An hour with Chinese Embassador Zhou Wenzhong

for mccain auditorium at kansas state university he pierre presents an hour with the chinese ambassador jo one john i'm kay mcintyre job one done is then the us ambassador the people's republic of china since two thousand five he joins a list of distinguished diplomats and foreign leaders who have spoken at the kansas state landon lecture series including friends turkey out fires all of saudi arabia mikhail gorbachev former president of the soviet union and rio joe papp so japanese ambassador to the united states he's expected to speak on the challenges facing the rapid development of china and its changing relationship with the west and now here it is his excellent see joe one john it is my honor to be associated we says is so prestigious lecture series going there lenin is one of the firs in this country who are needed for nomination of relations with china and as you remember the meeting today many yes and that

says that time in the early eighties and i was in a meeting and we respect him and we want to send him for all he did fall relations i also understand you for your interest in any more about it and i think it is the understanding of people support of the people for relations between us we chat page three haitian goalie thought oh well what ive going to talk about will help you to understand more about china and to develop a dozens of perspective or was clearly china and why we're doing things in that way so now let me take this opportunity to talk about china's peaceful development strategy and china's relations as anna diggs

national congress of the chinese come his body last october president hu jintao stress the point that china wasted to pass a peaceful development we will spare no advice he carry out the opening up strategy for mutual benefit and a winning outcome or will continue to develop friend of aviation's and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the five principles of peaceful coexistence and the way i read it to john i had with people across the world who promote the building of a harmonious world of enduring peace and common prosperity this is china's policy allowed them strategy it is also the most important message that the senate is putting congress is sending to the world is that since the beginning of reform

and opening up in late nineteen seventies china has successfully he embarked on a road apiece for development based on its national conditions and the response to the call of the times why antimatter within the road of peaceful development the chinese nation has always being peace loving the line for peace and the pursuit of hama they kept their eyes china's national spirit six hundred years ago tim cook the great navigator of the ming dynasty that he then largest fleet in the world are seven voyages of the lasting cease reaching more than thirty countries and the region see asia and africa he brought with him on the piece and assimilation and he did not stop it by

an english of other peoples that this was the best footnote for the good faith of the chinese people examining exchanges with other countries and peoples during the one hundred odd years following the open wall of aging forty chat us up but humiliation and he's out from big powers and ever since then and as people have become even more we sought to eliminate wall say god peace and to seek independence prosperity and happiness since the beginning of reform and opening up nearly seventy years ago china has made remarkable progress the economy has to stand rather the gross the gdp increased by ten point seven percent in condos six and an unemployable percentage condos other

people's living standard keeps improving and gender twenty eight meeting rural population have been lifted out of poverty chavez economic gross is expected to contribute sixty percent of global economic worlds and to do so nonetheless chavez to a developing country where the most populous nation in the world our economic foundation is weak our development is unbalanced and we have to fight and i'm often difficult problems to his this off as we move forward devil we will concentrate i'm developing our economy promote development in a scientific way stan and social harmony and the steadily improve the living standards of the chinese people this it's the center costs other chinese come his body and chinese

government and the chinese people want peace peace and it would do their way to the very best and what with all the other nations to promote world peace it is a common wish of the people from the world and they met there is the irresistible historical trained to pursue peace promote development and seek cooperation and that they cannot continue to train the multi polarizing and economic globalization has brought new opportunities follow peace and development meanwhile the world is too troubled by and benefactors of things that billy and uncertainty they kind faces many see the challenges countries of the world need to work together to build a harmonious world of sustained piece and a common prosperity set audio world peace and promoting common development has become a

national will of china the chinese people support promote and the participating all things about the new suit to peace and development as hapless use peaceful development it will continue to make its contribution to the promotion of peace development and cooperation now you may wonder what will china do in his pursuit of peaceful development as a peaceful development means that china is commitment for building socialism which kept instinctively chinese beaches and it will uphold a peaceful international environment developed itself and i can devote more toward peace in a common development through this development and in these that china will actively participate in economic globalization and the regional cooperation while manny relying on itself the tv or out coordinated and a sustainable

development for reform and innovation but in a sense china will but why go to the world's and a remote neutrally beneficial and when we've called rating was all other countries and it means that china will pursue an independent foreign policy a peace never seek hegemony or external expansion and the remaining is josh forse for world peace and a common development first chat as committees to achieving their development by peaceful means and the throat corporation the bill itself into a rich and the strong country chad as manny tapping its own resources and what a show peacefully while carrying out extensive international exchanges and cooperation on the basis of equality and a major benefit

