Article: China in search of a dominant role.

In recent years, China has developed a mixed economic system in which power lies with a relatively small group of descendants of the founders of the present regime. The current preoccupation of Chinese rulers is to accumulate wealth, avoid chaos and to make China militarily strong. The agenda of the recent summit between Jiang Zemin and President Clinton included the implementation of the 1985 US-China Nuclear Co-operation Accord, a Military Maritime Co-operation Agreement, the purchase of thirty Boeing aircraft worth some US$ 2 billion and increased US support for China's admission to the World Trade Organisation.

China's large military budget and its March 1997 ...

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