China Forum: Fiji: Taiwan official hands over grant for regional tourism body
Taiwan has provided 100,000 US dollars to the Suva-based South Pacific Tourism Organization [SPTO] as part of an assistance package to seven regional organizations for 2000. The representative of the trade mission for Taiwan/Republic of China in Fiji, Mr C.K. Ning, handed over the assistance to chief executive for SPTO, Mr Lisiate Akolo, during a brief ceremony at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat today...The assistance was pledged during the Seventh Taiwan/Republic of China-Forum...
China Forum: Paid Notice: Deaths
VANCE, CYRUS R.
VANCE-Cyrus R. The Fellows of the America-China Forum join with the Directors and staff of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in recording our deep sorrow in the loss of the vision, leadership, counsel and friendship of Cyrus Vance. A world-respected statesman and outstanding national leader, he brought to the U.S.-China relationship, as he did to an extraordinarily broad agenda of domestic and global issues in which he interested himself, exceptionally wise judgement coupled with...
China Forum: Blair to repair links with policy institute
Tony Blair and President Jiang Zemin are to attend the inaugural meeting of a new UK-China forum at Chatham House next month during the Chinese leader's state visit to Britain.The Prime Minister's decision is widely seen as a signal that new Labour has buried the hatchet with Britain's leading foreign policy institute. Relations have been noticeably frosty since Chatham House elders blackballed Peter Mandelson's attempt to become a member of...
China Forum: (Corrected) Chinese vice-premier addresses banking forum
[Item reissued correcting "text" to "excerpt" in processing indicator] Beijing, 16 March: The "Bank of China Forum - The Future of Economic Globalization and Banking," a high-level international financial symposium, was held this morning in Beijing by the Bank of China. State Council Vice-Premier Wen Jiabao attended the conference and gave the keynote address.In his address, Wen Jiabao had high praise for the...
China Forum: The Independent: Heseltine agrees to cultivate Peking: China visit: Blair gives leading role to former Tory deputy prime minister and smoothes the way for British business
MICHAEL HESELTINE is to be the joint chairman of a newly launched UK-China Forum announced yesterday by Tony Blair in Peking.Mr Blair wrote to Mr Heseltine two weeks ago about the post, and the former Conservative deputy prime minister was said to have accepted immediately. Mr Blair's spokesman said: "The Prime Minister wanted to signal the importance that we attach to (the UK-China Forum). Michael Heseltine is a significant figure, both in politics and in...