china does not seek to pursue this national interests so that western expansion of global migration of colonization since joining the wto six years ago china has been actively participating in international economic cooperation penetrate it has become one of the most open economy is among the developing countries in the world was wondrous of the hundreds ana sixty categories of the repeal required service trade sector is open to leave us i won't care that is approaching the level of openness other developed countries china's ready to contribute to continue and a standing strategic dialogue with the united states and other developed countries greenhouse you to address expanded common inches deep and cooperation

appropriately handled differences and promote them steady and the sound of evidence of the bilateral relationship second time as committed to maintaining peace in the course of this development china does not seek hegemony or spheres of influence law does it challenges the territorial integrity and sovereignty of other countries john as irresponsible country and as always to make it up holding peace in this debate in the world ending its own region we advocate and a prep as a new security outlook featuring new to address major benefit quality equality and of coordination and i participate in extensive international corp and he's giving counter terrorism and arms control of an ice out in chinese peacekeepers have served in a total of eighteen un peacekeeping missions

on the nuclear issue of the carrington is an iran nuclear issue and about four years you have said that china has been a play is it evident and a constructive role chan is committed to come prosperity and the progress of all countries and does not see its own development and expense of others so increasing aid and assistance and they're reducing and the waving that's tanis waking vigorously support the development of other developing countries we believe that china's future is increasingly associate with that of the world that i cannot develop the isolation from the rest of the world and the world needs china and it is to use a pan prosperity and the stability china's development is it peaceful or cooperatives and a wee wee by following the

path of peaceful development china will go to better lives for some people and that contributes to the common development of the world so it's not only the fundamental interests of chinese people but also the shared interests of people of the whole lot chana developments brings increasingly expensive gross opportunities for every country ladies and gentlemen the chinese and american peoples have long looked upon each other with fascination and a friend a vague sentiments we can use and my agent pioneering and enterprising spirit of the american people and he writes he wins in building great country as china develops angina us corporation expands one i'm all americans turn their eyes toward china and to follow china's progress closely although their work many days during that would deny

yourself diplomatic relations between the two countries about other own relationship on the whole has moved forwards and it become one of the most important bilateral relationship in a lot the chinese government attaches great importance to china's relationship and it commits itself to give up a lot of friendly relations and cooperation with the united states on the basis of the principals others resigned years john communicates with concerted efforts chat and that is they see and maintain a stable relationship and it continued to make you progress first their outposts exchanges and the contest beating and eat is about two countries it worked until six president hu jintao paid a successful that it to the united states and it reached a new and important commonest any was president bush

advancing constructive and cooperative china us relations incentive for a century in the normal way they agree that china and united states oppose stakeholders and a constructive part of this is clearly a divisive trial us relationship and a child support voice gross in the long run last year president hu jintao and president bush met at a g eight just life and at that economic news meeting they reached important agreement on a wide range of issues in addition the two presidents often write each other at us and have telephone conversations extend you use a bilateral and a major international and the region issues in a timely fashion second there are deep work exchanges and

cooperation in all fields can i use economic and trade ties have grown so strong the fast into do a seven trades made a new records office and two point zero eight giving us thoughts which was ten point five percent more than the previous year and overlook wanted to dig times as much as it's a total when our country's established diplomatic relationship in nineteen seventy nine now china as america's second largest trading partner and vice versa and asking him a gig and the foggiest growing export market for the united states for years in a row idea that his face is china's second largest export markets and the sixth biggest source of import was accumulated they deem as many chat exceeding fifty six getting us

funding over fifty four seven projects as of the end of november to do seven the united states continues to be china's biggest source of foreign investments as in time direct investment from china and the united states also contagion continues to increase the cultural educational and they use exchanges begin out in countries is also expanding continuously cut they're increasingly bad a pileup and the coastal conservation speaking out to countries and various levels in to do a seven santa ana that is they spell the second as the rounds of the strategic economic dialogue and the fourth round of the strategic that a couple weeks ago that we disagree age of state negroponte went to china for the first round of the strategic outlook these bad assets that provide it's an important battle fought two

