEIJING1957GOOGLE CLAIMS HARRASSMENT BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Google China representatives claim the company's services have been blocked by the Chinese government periodically over the past three years. After users reported on June 18 that Google.cm search engine was not filtering returns for pornographic sites, the government on June 2 [...]
2009-07-12 23:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PHUM PGOV ECON CH
09BEIJING1967MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS,
[...] XINJIANG RIOT a. "Any country with the rule of law will not bear these violent crimes" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao)(07/13): "The Central Committee of the CPC and the Xinjiang local government took instant action when the Urumqi '7.5' incident oc [...]
2009-07-13 09:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1969PRC SCHOLARS URGE QUICK ASSISTANCE FOR IDPS; WARY
[...] (C) State Council-affiliated academics told Embassy officers that recent progress on counter-terrorism efforts in Pakistan could collapse if the basic needs of IDPs resulting from military operations were not addressed quickly. According to Chinese scholars, mistrust of U.S. military intention [...]
2009-07-13 10:07:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER NATO MOPS MARR EAID CH PK AF
09BEIJING197MEDIA REACTION: INAUGURATION, U.S. - CHINA MILITARY
[...] INAUGURATION "The World expects changes in the U.S." The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao)(01/22): "The American media indicates that there has never been a president like Obama who has gained the expectations of the entire world. The world is expecting ma [...]
2009-01-22 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING1970RISE IN MASS INCIDENTS WORRISOME BUT NOT YET A THREAT TO OVERALL STABILITY, CONTACTS SAY
[...] (C) A jump in the number of "mass incidents," or violent protests against local governments, in June is unrelated to the recent ethnic riots in Xinjiang and does not signal a threat to overall social stability, Embassy contacts report. However, violent incidents indicate serious discontent belo [...]
2009-07-13 10:21:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ASEC CH
09BEIJING1971China's new super think tank
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to widespread official and media criticism of Chinese think tanks' failure to adequately respond to the global financial crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao pushed for the creation of a new think tank with an impressive roster of high-level members. The center made i [...]
2009-07-13 10:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL EFIN CH
09BEIJING1972URUMQI CALM -- JULY 13 SITREP
[...] (C) Urumqi and Kashgar remained calm July 11-13, according to a U.S. Embassy team on the ground there, with no reports of new violence. The government July 11 revised the official death toll upward to 184 and provided an ethnic breakdown which showed that three quarters of the riot fatalities [...]
2009-07-13 10:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING1973INDONESIAN FM VISIT TO BEIJING
[...] (C) Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda's July 1-3 trip to Beijing concentrated mainly on positive aspects of Sino-Indonesia ties, including signing of an extradition treaty, and further development of the strategic partnership, according to MFA and Indonesian Embassy contacts. However [...]
2009-07-13 10:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EFIN PBTS MARR ID CH
09BEIJING198CHINA CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR TALKS IN ZIMBABWE
[...] (C) Summary: China supports the African Union (AU) position that continued negotiations offer the best way to resolve the political crisis in Zimbabwe, according to a Chinese diplomat. China also supports mediation efforts by South Africa and the South African Development Community (SADC) an [...]
2009-01-22 09:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH ZI SF
09BEIJING1988MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOT, OBAMA'S VISIT TO GHANA,
[...] XINJIANG RIOT "Stability is the lifeline for development" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (07/14): "Only with stability can ordinary people be happy and peaceful and for society develop and progress. Under the strong leadership of the Central Committee and the S [...]
2009-07-14 09:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING1989PRC: INDIAN ACTIONS ON ARUNACHAL PRADESH DESIGNED
[...] (C) Chinese scholars believe the media-hyped controversies over recent Indian troop movements near the disputed province of Arunachal Pradesh and the province's inclusion in the Asia Development Bank's Country Strategy for India reflect India's desire to pressure China to recognize India's terr [...]
2009-07-14 10:03:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER MOPS MARR EAID CH IN
09BEIJING1990SHOOTING ELEVATES URUMQI TENSIONS AND SECURITY
[...] (C) Urumqi was largely calm July 14 but the fatal shooting of two Uighurs by police on July 13 appeared to have resulted in an increased People's Armed Police (PAP) presence in Uighur neighborhoods and the closure of many shops that had only recently reopened. Jiefang Nan Road, where the inci [...]
2009-07-14 11:26:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP TU CH
09BEIJING1992JULY 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: XINJIANG UNREST, THREATS OF
[...] Key points at the July 14 MFA press briefing: -- The spokesperson emphasized the fact that since "most of the dead" were Han and a "small number" were from ethnic minorities in the recent July 5 incident in Urumqi, there was "no such thing as ethnic genocide." -- When asked about threats b [...]
2009-07-14 12:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU
09BEIJING1994PROPOSED DATES FOR U.S.-CHINA NONPROLIFERATION AND
[...] On July 15, PolOff delivered reftel proposal, suggesting a late August date for the bilateral Nonproliferation Dialogue and a mid-October date for the Security Dialogue to Wang Lei of the MFA's Arms Control Department, General Policy Division. PolOff advised Wang that Washington envisioned b [...]
2009-07-15 03:11:00Embassy BeijingSECRETKNNP PARM CH
09BEIJING200January 22 MFA Press Briefing: President Obama's Inaugural
[...] Key points at the January 22 MFA Press Briefing: -- MFA Spokesperson was "not aware" of President Obama's inaugural speech having been censored when broadcast on Chinese media, adding that the media in China enjoyed their "own editing right." -- China hopes the "relevant parties" will adher [...]
2009-01-22 10:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD CH KN FR IR XF BM
09BEIJING2003MEDIA REACTION: XINJIANG RIOTS, RIO TINTO
[...] XINJIANG RIOTS a. "We are dependent on all ethnic groups to maintain Xinjiang's stability" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (07/15): "With strenuous and detailed efforts after the 7/5 incident, Xinjiang has made great progress in maintaining stability and the peo [...]
2009-07-15 09:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2004TRAFFIC CONTROLS REMAIN IN URUMQI UIGHUR QUARTER
[...] (C) Embassy officers in Urumqi reported continued high security, including traffic controls, in the Uighur sections of the city July 15. About 50 percent of businesses in the Uighur quarter were closed, including large markets and bazaars. Uighurs remained fearful of being seen speaking at l [...]
2009-07-15 10:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP PTER CH
09BEIJING2009STATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE MINISTER DISCUSSES CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary. The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) will be playing a broader role in all matters relating to IPR in the upcoming Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) according to SIPO's Commissioner. The Ministry of Commerce will still coordinate China's overall JCCT partic [...]
