Speeches and Briefing

  Final Clinton China Visit Press Conference (USIA, July 3, 1998) "…But I did not announce any change in policy. In fact, the questions of independence from Taiwan, for example, has been American policy for a very long time and has been a policy that has been embraced by the government in Taiwan, itself. So I believe I did the right thing there to simply clarify to both sides that there had been no change in our policy. The substance of the policy is obviously something that the Chinese government wants to hear is that we favor the cross-strait dialogue and we think it has to be dome peacefully and in an orderly fashion. That is, I believe, still the intention and commitment of the Chinese government."

  Clinton-Jiang "Debate": Press Availability by President Clinton and President Jiang (USIA, June 27, 1998)

  Achievement of U.S.-China Summit: Beijing Summit Agreements build on October 1977 Summit (USIA, June 27, 1998) issues include nonproliferation and security, human rights, economic and commercial, energy and environment, science and technology, cooperation in the field of law, law enforcement, and people-to-people exchange.

  White House 6/17 Briefing On Clinton Trip to China (USIA, June 17, 1998) "Regional stability, nuclear nonproliferation, crime and drug trafficking, the environment, energy, and trade are among the topics President Clinton plans to discuss during his upcoming trip to China"

  Remarks by President Clinton on U.S.-China Relations --Expanding cooperation, dealing directly with differences (June 11, 1998)

   Susan Shirk on U.S.-Taiwan Relations -- Relations with China, Taiwan not a zero-sum game (May 20, 1998)

   Major remarks and press briefings by the President and U.S. officials

Congressional Actions

 House Votes To Affirm U.S. Commitment To Taiwan, July 20, 1998, " The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly today for a resolution affirming U.S. commitments to Taiwan and calling upon the President to urge the People's Republic of China to renounce the use of force against the democratic island. The 390-1 vote comes on the heels of unanimous passage of a similar resolution in the Senate last week." The full text of H. Con. Res. 301

  Senate Adopts Resolution Affirming U.S. Commitment To Taiwan, July 10, 1998, "The Senate voted 92-0 today for a resolution affirming the U.S. commitment to Taiwan. Sponsors of the measure said it was intended to counter President Clinton's remarks about Taiwan during his recent trip to the People's Republic of China, which they said represented a new and damaging direction in U.S.-Taiwan relations." Text of S. Con. Res. 107

 U.S. House Votes 411-0 for Resolution Urging PRC to Renounce the Use of Force Against Taiwan (June 9, 1998) Complete text of Congressional Resolution 270

Reports and Comments

 Hisahiko Okazaki "Clinton's New China Policy and Taiwan" (The Okazaki Institute, Sept. 28, 1998)

 Richard Halloran "China: Restoring the Middle Kingdom" (Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, Summer 1998)

 Clinton Reaffirms Commitment to Taiwan (CNA, Aug. 26, 1998)

 Caspar Weinbverger, "Mr. Clinton Sells Out Taiwan" (Forbes Magazine, Aug. 10, 1998)

Richard Halloran, "Clinton's Turnaround on Taipei Policy" (Global Beat Issue Brief No. 40, July 14, 1998)

 Charles A. Meconis, "U.S.-China Confidence-Building More Important Than Detargeting" (Global Beat Issue Brief No. 39, July 14, 1998)

 Harvey Feldman, "In Clinton's China Shuffle, Taiwan Loses," (Washington Post, July 19, 1998) "…it seems clear that Clinton paid a substantial fee for that air time: His public acceptance, the first by an American president, of Beijing's position on the status of Taiwan."

 James Lilley, "The Last Word on Clinton in China," (Intellectual Capital, July 16, 1998).

 Emily Lau, "Hong Kong's Quest for Democracy," (Intellectual Capital, July 2, 1998) "One year after the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, many people in the country have seen their lives ravaged by the Asian economic crisis. However, many commentators and foreign governments have described political developments in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) as "so far, so good." Such a simplistic view is both misleading and insulting."

