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Bush in Asia, Seeks Support for Anti-terror Campaign; also Ready to Talk Trade
Thursday, October 18, 2001
(1:58 PM ET)
By Ron Fournier / The Associated Press

Advisers said Bush, in his meeting with Jiang, would discuss the terrorism campaign as well as China's human rights record and history of selling sensitive nuclear technology to other countries.

SHANGHAI, China -- AP
President Bush, halfway around the world from home, sought Thursday to secure China's position in his fragile anti-terrorism coalition and stem concern throughout Asia about U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan.

Some nations gathering for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation summit said they hoped U.S. attacks would end soon, exposing a possible split with Bush who says the strikes could last one or two years.

The president arrived in this gleaming port city Thursday evening and was greeted briefly at the airport by Chinese officials. A young girl gave him a bouquet of yellow roses and bluebonnets, symbols of his Texas roots.

The presidential motorcade whipped along clean, empty streets, past brightly lit skyscrapers and Western retail outlets, to his hotel where Bush immediately retired for the night.
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