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Trip Report; Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Rome
Anne-Marie Slaughter

Shanghai: I was driven around the expo site and saw how far advanced the Chinese pavilion is, also
the Canadian and Brazilian pavilions that are facing and adjacent to us, and many spectacular
European pavilions. In addition to the overwhelming size and grandeur of the expo site as a whole it will be like the New York World's Fair on steroids - what struck me is that we must also hold up
our end with the many visitors who will be coming from the Americas. The video of the history of
world expositions that plays in the Shanghai exposition building and will help open the expo itself is
a visual of rising American power - repeated expos in the 19th and 20th centuries in New York,
Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and other American cities. Expos are the soft power Olympics and
hence a key part of smart power; we should be willing to ask Congress for money and consider it
extremely well spent in terms of building American power in the world - and cheap at the price.
I also had several meals and meetings with members of what I am coming to think of as "the
American cliaspora" - talented and entrepreneurial Chinese-Americans and Chinese raised/educated
in America who have come back to China to live on the economic frontier - and who are spreading
American values with them. They gave a very optimistic picture of the Chinese economy.
Reiiincr T had dinner with "new merlin firniren"

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In my official meetings on the
S&ED we made real progress, getting the Chinese to agree to a dosed meeting just with the four
principals and getting them to agree to consider a model of a joint statement that we will now
provide; I made very clear that a joint statement was critical to getting results. Later in the day we
had a breakthrough with the Deputy Minister of Commerce, who agreed to working level meetings
and concrete "bottom-up" joint projects on development assistance. His staff agreed to meet w/ the
AID person at our embassy for the first time - as the embassy said, clearly the Chinese have decided
to move forward w/ us on multiple fronts.
The most striking thing to emerge from many conversations with officials and academics in
Shanghai and Beijing was how often the G-2 was raised - always in the context of "we don't believe
in the G-2, but ..." One official said "we can just take away the 'G' and leave the `2.' I was at pains
to emphasize that the U.S. has no interest in a G-2,

Seoul: a conversation with faculty and the dean of the school of international studies at Ewa
University revealed a perception that "China does not object to a nuclear-armed DPRK because that
would prevent reunification permanently, as Japan and China itself would never agree to a nuclear
reunited Korea." Talks with my Japanese and Korean
I yielded agreement
The
Japanese raised and the Koreans welcomed the prospect of China-U.S.-Korea talks to match the
new China-U.S.-Japan talks. Both the Koreans and the Japanese raised the idea of an "Asian G-8" U.S., China, Japan, Russia, Korea, Australia, India, and one other .." I raised the idea of convening
the Asian members of the G-20 plus us, which would include all those countries plus Indonesia.

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Rome: I met with my G-8 counterparts over dinner and then w/ G-8 policy planners plus
representatives from South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, and Egypt. The G-8 discussion yielded strong
agreement that rriponsibiliy for outcomes should be a key determinant of who gets to sit at the table,
although the Germans and Italians want to expand the core "convening" group to at least the G-8
plus the Heiligendarrim 5. Canada, France, Britain and Japan very much liked my tentatively floated
idea that each G-8 member be able to decide as host which other countries to invite as full
did not
members, depending on the problem chosen as the focus of the agenda. Strikingly,
even bother to send a Rome-based representative to the talks the next day, underlining my point that
some of these countries really are not ready for regular responsibility for global issues. The
representative, a truly impressive director general in their DFA, said
was not
pushing for a G-13, as it felt uncomfortable being anointed when so many African countries were
not represented. In the substantive discussion of Af-Pak and central Asia, the
ambassador
to Rome emphasized that the Rio Group was taking a political position on Af-Pak as a sign of
increasing hemispheric engagement with the outside world.

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