During a May 1994 visit by a Republican delegation to Bei jing, an American official inquired of Mo Xiusong, the vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party:
"Is the long-term aim of the Chinese Communist Party still world Communism?" Mo responded,
"Yes, of course. That is why we exist."
--------------"Although I have not met personally President George W. Bush I have met many times with his parents, George Bush and his wife," said President Jiang, in an interview with The New York Times at the Chinese leadership's coastal summer retreat in Beidaihe.
"On the fifth of July President Bush called me. Although it was not a video phone where I could see his facial expression, from his voice I could feel that he was a president we can do business with. Most of the conversation was conducted with interpreters, but at the end, although I do not speak good English, I tried to say directly in English, 'Please send my best regards to your parents.'"