  Robert A. Manning "Clinton in China: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (IntellectualCapital-World View, July 9, 1998)

  Harvey Sicherman "Clinton's Many Chinas" (Global Beat, July 7, 1998)

  Charles R. Kesler "Clinton in China: Three Noes and Many Maybes" (IntellectualCapital-World View, July 2, 1998)

  Michael McDevitt "Engaging China: The Clinton Visit" (PacNet Newsletter No.25, June 19, 1998)

  Richard Halloran "As Summit Approaches, Clinton Follows China's Lead" (Global Beat Issue Brief No. 36 June 10, 1998)

  Ralph A. Cossa "Strategic Partnership?" (PacNet Newsletter No.22, May 29, 1998)

  Barbara Hackman Franklin, "Shaping and Safeguarding The U.S.-China Relationship" (The Heritage Foundation, July 13, 1998)

  Stephen J. Yates, "Clinton Statement Undermines Taiwan" (The Heritage Foundation, July 10, 1998) "President Clinton's statement against Taiwan's participation in international organizations makes the United States an accomplice in China's campaign to squeeze Taiwan into submission by isolating the island internationally. Nothing in the existing U.S.-China joint communiques suggests or obliges the United States to oppose Taiwan's membership in any international organization."

  Asia-Pacific, Experts Comment on Clinton-Jiang Summit (Taiwan Research Institute, June 1998) including James Hackett, Michael Pillsbury, Richard D. Fisher, and more.

  Ralph Cossa, "Clinton Visit to China: What Wasn't Discussed" (CSIS, PacNet Newsletter, July 3, 1998)

  Charles Krauthammer, "Justification for Dictatorship" (Washington Post, July 10, 1998) "Clinton's trip altered relations in Asia in ways that we will long regret."

  James A. Baker III, "Blueprint for a China Policy" (Washington, Post, July 5, 1998)

  China Tells Taiwan to 'Face Reality'- Reunification Talks Urged (Washington Post, July 10, 1998) "China urged Taiwan today to "face reality" and agree to talks on eventual reunification with China following comments by President Clinton that the United States will not support an independent Taiwan."

 BBC Analysis: Did the trip succeed? (BBC, July 3, 1998)

  Don't Taiwanese Children Count? (Washington Post, July 8, 1998) "While President Clinton was visiting China, scores of Taiwanese children just across the straits were continuing to fight for their lives against a new, deadly virus. Unfortunately, the doctors treating this illness do not have access to the medical resources of the World Health Organization (WHO) because the regime in China will not permit Taiwan to gain membership."

  Nicholas R. Lardy, "U.S. Economic Interests in the Clinton-Jiang Beijing Summit," (The Brookings Institution, June 1998), Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Hearing on Changing Congressional Views of the U.S.-China Relationship, June 18, 1998

 Robert Ross, "The 1998 Sino-American Summit," The Asia Society (June 1998)

  Clinton's Battle on China Policy (BBC News, June 3, 1998) "President Bill Clinton has formally requested that China's Most Favoured Nation status is renewed as controversy grows about his relationship with Beijing."

  Robert A. Manning "The Clinton-Jiang Summit: Toward a New Consensus on China?" (PPI Policy Brief, October 1997) Democratic Leadership Council's Progressive Policy Institute

 "United States-China Relations and the Clinton-Jiang Summit" (Frank Frost, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Group, Australian Perlianmentary Library Current Issues Briefs 7 1997-98, November 24, 1997)

Information Sites

  USIA: President Clinton's Visit to China

  President Clinton's Trip to China (White House)

  President Clinton's State Visit to China (PRC Embassy in U.S.)

 Washington Post: China Special Report (Washington Post, June16 1998)

 CNN: Beyond Tiananmen: Clinton in China (CNN, June 1998)

 BBC: Special Report: Clinton in China (BBC, June 1998)

 U.S.--China Summit 1998 (New York Times)

 Human Rights Watch site on the Clinton Visit (US-China Summit Must Produce Results on Human Rights)

  1997 Clinton-Jiang Meeting (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC)