Chinese Ambassador to the United States Yang Jiechi said in Washington on March 4 that Sino-U.S. relations would develop on a healthy and steady basis if the two countries abided by the guiding principles of the three joint communiqués and handled the Taiwan issue properly.  

  Speaking at a reception he hosted to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the issuance of the Shanghai Communiqué, Yang Jiechi said that U.S. President George W. Bush's recent visit to China would have profound impact on promoting the further development of Sino-U.S relations.

  Ambassador Yang said that during the visit, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and his U.S. counterpart Bush reached a new common ground to further promote the constructive and cooperative relationship between the two countries.

  Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, one of the architects of the Shanghai Communiqué, said at the reception that the communiqué reflected the important common interests of the two great countries.

  Kissinger said seven successive U.S. administrations of both the Republican and Democratic parties had stuck to the principles of the Shanghai Communiqué and two other communiqués including the one China policy.

  Despite ups and downs, U.S.-China relations had been moving forward as a whole during the past 30 years, Kissinger said, adding that history would continue to prove the bilateral relationship would achieve greater development on the basis of mutual respect.

  On the same occasion, Stephen Hadley, deputy national security adviser to the U.S. president, said the two meetings between President Bush and President Jiang Zemin during four months themselves demonstrated the importance of the relationship between the United States and China.

  Hadley said the U.S. was ready to make joint effort with China to continue to push forward the bilateral relationship.