He appointed two black secretaries of State and a Chinese-American secretary of Labor.
The meeting was the first high-level U.S.-Chinese contact since then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's brief visit to Beijing in September.
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"He informed them of our concerns about Mr. Heywood's death and the suspicion that he had been murdered, and conveyed our formal request that the Chinese authorities investigate, " the foreign secretary said.
Most editorials remained focused on the ongoing China-Japan row over the disputed East China Sea islands as US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta met his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie in Beijing on Tuesday after a visit to Tokyo.
In the 1970s, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai his opinion on the chief consequences of the French Revolution.
Mr Rumsfeld's trip to the headquarters of the 2nd Artillery, which commands China's nuclear and conventional missile forces, was a way of placating a defence secretary who has been telling the Chinese to become more open.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario said he met with Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing and both reaffirmed their governments' positions that the Scarborough Shoal where the ships are facing off was part of their own country's territory and neither was ready to stand down.
Unfortunately, that seemingly sound advice may not have reached Ralls Corporation, a Chinese-owned company that named President Obama, Treasury Secretary Geithner, and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in a lawsuit recently filed in a District of Columbia federal court.
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Secretary of State John Kerry has talked with his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, twice this week, according to the State Department.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke Monday with the Russian and Chinese foreign ministers, a department spokesman said, as the U.N.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who is co-leading the US delegation along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is likely to push his Chinese counterparts behind the scenes.
Paying personal visits to Beijing and Moscow, the former UN secretary-general seems to have coaxed Mr Assad's Chinese and Russian friends, hitherto reluctant to endorse anything that smelled of outside intervention, into supporting an approach that opens the door to this option, if only by a crack.
Home Secretary Theresa May has expressed concerns about relaxing the visa system for Chinese tourists.
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In Hanoi, American officials say, the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made it clear to both Chinese and Japanese diplomats that she wanted the temperature lowered.
The move followed U.S. restrictions on Chinese seafood and came just a day after the U.S. commerce secretary called for China to step up its oversight of product and food exports.
" Though the deputy premier recognizes the Malays' difficulties, adds his former political secretary Ibrahim Saad, "he is not going to stop the Chinese from achieving.
Huang Shengming, secretary-general of the China National Food Industry Association, says that Chinese people associate foreign brands with quality, and that foreign management practices have sharpened up local companies.
To date, extensive discussions between Chinese officials and top U.S. leaders including President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have had little impact on what government and cybersecurity experts say is escalating and technologically evolving espionage.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke led the way when he raised Mr. Hu's treatment with Chinese authorities not as a favor to Australia, but because the Obama administration recognized the implications of his case for governments and companies doing business with China irrespective of their nationality.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Einhorn is in China this week, while Secretary of State Warren Christopher and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake are expected to meet with their Chinese counterparts next month.
The foreign secretary said he was informed of the claims the next day and immediately instructed British officials to ask the Chinese authorities to investigate.
He was all smiles when Madeleine Albright, the American secretary of state, dropped in this week on her way to Beijing (where she had talks with Chinese leaders about President Clinton's proposed visit in June).
As a matter of fact, my niece who -- excuse me, as we say in the Senate, a point a personal privilege -- who graduated from Harvard not too long ago, works for Secretary Geithner, she did exactly what we hope another 100, 000 will do: She studied Chinese and went and lived in China and is now devoted to making sure the relationship gets better and better and better.
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