The study on President Clinton's forthcoming visit to China by Heritage Foundation also urges Clinton to ``be very firm with Jiang Zemin at the summit.''

Clinton, the paper says, should remind Jiang that the US in the past has been successful in stopping nuclear weapons programmes from flourishing in South Korea and Taiwan, which prevented the emergence of new nuclear threats to China.

Heritage wants Clinton to ``condemn China's nuclear technology and missile proliferation.''

It asserts that today ``Sino-US relations are far from reaching last October's promise of a `strategic partnership.' in fact, the very concept of a strategic partnership (voiced by President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright) was then, and is now, premature and quite possibly delusional.''