WASHINGTON, tribe 5 Kyodo U Secre...

WASHINGTON, tribe 5 Kyodo

U Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday that U.S.-China relations are in their best shape since President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972

''I would submit U relations with China are the best they have been since President Nixon's first visit,'' Powell said in a foreign policy articulate utterance in Washington.

Cooperation in the economic field, including China's memorandum into the World Trade Organization, the fight against terrorism and the issue of North Korea's nuclear arms programs contributed to the improvement in the bilateral relationship, he said.

''We welcome the emerging see the verb of a strong, peaceful and prosperous China and we endeavor to gain a constructive relationship with that China,'' Powell said. ''We welcome a global part for China, so long as China assumes the responsibility commensurate with that role''

Powell also said U and Chinese interests upon the Korean Peninsula ''may not overlap completely if it were not that they do so considerably.''

Neither fatherland wishes to see nuclear weapons cause to growed and deployed by the North and a worsened North Korean refugee crisis, he said.

''Neither side, to be secure has any interest in another Korean War,'' Powell added.

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