Outer relations

Incident by collision of airplanes of China and EE.UU.

In the morning of the 1 of April of 2001, a North American airplane of recognition EP-3 flew over the neighborhoods of the Southeast of the Chinese island of Hainan. The unit of Chinese local navy sent two huntings to follow and to watch to the American airship. To the 9:07, when the Chinese airplanes made a normal flight in an area to 104 kilometers of Chinese territorial waters, the North American airplane turned in wide angle towards one of the Chinese huntings. The nose of the North American airplane and its left wing struck the tail of that Chinese hunting, making him lose the control and fall to the sea. The Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, disappeared, without the news of their whereabouts have been had to date. After the shock, the North American airplane penetrated in the Chinese space without authorization and landed in the airport of Lingshui in Hainan, to the 9:33.

After the incident, the Chinese part adopted a sensible and extremely moderate attitude. While it undertook the search immediately and it rescues of pilot Wang Wei, it lodged suitably to the 24 members of the crew of the North American airplane. Nevertheless, the Government of the United States, instead of to give excuses by the consequences of the collision brought about by his airplane, invented arguments to excuse the action of the guilty airplane and to evade his responsibility. He even presented/displayed several irrazonables requests and accusations to the Chinese part with threat tone and tax attitude. After the American Government gave the letter from excuse to China under the insistence of the Chinese Government, this one allowed the exit of China of the 24 North American crew members, by considerations humanists. Later, the United States continued confusing the correct thing with the erroneous thing, defending themselves with little convincing arguments and even throwing the fault to the Chinese part, announcing that the acts of recognition of their airplane in the Chinese airspace were used for “guaranteeing our interests of security” and “safeguard world-wide La Paz”. One is an action of open hegemonismo.

China has not threatened the United States, nor either to their allies. On the contrary, the behavior of the North American part has constituted a serious threat to the security of China. The irrefutable facts have demonstrated that in this incident, the involved North American airplane is not a normal airship, but a military airplane equipped with outpost electronic technology of recognition. What it was realizing in the airspace of exclusive the economic zones of China is not a normal flight, but an action of espionage oriented towards China. In the period of peace, such military activities of the United States have violated the fundamental principles of the international right with respect to the mutual respect of the national sovereignty and territorial integrity between the States. The same demonstrate a manifest hostility against China, they constitute a threat to the national security and the Pacific order of our country, and are serious infractions of the sovereignty and the airspace of China, that have generated an atmosphere of harmful tension for the regional security.

This type of infractions has not begun today. For many years, the North American airplanes have not stopped realizing such provoking activities in the airspace near the coastal area of China. The United States must stop this type of flights, and therefore it will be possible to be avoided the repetition of such incidents and to be developed to the relations Chinese-Americans, and only to be maintained the security and the stability of the region of Asia and the Pacific, and even worldwide.

After the collision incident, the Chinese Government worried much about missing pilot Wang Wei, and, by humanitarian considerations, he properly took care of the needs of the crew of the airplane cause of the shock, that had penetrated in the territorial space of China and had landed in the Chinese airport without the consent of China, authorized immediately an interview of the crew with civil servants of the North American embassy in China. Nevertheless, the American Government was limited to express his “grief” by not to have found to the Chinese pilot until the moment, while he excessively worried about his crew, publishing immediately in Internet the names of all the members and asking time and time again that the Chinese part let to them leave. It has demonstrated that the American Government always has applied to a double rasero in the field of the human rights, which in fact serves as cover for the implementation of its policy of force and hegemonismo to him.

China always is lawyer by the respect to its independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and national dignity, against which it does not admit violations. The relations of State to State, including the relations Chinese-Americans, must be established on the base of the fundamental criteria of the international relations, in the sense of the mutual respect to the sovereignty and territorial integrity, the mutual nonaggression and the nonintervention in the internal subjects of others. Quick China much attention to the bilateral relations Chinese-Americans. The development of the relations of friendship and cooperation enters countries both not only benefits to both but also to the world. As long as the North American part strictly observes three joint official notices Chinese-Americans and the fundamental criteria of the international relations, it stops assuming attitudes that go to the detriment of the development of the relations of both countries and takes a constructive attitude, the relations Chinese-Americans will be able to be developed of stable and fluid way.

The strategic association of coordination between China and Russia is deepened.

In 2000, the relations of strategic association of coordination between China and Russia have been deepened of uninterrupted way, and the coordination between both in the international subjects has intensified still more. President Jiang Zemin and his homologous Russian, Vladimir Putin, maintained in several occasions conversations to interchange opinions on some important problems and arrived at a common consensus.

