Word: gao
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...paved the way for First Lady Hillary Clinton to attend a United Nations conference in Beijing by freeing human rights activist and U.S. citizen Harry Wu. Two years later it freed dissident Wei Jingsheng just as President Clinton prepared his own trip. A last-second release of Li or Gao?or both?could give Washington political cover from the anti-China lobby to make the decisions Beijing wants...
...Gao and Xue are Chinese nationals awaiting their swearing-in ceremony as U.S. citizens. But Andrew was born in America, and is already a citizen. His detention, therefore, violated a consular agreement between the U.S. and China to inform each other of citizens' detentions within four days. That explains part of the U.S. outrage. But the case, at least the fourth in the past six years, gave the Bush Administration a welcome chance to put teeth into its proclaimed interest in human rights...
...woman's name was a frosty interlude amid the pleasantries of George W. Bush's meeting with China's Vice Premier Qian Qichen. The woman is Gao Zhan, 40, a sociologist at American University in Washington who has been held by Chinese authorities since mid-February. Bush bluntly told Qian of his "extreme concern" about Gao. He was echoing similar statements by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who called the case "particularly outrageous...
...Gao's ordeal began as she, her son Andrew, 5, and her husband Xue Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking...
Beijing insists that Gao "is suspected of activities that undermine state security," but now the incident has led to a diplomatic embarrassment. "Nothing this woman could have done is worth the black eye it gave to Qian," says a Clinton senior White House official...