2009-07-16 06:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH
09BEIJING201CHINA GIVEN ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON CHINA'S SHENYANG
[...] (S) After noting continued "unavailability" of MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department officials to meet with PolOffs since the October 3 announcement of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the Charge shared reftel information providing additional details about a Chinese company's assistance to Nor [...]
2009-01-22 10:32:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE ETTC SY KN CH
09BEIJING2013STATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE MINISTER DISCUSSES CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary. The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) will be playing a broader role in all matters relating to IPR in the upcoming Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) according to SIPO's Commissioner. The Ministry of Commerce will still coordinate China's overall JCCT partic [...]
2009-07-16 07:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH
09BEIJING202CHINA INFORMED SYRIAN ENTITY SEEKING HIGH-GRADE
[...] (S) After noting continued "unavailability" of MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department officials to meet with PolOffs since the October 3 announcement of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the Charge shared reftel non-paper informing China of attempts by a Syrian entity of proliferation concern to [...]
2009-01-22 10:36:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE MNUC ETTC TSPA SY CH
09BEIJING2021MFA OFFICIALS EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT U.S. POLICY ON
[...] (C) In June 16 meetings with visiting Hong Kong Consul General Joseph Donovan, MFA officials urged the U.S. to act cautiously toward the universal suffrage question in Hong Kong, but welcomed private advice from Washington on the issue. One official commented that the large June 4 vigil in Ho [...]
2009-07-16 09:52:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EINV CH HK
09BEIJING2022ONE WEEK LATER: CHINESE NETIZENS INTEREST IN XINJIANG
[...] The recent riots and ethnic tensions in Xinjiang remained widely discussed topics on major Chinese news portals, Internet forums and microblogging platforms in China in the week since July 8. Widespread censorship was evident through the continued blocking of many popular social discussion pla [...]
2009-07-16 11:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EINT CH
09BEIJING2023URUMQI DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO 192 -- JULY 16
[...] (C) Post has received no reports of new violence or unrest in Urumqi, or other areas of Xinjiang, July 16. The death toll from the July 5 riot climbed to 192 with 1,721 people injured. Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan was quoted in the local press as saying most of the dead were "innocent. [...]
2009-07-16 11:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PROP CH
09BEIJING2024MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT, XINJIANG
[...] SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT "China and the U.S. should face the climate challenge together" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(07/16): "The constructive meaning of Secretary Chu and Secretary Locke's Chi [...]
2009-07-16 12:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2025JULY 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHU AND LOCKE VISIT, RIO TINTO
[...] Key points at the July 16 MFA press briefing: --China "opposes any country providing a platform" for Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer's "separatist activity." --China's position on mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions has been "consistent and clear" and China would "follow the principles [...]
2009-07-16 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH AS RS TU
09BEIJING203TIBETAN "SERF EMANCIPATION DAY" DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (C) The Charge delivered reftel points to MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang on January 22. The "Serf Emancipation Day" holiday, the Charge stressed, would not serve to improve the situation in Tibet and instead would only exacerbate tensions. [...]
2009-01-22 12:23:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF CH
09BEIJING2034MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT, XINJIANG
[...] SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT "The new growth point for China- U.S. relationship" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (07/17): "The announcement of plan to develop a joint energy research center marked the first substantive outcome of China-U.S. energy negotiations s [...]
2009-07-17 08:22:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2038CHINA URGES USG TO "RESTRICT" KADEER, DEATH TOLL
[...] (C) Ministry of Public Security Vice Minister Liu Jing, in a July 17 meeting with FBI Director Robert Mueller, argued that the July 5 riot in Urumqi was a "terrorist activity," claiming that rioters were "professional and well-trained." The Director said outside observers will only be convinced [...]
2009-07-17 10:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PROP PHUM CH
09BEIJING204PRC/MEPP: CHINA VEXES ARABS WITH RESTRAINED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After a briefing by Chinese Middle East Envoy Sun Bigan, Arab ambassadors in China were frustrated and disappointed by Beijing's measured response to the recent Gaza violence, Arab embassy contacts said January 22. They expected Chinese condemnation of Israel, based on China's h [...]
2009-01-22 12:29:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM MEPP CH IS XF
09BEIJING2040PREMIER WEN SUFFERS CRITICISM, BUT POSITION
[...] (C) Rumors that Premier Wen Jiabao is under fire for a variety of alleged failings continue to circulate among China's politically active circles, but the chances of Wen being forced out before his term expires in 2013 are remote, according to a number of Embassy contacts. Wen has reportedly [...]
2009-07-17 10:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PHUM EFIN CH
09BEIJING2041XINJIANG: PRC SCRAMBLES TO AVOID ANTI-ISLAM IMAGE
[...] (C) According to Beijing-based diplomats, PRC officials scrambled in the wake of the July 5 violence in Xinjiang to head off potential anti-Chinese reactions in the Muslim world by urging governments from majority-Muslim countries to refrain from official statements and control their media's p [...]
2009-07-17 11:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CH ID EG TU
09BEIJING2044SECRETARY LOCKE DISCUSSES JCCT, SED WITH VICE PREMIER WANG
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SED) should focus more on macroeconomics while the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) should focus on specific issues such as IPR or the Doha round according to Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan. Wang praised the handling of the U. [...]
2009-07-20 01:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON CH
09BEIJING2053CHU AND LOCKE TALK CLEAN ENERGY WITH CHINA'S STATE GRID
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke met with State Grid President Liu Zhenya on July 16 to discuss clean energy. State Grid is China's largest transmission and distribution company, serving nearly one billion people. The company has pioneered ul [...]
2009-07-20 06:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2054DOE SECRETARY CHU AND MOHURD MINISTER JIANG DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At their July 14 meeting in Beijing, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) Minister Jiang Weixin discussed energy-efficient buildings. MOHURD officials agreed that energy-efficient standards needed to go beyond design to add [...]
2009-07-20 07:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2061MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARIES' CHU AND LOCKE VISITS TO CHINA,
[...] SECRETARIES' CHU AND LOCKE VISITS TO CHINA "The two U.S. Secretaries: visit to China under a 'green cloak'" The independent Chinese weekly business newspaper distributed in major cities throughout China, Economic Observer (Jingji Guanchabao) (07/20): "The main agenda of Secretary Locke's vi [...]
2009-07-20 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2062BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON XINJIANG,
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing July 17, French Ambassador Ladsous reported that during French National Day, he spoke with a Chinese Vice Minister who said Xinjiang was "just like Tibet" and implied France "best keep quiet." On Rio Tinto, Ladsous reported that he hea [...]
