NEW YORK, October 24, 1995 (CNN) - One day after narrowing differences with Russia, President Clinton tries to do the same with China. He meets with President Jiang Zemin who, like Clinton, is in New York to mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.

Tuesday's talks are expected to deal with several events that have soured U.S.-Chinese relations: map of Taiwan/China Washington's approval of a visit to the United States earlier this year by the president of Taiwan. Beijing saw the action as legitimizing Taiwan. China has considered the island a renegade province since it broke away in 1949 when communists took power in Beijing. Elizabeth Economy, who studies China for the Council of Foreign Relations, expects the Taiwan issue to top Tuesday's agenda, with China hoping to bar any future U.S. visits of a Taiwanese leader sound.

China's hoped-for entry into the World Trade Organization. WTO members promise to provide each other with the best possible trading terms, but Beijing has insisted that it be treated as a developing country. Such an agreement would temporarily exempt it from from anti-protectionism and free trade rules that are enforced on developed economies. The United States and other world economic powers argue China's vast economic potential means it should agree to rules closer to those for advanced economies.

China's arrest last July of U.S. citizen and human rights activist Harry Wu. He was held for one month and expelled after being convicted of spying.

In a New York speech Monday, Jiang opened the door to international discussion of China's human rights policy, but he also signaled a hard line against China's critics, who include members of the U.S.

Congress. Criminal acts that undermine national security, he said, should not be lumped with human rights issues.

In a speech of his own in New York on Monday, Wu charged that the World Bank is contributing to China's "gulag" prison system by funding a project in a remote area of western China used for forced labor camps.

The World Bank, which lends billions of dollars for anti-poverty projects, said it would take up Wu's claim with the Chinese government if Wu provides solid evidence. An embassy official from China termed Wu's report "unworthy of comment."

Tuesday's Clinton-Jiang talks were moved from the New York City Public Library to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts after China objected to a library exhibit called "What Price Freedom?" It includes a reference to the 1989 Chinese military crackdown against pro-democracy advocates in Tiananmen Square.