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Three members of Congress called on President Bush yesterday to press for the release of Yang Jianli—a Harvard graduate who has been detained in China for almost six months—when Bush meets with Chinese President Jiang Zemin next week...
...struggles through stately European dinners because they begin at his normal bedtime. Apparently no one remembers that Bush peppers many of his speeches with Spanish or that on his trip to China a year ago he donned a blue silk robe, similar to the one worn by Chinese President Jiang Zemin. In these moments, Bush’s latent cosmopolitanism comes to the surface...
...whose 50,000-strong South China Church has been banned by the Chinese government; to life in prison for raping female church members; in Hubei, China. Gong and four other church leaders had their original death sentences overturned last month, possibly as a gesture of goodwill ahead of President Jiang Zemin's upcoming trip...
...think that as a humanitarian gesture, China might contemplate releasing [Yang] in conjunction with the upcoming visit of Jiang Zemin,” Zeckhauser said...
...Sept. 19, 27 members of Congress wrote to Jiang to demand the release of Yang, who is a permanent U.S. resident. All the members of the Massachusetts delegation signed the letter...