2009-07-20 09:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING2063PRC LEADERSHIP STABLE DESPITE TENSIONS; XI STILL
[...] (C) Embassy contacts have reported that relations among China's top leaders remained largely stable, and the arrangements put in train for succession at the 18th Party Congress in 2012 appeared to be holding, with Xi Jinping likely to become Party chief and Li Keqiang to become Premier. Three [...]
2009-07-20 10:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
09BEIJING2064 Secretary Locke Discusses Bilateral Trade
[...] (SBU) Secretary Locke and delegation and D/USTR Demetrios Marantis met July 15 with Minister Chen Deming and senior MOFCOM officials for a 90 minute discussion of bilateral trade and commercial issues including clean energy coooperation, global warming, trade remedies, Buy America/Buy China po [...]
2009-07-20 10:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ETRD EAGR EIND EINT BEXP CH
09BEIJING2065URUMQI RIOT A "TERRORIST ACT": FBI DIRECTOR
[...] (C) The July 5 riot in Urumqi was a "terrorist act" and the rioters were "professional and well trained," Vice Minister of Public Security Liu Jing told visiting FBI Director Robert S. Mueller July 17. The violence in Urumqi was premeditated and well organized and had nothing to do with reli [...]
2009-07-20 10:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH
09BEIJING2066JULY 20 XINJIANG SITREP
[...] (C) EmbOffs in Urumqi reported no new violence or unrest over the weekend of July 18-19 or on July 20. The official death toll from the riots remains 197. In majority Han or mixed neighborhoods the security posture had relaxed noticeably while large numbers of police continued to patrol the Ui [...]
2009-07-20 11:04:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH
09BEIJING207CHINA PROTESTS SANCTIONS AGAINST DALIAN SUNNY
[...] (S) MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Director Sun Lei called in PolOff on January 28 to complain about the "unacceptable" and "unilateral" sanctions announced against Chinese companies Limmt and Bellamax (refs A and B). Sun said China opposes the imposition [...]
2009-01-23 10:28:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING2071 Secretaries Locke and Chu Discuss Energy and Climate
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao on July 16, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu highlighted the importance of the United States and China working together on clean energy and climate change. Wen agreed that the U.S.-China relationship is the most [...]
2009-07-21 06:01:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2072 SECRETARY CHU MEETS WITH VICE PREMIER LI KEQIANG
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-21 06:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2073 Energy Secretary Chu and Commerce Secretary Locke Discuss
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Chairman Zhang Ping on July 14, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke discussed how the United States and China can work together on energy and climate change. Chu pointed out that throu [...]
2009-07-21 06:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2079MEDIA REACTION: ENVIRONMENT, MILITARY, RUSSIA
[...] ENVIRONMENT "'Post-crisis' economy has a new engine: green industries" The official Communist Party international paper, People's Daily Overseas Edition (Renmin Ribao Haiwaiban) (07/21):" Zhong Maochu, a professor at Nankai University's Graduate School of Economics said various indications [...]
2009-07-21 08:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2080CHINA INFORMED OF POSSIBLE WEAPONS-RELATED
[...] (S) On July 21, Poloff conveyed reftel points and non-paper regarding the possible transfer through Beijing on July 9 of torpedo batteries and technical personnel from North Korea to Iran to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Weapons Division Deputy Director Yang Y [...]
2009-07-21 09:42:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL MNUC CH IR KN
09BEIJING2083JULY 21 XINJIANG SITREP
[...] (C) Emboffs in Urumqi heard of no unrest or violent incidents during the course of July 21. The People's Armed Police (PAP) presence throughout the Han and ethnically mixed areas of the city continued to decline. Foot traffic in these areas continues to visibly increase day by day. Several m [...]
2009-07-21 10:34:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CH
09BEIJING2084CHINA URGES FBI DIRECTOR TO RESTRICT UIGHUR GROUPS
[...] (C) MFA Vice Minister Zhang Zhijun, in a July 17 meeting with FBI Director Robert S. Muller, called on the United States to restrict the activities of Uighur "terrorist and separatist" groups operating on U.S. soil. Zhang also raised the Guantanamo Uighur detainees and urged the USG to step u [...]
2009-07-21 10:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER CH
09BEIJING2085ISRAELI AMBASSADOR SEEKS MORE SPACE FOR SECURITY
[...] (S) Israeli Ambassador to China Amos Nadai told the Charge that Israel was capable of expanding its defense and security relationship with China but this would require the United States rethinking the limitations it has placed on Israeli security cooperation with China. Israel was especially [...]
2009-07-21 10:59:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPREL ECON MCAP MARR IS IR CH
09BEIJING2086CHINA WANTS EXTRADITION TREATY, JUSTICE VICE
[...] (C) In a July 17 meeting with FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, PRC Vice Minister of Justice Hao Chiyong expressed hope that the United States would consider returning additional fugitives to China in the same manner as Bank of China suspect Yu Zhendong. VM Hao added that the PRC would like to [...]
2009-07-21 11:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER CH
09BEIJING2089 Energy Secretary Chu Visits China's ENN Energy Company and
[...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Energy Steven Chu met ENN Chairman Wang Yusuo on July 17 at ENN Headquarters in Langfang City, Hebei Province. Founded in 1989, ENN is an integrated energy company that is investing heavily in clean energy technology. China's largest private energy firm, ENN has act [...]
2009-07-22 06:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV CH
09BEIJING2092 MEP OFFICIAL TALKS ABOUT BALANCING ENVIRONMENTAL
[...] (SBU) In a press briefing on June 25 by Mr. WAN Bentai, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP),Wan strongly asserted that MEP's highest priority is to maintain and enforce national environmental laws, and actions to support these laws and regulations would be not be [...]
2009-07-22 06:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO PREL CH
09BEIJING2094MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA, CHINA-RUSSIA MILITARY
[...] U.S.-CHINA "Former U.S. Speaker of the House wants to use nuclear-armed Japan to suppress China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/22): "The former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently openly used a nuclear-armed Japan [...]
2009-07-22 07:33:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2097JULY 22 XINJIANG SITREP
[...] (C) Embassy officers present in Xinjiang received no additional reports of violence in the region. In Kashgar, the Embassy team encountered surveillance July 22. Several plain clothes security officers, thinly disguised as Han Chinese tourists, followed and took video of the Embassy officers [...]
2009-07-22 11:05:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING21MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, JAPAN
[...] U.S. DEPLOMACY "Obama runs 'family politics' very well" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(01/06): "Caroline Kennedy has become the most capable candidate for the New York Senate seat left by future Secretary of [...]