countries to have strategic and a substantive talks with each other in political and economic themes in addition we also keep in close contact with each other through more than six ipad other oh what the mechanisms in very serious force there is an increasingly prominent strategic that mission and a global second evidence to china's relationship recent years have seen increasingly frequent interaction between china and united states in a global context on many issues affecting our world today from terrorism proliferating really no cost was chazz national crimes nontraditional security threats to you it will fall and a good security climate change disease control and prevention

and disaster mitigation and relief katmandu that is these have mall converging inches and abroad areas for cooperation our two countries have effective communication and coordination of the pr paid nuclear issue the iranian nuclear issue baffled me a mock caucus that the middle east and other international and the regional issues we'll get to that that serves the interests of both china and the united states will be the day that china and united states effectively safeguard it andy how's that these debate and the prosperity in the asia pacific region and the rest of the law ladies and gentlemen there is no denying the heroes in our relationship that's being overlooked the growing protectionist sentiments and attendance at the believers i think an

awning and trade issues especially worrisome there are fifty china related trade bills introduced in the us congress can say china's currency exchange rate it our trade imbalance and a product safety trade issues need to be handled properly or they will both china and the united states is one must recognize the seasonal my vision of our nation's media chat and that is this notion of an official and a win win cooperation has been the defining feature of economic and trade ties the juno two countries given the speech go and the scope of the gross of this relationship issues and the frictions i heartily avoidable our two countries should follow the principle of self development quality and a major benefit and if ok

to assess mechanisms as a strategic economic battle of giants an amazing how calm us and trades that drive economic commission and a giant size of technology commission by loss arent equal footing and goodwill other patients should be the right approach to address trade frictions trade protectionist measures are politicizing trace used to know beaten awful china takes us raised concerns very seriously we will continue to do about the rigorous measures to expand to import from the united states standpoint it our protection improve because sixes rates on raising mechanism and ensure the quality and safety of chinese products it is hoped the us site will make corresponding and apology of efforts that twice and especially a pending trade protectionist practice

and relax next full control good sign without the us side will work with us and when we can on again trade ties but i won't question it had a goal of chinese concerns that involves the national pride of the one point three billion chinese people and as always the most important and the most sensitive issue at the heart of china us relations and having the thai one question appropriately it's crucial to this debate and development of china us relations the current situation in the taiwan straits region is delegates and a grave in disregard of the opposition from the international community including the united states that says a plea off artists ugly all out pushing for the referendum on taiwan rejoining the united nations another pile on independence activities there is a great adventure that they may

take the desperate to move of creating a major incident of how independence this again shows that probably independence forces and their activities either because the threat to the peace and as the day in the taiwan straits region just as president hu jintao stress in the reports of the seventies by the congress the one point three billion people and a man and an accent is remaining people in taiwan are the same but this year a common destiny will will make every effort to achieve anything that serves the ancients about how our combat troops good job is really a mechanism piece in the taiwan straits region and acidic taste peaceful national reunification will make every effort with the utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the two sides

and it will never allow anyone to separate i want from the mother lands in any name all by any means at the shared interests of china and that is these proposed and to forestall calmly dependence and to safeguard pieces that really in the taiwan straits we hope your site we on its commitments of adhering to the one china policy of it by the stories i know yours timed communiques and opposing how independence and know that how are pressing appropriately and about more resolute an effective measures to block the vote to pro independence and it's at a piece as the only in the taiwan straits and the over audiences of china and this operation it is a gentleman just south and eight is an important year for both china and the united states china will mark the city is a diverse array of his reform and opening

up and host the olympic games in the aging and united states quote and that the new president this year also marks the city's anniversary of the channel us joint communique on establishment of depriving relations there are opportunities for our bilateral ties there are also challenges that we must handle properly the back of the election politics in the united states and china us relationship shit deserves special attention i believe that both china and in that is its should approach the bilateral relations promised at the heights take real steps to translate into action the importance of costs consensus among leaders that we are most stakeholders and a constructive partners standing exchanges at a high level and the house strategic dialogue and call crazy in all areas we should also respect and accommodate each other's

concerns and a properly handle differences in this way i'm confident that we are capable of making great progress in advancing constructive and cooperative china us relationship much chinese ambassador john one john speaking a kansas state university ambassador joe is now joined by the president of kansas state john we thought mr mercer thank you very much for your outstanding landon lecture present haitian i think you can see where the bestsellers when a lecture today as he updated all of us here in the audience today and on the relationships and growing partnership between china and the united states of america by the way is an actual article in the atlantic monthly for january two thousand eight that goes through the litany of great progress has been made in the past twenty years between america and china i recommend that you read it

