BEIJING, March 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says her visit to Beijing this week produced two encouraging responses from Chinese leaders.
She said the Chinese leadership promised to begin making amends for the recent passage of a law authorizing the use of force against Taiwan if it moves toward formal independence, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
Rice said Beijing understood its newly promulgated anti-secession law had negative consequences overseas.
"They talked a good deal about what they were going to try to do to reduce tensions in the Taiwan Straits," she said. "And we'll see. That would be a good next step."
She also said Chinese leaders did not "pushback" when she made the case that China cannot make a distinction between stability on the Korean Peninsula and North Korea possessing nuclear weapons.
"My discussion with the Chinese was to suggest to them that those two (concepts) are indivisible," Rice said. "They understand that a nuclear North Korea on the Korean Peninsula has potentially unpredictable effects that will not make the Korean Peninsula very stable, will not make the region very stable. And so I didn't find much pushback on that."
