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Canadian prime minister speaks at UNR

Monday, Sept. 11, 2000 | 4:47 a.m.

"All roads now lead to Washington," Mulroney told students Friday at the University of Nevada, Reno. "In 25 years, there will be two roads."

Mulroney, who was in town to deliver the keynote address at the 19th annual UNR Foundation banquet, predicted China would have the world's strongest economy in less than a quarter of a century.

The United States must continue on an open path with the Asian nation so Cold War strife won't happen again, he said.

However, Mulroney expressed concern over China's past human-rights violations.

"China's leaders will have to realize how self-destructive these policies are," he said.

"It is just as cruel for China to be doing what it's doing, just as it was cruel for Canadians to do what they did to American Indians and to what the U.S. did to African-Americans. But we have crossed the Rubicon and (China) has not."

Mulroney gave an upbeat view of the world, predicting America's ideal of democracy would spread to the rest of the world, including China and Cuba.

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