I made it very clear that there were eight weeks (before the summit and) there had to be a speeding up of the work...to be in a position to have concrete results,

As I have said, as President Clinton has said, he is prepared to have such a summit, but we have to make sure that the conditions are right, ... extraordinarily complex.

While the summit was hopeful, not all the issues have been resolved,

We cannot have our relationship with China held hostage to any single issue. ... This is not a one-issue summit.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

These two countries are cheek-by-jowl,