Jimmy Carter to Communist China:
"I'm very proud of your country."

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Washington (Oct. 1) XINHUA- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has reiterated the importance of the one-China policy decided upon when Washington and Beijing established diplomatic relations 20 years ago, hoping the stance will be carried on.

In a recent telephone interview with Xinhua, Carter said he noticed that after Lee Teng-hui announced the "state-to-state relations" with the Chinese mainland, the Clinton administration reaffirmed its policy "on the fact that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of China."

This is "the same policy I enunciated 20 years ago," which has since remained unchanged, added Carter, who saw the normalization of the U.S.-China relationship during his term.

"I hope this (policy) will continue," he emphasized. In addition, Carter believed that the U.S. and other nations would do everything they can to protect the one-China principle and avoid any conflict in that region.

The former president expressed the hope that Taiwan's leaders would "never contradict the basic promise on which the American and Chinese diplomatic relations are grounded."

Carter also voiced his hope that China would soon be admitted into the World Trade Organization so that it could become "a much more active player" in the global economy.

The former U.S. president said he is "optimistic" about the future U.S.-China relations, because the people and leaders of the two countries have come to see the greatest advantages if they communicate, understand and cooperate with each other.

And the whole world would like to see the United States and China stand side by side for global economic progress, world peace and regional stability, he said.

Carter, who first came to China as a submarine serviceman in the spring of 1949, said he found "remarkable changes in many ways" when visiting China again in 1981 at the invitation of the then Chinese leader Dng Xiaoping.

Carter traveled to China for the second time in July 1997 for cooperation in improving elections in China's rural areas under the China Village Elections Program sponsored by the Carter Center.

"We got excited to observe elections in many of the villages," he said. "In some cases, it's a very successful experiment, and in some cases there still needs some uniformity about the process," Carter commented.

Carter, whose birthday happens to fall on October 1, the National Day of the People's Republic of China, said that the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once joked to him: "You are brought together with China because we have the same birthday."

"I'm very proud of your country. I'm very proud to associate my own celebration with that of your country," Carter told Xinhua in the interview.

This article was published in the DrudgeReport October 1, 1999 and is copyrighted by Matt Drudge.

Bob's note: Jimmy Carter has a long history of loving dictators. I'll never forget a picture of Jimmy KISSING the disgustingly ugly face of Leonid Brezhnev during one of their meetings during his presidency. The Panama Canal was given away by Jimmy Carter and it now has Chinese control of both the Atlantic and Pacific ports currently. Jimmy without a doubt knows about that too. All I can surmise is that he approves of his good friends the Chinese murderers. Maybe he'll kiss the Chinese dictators ass the next time. By the way, Jimmy "the jerk" is 75 years old this year. It just shows that age does not necessarily equal wisdom. He's just as stupid now as he was before.