2009-01-06 08:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2107MEDIA REACTION: S&ED, U.S. MEDIA ON "CHINESE ECONIMIC
[...] U.S.-CHINA "Strategic dialogue can eliminate conflict from the very beginning" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao) (07/23): "Zhu Shida, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' American Society and Culture Research Division, said an [...]
2009-07-23 08:17:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR PREL ECON CH
09BEIJING2109PRC FEEDBACK ON PAST NONPRO CASES REQUESTED
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper requesting information on the status of investigations of past cases of missile-related nonproliferation concern to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on July 23. Yang said she woul [...]
2009-07-23 09:43:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH SY IR PK
09BEIJING2110PRC SUPPORTIVE BUT VAGUE ON ADDITIONAL
[...] (C) On July 21, Poloff conveyed to MFA Asian Affairs Department, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Division Desk Officer Hou Yanqi reftel points on enhanced civilian and military contributions to Afghanistan following the August 20 presidential election. Econoff also delivered reftel poin [...]
2009-07-23 10:14:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER CH AF
09BEIJING2111DETAILS ON PRC "HIGH-LEVEL" UNGA PARTCIPATION
[...] (SBU) PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Officer Li Jun July 23 reftel points requesting information on the attendance of senior Chinese officials at the 64th UN General Assembly (UNGA). Li responded that the planning process for China's [...]
2009-07-23 10:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID CH
09BEIJING2112TOP LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS DRIVEN BY CONSENSUS,
[...] (C) The need for consensus and the desire to protect vested interests are the main drivers of Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) decision-making and Chinese leadership dynamics in general, according to Embassy contacts with access to leadership circles. Contacts have variously described relations [...]
2009-07-23 10:59:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH
09BEIJING2118MEDIA REACTION: U.S. RETURN TO ASIA, NORTH KOREA, CHINA'S
[...] U.S. RETURN TO ASIA "China should pay a high degree of attention to the United States returning to Asia" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/24): "It is foreseeable that in the future China will be facing pressure from the United S [...]
2009-07-24 07:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR PREL ECON ENRG CH
09BEIJING2121 LOCAL OFFICIALS IGNORE WATER POLLUTION PROBLEMS IN CANCER
[...] (SBU) "Cancer villages" appear to be as commonplace as water pollution in China. For local residents, it is not a question of whether cancer villages exist, but rather how badly cancer has afflicted the villages. Although local and international journalists have reported periodically on the l [...]
2009-07-24 09:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO PREL CH
09BEIJING2122(C)CHINESE REACT NEGATIVELY TO WEBB HEARING
[...] (C) The DG for the new MFA Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs called in the Charge on July 24 to protest comments made by senior U.S. officials about Chinese claims to the South China Sea (SCS). The DG reiterated Chinese sovereignty claims and urged the United States to "control" U.S. o [...]
2009-07-24 10:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS CH
09BEIJING2123HIGH-PROFILE NGO CLOSED, PRE-60TH ANNIVERSARY
[...] (C) On July 17 the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau raided the offices of the Open Constitution Initiative (aka "Gongmeng"),an NGO promoting democracy and rule-of-law, and declared the group an "illegal organization." Days earlier, Beijing tax officials had slapped OCI with a large fine for all [...]
2009-07-24 12:46:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PROP SOCI CH
09BEIJING2124SECRETARIES CHU AND LOCKE DISCUSS CLEAN ENERGY PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) During his recent visit to China, Energy Secretary Chu met with China's Minister of Science and Technology WAN Gang on July 15 to discuss priorities for the new U.S.-China Clean Energy Research and Development Center, which they publicly announced later the same day at a joint press con [...]
2009-07-26 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING2125DOE SECRETARY CHU DISCUSSES CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY AND
[...] (SBU) On July 16, Secretary Chu met with CAO Peixi the president of Huaneng Group, China's largest power producer. The two met at Huaneng's Gaobeidian showcase cogeneration power plant in Beijing to discuss the energy giant's effort to reduce sulfur and nitrogen oxide (SOx and NOx) and carbo [...]
2009-07-26 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING2126Senior Hu Advisor Zheng Bijian Organizing China-U.S. Clean
[...] (SBU) Professor ZHENG Bijian, a senior advisor to China's president Hu Jintao, met with the U.S. Energy Secretary Chu and U.S. Commerce Secretary Locke, during their recent trip to China. Zheng's primary aim during the brief lunch meeting was to solicit the attendance of the two Secretaries at [...]
2009-07-26 23:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR SENV ENRG KGHG CH
09BEIJING2127COMMERCE SECRETARY LOCKE TO MIIT MINISTER LI
[...] (C) Summary. In a July 15 discussion with Minister of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Li Yizhong on the challenges posed by the global financial crisis (GFC),Secretary of Commerce Locke emphasized the importance of investing in clean energy and technology. Secretary Locke noted th [...]
2009-07-27 00:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2137TERRORISM FINANCE: UN AND U.S. DOMESTIC
[...] (SBU)On July 23, Poloff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Officer Li Jun reftel points requesting China to freeze the assets of and take other necessary actions against Qasmani, Mujahid, and Al-Peshawari in accordance with UNSCR 1267 designation [...]
2009-07-27 06:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV KTFN ECON PTER CH
09BEIJING2141MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA S&ED DIALOGUE, NORTH KOREA, THE
[...] U.S.-CHINA S&ED DIALOGUE "The first round of the U.S.-China S&ED will start with a good opening" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (07/27): "The first round of the S&ED symbolizes the new era and structure of the U.S.-China relationship. The dialogue has three c [...]
2009-07-27 08:46:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR PREL ECON CH
09BEIJING2142SHANDONG PRISON LABOR VISIT
[...] (SBU) On May 11, 2009, officials from the U.S. Embassy, Beijing, visited the Luzhong Prison in Zibo City, Shandong Province. This visit was part of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation to resolve allegations of exports to the United States of porcelain products man [...]
2009-07-27 09:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PHUM PREL CH
09BEIJING2144(C) AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR CONFIRMS GOA SURPRISE
[...] (C) Summary. China's recent detention of Australian citizen Stern Hu and three other Rio Tinto executives surprised the Australian government, according to Dr. Geoff Raby, Australia's Ambassador here. Raby told the Charge July 24 that his government had seen no evidence of bribery, espiona [...]
2009-07-27 09:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON EINV CH AS
09BEIJING2149CHINA/UNSCR 1874: U/S LEVEY DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA AND CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK
[...] (S) Summary. Treasury U/S for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey on July 8 queried People's Bank of China (PBoC) Vice Governor Su Ning about Chinese actions to enforce UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1874 given China's complex financial relationship with North Korea. Gove [...]
