PRC State Council vice-premier Qian Qichen described Clinton's statement that the "special state-to-state policy" was troublesome to both China and the US as realistic, said he was guardedly optimistic toward US-PRC relations, and happy that negotiations regarding PRC entry into the WTO had resumed.
他表示，柯林頓說「特殊國與國關係」既對中共、也對美國造成麻煩，「是符合實際的」，而他也對中美關係氣氛緩和，恢復中共加入 WTO 議題的談判感到高興。