Term: December 1-31, 2010

 

Main Issues

 

1. Human Rights: Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo

 

United States

Dec. 8 State Department Daily Press Briefing

Dec. 9 State Department Daily Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Gibbs’s Press Briefing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Remarks on Human Rights Day

Dec. 10 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Remarks at the Eleanor Roosevelt Hu-man Rights Award Ceremony, Remarks on Human Rights Day at the Town Hall, President Obama’s Remarks about the Nobel Prize

Dec. 14 Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Posner’s Remarks

 

China 

Dec. 7 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Remarks

Dec. 8 Global Times Editorial

Dec. 9 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Remarks, Global Times Editorial

Dec. 10 Global Times Editorial, People’s Daily Online Editorial

Dec. 11 China Daily Editorial

Dec. 13 Global Times Editorial

 

2. North Korea: China’s Role in Solving the North Korean Nuclear Crisis, ROK-U.S. and Japan-U.S. Joint Military Exercises, Japan-ROK-U.S. Trilateral Meeting of For-eign Ministers, Artillery Drills on Yeonpyeong Island, Conditions for the Resumption of Six-Party Talks, Security Council Sanctions on North Korea

 

United States

Dec. 1 Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Mullen’s Remarks at the Center for American Progress Forum

Dec. 2 State Department Daily Press Briefing

Dec. 6 White House Office of the Press Secretary Readout of President Obama’s Telephone Call with President Hu Jintao, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Remarks after Japan-ROK-U.S. Trilateral Meeting of Foreign Ministers

Dec. 7 Deputy Secretary of State Steinberg’s Remarks at the Center for American Progress

Dec. 8 Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Mullen’s Remarks

Dec. 10 State Department Daily Press Briefing

Dec. 15 U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Stephens’s Remarks, USFK General Sharp’s Speech at U.S.-ROK Alliance Conference Hosted by EAI-CNAS

Dec. 16 State Department Daily Press Briefing

Dec. 17 State Department Daily Press Briefing

Dec. 19 U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Rice’s Remarks at the Security Council Stakeout, Remarks at a Security Council Meeting

Dec. 20 White House Press Secretary Gibbs’s Press Briefing, State Department Daily Press Briefing

Dec. 22 State Department Daily Press Briefing

 

China 

Dec. 2 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Regular Press Conference

Dec. 3 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Remarks, China Daily Editorial

Dec. 7 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Regular Press Conference

Dec. 8 China Daily Editorial

Dec. 9 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Regular Press Conference, People’s Daily Online Editorial

Dec. 20 Global Times Editorial

Dec. 21 Global Times Editorial, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Regular Press Conference

Dec. 23 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Regular Press Conference, Global Times Editorial

Dec. 28 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Regular Press Conference

Dec. 30 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Regular Press Conference

 

3. Economic Cooperation: U.S.-China Cooperation on Trade, U.S. Requests to the WTO on China's Subsidies, Regulations on China’s Exports of Rare Earths, U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade

 

United States

Dec. 16 Secretary of Commerce Locke’s Remarks after the 21st U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade

Dec. 22 Trade Representative Kirk’s Remarks

Dec. 23 Trade Representative Kirk’s Remarks

 

China 

Dec. 7 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Remarks

Dec. 14 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Remarks

Dec. 30 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Yu’s Regular Press Conference

 

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