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...vulnerable at a number of pressure points. They are trying to persuade Washington to spurn Taiwan's requests for an advanced antimissile radar system and are desperately trying to win this July's vote by the International Olympic Committee for China to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. Gao's lawyer, Jerome Cohen, therefore holds out hope. "When a dispute gets to that level, intelligent leaders won't want to damage themselves over a nothing case," he says. China may also be particularly sensitive now, as news broke last week of the defection in December of a high-ranking...
...amid the jumble of toys and papers strewn about their comfortable town house, Xue Donghua and Andrew are inseparable. "He used to be a very open child," the father says, "but now he is very sensitive?he won't leave me." A pile of newspapers, recording his pleas for Gao's freedom, lie on the floor. "We'll save them for her, so she can see what we have been doing," Xue says...
...assured her that her husband was alive but had been detained. More than a month later the former political activist remains in custody, and according to someone close to the family, the accusations against him are "very similar" to the espionage tag the government last week hung on researcher Gao Zhan, who has been held since Feb. 11. The latest detentions fit a pattern. A Chinese court last November sentenced Stanford professor Hua Di to 10 years on charges linked to spying; in 1999, police detained Dickinson College librarian Song Yongyi for six months...
...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...
...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...