2009-07-28 06:25:00Embassy BeijingSECRETEFIN PGOV PREL KTFN PTER CH KN
09BEIJING2152MEDIA REACTION: S&ED, U.S. BACK IN SOUTHEAST ASIA,
[...] S&ED "The U.S.'s hospitality to China surprised the world" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/28): "The opening of the S&ED that the U.S. held for China was like a 'millennium wedding' for the two countries. However, Niu Xinchun, [...]
2009-07-28 08:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH
09BEIJING2155SCENESETTER FOR HOUSE MINORITY LEADER BOEHNER'S
[...] (SBU) Minority Leader Boehner, your visit to China comes in a year filled with key anniversaries: January 1 commemorated 30 years of U.S.-China diplomatic relations; March saw the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising and the Dalai Lama's flight to India; June 4 marked the 20th annive [...]
2009-07-28 10:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH
09BEIJING2156PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON LIBYA'S CONTROVERSIAL
[...] (C) On July 28 PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Bo reftel points requesting China oppose controversial language that Libya seeks to insert into the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) mandate. Sh [...]
2009-07-28 23:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SU CH
09BEIJING2158 Secretary Chu Discusses Energy and Climate Change
[...] (U) Summary: Secretary Chu met with Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President LU Yongxiang on July 15 to discuss current and upcoming areas of cooperation in the areas of energy efficiency and climate change. Secretary Chu stressed the need for energy-efficient technologies such as efficient [...]
2009-07-29 05:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG ECON SENV PGOV CH
09BEIJING2160MEDIA REACTION: U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS
[...] U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS a. "Ma Ying-Jeou's reply to Hu Jintao triggers speculation" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (07/29): "KMT Chairman Ma Ying-Jeou's taking office is beneficial for the improvement of cross-strait relations. How [...]
2009-07-29 08:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH
09BEIJING2170SHIELD S18S-05: CHINA INFORMED OF ZIBO CHEMET'S
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Zibo Chemet's transfer of glass-lining technology to Iran to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on July 30. Yang noted that the case dealt with a transfer of [...]
2009-07-30 08:23:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING2173CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S EFFORTS TO
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Beijing Jingda Zhiyuan Technologies Development Ltd. efforts to provide controlled carbon fiber to a Pakistani missile developer to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Division Deputy Director [...]
2009-07-30 09:23:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH PK
09BEIJING2174MEDIA REACTION: S&ED, NORTH KOREA, TAIWAN
[...] S&ED "The first S&ED ended: friendly atmosphere, few outcomes" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing) (07/30): "Yan Xuetong, Director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University, argued that although the S&ED has [...]
2009-07-30 09:23:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC PREL ECON KMDR CH
09BEIJING2177PRC/RUSSIA: MFA, SCHOLARS DOWNPLAY IMPACT OF
[...] (C) In response to the closure by Moscow authorities of the Cherkizovsky market, the largest Chinese market in Russia (reftel),China's state-controlled media was uncharacteristically critical of Russia's "heavy handed" actions, and the issue generated commentary among Chinese bloggers complai [...]
2009-07-30 10:13:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET MARR CH RS
09BEIJING2183THE URUMQI RIOTS - WHAT CONTACTS SAY HAPPENED
[...] (C) For three weeks following the initial July 5 violence in Urumqi, a series of EmbOffs visited Xinjiang to seek out solid information about the incident and its aftermath. Using the information gathered, we have put together a timeline of the events that began that day. Following is one of [...]
2009-07-31 09:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP CH
09BEIJING2184MEDIA REACTION: S&ED IMPACT ON U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS,
[...] S&ED IMPACT ON U.S. CHINA RELATIONS "What challenges is Obama's China policy facing?" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao) (07/31): "In many Chinese experts' eyes, the U.S. was ultra-courteous to the Chinese delegation at the S&ED, and a broad range of [...]
2009-07-31 09:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2185XINJIANG: CHINA REPORTEDLY DEFEATED OIC STATEMENT
[...] (C) Egyptian Embassy Officer Haitham Safey (protect) told PolOff July 30 that PRC efforts to quash a proposed statement by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) condemning the Chinese government's response to the July 5 unrest in Xinjiang and its treatment of Muslim Uighurs (reftels [...]
2009-07-31 12:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CH EG TU
09BEIJING2187NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING COMMISSION URGES GREATER
[...] (SBU) At the request of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC),ESTHOffs met with Deputy Director General (DDG) of International Cooperation Madam RU Xiaomei on July 31 to share current USG views on international family planning and related policy toward China. ESTHOFF [...]
2009-08-02 23:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI KPAO KPOP PHUM CH
09BEIJING2194CHINA WELCOMES BILATERAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel nonpaper and demarche accepting China's longstanding invitation to hold Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) consultations in China to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Weapons Division Deputy Director Yu Dunhai on August 3. Yu said t [...]
2009-08-03 06:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CWC OPCW CH JP
09BEIJING2198MEDIA REACTION: U.S. EAST ASIAN POLICY, S&ED, NORTH KOREA
[...] U.S. EAST ASIAN POLICY "Three major changes in the U.S.'s East Asian policy" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (08/03): "Two recent moves by the United States show that the U.S.'s attitude towards the integration of East Asia is changing. First, the U.S. signed a [...]
2009-08-03 08:55:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING22LOOKING AT THE NEXT 30 YEARS OF THE U.S.-CHINA
[...] (C) January 1, 2009, marked the 30th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. This anniversary followed the PRC commemoration of roughly 30 years of China's "reform and opening" policy under Deng Xiaoping, which led to Ch [...]
2009-01-06 08:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN MARR MASS CH
09BEIJING2212NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING COMMISSION URGES GREATER
[...] (SBU) At the request of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC),ESTHOffs met with Deputy Director General (DDG) of International Cooperation Madam RU Xiaomei on July 31 to share current USG views on international family planning and related policy toward China. ESTHOFF [...]
2009-08-04 07:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI KPAO KPOP PHUM CH
09BEIJING2214MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONSHIP, CHINA'S SOUTH
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONSHIP "On the global energy dialogue: let's first discuss what the U.S. should do" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (08/04): "China should not remain passive when the question of 'responsibility' is brought up in d [...]
2009-08-04 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2217MFA DISCUSSES XINJIANG PRESS ARRANGEMENTS AND ACCESS
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On July 29, PressOff met with Mr. Zhang Yong, Deputy Director of the Information Department of the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Zhang responded to questions about the logistics and philosophy behind the decision to pursue a markedly mor [...]
2009-08-05 00:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPROP KPAL PGOV OPRC CH
09BEIJING2223MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, U.S. ARMS DEVELOPMENT, U.S.
