China and Clinton's America: Have they learned anything?

Asian Survey

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1099-1117

  Lampton, David M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINTON ADMINISTRATION; GEOPOLITICAL RELATIONS; JIANG ZEMIN;

CHINA; USA;

EID: 0031404049     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645760     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Roth has long experience in Asia policy, having first assisted former Congressman Stephen Solarz on Capitol Hill. Later, he was President Clinton's principal official on Asia at the National Security Council during the first Clinton term.
2. In September 1996, one of China's most senior leaders said to visiting Americans, "Frankly speaking, the development of relations in recent years has not been very satisfactory. We do not want to see this because it is not in our mutual interests." Author's unpublished personal notes, p. 60.
3. For instance, "the CPC Central Committee has appointed a three-man team to coordinate the handling of affairs related to cross-strait and Sino-U.S. relations by different units." "Li Teng-hui's Visit to the United States Leads to Top-Level CPC Changes," Hong Kong, Lien Ho Pao, in FBIS, Daily Report/China, July 23, 1996.
4. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord in a C-SPAN interview on March 10, 1996, reported that low-level Chinese officials had mentioned to Americans that China was capable of lobbing nuclear warheads at Los Angeles. Noted in, "Embarrassing Straits," editorial, Wall Street Journal, March 19, 1996, p. A18.
5. Private conversation with Chinese official, December 22, 1996.
6. Interview with Chinese foreign policy official, August 1995.
7. Wang Jisi, "Globalization, China-Japan-U.S. Relations, and Asian-Pacific Security," presented to the 1996 Tokyo Colloquium International Roundtable, "The Dawn of the 21st Century," unpublished manuscript.
8. Bob Sutter, "Chinese Government Contacts with Congress - Increased Efforts," Congressional Research Service Memorandum to China Watchers, January 6, 1997.
9. Connie Cass notes that Taiwan is "by far the favorite destination" of congress members when traveling abroad. Associated Press report, December 23, 1996, 2046 EST. See also, Sarah McBride, "Despite Scandal, Foreign Lobbying Isn't What It Was," Wall Street Journal, July 18, 1997, p. A16; and Julian E. Barnes, "The Canadian Menace?" U.S. News & World Report, September 8, 1997, pp. 29-30.
10. Connie Cass notes that Taiwan is "by far the favorite destination" of congress members when traveling abroad. Associated Press report, December 23, 1996, 2046 EST. See also, Sarah McBride, "Despite Scandal, Foreign Lobbying Isn't What It Was," Wall Street Journal, July 18, 1997, p. A16; and Julian E. Barnes, "The Canadian Menace?" U.S. News & World Report, September 8, 1997, pp. 29-30.
11. Brian Duffy and Bob Woodward assert that "in late 1995, the Chinese government created a "Central Leading Working Group on the U.S. Congress." See "FBI Warned 6 on Hill About China Money," Washington Post, March 9, 1997, p. A01.
12. Cass, Associated Press report, December 23, 1996, 2046 EST.
13. Interview with senior Chinese official, May 1996.
14. Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger, "On World Stage, Many Lessons for Clinton," New York Times, July 29, 1996, p. A14.
15. David M. Lampton, "America's China Policy in the Age of the Finance Minister: Clinton Ends Linkage," China Quarterly, no. 139 (1994), pp. 617-18.
16. Barber B. Conable, Jr., et al., United States-China Relations: Current Tensions, Policy Choices, China Policy Series, no. 12 (New York: National Committee on United States-China Relations, 1996), p. 29.
17. Author's notes of visit, September 1996, Beijing, p. 82.
18. James Schlesinger, America at Century's End (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989).
19. Author's notes of visit, September 1996, Beijing, p. 51.
20. Winston Lord, "Statement," in United States-China Relations, p. 26.
21. Rough transcript of meeting with senior Chinese official, June 14, 1996, Beijing, p. 6.
22. Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro, The Coming Conflict with China (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997).
23. Arthur Waldron, "How Not to Deal with China," Commentary, March 1997, p. 45.
24. The Editors, New Republic, March 10, 1997.
25. Alison Mitchell, "Fund-Raising Furor: Clinton Agenda Is Hindered," New York Times, March 17, 1997, p. A12.
26. Robert Dreyfuss, "The New China Lobby," American Prospect, January-February, 1997, pp. 30-37. See also Bernstein and Munro, The Coming Conflict with China, Chapter 4, "The New China Lobby"; and, for critical commentary see, David M. Lampton, "Fueling Conflict with China," Journal of Commerce, April 3, 1997, p. 12.
27. Robert Dreyfuss, "The New China Lobby," American Prospect, January-February, 1997, pp. 30-37. See also Bernstein and Munro, The Coming Conflict with China, Chapter 4, "The New China Lobby"; and, for critical commentary see, David M. Lampton, "Fueling Conflict with China," Journal of Commerce, April 3, 1997, p. 12.
28. Robert Dreyfuss, "The New China Lobby," American Prospect, January-February, 1997, pp. 30-37. See also Bernstein and Munro, The Coming Conflict with China, Chapter 4, "The New China Lobby"; and, for critical commentary see, David M. Lampton, "Fueling Conflict with China," Journal of Commerce, April 3, 1997, p. 12.
29. Charles E. Cook, "The China Syndrome: Issue Looming Large over Presidential Race," Roll Call, April 17, 1997, p. 6.
30. David M. Lampton, "U.S.-China Relations: Living at the Edge," in Far Eastern Affairs (a publication of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Far East, Moscow), no. 2 (1996), pp. 13-21.