ROME : Small Step For China
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Chinese Premier Li Peng is due to visit four European countries and the United Nations as part of an 11-day tour this week and next that marks another step in China’s recovery from diplomatic isolation.
Li, who is visiting Italy first, goes on to Switzerland for an international economics meeting set for Thursday, then flies to New York for a Friday summit of U.N. Security Council members. He is to visit Portugal and Spain on his way back to China.
Li’s trip marks a further step in China’s emergence from the diplomatic isolation imposed on it by Western nations after the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing. It also is a personal triumph for Li, a generally unpopular hard-line leader who can count on China’s state-run media to provide heavy and highly favorable coverage of his trip.
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