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■ The Chinese president
will hear American views
throughout his visit.
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Chinese President Jiang Zemin will
get a full picture of how Americans
feel about China’s human rights
record, both from protest demon
strations outside and tough talk
inside the White House, Madeleine
Albright said Sunday.
The secretary of state also made
clear that while human rights is just
one aspect of increasingly impor
tant U.S.-China ties, “We will
never have a completely normal
relationship with them until they
have a better human rights policy.”
Jiang, who arrived Sunday in
Honolulu to begin the first U.S.
visit by a Chinese leader in a dozen
years, is expected to face protest
rallies at each of his stops in.
Williamsburg, Va., Washington,
Philadelphia, New York, Boston
and Los Angeles.
Christian groups were to kick
off the demonstrations Sunday with
a prayer vigil across from the
White House to protest religious
persecution in China and that coun
try’s abortion policies.
Speaking of the historic locales
Jiang is visiting in the United
States, Albright said on NBC’s
“Meet the Press” that he “will not
have a totally fuzzy time at these
places. I think that it is important
for him, actually, to see where our
liberty came from.”
“Everywhere he goes in the
United States, President Jiang
Zemin is going to meet with pro
testers. He’s going to see and hear
American voices on this. I can’t
think of anything better than that,”
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said on
CNN’s “Late Edition.”
Jiang, who rose to power in the
Chinese Communist Party hierar
chy in the wake of the 1989
Tiananmen crackdown, meets
Clinton Wednesday for talks
expected to cover trade, weapons
proliferation, Taiwan, drug traf
ficking and the environment as
well as human rights.
“The important part here for us
is to engage with China but not
endorse everything that they’re
doing,” Albright said.
She said substantial progress
has been made toward an agree
ment where China would pledge
not to, give nuclear assistance to
Iran, Pakistan and other countries.
An agreement would include the
lifting by the Clinton administra
tion of restrictions on the sale to
China of U.S. nuclear reactors.
The secretary said some good
news also has come on human
rights, the recent release from cus
tody of a Roman Catholic Chinese
bishop imprisoned for preaching
outside the government-sanctioned
church.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, a conserva
tive Republican from Utah who
recently visited China, praised the
administration’s position on human
rights, pronouncing it “the best
way to work with China.”
He predicted on “Fox News
Sunday” that while China, not
wanting to appear to surrender to
pressure, will avoid making human
rights concessions at the summit,
“I do believe that shortly after that,
you’ll see some changes in human
rights.”
Other lawmakers with griev
ances against China continued to
demand that Clinton be as blunt as
possible with Jiang.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.,
sponsor of legislation that would
sanction nations that punish people
for religious beliefs, asked Clinton
to hand Jiang a letter seeking the
Poll: Quality
of life going
up in China
BEIJING (AP) - Few
homes have hot running water
but most have televisions in
today’s China, where Coca
Cola is the best-known foreign
brand and more and more men
care about their hair.
The findings of a nation
wide Gallup Poll - the biggest
conducted in China - reflect
the huge changes that have, |
swept the country since it
began embracing market eco.
nomics and opening to foreign1'
investors in the 1980s.
The survey found that
while just 2 percent of Chinese
homes have hot running water,
89 percent have televisions.
Chinese also are increasingly
likely to have a refrigerator, a
telephone and a pet, the poll
showed. And the percentage of
Chinese men using hairstyling
products doubled from three
years ago to 21 percent, it said.
But American businesses
that are encouraged by the
increasing consumerism
should also know that 73 per
cent of those polled said they
generally prefer Chinese
made goods. Foreign goods
were favored by 22 percent of
the respondents.
Coca-Cola replaced
Hitachi as the best-known for-1 I
eign brand in China, with 81
percent of Chinese recogi^z)-^
ing the soda’s name, the poll
said. But of the 20 best-known
foreign brands, half were
Japanese, unchanged from
Gallup’s last China survey, in
1994.
But of the top five beSt
known foreign brands, three
had American origins: Coca
Cola, Beijing Jeep - a
Chrysler Corp. joint venture -
and the shampoo Head and
Shoulders. The remaining two
were Volkswagen’s Santana
automobile and Panasonic of
Japan.
economic reforms nave
improved life for hundreds of
millions of people, although
development has been far
quicker in cities than in the
countryside, where most
Chinese live. _ . .
The average household
annual income, according to
the poll, was $1,250, a 75 pfeit-'l
cent gain over the $710 report
ed in 1994.
And people said, they
expect their living standards to
continue rising. They rated
their quality of life as being
nearly a third better than it was
five years ago - at 5.09 on a
scale of one to 10 - and
expected it to improve by a
further 32 percent over the
next five years, Gallup said.
Gallup said its poll was
based on 3,727 interviews
conducted in May and June in
all of China’s provinces and
regions. The margin of error
was 2 percentage points.
Chinese leader’s approval to visit
China and Tibet to examine rqlif
gious persecution.
Sen. Dirk Kempthorne,i R
Idaho, also sent Clinton a leifer
asking him to press Jiang to remove
a Chinese ban on wheat and barley
from the U.S. northwest.
