Between Dancing, Diplomacy, and Foreign Trade

April 2, 2002

The state dinner initially seemed rather boring. The speech made by President Megawati Soekarnoputri was not exceptional and the welcome by the host, President of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Jiang Zemin, was also nothing out of the ordinary. So it was only natural that most of the Indonesian delegation at the People's Great Hall in the center of the city of Beijing appeared sleepy and often yawned. Understandable, seeing on that Sun

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