【10.03.07 纽约时报】China Blames U.S. for Strained Relations

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/world/asia/08china.html

BEIJING — The blame for friction in Chinese-United States relations “does not lie with China,” and it is up to the United States to take steps to repair the frayed ties, China’s foreign minister repeated Sunday.

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi of China, hands clasped, at a news conference in Beijing on Sunday.

The minister, Yang Jiechi, said at a news conference that the administration of President Obama had seriously disrupted the relationship by announcing the sale of weapons to Taiwan and holding a White House meeting with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, in a three-week period this year.
China suspended military exchanges with Washington and threatened other reprisals after the American moves. American officials have expressed frustration with China’s trade policies, including its refusal to revalue its currency, and with Beijing’s reluctance to press Iran to open its nuclear program to international inspection.
Mr. Yang restated that reluctance on Sunday, saying that diplomacy with Iran was a better path than sanctions.
Two top American officials visited Beijing for talks on the relationship last week in what a State Department spokesman had called an attempt to “get back to business as quickly as possible.” But Chinese officials have yet to temper their public criticisms of American policies.
Speaking to journalists at the National People’s Congress, China’s unelected legislature, Mr. Yang did not say whether the visit had made progress toward better relations. He said Chinese officials had complained that American actions had violated the terms of communiqués and a joint statement that the two nations issued when Mr. Obama visited Beijing last November.
After decades of comparatively quiet diplomacy, China has taken increasingly muscular stances in the past year on relations with the United States and on global economic and environmental matters. Many analysts say the shift is due not only to China’s sudden arrival as a global economic power after the financial crisis, but also to domestic political issues.
The ruling Communist Party will select successors to President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in 2012. In the jockeying to choose new leaders, some analysts say, there is scant incentive to take positions that rivals could criticize as weak.
Mr. Yang said, however, that China was not being unnecessarily tough, but was merely protecting its core interests. “We stick to our principles, which is totally different from being tough,” the official news agency, Xinhua, quoted Mr. Yang as saying.
Mr. Yang reiterated China’s longstanding opposition to imposing further economic sanctions against Iran’s government for its refusal to allow international inspectors to monitor its nuclear program. China is considered the main holdout against sanctions among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
“We don’t think diplomatic efforts have been exhausted,” Mr. Yang said.

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