The Russian President realized a visit from State to China from the 17 to the 19 of June. During the visit, both Chiefs of State signed the “Declaration of Peking between the People's Republic of China and the Federation of Russia” and the “joint Declaration on the subject of the anti-missile missiles, between the President of the People's Republic of China and the important President of the Federation of Russia”, and other documents, writing up therefore the general project of development of the relations Chinese-Russians in the new century.

The President of the Permanent Committee of the National Popular Assembly (APN) of China, Li Peng, undertook a successful visit to Russia, from the 11 to the 19 of September. From the 3 to the 4 of November, Prime minister Kasianov visited China officially and maintained the fifth homologous regular meeting with his Chinese, Zhu Rongji. During the visit, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the President of the Permanent Committee of the National Popular Assembly (APN), Li Peng, entrevistaron themselves separately with Kasianov and Chinese Prime minister Zhu Rongji carried out negotiations of several levels with his homologous one. Both parts especially interchanged opinions of total deep way and on the bilateral relations and on the development of the cooperation in the fields of the economy, science and technology, and of the power resources. Also they signed the “joint Official notice of the fifth regular meeting between Prime minister of China and Russia”, “Acts of IV the meeting of the committee of the regular meeting between Prime minister of China and Russia” and other 12 documents of bilateral cooperation.

The 15 of November, during his attendance to VII the informal summit of the Economic Cooperation of Asia and the Pacific (APEC) in Brunei, President Jiang Zemin maintained a solo meeting with his homologous Russian, Vladimir Putin. Both parts interchanged opinions on the bilateral relations and the economic and commercial cooperation enters countries both. This, along with the fifth regular meeting maintained between the Premier Zhu Rongji and its Russian colleague Kasianov in Peking, has had a decisive influence on the enrichment and the development of the strategic association of coordination Chinese-Russian.

In 2001, China and Russia have maintained visits reciprocal of high level and the contacts will be quite active. President Putin will come twice to China to attend important international conferences. President Jiang Zemin glides to realize a visit from State to Russia in July. Before this, the minister of Outer Relations Tang Jiaxuan will go to Moscow to make the preparations political of the visit of Jiang. The initial signing of the Treaty of Cooperation of Friendship and Good Vicinity between China and Russia are included in the preparations. During the visit of Jiang, the Chiefs of State of both countries will sign officially this treaty.

China and Russia maintain positives interchanges and cooperation in the fields economic, scientific and technological and military. Their simultaneously normal relations are again type and, of State to State, characterized by the not-alignment, the not-confrontation and the fact of not going against third parties countries. From these budgets the friendship is procured, the good vicinity and the cooperation in the long term. Both countries have forts desires of being good neighbors, partners and friendly. The treaty that is going to sign incarnates that spirit.

In May of 2000, the Delegation of Friendly Visit and Cultural Japan-China, integrated by more arrived at China than five thousand people. President Jiang Zemin attended the meeting personally and delivered a very important speech on the consolidation and the development of the Chinese-Japanese friendship, which has caused positive feedbacks between the popular masses of both countries. In October, Prime minister Zhu Rongji visited Japan officially, and carried out ample and deep works with the Government and the diverse sectors of Japan, with the purpose of to increase the confidence, to dissolve the doubts and to extend the cooperation. Being based on the principle “to learn of the historical lessons and to watch towards the future”, Zhu managed to as much reach consensus with which they are in the government like with the opposition of Japan, in the sense to deepen the relation of partners and friendly cooperation dedicated to La Paz and the development. In his visit, Prime minister increased the mutual understanding, consolidated the political base of the bilateral relations and both promoted the development of the friendly cooperation in the diverse sectors of countries.

He must be clear, nevertheless, that at the same time subsists still in certain Japan militarism atmosphere. From time to time, a handful of rightist forces shakes their old woman historical ambitions and tries to rectify the relations between Japan and Taiwan, to the detriment of the Chinese-Japanese friendship. China has expressed its great preoccupation on the tendencies that are expressed in a text book that has the assignment to make up history and to deny the facts of aggression from Japan to other countries of Asia. China has indicated by diplomatic channels and in several occasions to the Japanese part the firm position of China with respect to the subject. The Chinese part considers that a correct knowledge of the historical problem forms the political base of the bilateral relations. Than one treats in this case is if Japan it can or not admit and correctly deal with his past aggression and gain the confidence of the Asian neighboring countries with real actions, and if it wants or not to follow in the way of Pacific development. The governmental departments of Japan have the last word to review the content of the text book and to approve their publication. Therefore, the Japanese Government must assume his due responsibility and obligations to demonstrate with action that the expressed attitude several times by Japan with respect to the historical problem is trustworthy. He must tackle about appropriate way the problem of the text book. Therefore the political foundation of the relations between countries will only be able to be safeguard both.

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