Rice lists better relation with Asia among Bush’s achievements

By NNN-PTI,

Washington : The building up of a strong relationship with Asian countries, including India and China, is one of the most significant achievements of Bush administration’s foreign policy, US Secretary of state Condoleezza Rica has said.


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“Asia has been a very important area for us and an area in which I think we leave the relationships in a much, much stronger position than we found them,” Rice said at a briefing en route to Andrews Air Force Base at the conclusion of the APEC meeting in Peru on Monday.

Citing the relationship with China, Rice said the US had developed better bilateral ties across the board, despite differences over issues of human rights and economy with Beijing.

“… If you look at Asia, the US has better relations with China than ever, across the board — and it’s not easy to manage a very complicated relationship with a country that is emerging in the way that China is.

It’s not that we don’t have our differences, we do — on human rights; sometimes on economic matters, as well, issues of economic reform,” Rice said.

She also said tremendous progress has been achieved in Cross Strait relations between Taiwan and China, besides strengthening of America’s ties with India, South Korea and Vietnam.

“… If you look at more traditional foreign policy issues like North Korea and the six-party talks, tremendous progress in Cross Strait relations between Taiwan and China — excellent relations, deepening relations with Japan, deepening relations with South Korea, with India — India is not here, but in that part of Asia as well; strong relations with Vietnam,” Rice said.

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