Dear Mr. Tung Chee-hwa,

After the long time of isolation in the world that mainland China step by step up to the level of world's top.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering said that U.S.-China relations, severely damaged in May by NATO's bombing of Beijing's embassy in Belgrade, were now "moving in the right direction."

"Both sides look forward to making continuing progress in our future discussions," Pickering told a new conference after a day of talks to try to normalize ties. "In sum, U.S.-China relations are moving in the right direction.

Pickering, undersecretary of state for political affairs, met Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Liu Huaqiu, the Communist Party's senior official in charge of foreign affairs, on Thursday.

"Both sides evaluate yesterday's talks as positive. Progress has been made," Pickering said, describing the talks as "very workmanlike and serious."

"My dialogue was rich and full."

The two sides discussed the embassy bombing in May, which Washington called a tragic mistake stemming from intelligence blunders, and "look forward to a completion of this issue very soon," he said.

The Clinton administration could be the first in history to be known for is last 100 days. Imagine if the president, unconstrained by any campaign, actually felt free to do only the right things in foreign policy with his last 100 days.

Here's the speech Clinton would give:

"My fellow Americans, I intend to use these last 100 days to make up for some of the mistakes in the previous 2,820. The first thing I will do is something I never did in foreign policy --- set some clear priorities. My last 100 days are going to focus on the two biggest relationships we have --- Russia and China --- because unless we manage those right, the rest won't matter. With Russia I did the wrong thing and with China I failed to do the right thing. Not anymore.

"Let's start with Russia. We never had it in our power to determine how the democratic experiment in Russia would come out. We did have it in our power though, to make Russia a less dangerous place and a less angry and isolated place --- no matter how its experiment evolved.

"Unfortunately, driven by a need to win Polish votes in the Midwest, I opted to do just the opposite. We expanded NATO, which, in one fell swoop, alienated the Russian elites, undermined our moderate, pro-Western allies inside Russian, and so angered the Russian Duma that it refused to ratify the Start II treaty, which would have cut Russia's long-range nuclear arsenal in half. Madeleine and Strobe kept telling me we could expand NATO and get START II. But it never happened.

"The critics of arms control say: 'No problem. We don't need Start II. Our strength will protect us.' What these guys don't grasp is that it's not Russia's strength that threatens us. It's Russia's weakness. I'm not worried about Russia using a nuke.

I'm afraid of it losing a nuke."

"The danger is not that a strong Russia will launch a missile at us, but that in a weak Russia one will fall off the back of a truck and end up in Iraq. And the way to reduce that threat is by making Start II and Russian integration in the West our top priorities.

"Therefore, on this eve of Russian presidential elections, I am announcing the following: The United States will support bringing Russia into NATO and the EU by 2010, provided Russia meets a specific set of democratic, legal, and arms-control and economic criteria."

"Most of the top politicians in Russia today are just corrupt old Bolsheviks, but by the next election in 2004, you are going to have a new generation running that gets it. I want to empower these young Russians in their internal fights with Russia's old guard by laying out a clear, strategic pathway for them. I want these young Russians to know, and to be able to say, that if they make the right choices, Russia will get what it wants and what we should want --- that it becomes part of a free and undivided Europe."

"As for China, we don't have the power to transform China. But we do have the power to make it a more open, rules-based society. We have a great tool for doing that --- bringing China into the World Trade Organization, which would force upon it a set of legal norms, and a degree of openness, that would be unprecedented."

"With a WTO deal, U.S. Internet firms would be much freer to invest in China and the Chinese would have many more ways to interact with the world --- without having to go through their government."

"I made a huge mistake last April when I let John Podesta, Gene Sperling and Bob Rubin talk me out of finishing the WTO deal with Zhu Rongi when he was here. We could have had it. But after all the support we had gotten from House Democrats on the Monica thing, my aides didn't want to rile up the Dems and the unions by pushing through WTO for China. So I let the deal go. I regret that, and I'm going to fight to get it back."

"You know, every time I did the politically hard thing --- Kosovo, NAFTA, The Middle East --- I made history. And every time I did the politically expedient thing, I made trouble. I'm going to use these last 100 days to fix both China and Russia. And while I am at it, I'm going to lift the embargo on Cuba too. I never did like Florida anyway."

In our view, mainland China and United States would share the power of U.N.'s major effect in next 50 years. Taiwanese people want to link with mainland over peaceful procedure.