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...AIDS activists--finally paid off last week when, on World AIDS Day, the Chinese government took a lesson from its sluggish response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic and launched its first big AIDS public-awareness campaign, complete with posters, TV spots and an unprecedented visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to a Beijing hospital, where he shook hands with AIDS patients...
...Tuesday President George W. Bush, at a press conference to mark Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's first visit to the White House, appeared to side with Beijing by issuing a rebuke to Chen, signaling that Taiwan's President should not move ahead with the referendum for fear it would upset the diplomatic ambiguity that allows Taiwan and China to remain at arm's length. "The comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," a position, Bush said, that the U.S. "opposes...
...SENTENCED. WANG XUEBING, 51, former Bank of China president, to 12 years' jail for accepting bribes; in Beijing. Wang, once a protégé of former Premier Zhu Rongji and a proponent of Chinese banking reform, ran the bank's New York branch during a period when a borrower defaulted on $34 million in fraudulent loans. The bank had to pay $20 million in fines to U.S. and Chinese regulators, but won $106.4 million in a lawsuit against the client...
After hearing indirectly that Chinese officials did not want her to come to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s address at the Harvard Business School, the Harvard Medical School (HMS) researcher said she decided not to attend, hoping to help her husband’s case...
...said she met with University President Lawrence H. Summers the week before Wen’s visit, but that she did not know whether Summers discussed her husband’s case with the Chinese premier last week...