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Subject: 1） Increased cooperation with China is in the interests of the United States
Excerpt: English text from the archived bilingual edition · Chinese edition
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1） Increased cooperation with China is in the interests of the United States
2）I wish to thank you for the incomparable hospitality for which the Chinese people are justly famous throughout the world
3）This is particularly true of the countries of the commonwealth, who see Britain’s membership of the Community a guarantee that the policies of the community will take their interests into account
China is a large country with four-fifths of the population engaged in agriculture, but only one tenth of the land is farmland, the rest being mountains, forests and places for urban and other uses
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