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Unbowed China leader warns US

Chinese President Hu Jintao, unbowed by pressure on a state visit, warned the United States on Thursday not to press on Taiwan and Tibet as he insisted that the rising Asian power sought cooperation

Pelosi presses Hu on commitment to human rights, climate change

Thursday's meeting with Hu also featured discussions on trade relations, North Korea and religious rights in Tibet, Pelosi said. Pelosi warned Chinese leaders Wednesday that a good trade relationship with the United States would hinge on

Chinese public kept in the dark on Hu Jintao’s human rights admission

The BBC television report was airing a clip from Wednesday's Obama-Hu news conference at the White House, on the touchy topic of human rights. "A lot still needs to be done . . . ," Chinese President Hu Jintao started to say. And then the television report went black.

Hu Urges Closer US-China Ties As World Powers

It was a reference to China's claim to the currently self-governing island of Taiwan, which split from the mainland amid civil war in 1949, and to Tibet, which is already under

Transcript of Video-Conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Chinese Activists

I knew Ngabo even before 1950. People who knew Ngabo at that time viewed him as an honest person, someone of integrity. I also viewed Ngabo as progressive and trusted

China rights activists hope Obama won’t disappoint

The wife of missing Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng fought back tears Wednesday as she spoke of her children's pain living without their father, who disappeared in April 2010

Chinese activists

Geng He (L), the wife of missing Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng, participates in a press conference to discuss Chinese human rights records on the eve of President Hu Jintao's White House arrival on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (AFP/Tim Sloan)

Minnesota Tibetans take to the streets of Chicago

Before the sun rises Thursday in St. Paul, Jigme Ugen and other Minnesota Tibetans will board buses for the streets of Chicago, where they will join other Tibetans protesting the Chinese government and visiting Chinese President Hu

‘A lot to be done’: Hu tackles human rights

It was, unquestionably, the most important public moment of Hu Jintao's visit to the US so far. The moment President Hu Jintao was put on the spot about China's human rights record

Canadian paleontologists reveal earthly origins of mysterious Tibetan footprints

When giant, human-shaped footprints were found stamped in rock at a construction site in Tibet in 1999, local residents celebrated what they believed to be the discovery of ancient traces left by the legendary figure King Gesar, the hero of

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