Top U.S. trade negotiator Charlene Barshefsky (C), accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to China Joseph Prueher (L) and Attache John Berry (R), leaves the Great Hall of the People in Beijing after a meeting there with Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on October 12, 2000. [Barshefsky met Zhu to try to untangle the knots tying up Beijing's bid to enter the World Trade Organisation.]