President Bush visited China Thursday exactly 30 years to the day after a landmark bridge-building trip by former President Richard Nixon and urged it to "strongly oppose" arms proliferation. But the two sides failed to secure an early deal on the spread of weapons technology and Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleeza Rice, said talks on the matter would take time. Chinese President Jiang Zemin, asked about how best to proceed on Iraq, urged Washington to be patient in its war on terrorism. Bush, visiting China for the second time in four months, is on the final leg of three-nation tour that has taken him to Japan and South Korea.

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