Topic: Yang Jiechi
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The overall thought for China-ASEAN cooperation is that the two sides should rise to difficulties in face of the grim global financial crisis, and make efforts to convert unprecedented challenge into opportunity for closer pragmatic cooperation and common development
China unveils $25B in ASEAN aid, credit Apr 12, 2009
We urge the United States to strictly abide by the principles and spirits of the three Sino-U.S. joint communiques and the China-U.S. joint Statement
China renews objection to U.S. arms sales Mar 07, 2011
We don't want to see anyone make something out of thin air
China denies beating journalist Mar 07, 2011
China will never seek to advance its interests at the expense of others
Business turns China on domestic front Aug 14, 2009
In the last six decades, we have insisted on an independent foreign policy of peace, coordinated domestic and foreign situations and served the core task of the (Communist) Party and the state
China pledges to build peace Aug 25, 2009
Yang Jiechi (simplified Chinese: 杨洁篪; traditional Chinese: 楊潔篪; pinyin: Yáng Jiéchí; born May 1950) is the current and the tenth Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China. He was promoted to China's top diplomatic post on April 27, 2007.
Yang was born in Shanghai in May 1950. He graduated from Shanghai Foreign Language School and attended the University of Bath and the London School of Economics from 1973 to 1975. He has a PhD in history.
He previously served as a diplomat in the United States, beginning as a Second Secretary in 1983 and later as Ambassador from 2001 to 2005, and as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for Latin America and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.
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