[...] NORTH KOREA "Clinton visits Pyongyang to bring back journalists" The official Xinhua Daily Telegraph (Xinhua Meiri Dianxun) (08/05): "Although the United States' position on U.S.-North Korea bilateral talks has not changed and the U.S. government is still insisting that former U.S. Presid [...]
2009-08-05 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING224MEDIA REACTION: FINANCIAL CRISIS, CHINA'S POLICY
[...] FINANCIAL CRISIS a. "U.S. plans to strengthen financial monitor" The Beijing-based newspaper sponsored by official intellectual publication Guangming Daily and Guangdong Provincial official publication Nanfang Daily The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao)(01/27): "The Obama administration plans to [...]
2009-01-29 08:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2247MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA, NORTH KOREA,
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA "Clinton advances into Africa" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (08/06): "Liu Naiya, an expert on African and Asian affairs at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, noted that the [...]
2009-08-06 08:54:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2248 CULTURAL INDUSTRIES REJUVENATE! (NOT ABOUT MARKET ACCESS)
[...] (SBU) Summary: ChinaQs State Council July 22 announced it would lower the investment threshold in the entertainment and cultural industry and allow more private and foreign interests to invest in state-owned media groups. The moves were announced along with approval of a Culture Industry Reju [...]
2009-08-06 09:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV KIPR CH
09BEIJING2249SCENESETTER FOR HFAC CHAIRMAN BERMAN'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Chairman Berman, your visit to China comes in a year filled with key anniversaries and events: January 1 marked 30 years of U.S.-China diplomatic relations; March saw the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising and the Dalai Lama's flight to India; June 4 marked the 20th anniversar [...]
2009-08-06 09:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOREP PREL PHUM PGOV ECON PARM MARR CH TW
09BEIJING2262MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA, U.S.-CHINA,
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA "Hillary Clinton's Africa visit did not meet her ambitions" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing) (08/07): "In the twenty-first century, the United States needs Africa more than Africa needs the United Sta [...]
2009-08-07 09:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2263PRC/UN: UN SYG VISIT FOCUSES ON CLIMATE CHANGE,
[...] (C) UN Secretary General (SYG) Ban Ki-moon visited China July 23-26 to seek support from senior Chinese leaders for upcoming UN discussions on climate change. Contacts reported that the Chinese leadership remained non-committal on the SYG's call for China to play a greater global leadership ro [...]
2009-08-07 10:09:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID ENRG SENV CH
09BEIJING2273MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] SECRETARY CLINTON IN AFRICA "Africans snubbed Hillary" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (08/10): "On her visit to Africa, Secretary Hillary Clinton held in one hand a big stick and the other hand a carrot, rev [...]
2009-08-10 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2295MEDIA REACTION: CAN CHINA SAVE THE WORLD?, U.S. AND CHINA
[...] CAN CHINA SAVE THE WORLD? "More communication and exchanges needed" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (08/10): "Time magazine recently published a cover story with the title, 'Can China save the world?' which has once again focused international media attention on [...]
2009-08-11 08:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2298INTERNET USERS PUSH AGAINST CONTROLS, CONTACTS
[...] (C) Despite tight political controls, China's netizens are increasingly using the Internet as a forum for public discussion and even, at times, as a platform to challenge actions by government authorities, Chinese electronic media professionals told State Department Policy Planning Director An [...]
2009-08-11 10:32:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PROP SCUL CH
09BEIJING2317MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ECONOMY, U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC
[...] CHINA'S ECONOMY "Europe and the United States envy China's economic trend" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/12): "China's July Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index have both dropped, which shows China's economy is continuou [...]
2009-08-12 08:47:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2318PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TRANCHE 3 NAMES
[...] (SBU) On August 12, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division official Jiang Bo reftel points noting the commencement of the USG review of tranche 3 names from the 1267 Consolidated List pursuant to paragraph 25 of UN Security Council Resolution [...]
2009-08-12 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC CH
09BEIJING232 CHINESE GOVERNMENT SEEKS BETTER UNEMPLOYMENT DATA
[...] (U) Summary: China s official unemployment rate, which rose to 4.2 percent in December, is unrealistic and does not capture over 100 million migrant workers most affected by the economic downturn in late 2008. According to government officials and a local labor economist, the government know [...]
2009-01-29 09:32:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CH
09BEIJING2331PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PRST ON AUNG SAN SUU
[...] (C) On August 12, PolMinCouns conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Acting Director General Li Junhua ref A points in urging PRC cooperation on a UN Security Council Presidential Statement condemning the Burmese government's conviction and sentencing of Daw Aun [...]
2009-08-12 10:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM CH
09BEIJING2337MFA DISCUSSES XINJIANG PRESS ARRANGEMENTS AND ACCESS
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On July 29, PressOff met with Mr. Zhang Yong, Deputy Director of the Information Department of the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Zhang responded to questions about the logistics and philosophy behind the decision to pursue a markedly mor [...]
2009-08-13 07:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPROP KPAL PGOV OPRC CH
09BEIJING2339REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Ministry of Public Security who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on these individuals. [...]
2009-08-13 08:19:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN ASEC CH EAID KCRM PTER SNAR TH
09BEIJING2340MEDIA REACTION: RIO TINTO, U.S.-CHINA TIRE TRADE, U.S.
[...] RIO TINTO "Enlightenment seen in shift from 'espionage' to 'crime' in Rio Tinto case" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company's business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21 Shiji Jingji Baodao)(08/13): "Chinese authorities have backed down from accusing four Rio Tinto executives [...]
2009-08-13 09:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2341PRC OFFERS WEAK REACTION TO BURMESE OPPOSITION
[...] (C) China hopes Burma can peacefully resolve its own internal issues and maintains that the international community should not interfere in any country's legal system, MFA Asian Affairs Department Burma Division Deputy Director Chen Chen told PolOff August 13 in response to reftel points urgin [...]
2009-08-13 09:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2342CHINA MONETARY POLICY UNCHANGED, BUT CREDIT FLOW
[...] (C) Summary. China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) Director General Han Mingzhi confirmed to the Acting DCM on August 12 that China will maintain its moderately easy monetary and proactive fiscal policies. At the same time, the CBRC must continue to serve as "watchdog" for the banking sy [...]
2009-08-13 09:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV CH
09BEIJING2343CHINA: DUE DILIGENCE ON NOMINEE FOR THE
[...] (SBU) The following are answers to the due diligence questions posed in reftel. (Note: In the answers below "Cummins" and "the company" refer to the parent company headquartered in the United States; "Cummins China" refers to Cummins' wholly- owned holding company in China as well as its join [...]