you'll also see that the chinese all about one point four trillion dollars in our bonds in treasury assets we are joined at the up i was telling the investor about the number of initial students that we have here we have a full court press on to attract more try houston's to kansas state university i think we just had a handful for five years ago we have close to one hundred chinese undergraduates about two hundred and fifty and chinese students are studying your kansas state either for phd is the master's degree or undergrads i think quite a few of the chinese do this are here today were all the chinese do to soar here so i think you can see that we have a more

chinese tunes here we welcome them here i close alliance for our chinese students back in october and saw got to know many of them and they are hardworking students they want to do well are considered academic excellence and they are feeding him so well here in manhattan kansas and a kansas state university so we welcome y'all were were actually have breakfast with all of the chinese dealers who have indicated they would like to do that tomorrow morning that doesn't mean y'all can come because we don't have enough rope but ladies and gentlemen this is time for questions answers as you know we have lights on your left and on your right eye can see we have a couple rigor on your left and end please mr vasser right that was losing vision lasted one unite and sausage wheat that's a cross what's odd things all weigh organs you want your warrant walk out my question for you

is what opportunities opportunities he thinks students like us have to be involved in us chinese relations others was in for much of law the phrase if any audiences in yemen in chinese and chinese that culture so you're most welcome to go to china to pursue the authentic inches and that book or that suggests that they're teaching english in china as you know there are more people at increased them and all and then the normal people in english we're striving yemeni men at seeing the jobs and oddly sally meet that as a people it took the devo fall i think that now you know we don't need to worry about their jobs they get

one needle on your personal ad did you know that for the crimes of one three generations of the families that punished even for so called offensive like escaping a stalinist dictatorship that's a case for north koreans who are just economic refugees so why does china's in the back anyway despite knowing full well with they will go back to the top in political labor camps like your dog and where er that children are not exempt from going to get even one relative escapes a repressive kim jong idiot in his gestapo we'll arrange for china to send you a nice er to that border region to process and send them to a safer place after all the children it and half korean myself so my heart pours out for the sake of my northern brother in come to me that they all

i don't know whether you knew you really know these you think there is that it it sure that their main oscar is that go to china illegally at all these people having treated as though illegal immigrants and audits all these lively news to be resolved according to international law and also relevant chinese law saul what has been done is at that aboulafia says end of us the country so these people were all rpm sent to serve country and dial many of these people have been sent to countries that the philippines single and that others and that i might as they knew that that many of them of them longtime south korea from vassar the country so that's what we have been doing it this is it and it was dangerous i'd add to what they

want and i in the meantime are there that as being out at all clear that that is the approach always has said raised no objection you can have answered my question but yet what can the people in the american government and the chinese government do to try to help the repressed people of north korea and that is there anything that can be done to speed up the retirement of kim jong il the hallway find a more moderate leader for those people and ah i think that the ten of various of most career should be adapted to people there ultimately they at the people in austria who decide what they want i know one could make that decision set off on their behalf putting in the time of course so we are trying

to help them we're trying to help them i do i don't we're so some of that difficult times i'll when they had the hit by him nacho are disasters and that is so what other countries i had been doing too and there's one other thing we're going to get a is sell well at the ways that i love five countries including united states an oscar a new reissue and having a six white house have made that other programs so i've come on our way and that disabling is making progress and i i think that all the bodies of the six are committed to denuclearization of the noise of the agreement isn't flying bello so why the fundamental changes silva every country in the region i including the united states an accord masquerade so i think there there is what we can do together but

as to what there are no system we want our what kind of comedy a lot of the regional event to people didn't know as character does that you overheard our new commentator on the rural population of china and i was wondering if the elaborate for us what kind of programs or anything that the chinese government has done to alabama now china is out of arabic entre ways one place reading people and i know that the one place repeating people at eight hundred milli it the tent aside thought that is that they've got to improve the life of the people a new alias flies asset their sense of efforts out upon a comment and that and that there's no polling shows are these odd other

