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克林顿与江主席联合记者招待会演讲难点解释 Thank you, Mr. President. And may I also thank the Chinese people for their warm welcome to me, to my family and to our delegation. In the past five years, President Jiang and I have met seven times. Mr. President, your leadership is helping us to transform our nations relationship to the future. Clearly a stable, open, prosperous China, shouldering its responsibilities for a safer world, is good for America. Nothing makes that point better than todays agreement not to target our nuclear missiles at each other. We also agreed to do more to shore up stability in Asia, on the Korean peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. I reaffirmed our longstanding one-China policy to President Jiang and urged the pursuit of cross-Strait discussions, recently resumed, as the best path to a peaceful resolution. In a similar vein, I urged President Jiang to assume a dialogue with the Dalai Lama in return for the recognition that Tibet is a part of China and in recognition of the unique cultural and religious heritage of that region. I welcome the progress we made today in nonproliferation, including Chinas decision to actively study joining the missile technology control regime, our joint commitment not to provide assistance to ballistic missile programs in South Asia, and President Jiangs statement last week that China will not sell missiles to Iran. We also welcome the steps China recently has taken to tighten nuclear export controls, to strengthen controls on the export of chemicals that can be turned into weapons, and to work jointly with us to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention. As the President said, we are also working together against international crime, drug trafficking, alien smuggling, stepping up our scientific cooperation, which already has produced remarkable breakthroughs in areas including the fight against birth defects like spina bifida. We are helping to eradicate polio and working to predict and to mitigate natural disasters. And pe