2009-08-13 10:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRAD KSEP SENV CH
09BEIJING2355DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL RACE
[...] (SBU) PolOff August 14 conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Specialized Agencies Division Deputy Director Qiao Huijun reftel points on U.S. views with regard to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Director-Genera [...]
2009-08-14 07:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNESCO CH
09BEIJING2360CHINA OFFICIALLY "UNINSTALLS" GREEN DAM INTERNET
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Minister Li announced August 13 computers sold in China would not be subject to mandatory internet censorship software requirements. The remarks represent the highest level signal to date that the Chinese government has off [...]
2009-08-14 08:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL ECON CH
09BEIJING2361MEDIA REACTION: WTO RULING, U.S. "RETURNS TO ASIA," CHINA'S
[...] WTO RULING "WTO ruling will spur improvement of China's audio-visual industry" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (08/14): "If the World Trade Organization ruling is effective, American audio-visual products, primarily Hollywood films [...]
2009-08-14 08:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2362CHINA: POST CONCURRENCE ON DOL'S UPDATE OF
[...] (SBU) Post appreciates the opportunity to review the Department of Labor's draft update to its list of products that have been "mined, produced or manufactured using forced or indentured child labor" pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13126 (Ref A). Post concurs with the list and has no additi [...]
2009-08-14 09:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM EIND ETRD SOCI CH
09BEIJING237MEDIA REACTION: FINANCIAL CRISIS, WEN JIABAO'S EUROPE TRIP
[...] FINANCIAL CRISIS "U.S. sways Iran to deal with Taliban" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao) (01/30): "Senior U.S. officials have recently extended an olive branch to Iran seeking cooperation on the situation in Afghanistan. The two countries have commo [...]
2009-01-30 07:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH
09BEIJING2372MEDIA REACTION: U.S-JAPAN-CHINA, U.S. BURMA POLICY, CHINA
[...] U.S-JAPAN-CHINA "The U.S. does not need to use 'Japan's nuclear weapons' to deter China" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (08/17): "At Japan's insistence, the U.S. has promised to provide 'nuclear protection' to Japan. The U.S. als [...]
2009-08-17 08:40:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2374REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION ON U.S.-CHINA BILATERAL
[...] (C) PolOff raised the Counterterrorism Subdialogue with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) External Security Division Deputy Director Li Nan and First Secretary Wu Shifan on August 12. Li and Wu confirmed the proposed September 14 and 15 meeting dates for the U.S.-China Bilateral Interagency [...]
2009-08-17 22:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV MNUC PREL CH
09BEIJING2382MEDIA REACTION: THE MIDDLE EAST, NORTH KOREA, TAIWAN
[...] THE MIDDLE EAST "The U.S., Russia, and the EU start another round of chess in the Middle East" (pg 3) The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (08/18): "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's meeting with U.S. leaders will play a key role in the Middle East Peace Process. T [...]
2009-08-18 09:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2383RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE ON THE CHINESE WEB
[...] (SBU) Searches for online discussion of religion on the Chinese Internet from June to August revealed a robust discourse on religious doctrine and practice on Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist websites, discussion forums, and blogs as well as on mainstream commercial portals. Chinese religious [...]
2009-08-18 12:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL CH
09BEIJING2391MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC RELATIONS,
[...] NORTH KOREA "North Korea Collapse Theory" can stop (pg 14)" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/19): "Zhang Qiyun, a professor at Beijing University, said that Western media always focuses on speculating North Korea's collapse. The [...]
2009-08-19 09:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON
09BEIJING2398SEOUL SEARCHING DURING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS:THE
[...] (C) Summary. Falling China-ROK trade levels and an investment dispute between a Chinese firm and its Korean employees have put some strain on China-ROK economic relations. Regarding negotiations among China, Japan, and Korea of a trilateral investment treaty, the Koreans (who signed a bilatera [...]
2009-08-20 03:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL EINV ETRD JA KS CH
09BEIJING2402REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: COMPLEX
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on these individual [...]
2009-08-20 08:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AFIN PTER KCRM SNAR TH CH EAID
09BEIJING2403MEDIA REACTION: AFGHAN ELECTION, CHINESE IMMIGRATION TO
[...] AFGHAN ELECTION "Does the second presidential election in Afghanistan represent a democratic evolution?" (pg 3) 21st Century Publishing Company's business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21 Shiji Jingji Baodao)(08/20): "All of the typical characteristics of Western elections, suc [...]
2009-08-20 08:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2404AFGHANISTAN - MANAGING THE NEIGHBORS: CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: China´s interests in promoting stability along its borders, combating unrest in its western Xinjiang province, and exploiting natural resources in Afghanistan to fuel its domestic economic growth would be advanced by a successful election in Afghanistan, according to PRC scholars an [...]
2009-08-20 09:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF CH
09BEIJING2408CHINA DOES NOT WANT TAIWAN IN THE CGPCS
[...] (C) China would oppose Taiwan participation in the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),but otherwise welcomes broader participation, according to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division official Cheng Lie. Cheng, who plans to attend [...]
2009-08-21 05:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM SO CH
09BEIJING2410SHIELD: PRC FEEDBACK SOUGHT ON PAST CASES OF
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper requesting information on the status of investigations of past cases of chem/bio proliferation concern to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on August 21. Yang said each referenced [...]
2009-08-21 07:16:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING2412MEDIA REACTION: AFGHAN ELECTION, U.S.-CHINA TRADE
[...] AFGHAN ELECTION "Afghanistan: election goes beyond win-lose battle (pg 5)" The official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnianbao)(08/21): "Since President Obama became the U.S. President, in spite of the U.S. sending more troops to Afghanistan, Afghanistan's security [...]
2009-08-21 09:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2414PRC: INDIAN INFORMATION INADEQUATE TO WARRANT
[...] (C) India has not provided sufficient information about the three Pakistan-based individuals it proposed to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee to merit their listing as terrorists, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin told PolOff Au [...]
2009-08-21 09:11:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PINR UN CH IN PK
09BEIJING2416NOAA DAS DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH CHINA'S CMA AND SOA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dr. James Turner visited Beijing on August 13 to discuss areas of collaboration with the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and State Oceanic Administration (SOA). CMA officials expres [...]
2009-08-23 23:44:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL SENV TSPA PGOV PREL MARR CH
09BEIJING2418CHINA/AUSTRALIA: BUSINESS GOES ON DESPITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite the recent political tensions between Australia and China over Rebiya Kadeer's visit to Australia and the arrest by Chinese security officials of Rio Tinto executive and Australian citizen Stern Hu, Australia remains committed to developing its economic ties with China, a [...]
