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...Have the confidence to overcome the disease, for you will have love and care from the entire society." Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, to AIDS patients during an unprecedented nationally televised visit to a Beijing hospital on World AIDS...
...Just how dangerous might be revealed this week during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's first official trip to the U.S. Wen's visit was meant to cement the warming ties between the two countries, with trade the only real point of contention. Now, laments a senior U.S. State Department official, "the Taiwan issue is going to be high on the agenda." Wen is likely to push U.S. President George W. Bush's Administration to make clear its opposition to Taiwan's independence. That's something Washington has so far refused to do, maintaining instead that it "does not support" independence...
...Wen is expected to speak on current Chinese policies, including relations with the United States, but his address could also touch on several sensitive topics...
Christina Fu, a Harvard Medical School researcher and the wife of a Harvard alum who has been detained in China for more than a year and a half, wrote to Harvard-based supporters urging them to sign a letter to Wen asking for her husband’s release...
Initial plans slated Wen to speak in Sanders Theatre, the site of Jiang’s speech, but a scheduling conflict with morning classes forced the event to be moved across the River...