Chinese Premier Li Peng Thursday blasted the United States, saying it "owes a debt" to China, and expressed concern about reforms sweeping Eastern Europe but emphasized that they would not influence his government.
Addressing a news conference on the third day of a four-day visit, Li also said China would build Pakistan's second nuclear power plant, a 300-megawatt facility, under supervision of an international agency. Li's trip is his first overseas since Chinese troops June 4 killed hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.Li is scheduled to continue from Pakistan to Nepal and Bangladesh, and analysts in Beijing have said the trip is a signal to the West that China still has Third World allies.