2009-08-24 00:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALENRG EINV ECON AS CH
09BEIJING2425MEDIA REACTION: AFGHAN ELECTION, DALAI LAMA, NORTH KOREA
[...] AFGHAN ELECTION "Afghans lost in the elections (pg 5)" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(08/24): "Afghanistan's election is an important step for the west's 'democratic example' in Afghanistan. Citizens of Kab [...]
2009-08-24 08:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2428PRC SUPREME COURT FACING CONSERVATIVE RETRENCHMENT
[...] (C) Summary. The Chinese Supreme People's Court (SPC) has begun a process of conservative retrenchment under current President Wang Shengjun that is turning back the reforms of his predecessor, Xiao Yang, according to legal scholars and SPC judges. Court officials and legal scholars have cri [...]
2009-08-24 10:42:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SCUL KCOR CH
09BEIJING2429PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: XU ZHIYONG (ON BAIL) AND ILHAM
[...] (C) On August 23, detained rights activist Xu Zhiyong and ethnic Uighur academic Ilham Tohti were released from police custody. Also released was Zhuang Lu, a codefendant in the state's "tax evasion" case against Xu and his NGO, the Open Constitution Initiative. Tohti, whose writings had been [...]
2009-08-24 10:58:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PROP SOCI CH
09BEIJING2437MEDIA REACTION: INFLUENCE OF NGOS, MILITARY WEBSITES, U.S.
[...] INFLUENCE OF NGOS "China hampered due to lack of non-governmental organizations" (pg 14) The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/25): "Foreign non-governmental organizations and 'transnational social movements' are increasingly affecti [...]
2009-08-25 09:26:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2438PRC/IRAN: SCHOLAR SUGGESTS U.S. NEGOTIATE SE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The unstable post-election political climate in Iran likely precludes the initiation of formal negotiations with Iran on ceasing its uranium enrichment program, according to a PRC scholar. Though Iran is sincere in wishing to reach out to the United States on broader bilateral i [...]
2009-08-25 09:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
09BEIJING2441AMBASSADOR MEETS MOFCOM CHEN TO DISCUSS TIRES
[...] (SBU): SUMMARY: During his August 22 meeting with Ambassador Huntsman, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming expressed concern about the possible use by the United States of the special safeguard protection measures against imports of Chinese-produced passenger car tires. Chen said that if the USG [...]
2009-08-25 11:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIJING2447AFRICAN EMBASSIES PREVIEW CHINA-AFRICA FORUM ""
[...] (C) Summary. Egyptian and South African diplomats in Beijing believe the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) offers a good platform for cooperation with China, but would be more useful if African countries did a better job of coordinating among themselves. Chinese investments have been [...]
2009-08-26 07:40:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALCH EAID ECON PREL XA EINV
09BEIJING2453MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S CURRENCY, U.S.-CHINA TRADE
[...] CHINA'S CURRENCY "We should not be rash about RMB internationalization" (pg 14) The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/26): "A signal that China is becoming a truly powerful country will be when the world starts to purchase and deposit [...]
2009-08-26 09:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2454PRC WILL ATTEND SEPTEMBER 16-18 ARF DISASTER
[...] (U) China will send a five-person delegation to participate in the ninth annual ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Disaster Relief (ARF ISM-DR) in Honolulu, Hawaii, on September 16-18, MFA Asian Affairs Department Asian Multilateral Security Division Deputy Director Zuo Wenxing to [...]
2009-08-26 09:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ARF EAID MARR CH
09BEIJING2456PRC CONCERNS ABOUT POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE IN
[...] (C) In an August 25 meeting with PolOff, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee International Liaison Department (CCID) Third Bureau Director Wu Baocai expressed concern about post-election violence in Afghanistan and uncertainty as to how to evaluate the strength of the Taliban. Whi [...]
2009-08-26 11:25:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM EAID MARR NATO PTER CH PK AF
09BEIJING2460MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, U.S. ECONOMY
[...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "Does the U.S. condone CNN's interference in Taiwan issues? (pg 14)" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/27): "What is the real intention behind the CNN poll on whether or not Ma Ying Jeou should step down? [...]
2009-08-27 08:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2461REQUEST LEAHY VETTING FOR ILEA BANGKOK: COMPLEX
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidates from the Ministry of Public Security who have been nominated for training at ILEA Bangkok, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on these individuals. [...]
2009-08-27 10:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN ASEC CH EAID KCRM PTER SNAR TH
09BEIJING2462OBSTACLES TO JUDICIAL REFORM IN CHIN
[...] (C) Summary: Barriers to instituting genuine rule of law in China remain formidable, according to a variety of legal scholars and judicial officials. The National People's Congress's formal monopoly on interpreting the PRC constitution and the Party-controlled Supreme People's Court's de fac [...]
2009-08-27 23:28:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SCUL KCOR CH
09BEIJING2464CHINA RESPONSE TO VIOLATIONS OF FAA REGULATIONS
[...] (SBU) As requested in reftels on violations of Federal aviation regulations by Chinese pilots, Econoff presented the case dossiers to the Flight Safety Office of the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) on March 23, 2009 (refs A and B) and on April 13, 2009 (ref C). CAAC conducted an inves [...]
2009-08-28 05:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR CH
09BEIJING2465MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN: DALAI LAMA VISIT, U.S. ARMS SALES;
[...] TAIWAN: DALAI LAMA VISIT, U.S. ARMS SALES "The result will not be good if Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party seeks support from the Dalai Lama" (pg 14) The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(08/28): "The Democratic Progress Party's (D [...]
2009-08-28 09:29:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
09BEIJING2467China Considers Restrictions on Strategic
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary: ChinaQs Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has drafted a report recommending more stringent restrictions on the export of rare earth metals and further consolidation in the rare earth mining sector over the next six years, according to Chinese media. S [...]
2009-08-28 09:36:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD ENRG EMIN EIND SENV CH AS
09BEIJING2468DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INVITATION FOR SEPTEMBER 24
[...] (SBU) August 27, Post delivered to the MFA reftel invitation letter from President Obama to PRC President Hu Jintao to attend the September 24 UNSC summit on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. PolOff August 28 provided MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missiles and Convention [...]
2009-08-28 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PARM MNUC KSUM UNSC KNNP CH
09BEIJING2477MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S SECURITY, CCI CORPORATE BRIBERY
[...] CHINA'S SECURITY "Volatile situation in areas neighboring China tests China's response capability" (pg 4) The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao) (08/31): "China's rise will face greater challenges if the security en [...]
2009-08-31 09:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMDR OPRC CH
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