Word: wu
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Hillary Clinton, whose appearance was in doubt until China released the jailed human rights critic and U.S. citizen Harry Wu last month, spoke out against the host country's behavior in terms that the U.N. organizers could not quite manage. Without naming China outright, she delivered a rebuke to the way it denied perhaps as many as 10,000 visas to prospective delegates and quarantined the Huairou forum in slapdash quarters 30 miles north of the capital. As her audience thumped desks and applauded loudly, Clinton declaimed, "It is indefensible that many women in nongovernmental organizations who wished to participate...
...women in China, from forced sterilization to the strong-arm tactics of the Chinese police. This is valuable information, especially for the one-quarter of the world's women who are Chinese. But did 40,000 women have to travel to Beijing just to confirm what one man, Harry Wu, more or less established a couple of weeks...
Rushed from Wuhan Intermediate People's Court only a few hours after the verdict, Wu arrived in San Francisco about 8 p.m. Thursday and proceeded to his home in nearby Milpitas, California. There, looking frail, he spoke with a parade of reporters over the next few days. In an interview with TIME, he described the fierce gamesmanship between him and his captors. "I was in a small room, only 4 sq m [43 sq. ft.]. These young guards were with me all the time." To gain the tiniest measure of privacy, he shamed them into letting him close the door...
...Wu's release removed an "obstacle"--as President Bill Clinton put it--to improving relations with China, which many think have reached their lowest depths since 1979, when the two countries first exchanged ambassadors. Relations never fully recovered from the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, and have been battered by tussles over human rights, weapons sales, nuclear proliferation, Tibet, copyright violations and China's failed bid to join the World Trade Organization, which the U.S. opposed. On May 22 came a seismic jolt: the Clinton Administration gave permission to Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit his American alma mater, Cornell University...
HILLARY CLINTON Resolution of Harry Wu spy case makes her hoped-for China trip politically palatable...