people in new areas have got rid of poverty law but others said ali to go web only to go one thing the common good is to exempt the fifa didn't seem to can decide to offer on paying agricultural tax for the first time in china's history it does a pan and save the countryside no longer need to pay tax for elena produce seventy one the dominant thing is to look again at our health care system area residents are no that would be a very basic our health care system but it's a good beginning and survey the garment that has said made it compulsory education night is compulsory dictating into ruin his free free of chat so i think the book was isn't frightening to do your greasy an income of the

presidency that could recite and to make sure that i know the oleo leo live a better life and a lot of a new comedy trying to do you so how were those that are from the can decide who are working on temporary basis seeing cities so i recently at a bastion of it was congress says that about it that the new role this eighteen unable conference so the race of you know what is that trauma can decide how all out cities are temporary basis would be back to protect it has soul is iraq clear out regulations concerning the minimum wage and the house cat add the rice to education the rights of their children to education and social force so i

think the government will continue to do it again to make sure they'll be out you know economic growth as well as social progress social justice on friday at the best person that has this question because i'm not an expert on the topic but in your speech you you talked about the door for region in sudan and how the chinese government was buying a significant constructive role there in all my short time paying attention to this i found that most of the discussion has led the chinese government to actually be playing more gritty strapped of parole what would you what answers do you have this in and the chinese ties to fall will interest and military arms in spain i believe you asked earlier and a former fellow special envoy of the president on batteries

you and he said now seals on a vast mistake to bomb and it you'll find that there are no there this year self assessment of china's role was quite different from what you said it will be one billion so what we can and we'd been playing a positive role the issue is not all making mayhew him back on our time dating from the colonial times and basically i think what we need is that two track strategy by that we really need to make even progress posada tackle peacekeeping and also on the track of political settlement and there it is the very bottom fall ideas to urge you know the rebel groups inside a piece of caught and hopefully si us will continue to do what it can to urge those said rebel groups which have not signed the peace accord decided the so called ana five of these key being i think the

haircut nineteen eighty two has accepted busy yeah proposal fall deploying hybrid peacekeeping forces and that is a joint peacekeeping forces of eu and un and china has created you contributed to that by sending a contingent of fighting can you recall to offset isn't that oddball delaying it all begin to understand it and shadegg has that made that had provided that the relief goods for the refugees in their golf on region that and i also hasn't made amazing to the eu peacekeeping forces so i think we oddly now what we can rally out the activities of eighteen all the international meetings are we chat how would you know that awful issue so i i i hope why you would do know morris sits in the us they will be

an ambassador taught my name is keeping the president of chinese didn't sense cause ocean at that case that i would say our welcome to pay state and that happy chinese new year on behalf of or chinese didn't disclose in the faculty i'm a passing news but the number of chinese to them back is that it's increasing dramatically uses two years i believe so many what has doomed to an end and the weather's been here could just say something to them but i encourage them to five billion years previous i'll still want to i wish all of you that we share the chinese has got us here a very successful they're a prosperous set at yale fled to do late and i'm happy to turn now from the president that and won more than the grand jury so i have come here to study it and i think it's very

important we hope they'll be more americans is going to china to study right now are odd eros sixties sounds in chinese is studying united states in different campuses and there are ten south americans a law setting in china right now so i hope this normally increase that because i think this is very positive they're good good talk to check so i i wish i you every success yes i believe that the relation between china and america is very important and i was wondering what is the best thing as we as americans are perhaps the other american government could do to make the relation with china the best it could be an opiate city is selling off see is the nomination of our relations and i said that it a classic sin city is also operating

has sapien the mainstream of our nation's i went an odd as being the bipartisan policy awful be a success of organizations sings that is on the line and i want to say ah you for that and i hope but i will continue because as he knew even for forty at changing that and that i'm sure i am of covenant that that and i will continue because it is in the fundamental interests of his face in china and is he named herself global peace and common prosperity ambassador to the united states for fourteen february eleventh two thousand eight at mccain auditorium in manhattan it was a presentation of the landon lecture series at kansas state university recording assistance provided by kansas state radio network i'm j mcintyre keep your prisons is a

production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas for instance she was next time on k pr presents tom brokaw joined us eight o'clock sunday night on kansas public radio as the former anchor of nbc nightly news is this year's ball lecturer at the university of kansas my family gave me for christmas is a vivid example to very large grasshoppers and all law were they are saying though at our present nbc news legend tom brokaw sunday night at eight o'clock on kansas public radio in

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