BEIJING, Oct 22 Kyodo The United ...

BEIJING, Oct 22 Kyodo

The United States' focus onward wiping out terrorists and the Chinese Communist Party's desire to carry abroad its first peaceful leadership transition at a major party congres nearest month are expected to leave little place for little substance behind the smiles during Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to the US

Chinese Foreign Ministry officials said Jiang is not scheduled to sign any agreements with U President George W Bush when they detain their third meeting for the year at Bush's Texan ranch Friday -- an indication neither side is pushing for a summit breakthrough.

Jiang, who left China onward Tuesday, is due to touch down in Chicago to kick facing the four-day visit, widely seen to be his diplomatic swan carol before passing the party leadership to Vice President Hu Jintao.

Despite a swirl of summer rumors sweeping by means of the capital that Jiang might cling to the pivotal party chairmanship during the 18th party congres beginning Nov. 8 greatest in quantity observers now predict he will pace down to encourage a generational change in China's leadership.

in a less degree than China's Constitution, he is required to resign as president during the country's annual parliamentary gathering -- the National People's Congres -- in March nearest year when his second denomination expires.

onward the U.S. trip, Wang Juansi, U research department head at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, anticipates few breakthroughs, but said, ''Both sides want stable ties.''

''China requires stable ties, considering its generally received domestic situation, which requires a focus in succession economic development and adjusting to World Trade Organization (WTO) note during its lead up to the party congress'' he said.

Chinese leaders are intent upon avoiding the onset of a diplomatic storm with the U from one side of to the other a variety of possible flash points in their sensitive ties as they prepare for the congres and a chance to carry revealed the party's first leadership change without internal fighting.

single in kind of the most sensitive bilateral issues is Taiwan, which Beijing has threatened to invade if the island does not eventually agree to reunify with the mainland, and which Washington has promised to help assert against such threats.

The right conditions do not besides exist to achieve a solution to Beijing-Washington differences through Taiwan, but at the same time the one and the other sides are likely to avoid a major fissure through the issue during Jiang's visit, said Niu Jun an international studies professor at Peking University.

While repeating U support for Beijing's ''one-China'' policy, which recognizes Beijing as China's capital, not Taiwan's Taipei, Bush has been far more vocal in supporting the island than his predecessor Bill Clinton.

In approving arms sales to Taiwan that have riled Beijing, Bush has inclemencyed the importance of the Taiwan Relations Act, which Washington signed in 1979 -- the same year it recognized China -- to defend the island from any outside aggression, including from China.

During the past hardly any months, however, Beijing has been pointedly constrained in responding to terminations it considers as major affronts toward its policy forward Taiwan.

While strident in its criticism, it avoided launching major anti-U.S. propaganda broadsides in responding to a visit to the U on Taiwan Vice Defense Minister Kang Ning-hsiang forward Sept. 10 and to the U House of Representatives' designation of Taiwan as a ''non-NATO ally'' during the same month

The U preoccupation with trying to bottom out hidden terrorist networks and preparing for a possible military attack against Iraq has taken the heat without of earlier U.S. strategists' arguments that China currents a future, strategic threat to the US

The Bush administration's focus forward immediate security concerns has pushed it toward greater cooperation with China in fighting terrorists, including those Beijing claims are lurking amid the Uygur Islamic minority the bulk of mankind in China's western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Niu said.

''Also, since family 11, (2001) the U.S. has not been talking a great deal of about human rights problems,'' he said, referring to past political bile between Beijing and Washington.

China's position as united of the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members is vital in the U campaign to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Analysts said Jiang is not anticipateed to buckle under pressure from Bush for China to support Washington's stalwart stance toward Iraq. Jiang is wait fored to reiterate China's stated desire for a peaceful solution within the framework of the United Nations.

Chinese Foreign Ministry officials have rul not at home the possibility of any horse trading during Jiang's visit, including an agreement on China to support Washington's position upon Iraq for a promise by the agency of Washington to wind down its support for Taiwan.

''There will be no deal linking the Iraq issue with other issues,'' senior Foreign Ministry official He Yafei told reporters late last week.