【正文】 the Asia Pacific has steadfastly shouldered its responsibilities to the region and the world in this latest financial crisishelping to prevent another cycle of dangerous must continue to work together to counter this threat to the global financial system and to the growth and prosperity which should be embracing all of this the 21st century, your generation will have a remarkable opportunity to bring together the talents of our scientists, doctors, engineers into a shared quest for the breakthroughs we have achieved in our areas of joint cooperationin challenges from dealing with spina bifida to dealing with extreme weather conditions and earthquakeshave proved what we can do together to change the lives of millions of people in China and the United States and around the our cooperation in science and technology can be one of our greatest gifts to the each of these vital areas that I have mentioned, we can clearly acplish so much more by walking together rather than standing is why we should work to see that the productive relationship we now enjoy blossoms into a fuller partnership in the new that is to happen, it is very important that we understand each other better, that we understand both our mon interest and our shared aspirations and our honest believe the kind of open, direct exchange that President Jiang and I had on Saturday at our press conferencewhich I know many of you watched on televisioncan both clarify and narrow our differences, and, more important, by allowing people to understand and debate and discuss these things can give a greater sense of confidence to our people that we can make a better the windows of the White House, where I live in Washington, ., the monument to our first President, George Washington, dominates the is a very tall very near this large monument there is a small stone which contains these words: The United States neither established titles of nobility and royalty, nor created a hereditary affairs are put to the vote of public created a new political situation, unprecedented from ancient times to the wonderful it words were not written by an were written by Xu Jiyu, governor of Fujian Province, inscribed as a gift from the government of China to our nation in am very grateful for that gift from goes to the heart of who we are as a peoplethe right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the freedom to debate, to dissent, to associate, to worship without interference from the are the ideals that were at the core of our founding over 220 years are the ideas that led us across our continent and onto the world are the ideals that Americans cherish I said in my press conference with President Jiang, we have an ongoing quest ourselves to live up to those people who framed our Constitution understood that we would never achieve said that the mission of America would always be “to form a more perfect union”in other words, that we would never be perfect, but we had to keep trying to do darkest moments in our history have e when we abandoned the effort to do better, when we denied freedom to our people because of their race or their religion, because there were new immigrants or because they held unpopular best moments in our history have e when we protected the freedom of people who held unpopular opinion, or extended rights enjoyed by the many to the few who had previously been denied them, making, therefore, the promises of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution more than faded words on old we do not seek to impose our vision on others, but we are convinced that certain rights are universalnot American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rightsthe right to be treated with dignity。the National Security Advisor and my Chief of Staff, among say that to illustrate the importance that the United States places on our relationship with would like to begin by congratulating all of you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating the centennial year of your , Beida.(Applause.)As I39。the Secretary of State。s leaders, about the critical importance to your future of building a strong partnership between China and the United American people deeply admire China for its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy and the arts, to science and remember well our strong partnership in World War we see China at a moment in history when your glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even greater promise of your three decades ago, China was virtually shut off from the , China is a member of more than 1,000 international organizationsenterprises that affect everything from air travel to agricultural have opened your nation to trade and investment on a large , 40,000 young Chinese study in the United States, with hundreds of thousands more learning in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin social and economic transformation has been even more remarkable, moving from a closed mand economic system to a driving, increasingly marketbased and driven economy, generating two decades of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and outside China, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job, attend a better a result you have lifted literally hundreds of millions of people from capita ine has more than doubled in the last Chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined just 20 years course, these changes have also brought disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous strains on your every urban Chinese was guaranteed employment in a state you must pete in a job a Chinese worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in the global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of the those who lack the rig