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...malfeasance. "I know I'm at risk, but I cannot give up, because people are depending on me," said Chen shortly before he was detained. Yet even if Chen is released from house arrest and his lawsuit succeeds, it will do little to change the fate of women like Hu Bingmei. When family-planning officials came to fetch her in May for a forced sterilization, Hu escaped with her two daughters to her parents' home in another village. Several days later, seven officials showed up, she says, grabbed her younger child and shoved the girl into a car. Afraid that...
...APPROVED. Plans to honor former Chinese Communist Party leader HU YAOBANG at Beijing's Great Hall of the People; by President Hu Jintao; in Beijing. The celebration of the 90th anniversary of the late leader's birth will end more than a decade of official silence about his legacy. His April 1989 death sparked pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square that were crushed in the massacre seven weeks later...
...Chinese President Hu Jintao's meeting with George W. Bush this week in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations' 60th anniversary celebration, continues the series of encounters between top American and Chinese leaders that started in 1972. With each meeting, the drama and historical import has diminished. That's a positive thing, a sign of how profoundly the U.S.-China relationship has deepened in three decades. When Deng Xiaoping met Jimmy Carter in the White House in 1979?memorable quote: "Has your Congress passed a law that I cannot smoke?"?the bamboo curtain had just been prized...
...could call it corrugated: competition for oil resources; U.S. concern over China's military buildup, its trade deficit and human rights abuses; China's worries over rising protectionism in the U.S., and its resentment at being treated with what it calls a "cold war mentality." But Bush and Hu, while hardly chums, have met five times before at such forums as APEC and the G8 summit, and fireworks aren't expected. (A more formal summit in Washington was cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina.) Analysts in both Washington and Beijing say the meeting will probably be dominated by not-so-tough...
...start of what many are predicting will be the "Chinese century," Washington and Beijing are partners in charting the world's future. So what should Hu and Bush be discussing? To answer that question, Time surveyed some of the most involved watchers of the U.S.-China relationship. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, according to the old Chinese saying. What follows is a survey of opinions on the direction in which Hu and Bush should be heading...